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Creative Flow Expert & Music Coach

Creative Flow Expert & Music Coach

‘Inspiration’, ‘Flow’ or ‘The Zone’.

Whatever you call it, I’m sure you’ve been there and think you can’t control it.

But you can.

Creative Flow Music Coaching

I’m Mike Monday and I’m a creative flow specialist who helps music producers and composers enter the highly productive and hugely enjoyable state of ‘flow’.

There are many names for it. But whether you call it inspiration, flow, the zone or something else – I’m sure you’ve experienced it. It’s well documented and familiar to many, and certainly to us musos.

Here’s what happens:

You’re Certain

You have no fear or doubt. Procrastination and perfectionism evaporate and you stop agonising over every single note.

You’re Focused

You are completely absorbed in your music. Often you lose track of time. You are so immersed that you don’t notice the distractions that you usually blame for slow progress.

Your Output Skyrockets

You can easily get more done in a day than in a normal week. You instinctively know what to do next and one activity naturally flows into another. This, with your certainty and focus result in a huge productivity boost.

You Love What You’re Doing

Times like this make you remember why you’re making music. They can be the most pleasurable moments of your life. (Yes – right up there with sex!)

The Inspiration Is Effortless

You no longer feel that you’re ‘working’. It’s almost as if your inspiration is coming from elsewhere and you’re merely the vessel.

(This is why many cultures in history have attributed this state to external influences – like “The Muse” of the Ancient Greeks.)

You Do Your Best Work

What you produce while in this state is as good as, if not better than anything else you’ve done.

So How Do You Do It?

Most people think that this happens randomly. I did during my 17 year music career.

I was pretty prolific, commercially releasing well over 300 tracks, but I’d only get into “the zone” occasionally.

Most of the time I’d procrastinate, second guess myself and every bar of music would be a struggle. And I became obsessed with the reason for this.

What was the difference that made the difference between inspired Mike and stuck Mike? Why would the same guy get wildly different results?

My Big Discovery

So I decided to analyse my creative process. I also extensively researched and studied all the positive psychology I could find.

By piecing together what I’ve noticed in myself and using the tools and techniques I’ve found during my ongoing studies I’ve discovered a methodology that works for me and others.

There are certain similarities in what we do, say and think when we’re inspired, loving it and hyper-productive, which are absent when we’re bored, stuck and struggling.

It Is Possible – You Can Do it

Even though this might sound like some kind of magic pill, the fact is that it’s a learnable skill like anything else. Despite what most ‘tortured artists’ will tell you, achieving this peak creative state whenever you want isn’t a dream.

But in order to do it you have too make sure that a number of prerequisites are present in your work, life and approach to both.

What Next?

Before I tell you anything else, if you’re interested or just curious go ahead and put your name and email address below. I’ll send you my “30 Things Every Music Producer Should Know: ebook for free. I wrote while I was working this stuff out. It’s a good introduction to me and my ideas.

And then if you like that, I’ll start sending you even more valuable content which will reveal the methodology I’m now using to help musicians do much more in a fraction of the time with great results.

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.”

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