It's All In Your Head

It’s All In Your Head will motivate you to work hard, stay determined, and believe you can achieve your dreams by sharing the rise to fame of the prolific composer Russ.

Russ didn’t have any proof that he was going to become great. But he stayed confident in himself anyway, even through times when he was working on his music in his parents’ basement and nobody was listening.

Part of his ability to push through came from the power of mantras. He and his best friend Bugus had a dream of getting their music on MTV. As they drove around on one visit to LA, they kept telling themselves “we’re going to get on MTV.”

But they didn’t stop there. To make your dreams a reality you have to act, and that’s just what they did. They began to spam messages to an MTV executive on Twitter asking him to consider their music for the channel.

Eventually, he gave them a chance and they got on MTV!

Russ also had the habit of sharing his vision on social media. Although broke, he would tweet that he was getting a “million dollars a beat,” just to reinforce his vision. In his mind, he was already making that much and reality just had to catch up.

To accomplish something big, you’ve got to envision what it will feel like. If you wanted to buy a house, for example, you’d imagine how you’d feel moving in.

If you had all that belief in yourself that you were already making millions, do you think an empty audience might make you second guess yourself? Many people might, but that’s not what Russ did. At one point he played in Florida for only 40 people. Rather than being disappointed, there weren’t more in the crowd, he just took pleasure in doing the work that he enjoyed most. He didn’t care how many people attended, he just put his heart into it. He took this potentially devastating experience and actually found so much inspiration in it that he wrote another song! Can you imagine letting yourself just do what you love like that? Most people don’t really think about what they’re passionate about. We get caught up in limitations and fears of failing, so we never start. Society isn’t much help either. Often the biggest critics of our craft are “realistic” friends and family. What you need to do if you want to create the life of your dreams is silence their voices of concern. Believe in yourself and keep working on what you love. Taking the leap of faith might not be easy, but it will definitely be worth it. How would it feel to get…