The Finish More Music Podcast

Getting back on the saddle can sometimes feel like a very daunting task, especially if you've not been making music for a long timeMotivation dwindles with time and there are moments when it's easier to just give up. Especially if you're not sure of how and if you can actually do it.But once you do find the strategy that works for you, and if you just focus on yourself, you can get that spark back and more importantly keep the motivation running.

In this episode, we discuss the challenges we face when we've been away from the studio and strategies we can try to get back and keep the motivation going.

Key Takeaways:

• Start small and commit
• Surround yourself with the right people
• You can't rewrite your past but you can grab a clean sheet of paper and write the future.

In this episode, we discuss how even the best of us can experience self-doubt and fear when it comes to pursuing our goals or creating music. The trick is knowing how to overcome it and move forward.

When I was watching a TV show called 'SAS: Who Dares Wins' I had some profound realisations about creativity and combating self doubt. Seeing some of the 'best of the best' being riddled with the same negative thoughts, that as creatives, we find ourselves in regularly, helped me understand what I can do to overcome them

• Even the 'best of the best' have self-doubts
• Our doubts are not who we are
• Feel the fear and do it anyway

In this episode, we're going to dip our hands in the controversial subject of Piracy. Based from his experience, Keith discusses the effects of piracy on the content creators, the paying customers and also those who download pirated copies. He also discusses the effects of piracy in the music community. Key Takeaways:

Piracy: A Victmless Crime?

Effects of piracy on the content creators

Effects of downloading pirated copies

Effects of piracy on the music community

In this episode, we're going to be focusing on answering the question: "Am I too late to succeed?". We're going to discuss how to overcome those limiting beliefs by changing our perspective and strategy to help us begin and push forward with our music production

Key Takeaways:

• If you always do what you always did. You'll always get what you always got.
• Action creates clarity.
• Changing your perspective and finding the right strategy

Resources Mentioned:

• Finish More Music
• Free Workshop
• Limited Time, Maximum Results

In this episode, we're going to discuss the 80-20 rule. How we can spend 20 percent of our time and resources in our music making to and what we can do to help us focus and identify the things we can improve upon to achieve our music production goals and maximise our results.

Key Takeaways:

• The 80-20 rule
• Finding your 4-64
• Identifying areas of improvement for the best results

In this episode, we're going to focus on opening doors to creativity. How creativity can be learned, practiced, and developed and what you can do to develop it and get you to writing and finishing more music.

Key Takeaways:

• Creativity is a way operating.
• Two Stages of Creativity
  • The Creative Idea
  • The Execution

In this episode we're going to be looking in detail at what are the central topics that are going to drive the Finish More Music Podcast: The Theme, Foundation, Motivation, and Brief History of Finish More Music. We're also going to give you a quick background on our host Keith Mills- his experiences and his observations on the creative process and the factors that influence it.

Key Takeaways:

• Anyone can write great music with the right approach.
• Creativity is not a talent; It's a way of operating.
• 80-20 rule
• Focus on self-development to become a better music producer.