“From ‘Producer’ to Producer” Becoming a Producer Part 3

Being a producer is tough. It means saying no to a lot of things “producers” say yes to.

It means evaluating situations for what they are and running scenarios in your mind and deciding whether any of those scenarios are worth a part of the time you have on this Earth.

It means turning down physical pleasure to work on whatever it is that you claim to be talented at.

There are different levels of success and understand that some levels are okay for some, but not okay for others.

To have lasting greatness externally means first you must become great within. This means learning as much as you can to give you the ability to handle similar situations in your life when they arise.

Experience is the best teacher, but studying from the best first will allow you to avoid some of the mistakes that non guided students make in their career and life.

You will know when you are ready for the next challenge, but it will not present itself to you always in black and white.

You will learn as a producer that even with the best intentions and hard work that things do not go as planned.

Learn that most people will lie to protect themselves, even at someone else’s expense. There is nothing you can do but keep your integrity and move on.

You will lose out on a lot in the pursuit of your craft, because it’s a road that you travel alone at first.

As you travel further you will realize that including people that do not operate with your work ethic will slow you down.

The reason why most artists do not make it is because they allow life to interfere with whatever it is that they claim they want to be.

Life should influence your art, not stop it. In that same respect the art that you consume should influence your life and not just entertain you.

Your art should mean something to you. Your art must resonate with the artist before it can resonate with anyone else.

You stand confronted with many obstacles along the way and have to make a decision.

You don’t realize that no decision leaves you standing at the cross roads where at best someone will make the decision for you, but at worst you get left behind.

The feeling of being left behind will follow you and you have to learn from the problems that you are facing now.

What I can tell you is this, being someone that stands for something is hard. Being an artist in a capitalistic world is hard.

If nobody wants you, you haven’t made yourself talented enough yet.

If nobody wants to pay you what you think you are worth, you haven’t left them and become successful with out them to make them realize that they need/needed to do the right thing.

If you have money and are unhappy it’s because you aren’t pursuing your true talents. When you make money from what comes easiest to you, the money will come freely to allow you the time to do what you want in life.