when you're a creative working a 9-5 job, 5 days a week, how do you juggle it all? want to have a social life? another ball to juggle. want to stay fit? add another thing. dating? another ball. family? add another.

right now i'm juggling - i work a 9-5 (more of an 8-4) alongside music, friends, family, health and more. how do you make more hours in the day?

i want more time to produce, to play instruments, to record vocals to sample, to start that dub reggae band i've always wanted, to post to my followers, to chat to other producers, too scrub up my social media, to keep content fresh - the list is endless. it all gets a bit headless and overwhelming when i think about everything i should be doing to appease every avenue of my musical life.

unfortunately, there's no rulebook or advice or sentence that will give you the secret to how you can fit it all into your 24 hour day - you've got to work it out yourself.

but if you want to cheat and learn what i've worked out so far, here's 2 things that have helped in recent months:

instead of saying 'i don't have time', replace it with 'it's not at the top of my priority list'.

posting 3 Tiktoks a day? not on my priority list. creating fresh content to try and increase conversion rates? not on my priority list. re-writing my Spotify playlist pitch a 5th time to try and get playlisted? not (often) on my priority list.

making the music i love, losing myself in the process, and connecting with lovely people along the way - well, that's at the top of the list.

and secondly - web3 and the people within it.

my rather fledgling introduction into web3 and the attitudes of the people within it has given me a fresh perspective on my time and my priorities. web3 seems like they get it. it's been a constant source of inspiration into how i should be approaching my music and how i should be putting it out into the world. instead of making 47 remixes of my song in the hopes of being the next trending sound, it respects that i need to be living what i write my songs about. it gets that writing and producing something so visceral and cathartic takes time. it respects that we as musicians, need time to water ourselves, grow and flourish.

ask me if i’m still juggling everything in 3 months time and the answer might well be fuck no and i’ll be back to being headless. but it’s all a learning curve right?

if you need me, you know where i’ll be 🌱