I sing other peoples' songs sometimes too.

I feel like I've been sharing a lot of semi-motivational stuff lately so I thought I would just share music this week.

Me and a friend of mine, Stu, did some covers and we shared them on Youtube. On my Facebook page I did a vote where I asked what song I should cover and the winner was One Headlight by The Wallflowers. It's an interesting song because it feels like he wrote it as a poem first then wrote music to it after. There are fair amount of extra words that I, as a songwriter, would have chopped mercilessly.

Next up is Norwegian Wood by The Beatles. While we were doing One Headlight we decided to just do this one for fun. I always liked this song because the guy burns all the girls furniture after she leads him on for the evening. 

Well, that's it for this week. I hope you enjoy the songs. If you have a song you'd like Stu and I to cover let me know via twitter, facebook or in the comments below. 

Sometimes it's not what you get in the end. It's what you do to get there.

"Daddy. Can we play cutting and glueing?"My daughter loves cutting and glueing. Sometimes she makes things. A snowman, her mom or a princess. But sometimes she just cuts and glues. She'll spend half an hour just cutting chunks of foam and paper into different shapes "Look! I made a triangle!" Then she dunks the shapes into a dish of glue and sticks it to some paper. That's all she'll do and when she's done she has something.

What she winds up with isn't always a picture of anything and it'll most likely get tossed in a week or so. But what she got in that half an hour will be with her for ever. Every time she uses scissors she holds them better and cuts straighter. Every time she tries to glue something uses a more appropriate amount. Every time we play cutting and glueing she gets better at it. 

As I've mentioned in a previous article, the secret to getting good at something is to do it then do it again. The secret to doing things again and again is to find something you love to do. 

The big lesson I learned from my daughter is that, as you do your thing again and again, sometimes you don't even have to wind up with anything you'd ever want to show people. You may even wind up with something you want to throw away immediately. But what you have to realize is that is absolutely okay. In fact it's better than okay it should be expected, especially whe you are first staring out.

Sometimes, it's not what you get in the end. It's what you did to get there that is important. 

Tucker, I told you there was nothing to be afraid of.

Last week I told you about how I had finished my newsletter but was scared to send it out because Fear Is Scary. Writing the post about being scared gave me the little push I needed to send it out. So with a trembling finger poised over the 'deliver' button I let go and sent it. You can read it if you'd like and if you enjoy it you can subscribe on the right.  

You know what happened? No one called me a loser. No one laughed at me. In fact much to my surprise two people responded and both used the word 'inspiring'. Me. Inspiring. How good does that make you feel? Pretty darn good. 

But you know what was most interesting? They weren't so much inspired by the content. They were inspired by the fact that I had done something. The fact that I finished something made them want to make something of their own. 

So, let me know in the comments: What are you scared to do?

Because, if you do that scary something ... someone may just thank you for it.