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Reader, in case you haven't heard the news...

​I wrote a new piece, The Spectacle (for Two Tubas and Piano), which will be premiered in Fukuoka, Japan, on March 14th. ​

But I'm not here to talk about the piece necessarily.

Rather, how I got here.

And it's funny to say "here" as if I'm exactly where I want to be.

I'm not.

And yet, people wonder how I've come to the opportunities I've had thus far.

True self-care starts here:

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Dare I say that I feel "lucky?"

I'm not one to brag, but things like this keep happening.

If it keeps happening, can one still consider it luck?

Maybe it's time to accept that I'm worthy of receiving.

Maybe it's time to give myself more credit.

My standards are ridiculously high (which I wouldn't change for the world. )

But my standards may also be why I can't seem to believe when opportunities like this happen.

My standards are why I keep pinching myself, wondering if the dream that I'm currently living is a dream.

(Maybe I'll wake up soon.)

I think, "Me? Really, this guy?"

But that's the wrong question.

Why not you?

And why not you, Reader?

Listen to me:

If you have a dream, it's damn yours, Imaginator.

You dreamt it.

It feels purposeful and fulfilling to you.

Why on Earth wouldn't you chase it?

What the hell else are you going to do?

Two kinds of "imposters:"

• Ones who actually are.
• Ones who aren't but think they are.

You should only feel like an imposter if you know you're being a fraud.

If you're teaching something you haven't done.

If you're lying about your achievements.

If you're lying about who you are.

Putting up a facade.

If this isn't what you're doing, why feel like an "imposter?"

So it's fear that's shredding you?

Let me tell you something:

You don't have a "syndrome."

No.

You have BALLS. You have VULVA. You have GUTS (forgive my French).

All you've done is embrace the edge as the only way forward.

The unknown realm is the place where your dreams reside.

So, how did I get here?

Just that.

I ran head-first into the unknown, and I'll keep doing that.

Some other things that have helped me:

• I didn't build "networks." I built relationships.
• I demonstrated competency.
• I found the thing I'm meant to be doing.
• It never feels like "work" to me.

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There's a process.

I'm spit-balling here, but:

If I could walk you through how to land your first big opportunity as a creative, would you be interested?

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