If you live in the United States and celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you were able to spend some time with people you love today. I had a very low-key day with family and it was perfect.

If you're only going to read one of these this week make it #1!

And without further ado, here are this week's ideas...

Quartet of the Week

1. Creating Your Own Starting Principles

Starting Principles are a collection of beliefs that help you behave strategically across domains and make better decisions.

This is a powerful concept and this article has one hell of a list to consider.

Click on this one!

2. Busyness Decoded: How to Limit What You Say "Yes" To

Last week I mentioned that the number one thing on work on with TEM Coaching clients is having too many ideas and not knowing where to start. But upon further reflection, it's actually a tie with saying yes to too many things!

This post goes into addressing the ways we are complicit in our busyness and stress. Sure, life happens to us at times. And sometimes that happens in suffocating waves.

But it's been my experience that I am in more control of things than it sometimes feels and that is empowering.

3. How To Find Clarity When You’re at a Career Crossroads

This article features five research-backed steps to figure out your next move which I think can apply to a big change like changes fields or to just adding/subtracting aspects of a portfolio career.

My favorite one from this list is "Find a Compass, Not a Map" but they're all good!

4. It's Never Too Late

Whenever you hear that voice inside of you that it's too late to start something, that you missed the "perfect" timing or you're too old, just know that voice is lying to you. It's never too late.

This Week's TEM Episode

TEM283 is all about the science behind gratitude and why it is especially important for entrepreneurial musicians to actively cultivate it.

My Final Thought of the Week

Here's a quote to send you on your way:

"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

—Germany Kent

This quote applies to everything in my life but really applies to my career today. When I focus on everything I have going on today, I immediately lose sight of the things that could be going better.

And I'm quite lucky. The things I have going far outweigh the things that aren't working out at the moment. But there are some days when I can really dwell on what isn't happening or revenue streams that used to be going better.

Gratitude is the key to looking at things in a healthy way and that in turn gives me power to actually move everything forward rather than looking backward. And that is a powerful gift.

Here's to perspective!

Cheers,
Andrew
The Entrepreneurial Musician

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