How To Turn Your Rock Band Into a Success - Free 12 Day Mini Course
Lesson 4

It’s time for us to begin drawing out the map (a plan to achieve your goals). By the end of this lesson, you will have a much clearer idea of what resources you can pull from in order to reach your goals. You will also have mapped out the first few steps in the right direction. That means that by the end of the lesson your map will have an unmistakable beginning and a crystal clear destination.

Let’s get started!

The best way to begin is to start with your existing resources. Why? First, so that you can immediately take action today. Second, as other people see that you are committed to taking consistent action quickly they are more willing to get behind you. Remember, most people (including music industry companies) are far more willing to help people who are relentlessly working to help themselves. In other words, the more use you make of your own resources, the easier it will be to gain other people’s resources and help.

What resources do you already have to help you reach your goals?
In the last few lessons, you have painstakingly defined your goals and the effect they have on your life. You have also come up with small steps, small solutions and changes, that will help you on your journey. Now it’s time to define the resources you have available to you for putting those solutions in place and for making your dream into a reality. Talk it over with each other, and come up with a list of 10 things that you already have in your lives that can help move you towards your goals. Think of the things that give you emotional support. Think of things that you might be able to pull from for financial support, growing your network, growing your fan base, or anything else that can help you achieve your goals. And always ask yourself the question, “Does this hinder me in any way?” Because, if it holds you back from achieving your clearly defined goals, then it is not a resource worth listing. After a short discussion, list your top 10 resources and how they help you.

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How can you best use these resources to achieve your goals?
You’ve listed your resources and in what ways they support you. Let’s take it a step further now. For each resource you listed, write down how you can best make use of it. Afterwards, you may want to refine your resource list a bit. You might find that you can use some resources in much more powerful ways than others, and want to change some of your answers above. Remember, the most important thing here is that you find ways to utilize your resources in incredibly powerful ways. You want BIG results from your actions. So after another short discussion, write out how each of your 10 resources listed above can be put to their greatest use.

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What are you going to do right now that will get you closer to your goals?
You’ve made a list of your best resources. You’ve written out how you can leverage each of them to make huge steps forward. Now it’s time to take action! What are 3 things that all of you will do or start doing right now? Choose some things from the list above, and do them! If you made the action too big, then break it down into smaller steps. Ask yourself what the very first step would be in using your resources to reach your goals - the very first, easy to do, small step. Write that down, and then go do it! What would the next 2 small steps be? Do them!

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Are you still reading this?
Go take action!

In the next lesson we will expand on what we have started today and build your plans for success.

In addition, we urge you to simultaneously begin to improve your stage presence.

If you want to review the rock band mini course lesson 1, you can do so here. 
If you want to review the rock band mini course lesson 2, click here. 
To review lesson 3, click here.