In the last year, I was hired to compose the score for my first feature film.
I've been working in music a long time, but scoring was a brand new, scary and completely daunting world for me, and the very thought of it absolutely fulled me with fear like I had not experienced in a long, long time.
For days after I got the offer, my stomach was knotted tight with tension and anxiety, my heart was racing intensely, my head was felt full to bursting with all sorts of thoughts...
I can't do this.
I can't read or write music.
I can't even properly play an instrument. I do understand melody though.
I would just let everybody down.
It's too big a project for me to take on.
It does sound kinda exciting... I'm just going to have to say no. But what if I said yes...? I've only been producing in a DAW for a year. I'm not a composer.
And on and on and on...
When I calmed down, I started to think more clearly.
This might sound a bit strange, but I became the observer of my thinking.
I observed that my body sensations and frantic thoughts were all, basically, FEAR gone wild.
And I noticed in the middle of all of that chaos there was a thought patiently waiting for my attention:
"But what if I said YES...?"
And the feelings associated with that thought were every bit as visceral as those of fear, but different - I felt tears well up in my eyes, a surge of happiness and shivers of excitement through my spine.
And I KNEW that I HAD to figure out how to MOVE BEYOND FEAR.
Spoiler alert: I did move beyond fear and I co-composed not one, but two, movies last year. And it was life changing in wonderful ways.
I created this Masterclass, MOVE BEYOND FEAR, to show you how to move beyond YOUR fear, so you can do and create what you reallywant.
MOVE BEYOND FEARis a deep dive into mindset mastery and into moving beyond fear.
Being musicians and creatives there can be a lot of uncertainty in our lives - around money, around where the next job is going to come from, around whether or not something we are working on will be well-received, and all of that is a beautiful recipe for fear.
As we know, fear is part of being human, so feelings of fear don't exactly ever go away.
But the wonderful news is that we absolutely can learn how to work with them, so that although fear may still be there, it doesn't hold the same "charge". You can see it, but it doesn't have the same pull over you.
And when you get to that place fear will never hold you back again.