Valoramous

Thank you, Tonga, for the hospitality and memories!

📸📍: Anahulu Beach, Tonga 🇹🇴

🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Be proactive. If you want to succeed or make progress, you must identify opportunities and experiences, anticipate when to act, and jump or lean in towards them with tenacious vigor and decisive action.

📸📍: Nuku’alofa, Tonga 🇹🇴

🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

When you are overwhelmed with a big project, break it down into digestible component parts.

These small-scale tasks or mini-projects will provide you quick wins and help you build momentum towards completing the project.

📸📍: Tonga 🇹🇴

🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Increase your efficiency through block scheduling 🗓️.

Allocate a minimum of one hour (preferably 2-4 hours) to complete tasks and projects.

The extra time to dive deep into the task or project will lead to increased productivity.

📸📍: Tonga 🇹🇴

🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

There is no growth in familiarity.

Chase discomfort as this phenomenon will force you to grow.

📸📍: Anahulu Cave, Tonga 🇹🇴

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What isn’t tracked isn’t managed 📈 📊.

Track your progress across time so that you may reallocate resources and course correct.

Additionally, this tracking and management will also allow you to take a step back and analyze the big picture and overall trendline during the inevitable ups and downs.

📸📍: Tonga 🇹🇴

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Identify your “why.”

Identify your North Star 🌠.

Your ultimate objective will guide you during your journey and influence your decision making process.

PS — 👩🏼‍🎤 🇺🇸 and I will release our second EDM/Big Room collaboration track 🎵, “Electric Jungle” 🔥⚡️ 🌳 🐯 🐅 🐾 🐘 🐆 🌳 ⚡️🔥, this fall 🍂🍁.

Stay tuned 🙌.

📸📍: Tonga 🇹🇴 🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Speed is often times your best friend.

Move through life with a sense of urgency and purpose.

📸📍: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

🎼 🎭 🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Develop a war chest mentality.

Stack skills, invest in yourself, and constantly produce to build up your war chest for future employment.

📸📍: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

🎼 🎭 🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

It requires planning. It requires structure. It requires time. It requires discipline, and it requires perseverance.

If you are doing something hard or competitive, understand that it will be a long, hard slog with moments of extreme doubt.

Yet, you shouldn’t want it any other way — because if it were easy, everyone would do it.

📸📍: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

🌉 🎼 🎭 🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse 🎻 🎼 🎺 💿 🎛️ 🎚️ 🎧 until your set is second nature.

📸📍: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 🎼 🎭 🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Cut the chains ⛓️‍💥. Burn the boats 🛥️.

Remove the BS. Eliminate the distractions.

Craft a vision. Prioritize your efforts. Allocate resources.

Set yourself free 🦅.

📸📍: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

🎼 🎭 🏝️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

After virtually working together to complete a record 💿 several years ago, it was nice to finally meet you in person, :

🇺🇸 🤝 🇦🇺

📸📍: Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 🦘 🐊 ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

After 3-4 years of virtually working together to produce and release two Synthwave and Electronic collaboration EPs 💿, it was nice to finally meet all of you in person in Australia 🇦🇺, collaborate in the studio, exchange producer knowledge, and discuss life over food and drink, Robodop Snei and The Safety Word.

I look forward to continuing and building upon our collaboration and collective musical 🎵 efforts.

🇺🇸 🤝 🇩🇪 🤝 🇦🇺

📸📍: Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 🦘 🐊 ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Allocate time in your schedule and calendar for strategic thinking.

Develop and refine a vision, think creatively, implement activities in line with your vision, and then regularly assess the performance of your activities so that you may realign and balance your overall set of efforts.

📸📍: Krujë Castle, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Why reinvent the wheel?

Learn what has been done before you, and then add to it with your unique skillset and experience.

📸📍: Krujë Castle, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

When deciding a path forward, consider the sustainability of your effort.

Sustainability is an integral component to achieving your objectives as the one-time “knockout punch” will rarely occur.

📸📍: Krujë Castle, Albania 🇦🇱

🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

When the going gets tough and specific outcomes alude you, focus on the process and self-improvement.

The process will keep you grounded on elements within your control vs. focusing on external factors outside of your reach.

📸📍: Luzhë, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Rather than seeking short-term shortcuts, seek to build a rock-solid foundation through discipline, consistency, and self-improvement.

Discipline and consistency are powerful attributes, which exemplify forward thinking towards a vision of the future that you will eventually achieve through time and effort.

📸📍: Vlorë, Albania 🇦🇱 🕌 ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Time is the great equalizer and ultimate resource.

Plan your days, weeks, and months.

Either you control your schedule, or your schedule controls you.

📸📍: Lukovë, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Most creative processes and some projects in life can be delineated into five phases:

1.) Idea Generation, Composition, and Recording

2.) Editing or Revising

3.) Mastering or Finalizing

4.) Distribution or Publishing

5.) Promotion, Marketing, and Raising Awareness

Despite being the final steps in the process, steps #4-5 should be half of your overall efforts.

📸📍: The Blue Eye, Albania 🇦🇱 💧 👁️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

From Albania 🇦🇱 with love ❤️.

📸📍: The Blue Eye, Albania 🇦🇱 💧 👁️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

The Pareto Principle is powerful.

Approximately 20% of your efforts will produce 80% of your results.

Prioritize that 20% above all else.

📸📍: The Blue Eye, Albania 🇦🇱 💧 👁️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Expeditious advancement in a craft often times requires a mentor and mentorship.

Mentorship is not merely a contract with a series of agreed meetings, but a powerful method to receive direct feedback from someone ahead of you in your chosen field.

He or she will not only share valuable insights and tricks, but also highlight pitfalls and landmines for you to avoid.

📸📍: Berat Castle, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Consistency has and always will remain the critical attribute that separates the wheat from the chaff.

Many may have a great game or a great season, but can you consistently perform over a period of several years or decades?

📸📍: Berat Castle, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

We all will struggle in this life in one way or another and sooner or later.

Either suffer the pain of discipline now, or suffer the pain of regret later.

You decide.

📸📍: Uji i Ftohtë Tepelenë, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Develop a “sales” mindset. Rejection is inevitable, part of the process, and will force you to improve and develop yourself, your craft, and/or chosen field.

📸📍: Gjirokastër Castle, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Consistency and discipline will beat inspiration and motivation in the long run.

The former are enduring, while the latter are fleeting like the change of seasons or turn of the tides.

Develop a rigid schedule and watch your productivity compound through time.

📸📍: Gjirokastër Castle, Albania 🇦🇱 🏰 ⚔️ 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

When frustration ensues, take a step back, examine the big picture, and remain grateful for how far you have come.

This life is a marathon and measured over many seasons, years, and decades.

📸📍: Tiranë, Albania 🇦🇱 🕌 ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

Set yourself free from the shackles, vices, time sinks, and distractions of the past.

Spread your wings like an eagle 🦅.

Climb or fly to a position of relative advantage.

Scout your entire perimeter for opportunities.

When the time is right, seize the moment and execute your mission with tenacity.

Wash, rinse, and repeat in line with your long-range vision.

📸📍: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

🦅 🏔️ ✈️ 🛂 💼 🧤 👔 😎

#бишкек #киргизстан