Christy Murphy's Otter 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.