A new take on the familiar New Year oriented goals post, encouraging you to analyze the habits that prevent you from achieving them.
Tag: mindset
How Dreams Can Inspire Your Songwriting
Your dreams offer an evolving well of emotional and narrative depth that can only enhance your creative writing process, here are some tips to help!
Resistance Is Futile: On Letting Creative Flow Happen
Resisting feedback, or change, can be the single biggest mindset obstacle you have to overcome in your songwriting. Don’t let it destroy yours.
Why Musicians Should Learn to Think Like a Chicken Farmer
Probably one of the strangest mental leaps we’ve made here on Flypaper to date, but Caleb Murphy makes a solid argument here. Do you agree?
Building Your Confidence as a Songwriter
Action always invariably beats inaction; here’s a set of tools to help you battle your lacking confidence, and create with active fervor!
The Hard Truth: Mixing Is Lonely
Working with collaborators is the best way to stay accountable to your goals and deadlines, but sometimes you’ve got to go it alone. Here’s some advice.
How to Stay Motivated, Even When You Feel Like the Biggest Sack of Potatoes Ever
Motivating yourself is hard right now — whether your shows are cancelled or your studio sessions remain impossible with social distancing — but we can help.
How a Positive Listening Habit Will Make You a Better Musician
Active Listening is a great skill for musicians to develop when looking to improve but Passive Listening helps to provide a foundation for positive mindset.
Why You Should Always Be Booking
Booking shows is tough, but here are some solid reasons why it’s worth every ounce of your bands’ energy to keep at it and work hard to improve.
Finding Success in Music Without Focusing on Success
A short and sweet think piece on how to find success in the music industry without focusing on what that success tends to represent (fame).