"Time Is On Our Side"

Many aspiring musicians (and other types of artists) struggle with the problem of how to maximize their creative output. The most popular option, particularly for those in their early twenties, is to either solicit financial support from their parents or figure out the minimum amount of guaranteed money they need to survive and depend on charitable friends for the rest. The idea obviously being that having all that free time to create would lead to more and better work. This line of thought is mostly inspired by the many stories when this high risk vs. high reward equation has paid off well for, now, highly recognizable names. But far more often than not, these life- plan daredevils wind up back with their parents, on the street, or “worse”, taking the much less popular route of getting a decent job and hoping to be productive in their off-time. This strategy of playing-it-safe tends to pay off in the arenas of general stability and not-sleeping-outside, but rarely results in the spontaneous flourishing of a creative career. But the truth is that the latter can pay off, at least as a temporary measure, if you use your time intently and with somewhat meticulous calculation. Part of the reason the high risk/reward philosophy fails is that, knowing one has “all day” to write a song usually turns into “all week”, then “all month”, then “all year” and so on until you get your first decent crowd playing Dylan songs for the others in line at the soup kitchen. If you really sit down an analyze the free time you have every time and what you generally using it for, you can minimize your time spent on non-creative pursuit and come up with a system of prioritize activities. Everyone is different, but you may find that some of the efforts to promote your creativity are superfluous. For instance maybe don’t need to utilize all social media outlets several times a day. Maybe you can cut it down to Facebook and/or Twitter and make sure that each of your post is quality purposeful. (Remember a few years ago when some jerk got a sitcom deal from quoting his dad a handful of times on Twitter? If you’re not still angry at him, you should be). You may also want to delegate some activities that take up a lot of time and mental energy. Pretty anything but completing your own creative work and what you do in the bathroom can be delegated: from daily chores to booking a tour. Yes, this means spending money….but that’s why you went out and got a decent job, right? By not spending time on and/or worrying about activities that are related to your creative life, but aren’t innately creative, you should find yourself able to get more accomplished not just in quantity but quality as well. For more detailed but less colorful instructions, follow the link below:

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