Published July 06, 2020 by Slick for SFR Beats
In middle school, I’ll admit, I was a chunky kid. I wasn’t “fat” so to speak, but I was definitely husky… to say the least. And, I also had this dream to be making music on a pro level. See I had plenty of food at my disposal, but I wasn’t as active as the other kids. I would just be in my room at the house and make beats, and play around with this audio software I had called “MusicStar”.
But then in highschool, a light bulb went off. If I wanted to attract the girls, I had to do a few pushups. If I could at least tame my “man boobies” and get a bicep or two, I could legit have a few numbers in my pocket (remember, cell phones are a recent invention). Learning to play the saxophone helped, but without the sax in my hand, I still needed to look just as sexy!
It was then that I realized the power of the Law of Attraction. If I wanted to attract the ladies, I had to LOOK attractive. So I got to work… did pushes and curls every day after school, until I got to a point where the ladies thought I played football. But the truth was, I was on the OTHER side of the lunchroom... just a musician with a dream, but at least I had the ladies attention now!
Armed with fresh knowledge of the game, I get to college and continue this habit of working out and developing my music skills. You see, being able to see the results of my working out with the ladies spilled over into my desire to get results out of my passion for music, so most times when I wasn’t doing classwork, I was working on my music, knowing that I could soon see the same results with my music.
But before my dream of being a music professional could happen, I had to relearn what the Law of Attraction REALLY meant. It’s a bit deeper than I thought. It’s more than just not having man boobies and rolls around my gut. I needed to learn HOW to prevent the fat from even appearing in the first place. After all, working out would seem like a “fix” to a problem I created with my diet habits. I was working out for looks at the time.. Not for health. My mentality needed to change. I needed to understand that a healthy foundation leads to a healthy life… a healthy job.. A healthy dream.
So I started studying nutrition. I learned how bad the processed foods I was eating were to my energy levels… how loads of sugar scientifically limits my brain and alcohol and fast foods create the very problems I try to fix with unnecessary hours of working out. Why care at all? Because I have a dream I’m trying to achieve. I want to attract business the same way I attracted the ladies, but in order to attract business, I have to create value.. And in order to create value, I have to have a properly-trained brain and energetic body to do those activities!
I learned that food is the fuel I put into my body.. And the quality of my body’s output is directly related to the quality of fuel I ingest. So if I really want to do the impossible and live a career of music, it’s best to give myself the best chance of succeeding by eating right and getting adequate sleep, so I can perform at the highest level the next day.
And slowly but surely, as the years went by and my diet habits got better, it became easier to maintain consistency with my workouts, since my energy levels were higher. Armed with a fitter body and fueled up brain, my productivity became to sky-rocket. Decisions were clearer… less mistakes were being made, and I could remember details I needed to recall in order to make better decisions later. Eating right, working out, and working on my music business became sort of a feedback loop, with each one positively affecting the other, leading me to the place I am today… lead producer /manager of one of the most successful independent production teams online!
Back in middle school, as a husky kid who enjoyed making music, I did not know my journey to a healthy diet and exercise would coincide with my journey to becoming a professional music producer. But it did. Maybe my story can inspire the same and more for you.
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