Never Take Your Songwriting For Granted

A couple of days ago I lost my mobile phone. It disappeared, vanished into thin air.

This experience got me thinking about how we take things for granted and how we feel when those things are taken away from us. I certainly took my mobile phone for granted and now that it’s gone I feel very strange, empty and even naked.

I know that the phone itself is a piece of technology, metal and electronic components but it’s what I had stored in it, and my attachment to that information that makes me feel the way I do at the moment.

What does this have to do with songwriting?

Well, this experience has enabled me to reflect on a Buddhist teaching about the concept of attachment and how it causes suffering.

Enjoy the process of writing songs but don’t become attached to the end result and don’t ever take your songwriting for granted.

Even though your ability to write songs won’t disappear like a mobile phone you will, from time to time, experience ebbs and flows in your songwriting process.

Sometimes you’ll feel “blocked” and other times you won’t.

When you experience times that the muse is having a party in your soul and that songwriting ideas are pouring out, let it happen, embrace it, hold onto your good fortune as hard as you can and just run with it.

Let your songwriting take you to wherever it chooses to go and make the best of what you have because it won’t last forever.

On the other hand, when you’re soul is like the Sahara and nothing is coming out, don’t stress, let it happen because it won’t last forever.

Besides, you can always download my FREE eReport “11 Ways To Eliminate Songwriters Block FOREVER!”

This situation I find myself in at the moment is a real inconvenience and it’s all out of my control but I’m sure very soon I’ll look back on this and laugh about it to myself.

Just like a bout of songwriters block, this inconvenience won’t last forever.

Until next time, happy writing,

Corey Stewart
Singer/Songwriter/Musician

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