Mike Monday

Inspiration on Demand

  • Coaching Programs
  • About
  • Contact

2011 is the Year Of…

Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Email this to someone
email

It’s been a long time since I’ve made New Years Resolutions. You shouldn’t either.

You’ll break them within a couple of weeks. And kicking off a year with broken promises to yourself gives your inner critic ammunition and will feed The Fear.

So this year I’m taking a leaf from Chris Guillebeau who gives each year a theme, and Chris Brogan who picks three words to focus on throughout the year.

These approaches appeal to me as when you’re not sure that what you’re doing is right, you can refer back to these words and themes.

2011 is my year of transformation. While I spent much of last year flying blind; not knowing where I was going or what I was doing, I’m now on a mission.

It involves working, thinking and acting in many ways that are unfamiliar to me and which I find hard. I think “transformation” just about covers it.

My three words for 2011 are:

  • Community – building a community of like minded people who I can help, and creating a situation where they (once I’ve worked out how to make the technical side of it work) can help each other. This also extends to the broader community. For instance I gave blood for the first time last year, and will continue to do that and find other ways to give what I can this year.
  • Passion – I’ve often “ended up” doing stuff, and “fallen into” projects. Many of these have been successful but I’ve never committed to anything with all of my being or for the long haul (i.e. my lifetime). This is because I’ve not summoned the courage to truly follow my passion. This changes now, even if it involves failure at first (or at second, at third, at fourth etc).
  • Practise – my playing, my performance, my writing and becoming a better individual. What’s hard about practise is that it is incremental and you don’t see the fruits of your labour straight away. You’re flying in the face of the 140 character “results today” society we live in. Without immediate tangible results it’s so hard to do it every day. But here’s the simple truth – the only way I’m ever going to pursue my passion is to practise.

What about you? What does your 2011 hold?

Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Email this to someone
email

Comments

comments

Filed Under: Featured Post Tagged With: community, mike monday, new years resolution, passion, practice, transformation

How can I help you?

Claude VonStroke (Dirty Bird, USA)

Mike Monday’s process has helped me enormously. I have two record labels, a heavy touring schedule, a wife and two children, and a music production career all running in tandem. There are times when it seems unmanageable and i get lost in a downward spiral that limits my effectiveness as a leader and my ability to be creative in the studio.

Whenever i have a session with Mike we talk it all out and a sense of calm comes over me. i get back to basics and work out all the things in my head that need to get worked out. His process is both calming and therapeutic.

I would also like to add that the additional fact that Mike is a music producer himself and a veteran DJ lends itself to an extra level of trust. I don’t think i would take advice or listen to someone in the same way who was from outside the music industry. In an nutshell I find Mike Monday’s process to be an extremely valuable way to organize and free my chaotic brain to do what it is supposed to be doing.

Johnson Peterson (Yolanda Be Cool)

“I found the time with Mike to be extremely beneficial. His process opened me up to ideas that, even where obvious, I had overlooked or forgotten and I am looking forward to taking them with me to the studio. It was definitely worth it.”

Janelle Palmer (Tutukaka Coast, New Zealand)

“What your course has done for me has been remarkable and I really feel so grateful to you…

Radical is a good word for it! The most unexpected thing I’ve found about the course is the impact it has had on other areas of my life – I was quite surprised about that…

These are definitely transferable skills we are learning here!”

– Janelle Palmer (Tutukaka Coast, New Zealand)

Brett Adams (Los Angeles, California)

“I already think this is one of the greatest decisions I’ve made, and we haven’t even started the curriculum yet.”

Vernon McCarthy (Wellington, New Zealand)

“I just felt inspired to send you a really quick message to say hello and let you know that I am going great guns at the moment.

Managing to get a average of two hours every day producing. This is a huge turn around for me and am loving it. It hasn’t been easy though but I have kept at it.

And much of it has been due to the help and inspiration from yourself, the group and me now actually putting in the work. The online community is such a good thing. Everytime I have gone to have a look I have found something relevant to my thoughts and that has helped me.”

Joe Roberts (London, UK)

“Mike has helped me to start living the truism that it’s not what you use to make music, it’s your ideas.

Those ideas only mean anything when you start putting them down though and that’s what this course has already helped me to start do regularly.

I’ve made more headway in two weeks than I’d managed in a couple of years on my own starting projects, then giving up and starting something new but never seeing them through till completion.”

Read more
  • Coaching Programs
  • One To One Coaching
  • Free Cheat Sheet
  • What People Are Saying

Terms of Service · Refund Policy

Copyright © 2022 Mike Monday · Log in ·

Privacy Policy