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10 Critical Factors For Success
There are 10 critical success factors that modern musicians focus on and get right.
They are the ingredients in the recipe for their success.
These are the core success factors of grassroots career development.
Optimize and integrate each factor to build the foundation that is the infrastructure your success is built on.
A recipe of success habits and rituals that make up your daily dial action steps are apart of the methods, tools, and teachings of modern musicianship.
That recipe for you starts with understanding the factors for your success.
10 Factors For Success
Let’s start with the most important factor.
Identity
Your identity is your self concept and it’s where everything will rise or fall. Identity should be cultivated early and is established and grown progressively through a series of experiences that challenge and then reinforce.
Your identity is a fluid concept much of the time as you are always in the process of challenging or reinforcing your self concept.
Modern musicians build an unstoppable self concept as their foundation.
Their is a way to naturally express your identity in the way you do things. Let your life and your identity be rooted firmly in abundance and unlimited thinking. If you understand your identity and you are doing the right work you can integrate the two for optimal performance. Never underestimate the power that your identity can have on every area of your life. Mastery is a dynamic process of growth. Grassroots career development starts with the process of self actualization where an individual artist actualizes themselves and develops their talent into strengths.
Your Blueprints
Your blueprints are the key to creating a masterpiece with your life. They are how to live into the vision, dreams, and goals you set for yourself. Your blueprints are the key factor for how you will change beliefs and use your inner os to create the life you design. This is the pathway to your paradise. The goal achievement process all boils down to setting your blueprints and then living into them. Both require planning and playing things full out. You have already begun to map out your blueprints today.
Skills
There are 10 core skills here starting with imagination, decision making effectiveness, sales, project management, planning and organization, marketing, systems and processes, risk management, craft, systemization and optimal performance The core skills you need for artistic, career, and personal mastery.
Habits
Your habits are what you repeatably do. That’s why we want to program excellence as a habit. No matter what you do do it with excellence. Your habits are the little leverage points that construct the infrastructure of your life and career. Modern Musicians form core “practices” that are the core habits for mastering their craft and operating their careers.
Mindsets/Psychology
Their are about a dozen mindsets that are essential in the growth of a music business owner. If you were to adopt these mindsets it would absolutely change your life. Just like identity, the fastest route to change is with the right mindset. Often it’s just a belief that needs to be reframed, installed, or deleted.
Environment
We don’t often choose the environment we grow up in, but you want to learn how to flow with the environment and build a foundation modern musicians call grounded true flow. When you reach grounded true flow, you are a master of your environment. When you self actualize you actually find your identity is greater than your environment. When you transcend you actually rise above your environment with the capability to transform lower energies into higher vibrations. When you identify as the universe and you realize you can positively influence the environment you are in, you are on your way to developing transformative influence.
Systems and processes
Your life and your career are a myriad of systems and processes. From your website, to your email, to your finances, to your weekly reviews and your daily dials make up the process for the tasks that you are doing at the ground level.
Relationships
Relationships are the deepest meaning and priority for Modern Musicians. They are what it’s all about. Great relationships can develop when you have a firm rooting of self love and have matured emotionally into your personality. Relationships are a lifelong investment for modern musicians. They hold the space for abundance and opportunity to flow into their lives and thus attract the people they seek to connect with. Relationships are a cornerstone of a world class life, Modern Musicians Double down on their relationships.
Strategy
Your strategy is your approach to achieve your goals. Your goals come before the strategy. Since Modern Musicians set goals in all 3 dimensions of their career, one of their goals are revenue goals. If your goal is to get fit your strategy is the workout and nutrition plan. Their are also 3 primary traffic channels full of a couple dozen strategies to choose from for marketing vehicles or marketing strategies to select for your marketing mix.
Presence
This is your ability to be present with yourself and with your work, as well as your ability to be present for other people with other people.
These 10 Factors are what will make you successful or not, optimize each one in your life and transform from a traditional to a Modern Musician.
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