In the Mind of Nate

Hello everyone, as an independent musician, writer, or any other profession labeled as such the one key thing is being self motivated. And it also goes without saying that consistency is also important. Since last week I was trying to think of what to write next. Even though I consider last week's post : Bravofest NJ, a multi genre music festival in support of Homes For Our Troops comes to Ridgefield Park on June 28th sorta of a "freebie" since it was a pre-written press release and not consistent with my theme of posts of true stories in the life of a musician named after song titles. I simply took a deep breathe knowing that the source of inspiration would come as it always does. I didn't have the exact words for it yet, I had to keep "Sailing On". I just had to attend a seminar at the Warner Music Group building first. At first my thoughts were about some of the little changes I have been making that will benefit me. Bei...

Hello again everyone. Now that I'm back into the full swing of things, it seems pretty ridiculous that I took such a long break from blogging. Recently I've been trying to finish up a lot of tasks that have been stockpiling up by simply not overthinking and diving in little by little to get what I need get done. After completing a few things, I couldn't believe that these things have just been sitting around not finished for so long. Some of the stuff included re-doing the band's online merchandise store to showcase some stuff like new shirts, phone cases, etc that have our new album cover printed on it. My main deterrent was the fact that I started doing this a few months ago absent mindedly placing our new album cover on the merchandise before it was actually finalized to include the album title at the bottom. You see, these little things create lots of mental clutter that kept me from making the merchandise available to people. But this was just one of severa...