Dear Passengers, How much effort is enough? How do you know when you've given the music business your best shot and it simply wasn't enough? I saw this very issue debated on our forum. Somebody was ready to give up on songwriting because he felt that he had given it all he had, and the wall was too high for him to get over. I had three reactions to what he had written. 1) He was frustrated and wanted his friends on the forum to talk him out of quitting. 2) How badly did he really want to be in...

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Dear Passengers, Aristotle once said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Every year, our members who come to the Road Rally, stop me and tell me how stoked they are that they came. They can't wait to get home and use all the new songwriting and production tips and techniques they learned at the convention. Their heads seem as if they are about to explode! It's incredible to feel their energy. But I often wonder how many of them can sustain that level of energy and commitment once they get home....

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