Do you ever find yourself feeling uninspired?   Do you have days, or even maybe weeks and months where you’re just not feeling it?

I feel your pain.

Life as a musician can be tough.  It’s sometimes hard to make yourself feel inspired on days when you’re, well, just not feeling it.  For whatever reason. The feeling of inspiration can be an elusive, slippery thing and I’m not sure that you can really make yourself feel inspired any more than you can make yourself feel in love, or make yourself happy or make yourself feel any number of emotions that seem to spontaneously arise when we least expect them to.

However, I would argue that if your goal is to become a great songwriter, musician, composer etc…  looking or waiting for inspiration as a cue that you should get to work is probably going about it the wrong way and in fact if you only write when you’re “feeling it”, you’ll probably end up being a highly un-prolific, un-successful writer.  And although I’m not sure if you can really manufacture inspiration, in my experience there is something you can do that will greatly increase the quality of your music and writing, and in the long term will likely lead to more frequent moments of inspiration.

….and what is that?