Finding Inspiration by Changing my Mindset

“I hope I can make a new song.”

I'm sure every artist can relate to staring at a blank canvas unable to find the inspiration to create. Personally, I struggled to find inspiration to create music. And I can remember countless times when I sat by the computer unable to even start a song. And I would always question what I was doing wrong.

I knew I had to change something, but I didn't know what. All I knew was that I wanted to create music, but something was blocking me. Then after a while, a close friend of mine told me that it was my mindset. She told me the reason I kept failing was because I didn't actually believe in myself. She told me to say, “I'm going to make a new song,” until I made a new song.

I'll be the first to admit I didn't actually think it would work, but I also figured it couldn't hurt, so I gave it a try anyways.

“I'm going to make a new song.”

Every time I was ready to begin a new project, I repeated that to myself. I said it until I believed I could make a new song. And it worked. I got past my block and created one of my best songs.

Since then, I've started applying this to other areas in my life. I figured that if changing my mindset helped with my music, it could absolutely help with other things as well. And just like my music, it worked with everything I applied it to. To this day, I'm so glad I decided to take her advice and change my mindset from hoping I could make music to believing I would make music.