I appeared on the Career Crash podcast with Isaac Morehouse.
(Isaac also blogs daily and has greatly influenced my creativity, mindset, and ideas).
On the podcast I talked about my mindsets and tools to crash my career and break into the private sector.
This is the stuff that excites me as I write my own script.
It’s been hard as heck to write my script.
But the harder path can be the better path.
I feel in my gut that the “Charles Ives approach” of separating my artistic passion from paycheck is going to sky-rocket my happiness quotient.
My conducting career can continue to be cultivated, but it won’t be 100% of my identity.
I’ll then be free of conformity to and dependence on the “systems” of the classical music world, the academic sector, etc.
Having started my own thing, my life will align with my values of honesty and voluntary interaction.
100% of my paycheck will be based on voluntary win-win (no subsidized academic institutions) and 100% of NOCP’s funding will be (is) from private grants and private donations (I will not accept government grants for the arts).
Then I can freely tap into both world – music and business – as I customize my path.
And I can make an impact on people’s life – and disrupt the status quo- through solving problems in the marketplace, and my personal/professional growth can be limitless.
Again, all of this has been hard as heck the past 3 or 4 years, to stay grounded and not been lured to go 100% musician identity.
Forward
But meanwhile, I’ve started this blog and improved my writing, cultivated authenticity, self-knowledge. I’ve become debt-free, become minimalist, improved my health, built new relationships, etc.
And that momentum continues to snowball.
And that snowball is full of conviction and purpose.
I’m not messing around.
I want to be unbridled with joy, freedom, authenticity, integrity, creativity, health, purpose.
The more needs you get met, the greater the happiness quotient.
And happiness is the highest purpose.
