Hi! I SHOULD -> I COULD -> I CAN! What do you catch yourself saying you ‘should’ do? COULD you do that? Would you like to? CAN YOU?! John

Im excited to say it looks like I’ll be up in Edinburgh running a gig at the festival this year (2017). I’m going to organise some get-togethers to talk about the kinds of things I write about here, and also maybe some common practical challenges we all face in doing these brilliant things we do.…

Collaborate. Individually we can achieve A LOT. Together we can make INCREDIBLE things happen. Who can you talk to this week and do a thing?

What are you doing right now? What are you working on? What do you believe, really believe, about both the task / project and your ability to complete it? Be honest, don’t hide. Write them down. Take a good look at them, for each one ask yourself “is this a USEFUL belief?”. THEN ASK –…

Everyone has something to offer the scene / people they seek to serve. Everyone. Now. You can DO SOMETHING NOW for your industry / community / friends / family / followers / subscribers / customers / clients. Ask a question, write a blog, post a chorus on instagram, recommend a performance. Pick something.

Daily activities / behaviors / thoughts. Do your daily activities combat or propagate the things you wish to change? If you’re against the status quo would we know from your activities? What do you support? Can you show us?

What are you doing in the near future that you could massively ‘over’ prepare for? (I don’t think there is such a thing, ‘over’ prepared just means prepared to me.) Pick something, small or large, make sure its far enough away that you can ‘over’ prepare for it. Pen and paper time… Firstly, the obvious…

Visualisation doesn’t have to be visual. It’s another word for deeply imagining something. You might be more wired to other sense, kinesthetic (touch / feel) or audio. – I’ve never seen ‘audio-alisation’ written down before, but as it happens, for most of my life I couldn’t SEE images in my head with any real clarity,…

What would an incredible day off look like for you? A date you put on your diary with the promise of not doing or worrying or even thinking about work or ANY of the challenges you might be facing. This is personal! What would you do to be sure you had a whole day’s re…

Breathe. I’m not sure if its the recently much better weather (im writing this in March, after three days of not having to wear my ‘big coat’), or the fact that I’ve been meditating a lot recently, but the last couple of days I’ve really felt the power of a slow, deep breath. I’ve read…