Productivity

I’m not sure what I want to write about. I just know I want to put up a blog post. That’s sort of a resolution this year; to be more productive. I’ve always had lots of ideas, but I haven’t necessarily felt like executing them. Things seem to get in the way, including, very often, my own “I don’t feel like it right now” brand of laziness. Not that I haven’t been busy. But, yeah, a goal is to be more productive: To record more songs, to blog more, to play more shows, to be more active online in promoting my music / art.

“Promoting my music / art.” Ugh. That’s something I have a love / hate relationship with. It feels weird to say, “listen to me”, and even worse to say, “buy my stuff.” But that is, of course, one of the goals. On the other hand as Jim Shelley (www.bookofkills.com) said to me years ago, "If you don’t care about your music or art, why should you expect anyone else to?" Very wise. I think of that when I'm feeling self-conscious.

So for the last week I’ve been busy. If you’ve stopped by my music website (and please do!), www.robchristensen.com, you’ll notice a lot more content. Most of my songs are now up and available for streaming and, for a limited time, free download. I plan to have them all up soon. Most songs also have lyrics attached. There are also some new photographs posted. And RobsBlog has a new baby brother, a “Rob Christensen Setlists” blog. http://robchristensensetlists.blogspot.com/. I’ve only got two shows up at this point, but more will be up soon.

So that’s what’s been happening. As I said above, I’ve got lots of ideas and lots of plans. However, I read recently on Derek Sivers’ blog, http://sivers.org/, that you shouldn’t announce things before you complete them, because merely announcing something satisfies some sort of internal driver to the point that you sort of feel like you completed your goal simply by announcing the goal. So I won’t. I’ve got ideas, I’ve got plans, and I’ve got dreams. I’ve also managed to get some things done, which you can see via the links in the previous paragraph.

More soon? Guess we’ll have to wait and see…

Rob C.