Christy Murphy's Otter Blog

Week 2: The Music Success in Nine Weeks Blog Challenge Continues

Week one of goal setting is complete and now, we're onto Week 2 of our success. Tons of musicians have signed up for The Music Success in Nine Weeks Blog Challenge and the world at large is seven weeks closer to being better informed about the creative exploits of my fellow blog challenge takers and me. Look out world!

This week's lesson. THE PITCH! I've already started reading ahead (the book is that exciting and good), and it in it Ariel really gives compelling reasons why you need to be able to describe succinctly in words what the heck it is you do. I actually feel incredibly ridiculous that I haven't thought about this more closely in the past.

So, if I had to describe myself, WHICH I DO, I'm Pop Rock Comedian Christy Murphy. What does that mean? It means I combine funny pop-rock songs and stand-up comedy in a quirky, fun way. Imagine if Phoebe from Friends inhabited Adam Sandler's body and you'll get a great idea of the good times that are to be had from one of my live shows.

I'll keep working on it, but sign up for my mailing list, drop a comment below, enjoy your life, and most importantly, THANK YOU FOR READING my blog. :)

Music Success in Nine Weeks by Ariel Hyatt

I am prepared for lift off. Music success will be mine in T minus Nine Weeks! I recently purchased an awesome book Music Success in Nine Weeks by Ariel Hyatt, and am vowing to follow through all the way to the end and blog my progress weekly about it. Week one is goal setting. I have had issues with goal setting before. Mostly I create ambitions goals, elaborate plans, and then am quickly overwhelmed and then it's "Hello darkness my old friend ... ."

But in the book Hyatt cleverly advises that the goals are not set in stone and has a particularly nice technique of listing five successes daily that I think will ease the overwhelm. She addresses overwhelm right off the bat, which leads me to believe she has indeed, worked with A LOT of artists. It's nice to have a business book that takes into account what I'll call my "artistic temperament."

I am very pro building on successes. I feel like I've spent too much of my life snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and am on a mission to let the victories stand. Success #1 for today? Hello, I totally did my first week's blog. Success is MINE!

Hey, how about sharing your success for today! It can be about anything at all! I guarantee to give you an attaboy or attagirl and tell you you're awesome! Why? Because you're awesome.

Thank you for reading and being a part of my pop rock comedy dream.

If a person tweets in the dark, does a one-handed tree clapping make no sound when it falls on her?

I've signed up for Twitter, and I have no idea what I'm doing or why, but that is one of the best reasons and ways to do anything in my opinion. (The other "best" reason and way would be to do something for a specific reason and to know exactly how. However, it is kind of boring).

I find it very entertaining that no one at all is following me, and yet I tweet away. However, in everyone in the world's defense, I signed up in the dead of night after a major holiday while I was alone in my apartment. I am of the firm belief this is how all great things begin. Great things begin alone, in the dead of night, when no one is looking, and you (or in this case me) do something.

Yes, there are things people do alone, when no one is looking, in the dead of night, that may not fall into the "great" category, but hopefully this is not that kind of thing.

Free Fourth of July Song for You While I Celebrate Independence with a Challenge

Happy Fourth of July long-neglected blog and possibly even--blog readers. It's Fourth of July, and I've decide to take on a nine-week blogging challenge. If you are actually reading this maybe you can do the same. More to come. I wrote a song about Fourth of July, and why it frightens me. You can listen to it here:

 Fourth of July Song