Dr. Strangehats or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bob

On Monday February 23rd I will be taking the single biggest and most terrifying step of my music career. I'm ready to make a radical shift in the way I think about making music. I've let go of my musical pacifiers. Shed my two channel Marshall amplifier. Moved on past the musical iconography of my youth, and shed the notion that I'm a recording engineer or music producer who can record himself. In fact, I've let go of the notion all together that I have what is needed to be a music producer. I've died of my careerist visions and at this moment I am living for my musical here and now, because that is all I ever had. It is time for me to ask:

1. what is the goal
2. what is needed to reach the goal
3. is the goal possible (if not establish a new goal)
4. is the goal worth the effort
5. what are the strengths I have to reach the goal
6. what strengths my fellow band mates have or could have to help reach the goal
   
7. who or what can be brought in to help us reach our goal
   
8. what am I doing that is hurting or hindering
9. what are others doing which is hurting the goal

I know this is a bit logical and serious for music, but there is nothing wrong with thinking logically in a creative setting. Yes there is the potential for over thinking, but I think at this junction that may be better than under thinking. It is 100% possible that our goal may never be reached. I may end up spending countless amounts of time and energy doing something I love, and for me to find that in a year or so I'm still not making enough money doing it. I don't know if that is so bad. As long as the thing I love doesn't hurt other people I will do it with pride. As long as I do truly love doing it I will enjoy every second. It's time to seize the day.