Dealing with pressure in DJing and electronic music production
Do you sometimes feel pressure in DJing or in music production?
You’re not sure if it comes from within you or if it’s caused by something outside of you. As a result, you’re not able to finish tracks or DJ mixtapes. In fact you can’t even get started.
When you feel pressure to figure out the right way to create your tracks or DJ sets, to release them and to get visible as a DJ/producer, it shows that you are unable to trust yourself enough to make the right decision.
You don’t trust yourself enough to create your best work. You second-guess every decision: what software to use, are your mixing skills too limited, what gear will you use, what does it need to sound like, and so on.
It’s debilitating and so you don’t do anything at all. You find yourself not able to get started.
“The pressure to get it perfect causes procrastination and so you don’t finish tracks or mixtapes, you find the process stressful and your relationship with your music feels restrained.”
Inside this video, I share an important insight for you to better understand pressure in DJing and music production.
I cover how it shows up differently for every DJ/producer - even when the circumstances are exactly the same, and I demonstrate this with real examples from DJs and electronic music producers I have helped through my work as a holistic (night)life coach.
I also share 2 questions to reflect on so that you can overcome this issue and finish your tracks, enjoy the process more and get your best work out there to be picked up by a label, sync opportunity or book more gigs!
Journal prompts to deal with pressure in DJing and electronic music production
Journaling is a very powerful way to self-reflect so that you can raise your awareness about your thoughts and feelings. Putting pen to paper helps you to process emotions and experiences because the actual act of writing allows you to slow down and become more knowledgeable about why you’re feeling pressure as a DJ or electronic music producer, what is causing it and the variety of ways you might be projecting your internal state onto an external circumstance.
Use these 2 questions to dive deeper into what’s causing you to experience pressure and 2 questions to ask yourself to overcome this:
What are some of the ‘shoulds’ you do right now, ‘rules’ you have created for yourself in music production or DJing - and in life, that you say you have to do in order to achieve ______ [fill in blank with the goal you want to achieve as a DJ/producer] which are causing you to feel pressure?
If you already were the next level DJ/producer version of you who already has achieve ______ [goal], would you still do these things, follow these ‘rules’?
Overcoming pressure in DJing and electronic music production
Trying to figure out the right way to create your tracks or DJ sets is pointless because but there is no right way, there is only YOUR way!
Do you feel pressure, and are you unsure whether or not a want to create electronic music tracks or DJ mixtapes comes from inside you or outside you - in order to please others?
Would you love to develop your own sound as a DJ/producer, but you constantly second-guess yourself, unable to make decisions on what music to create?
Do you worry about achieving your goals for finishing your own tracks or DJ sets because so far you’ve only had success because others took you there and you don’t believe you could do it on your own?
If so, then you’re giving your power away and it makes you feel unsafe. That’s what you want to look at because that’s where your true answers lie if you want to get confident about your next steps to be able to crank out tracks like clockwork and create your best work that you can feel satisfied with.
Your inability to be decisive causes massive discomfort which blocks your creativity in the studio, however, you don’t know your next steps for breaking through that creative wall and I'm sure you're done feeling like that.
It’s time to take your power back and I’m here to help you break through that wall so that you can finish your tracks and finish them faster, more easily and enjoy the process more!
Let's hop on a 30-minute breakthrough call to identify exactly where the pressure comes from so that you can have clarity on your next steps to get confident about facing the pressure and finishing your tracks and DJ mixtapes like clockwork.
Book in your call today so that you can finally move the needle.
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