Are you working the wrong plot of land?

It is possible to be doing all the right things to succeed but realise you've planted your garden on the wrong plot of land. To continue the metaphor, the plants look sickly, or worse refuse to show their heads. What then? 

Change your environment. 

It works.

Same effort, different soil=different results.

Five things you can do.

1. Are your colleagues worn and tired? Seek out some younger ones tied to a different scene.
2. Move cities. I left Hamilton with a piano teaching studio of mostly children. In Toronto mostly adults. And much higher wages. 
3. Learn a new instrument. Really. Drumming in my 50's took me to some cool places. Still does. 
4. Compose and present your own music. Why not? If it works, bravo. If it doesn't nobody will remember anyways.
5. Investigate new parallel paths in your own neighbourhood. Maybe the soil in your patch is fertile with a different crop. 

Cheers, 

​David

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