Letting the little things pile up is rarely a good thing
When you’re in a band, there are lots of things that have to get done, but aren’t the glamorous parts of the job… Sure when it comes time to get on stage, it’s no problem mustering the will to perform. Or when you have to go on TV or the radio to do an interview, for the most part it’s not a hassle. But there’s many things that need doing, like having to set up the facebook event pages for all your upcoming gigs, taking merch inventory counts, re-skinning the drums, entering all the email addresses into the database from the last few gigs worth of signup sheets… etc. All those little things that pile up because they’re not the most fun, most impactful, or most pressing things that need to get done. The truth is, if you let them all pile up and become a big long list that’s going to take a ton of time to complete, you’re just making the task more daunting, which will most likely mean you’ll put off doing it even longer.
The best way to tackle those things is to just dive right in and do them right when you’re thinking about them. Don’t sit on the couch thinking about all the things you’ve got to do… get off the couch and do one or two of them. If there’s none that are truly more important than the others, just pick any of them. Then do a couple more.
Believe me, we’re all guilty of procrastination… but it’s never a good thing. Putting something off till later rarely has any benefit over getting it done right away.
And all it takes is one long-term thought or projection… “what am I working toward?” to give you the motivation to get those little things done.
