The others quit and usually end up working full time at a non-music day job.
The following are three reasons why so many musicians struggle to make it in the music business and what you should do instead in order to succeed:
A lot of musicians have the wrong mindset when it comes to trying to succeed in the music business. They:
These mindsets make failure inevitable. Successful musicians understand the importance their mindset has on their careers.
Action step for you: take action daily to strengthen and develop your mindset by: being around success-minded people and studying proven resources about success and achievement.
Let’s face it: you need to have the freedom of money and time to successfully grow your music career. A lot of musicians have neither of these things (or only one of them). Some have tons of time but no money. Others have tons of money but are forced to work full time and never get to enjoy it. This keeps you from growing your career, joining music projects, touring or recording music.
Here’s the action to take: find out how to earn money from many different sources in a passive manner. This musical income needs to be:
Finding a music career mentor is instrumental in learning how to create multiple streams of passive income.
Building a successful music career is about doing the right things, in the right order and in the right way. The order in which you do things is specific to your music career goals and challenges.
Even if you take the correct steps… doing them in the wrong order is very destructive for your music career(just as much as doing the incorrect steps to begin with).
This column helps you plan your music career so you can become a professional musician very quickly.