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You are about to learn the five critical elements that have fueled the success of all great musicians‘ careers. Until you possess these key elements for yourself, it will be nearly impossible for you to reach your musical dreams and build a successful career in the music business. Read below to discover these five key elements and take action on the information you learn: Music Career Success Key #1 – Don’t Set Realistic Goals All of the most well-known and successful musicians did not achieve their goals by thinking realistically about what seemed possible. On the contrary, they focused their mind like a laser ONLY on what they truly wanted. When you make your goals in line with the things you want most, you will be much more motivated to actually achieve them. More on this in a moment… Think about this – out of the following choices, which choice would inspire you to put all your time and energy into growing a music career?: Making a recording of a demo with a band and possibly playing a few shows around town. Writing chart topping songs for a killer band, then promoting your music by going on a massive world tour – playing to stadiums full of fans, earning tons of money from music sales alone and never working a regular job ever again. Even if your goals in the music business are entirely unrelated to releasing music, the point still applies: don’t let yourself accept anything less than what you truly want in your music career, just for the sake of being realistic. Life is too precious to live it by not doing the things you really desire. When you set goals for yourself that do not inspire you, it is nearly guaranteed that you will NEVER achieve the things you truly desire in music. All the biggest rock stars are people just like you. They began small – whether it was broke without any idea how they’d make it in music, lacking in musical talent or not having a band to play with… Just imagine where they would be now, if they would have told themselves that their music career dreams were unrealistic or didn’t seem possible. Well, of course they didn’t… they followed their dreams and went on to achieve them! You must do what they did. Start building your music career by focusing on what you WANT, not what seems possible. Music Career Success Key #2 – Manifest Your Musical Dreams Into Reality Before They Actually Are Reality Musicians who never achieve anything significant in this industry, build paths to their goals by starting from where they are in the present moment. On the other hand, musicians who achieve great success do something completely different. They plan their music career by beginning from the end point of achieving their goals, and work backwards to the present day. They imagine themselves having already accomplished their major goals, then build their lives around this vision. This is a much more effective way of accurately determining the actions required for putting together your music career. Music Career Success Key #3 – Start Living Or Start Dying The two keys I mentioned above are critical for building a successful music career. With this in mind, you need more than just goals and a plan of action to realize your musical dreams. You have to take action each and every day to bring yourself closer to your goals. You might think this is common knowledge, but you would be shocked at how many musicians give up on their musical dreams simply due to lack of effort (in terms of taking physical action). Visualize this scenario (I use this as inspiration for the professional musicians whom I mentor): You’ve just found out about a disease you contracted that requires major surgery. If you don’t get this surgery, you are guaranteed to die in no more than half a year. To make matters worse, the surgery is extremely expensive and cannot be covered by your insurance company (also you can’t borrow money to pay for it). So you have a decision to make: You can allow yourself to die, OR you can take whatever action is necessary to get the money needed for the surgery. Certainly this example is extreme, but it is a perfect illustration of the kind of mindset you need to have in order to build a successful music career. Making big moves (by taking action) in your music career is completely different than sitting around waiting for things to happen for you (allowing yourself to ‚die‘). With this in mind, hard work/consistent action does not necessarily equal music career success, when you don’t know exactly what you should be doing to reach your goals. Music Career Success Key #4 – Have MASSIVE Reasons For Achieving Your Musical Goals No matter what you do, something will always go wrong in your music career plans. Whenever you are faced with unexpected events in your music career, this is the time when your commitment will be put to the test. For instance, here are some challenging situations you could face: Working at a day job you hate while regretting the fact that you never developed a music career backup plan to help you make a living doing what you love. Playing at crappy bars all the time with your band because you don’t know how to move to bigger venues. Trying to record an album, but doing so at an extremely slow and frustrating pace because you never practiced developing your recording skills. Working with unmotivated band members who are bringing you (and the entire band) down. Not understanding how to attract more music fans to listen to the music you worked so hard to create. Here is what you need to do in order to maintain your commitment and dedication to achieving your music career goals: Take out the piece of paper you have that contains the list of your