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How Your Message Get's Lost in Your Madness!

Dec 4, 2024
1 min read

Ever find yourself spiraling down this rabbit hole?

You’ve seen your art a thousand times, lived it, breathed it, critiqued it. You start thinking, this is getting boring, and everyone must be sick of this by now. So, what do you do? You bury the essence of your work (and who you are), chase new gimmicks, fads and trends, or worse—tangle your head in unnecessary complexity, attempting to reinvent yourself, in order to run away from your own boredom.


Here’s the rub: your audience hasn’t lived with your work the way you have. They’re not jaded by your brilliance. They’re seeing it fresh—maybe even for the very first time. Their feelings, emotions, and reactions? That’s on their side of the street. And often, they need to hear your words or experience your work multiple times before it truly clicks. Your job isn’t to reinvent the wheel every time you stand in the spotlight, sit at your keyboard, or burn up your guitar! Your job is to teach, inspire, provoke, and continuously share what you as an artist are driven to say and express. 


Important because don’t abandon your true essence just because you’ve experienced it a million times in your own head. The world needs your truth, told in your voice and your unique creative style—even when it feels redundant. Because for someone out there, it’s exactly what they’ve been waiting for!

 
 
 

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