How to Take Your Passion and Pay the Bills

Posted by on Sep 28 2009 | Passion Pays the Bills, Singing Lessons, Songtaneous

How to Take your Passion and Pay the Bills

  1. Decide
  2. Commit
  3. Start talking
  4. Start walking
  5. Be flexible
  6. Be patient
  7. Get help
  8. Act as if
  9. Use what you know
  10. Share what you know
  11. Repeat

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Alright, I have to acknowledge that I’ve been procrastinating.

(Yes, again. Sheesh! *eye roll*)

Several weeks ago, I jotted down the list above about how to turn your heart thing into a smart thing. These are things I’ve found myself doing as I make way from publishing professional to musician.

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So Friday before last (in a nod to #3) I posed a question about taking your passion and using it pay the bills. But since then, I’ve been hemming and hawing. Should I write a series of blog posts? Should I write an ebook? Should I wait until I’m smarter? Richer?

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One of the things I practice over and over (and over and over and over) again in improv is trusting my instincts. When you sing spontaneously, you edit in the moment. You have to learn to rely on your instincts to show you what has potential and what’s just “shiny.”

I think this has potential. So here’s the list. It might become a blog series or an ebook.

(It might just be this list. *smile*)

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P.S. I’ve posted the 2009 Fall-Winter (shudder) Songtaneous schedule on the Events page. Hope to sing with you soon! ~sg

5 comments for now

5 Responses to “How to Take Your Passion and Pay the Bills”

  1. # Kricket

    As someone who has yet to figure out my passion. I would add as number 1…Define or at least find the ballpark.

    28 Sep 2009 at 10:58 pm

  2. # Sarah M. Greer

    @Kricket – I love “Find the Ballpark” as a step.

    Though the list is numbered, it wasn’t my intention to imply that things had to be done in order.

    Except that repeat IS last because you have to do so many of the other steps over and over again.

    singingly,
    sg

    30 Sep 2009 at 4:57 pm

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