You don’t need a new guitar, or a new [insert thing here.]
I’ve been playing the same guitar since 2001.
A Taylor 515ce.
I saved up enough money during a summer job between college semesters and bought my first nice guitar.
This instrument has followed me through college, multiple moves, my teaching career, recording sessions, 70,000+ miles of traveling for gigs, my wedding. Three of every four songs I’ve ever written has been on this guitar.
I know this guitar more than I know myself.
Yesterday, Seth Godin shared how he’s been using Typepad for his blog for “a decade or so…despite the cool kids” telling him he should move it to different platform…
I think there’s an important reminder in this:
As artists and musicians, as writers and creators, we don’t really need the next flashy thing. You don’t really need to use the next blogging service or the latest guitar. It’s good to know one thing, and know it really well. But the key is to use it, every day.
Work. Practice. Learn. Grow.
That’s what’s important.
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