Overcoming Burnout (FAI Tip 4)
If I find myself burned out, it’s usually because I’ve took on more than I could chew, or didn’t allow myself enough time to plan.
A recording project of an acoustic song becoming an epic production; a lesson plan that seems great on paper becoming 20 hours of grading; an excitement to tour taking me from Terre Haute to Johnson City in three days…It’s easy to blame the art form, but often it’s the approach that causes a flame to fade.
I interviewed Josh Harty, and he offered some similar advice for the Folk Alliance first-timer: “Touring. Don’t start too big or grandiose. Concentric circles around your base and keep working outward. If you keep going where nobody knows you and playing shitty shows where no one cares, your touring days are numbered. You need to keep up morale in my opinion.”
Martin Atkins gives this motto a strategy: the flower pedal, or five pointed inward attack:
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