You can’t over plan, but you can over wait.
In less than a week, my friend Paul Federici and I leave for a five week tour, 4000+ miles across the US and Canada. It’s the longest tour either of us will have done.
How long did we plan this? I pitched the idea to Paul in late March; and the legwork began the first week of April. (Some smaller details are still getting finished!)
Yep, five to six months…You can’t over plan. That’s a motto Crystal Palace taught me during my early teaching years.
However, you can over wait.
We often confuse procrastination with planning. We might say, “I’m not ready to do this project. I need to think about it more.” But we aren’t thinking; we’re waiting.
I waited too long during my first recording project’s sessions. I took me a full year to finish my first EP, and I’ll admit there was quite a bit of procrastinating between sessions one, two, three, four. (And grading a lot of papers in between those sessions, too!).
My third EP took a week. Start to finish of recording, mixing, and mastering.
Sure, brainstorming is important. But soon, you just have to commit, jump in, feet first, and embrace the challenge.
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