The Mindset of
Making Music

WITH KEITH MILLS

FMM164 – Deadlines for Creatives: Scary But Essential

One word guaranteed to strike fear and terror into a creative’s heart… …Deadlines!  What runs through your mind when you hear that word? Too much pressure! The enemy of creativity! The quality of my art will suffer! Any piece of music you write can be open to a never-ending set of revisions, tweaks, and changes.  …

FMM163 – Perfectionism: Your Quest to Write Boring Music

Have you ever found yourself trapped in the murky world of perfectionism? If the answer is yes then you will almost certainly know how debilitating it can be… Second-guessing everything that you do. Endlessly spotting something else to change. The sheer frustration of knowing that it is time to move forward yet stuck in perfection…

FMM162 – Knowledge Shared is Knowledge Squared

You would be crazy to want to stunt your growth as a producer, right? …but a fair few people fall into a trap that leads to exactly that. These are the people who tend to hold onto knowledge and keep it to themselves. This typically comes from a place of insecurity. A place of fear…

FMM161 – Beware Of Multi-tasking! It reduces your memory, IQ and Creativity

Multitasking? You may as well smoke marijuana! When I started digging into the effects of multitasking, I was absolutely blown away by how deep the rabbit hole goes… It runs so much deeper than I imagined. It slows you down, it lowers your IQ, it weakens your memory.  It kills your creativity and productivity while…

FMM160 – Beyond Lockdown : Using Your Music to Impact the World

Have you ever heard a piece of music that lit you up and changed your day for the better? Perhaps it lessened the fact that you felt fearful, anxious, or worried about something. Now more than ever, we’ve been given a sense that our actions really do impact the world around us. Maybe it’s just…

FMM159 – Creative Burnout Can Floor You for Months: Here’s How to Avoid It

Have you ever felt disconnected from your art and disinterested in what you’re doing? Sure, we all have times when our output isn’t meeting our expectations and that’s just part of being a creative… …But what about when you experience the continual feeling of being a bit flat, uninspired, and demotivated in the studio?  Well…

FMM158 – How You Look at Problems Determines What’s Possible for You

Do you want to know the REAL biggest mistake you can possibly make? Well today we’re talking about the problems that come with success.  If you want to play a bigger game and achieve more in your life and with your music, you will be inviting new and bigger problems into your world.  …and avoiding…

FMM157 – Avoid Your Productivity Killers With the Power of the To-Don’t List

No one wants to look back at a life squandered. …a life spent on poor choices and destructive habits.  Destructive habits that put you in quicksand – no matter how focused you are on the race you are trying to run. And if you don’t bring the habits and distractions that aren’t serving you well…

FMM156 – How to Move Faster and Further on Your Creative Journey

Do you want to break new boundaries with your music? …or discover exciting new ways to challenge yourself creatively? Well, today I’m going to share with you a series of powerful and linked mindset hacks that I’ve curated from this year’s podcast episodes. …To help you move faster and further into the next year of…

FMM155 – Christmas Mixes: Genre Spanner: Hyasynth Aus

Today we have an amazing mix to round off our series… For our 4th and final showcase we turned to the skills of Australian DJ Hyasynth (Andrew Mashiko) for our showcase from the future! This is a multi-genre mix covering a whole lot of bases and a lot of ground with 34 awesome tracks! Sit…

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