Mind The Music Episode 027 - The biology of procrastination and why you struggle to finish tracks or mixtapes

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How long has it been since you finished a track or recorded a mixtape? And how much longer to actually put it online?

You might be thinking that your time management skills suck right? Because with so much time to kill, how is it even possible that you haven opened up your DAW in 3 months or recorded a mixtape in over 8 months? Perhaps you’ve been wanting to finish an album but have been dragging it out for 2 years and haven’t even finished 1 track. Even with so much time to kill, you’re still not doing anything at all and you feel embarrassed by it.

Something is blocking you mentally from progressing as a DJ/Producer but you don’t know what that is - it scares you and it’s stopping you from making decisions on what your next steps should be. You don’t trust yourself enough to make that decision. And so you avoid it. You wait and wait. You procrastinate.



Inside this episode, you’ll learn

  • Why you’re struggling to finish your tracks or mixtapes and how to stop focusing on solving the wrong problem, so that you an actually focus on overcoming the real problem and move forward.

  • A brief explanation of what happens inside your brain when you procrastinate.

  • A few real-life examples of how procrastination shows up in music production and DJing and how that stops DJ/producers from reaching their goals of getting noticed.

  • What you can do about procrastination so that you can get confident about your next steps to move the needle in dance music

If you struggle to finish tracks or DJ mixtapes and you know procrastination gets in the way of your progression as a DJ/producer, then you’ll want to listen to this episode to learn why you procrastination so that you can understand what to do in order to finish your work and move the needle in dance music!

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