This isn’t Bryan Adams the Canadian rocker but Ryan Adams another singer/songwriter who has good points on keeping it simple.
Goals: Musician Ryan Adams’ Success Secret:
What I do and what all musicians do is easy. All we have to do is sit down for a couple hours a week and write a song or two. That simple task is all the world asks of me, so I do it. The other musicians who don’t are just lazy, because again, we aren’t being asked to tar rooftops or clean out dumpsters. We just have to write a couple songs!
Think about your #1 goal for a minute. What action does that goal ask of you? Is it asking you to scrape sludge out of cesspools? I would hope not. Instead, you picked something you want for yourself. As such, the goal asks you to take a consistent but easy action.
* A goal to write a book only asks for a page or two a day. It doesn’t demand you get a job making the pulp that produces paper
* A goal to lose weight only asks hour in the gym and light meals. You aren’t asked to dig the iron and melt the alloying elements to make the steel for the gym equipment.
* A goal for getting straight A’s in your classes only asks you to study for 2-3 hours a day. You aren’t asked to lay the bricks that make up the University classrooms.
If you look a little deeper into what Adams said, it makes a strong implication for those who don’t take action. Yes, he calls them lazy. But there’s a deeper meaning. It implies that if you don’t take the simple action, then you cease to be. A song writer who doesn’t write songs ceases to be a song writer. An author who doesn’t write ceases to be an author.