The Meant4Music Podcast

I might catch some heat about this one, but let's be honest everyone, it's NOT about the music.

It's hasn't been for while.

That doesn't mean that the music shouldn't still be GREAT! Don't get the two confused. It just means that success now in the music industry is more about the way you "present" and "position" yourself than it is about the music.

Self-trust in a general life definition means that trust that you can take care of yourself adequately.

Self-trust in a definition relating to business means that you will do what you say you are going to do!

The issue is that a lot of artists, business owners, people who are running their own business or working from home are thinking that self-trust means.

Trusting that I will WIN at this!

That is not what it means…

If you have that definition you will most certainly never follow through, because you know you can't win at everything.

Often when we are wanting our happiness to increase we wait for a BIG change, A LOT of new money, a HUGE debt pay down a NEW job etc. But the truth is that true happiness is found in the little things, the details.

That cliche saying that you hear EVERYWHERE is really very true.

Sometimes we forget how really simple it can be to change our mood our feelings and perhaps our entire day by just doing that one little thing that makes you feel happy.

Motivation is not something that will come upon you when you're feeling just right at the right time! It's when you've decided that you have a good enough reason.

You must find those reasons and connect them to what it is that you're trying to change.

For a lot of people family is a big reason.

For some it has to be for us, and that's okay.

What is your reason to initiate, continue, or terminate a behaviour?

If motivation is evading you perhaps you just need to find a better reason or maybe it's remembering your reason that will change your mind.

So the first part of this myth is that motivation of something you find outside of yourself and the second part is that motivation is a happy lovely energy filled experience that washes over you like diary dust and compels you to act.

When people tell me "I just have no motivation", it blows my mind a little because those very same people are the people that I can never ever imagine them saving "I have no

Reason." They do, they have themselves, families loved ones, pets and dreams.

Don't wait for motivation to show up.

You show up no matter how it feels, because you have reasons, big ones, amazing ones to crush your goals and live a happy life

The act of asking yourself how to do just a little better each time will eventually see your bar raised so high that you are the one to follow. Often we get too focused on the big goal that we are chasing and forget that if we take the mindset to just raise the bar ever so slightly every single day we can and will achieve new heights, that bar might even surpass our goals in many ways.

Using this technique leaves behind a stable foundation of stepping stones and blocks that create an amazing structure for that bar to rest on.

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I remember when I realized for the first time that I needed to do this.

As a coach I am ALL IN - heavily invested in my clients and their experience of pursuing self-development.

I want them to have a transformation.

I want them to nail their goals.

I want to show up BIG for them so they can do the same for themselves.

I want to believe 100% of the time that they can achieve their wildest dreams in their lifetime.

I just can't NEED a result from them in a certain period of time, that will most certainly keep them from shining.

I just REQUIRE them to perform on a timeline for me and my results.

And I teach them to same about their own goals.

There is a difference being being fully invested in your mindset. work ethic and showing up for yourself bigger than ever before and yet still letting go of the desperation and needing it all to work out the way you think it should. The art of learning how to be ALL in and still letting go of the result is an amazing thing.

It's often when my clients learn this that things start magically falling into place.

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I heard myself say it over and over and over again in the last 15 years. "I'll sleep when I'm dead".

What was I thinking?

I'm an insomniac at the best of times, I probably won't even rest when I'm dead, let's be serious.

I have however been more restful since being forced into a routine that haven't had for last 15 years or more.

Early to bed, lots of time to get to sleep and a decent amount of actual sleep. Some days I even felt like a new person.

See. You don't actually realize you're tired until one day you sleep really really well, and you wake up with energy and think "this is what I've been missing!".

This podcast is my reminder to you all to use the natural techniques you already know about to increase the quality of your sleep.

Sleep is important, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Truth Bomb: Everyone has goals! Knowing what your goals are does not make you ahead of the game. All of the artists that I talk to and work with already have goals, many have already written them down.

So what separates the high achievers from those whose goals remain unachieved?

The way they go about those goals.

In this podcast I explore the separating factors.

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I talk at great depth with my coachees about becoming the person you need to become to achieve your dreams. This process involves becoming the version of YOU that is capable of those things.Now you already are that person, but you may be indulging in behaviors that are programmed from old thoughts, beliefs and habits that are getting in the way.

So today I want to give you my take on "Becoming You" and what I mean by that and why it's a huge part of the journey.

A lot of the time when I talk to an artist about what they want to achieve those things are easy for them to dream.

A big fan base, a hit song, a certain amount of income, a healthy body and mind, and a secure future for their kids, the list goes on.

Ultimately we pretty much know what we want to achieve in life.

And most of the time we can imagine that life.

We can visualize a day in that life.

What your house looks like, even what you feel like in that house.

Maybe you're hosting a get together because you have the space and the budget to do that.

Maybe you're standing in the kitchen of your dreams or on that acreage or driving that car you've always wanted and that's something that comes fairly easily is that ability to put yourself in that place even in that feeling and that's a powerful exercise in itself.

But there is another step that is often a little harder that it perhaps the most important step and that is not only what are you doing and how you feel but who are YOU in that environment in that moment in that world.

Getting your desired results involved fully becoming the YOU that can get there.

Who is that person? Who is the version of YOU that is that person who has been able to achieve those things?

I have my clients do these exercises and talk about this regularly.

So as you go into 2022 and it's getting closer and closer to that time, and you start setting goals to achieve and visualizing those goals.

You need to take that one step further and ask yourself a whole bunch of questions surrounding the one question "Who Do I Need to Become To Achieve These Goals."

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I'm such a fan of this artist, and songwriter!

I got to sit down on zoom and chat with Shantaia about her move from Canada to Nashville during a pandemic. How mindset gets her through the toughest of days and keeps her positive when she needs it the most.

In a party town, full of bright lights and late nights she is learning balance and how important that is to her as a person, artist and songwriter and how it allows her to be more present each day to go after her goals.

I'm so thrilled to bring you this interview with Shantaia!

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