The Most Important Thing

The most important thing is to do it everyday.

It being your creative passion.

If you want to turn your creative passion into a full-time living, your value to the world is going to be your creative work. And to provide maximum value, you need to make your creations as good and useful as possible. And you do that by creating everyday.

It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 hours or 10 minutes each day – consistency is key. It’s how you get better – like a sport. It’s how you improve your skill and talent in making remarkable things. Simply amazing stuff that people desire.

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Applying the Sex and Cash Theory

So you want to create a full-time career with your creative passion. Do what you love and the money will follow, and all that jazz. So how do you do it in a way that doesn’t suck?

The crucial ingredient is applying Hugh MacLeod’s Sex and Cash Theory:

“The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the assignment covers both bases, but not often.”

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MokhovMix 009: Future Funk

MokhovMix 009: Future Funk

MokhovMix 009: Future Funk

Welcome to the ninth MokhovMix: Future Funk. An amazing collection of sublime grooves and hip-shaking beats with a cutting edge. It’s funk gone futuristic, ready to energize your day.

The mix explosively starts with Hudson Mohawke’s “Overnight,” officially the funkiest and most exciting instrumental hip-hop tune ever made. The anthemic horns, cutup female vocals, and ridiculously lively drums sucker-punched me the first time I heard this – I was not ready for this much hotness. Brace yourself.

I feel you’re really gonna like this mix. Enjoy.

MokhovMix 009: Future Funk

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Lifebeat Changes

Like mentioned last week, I’m re-focusing Lifebeat to be about my music and your creativity.

I’ll be documenting my quest for an unconventional full-time music career. And helping others do the same with their creative passions.

I’ve been making a lot of new electronic dance tunes, which I’ll start releasing in the near future (and document how and what I’m doing here, of course). I’ll most likely create a new site to hold my original music, which I’ll link to here.

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Are You Legend-worthy?

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“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
-Steve Jobs to John Sculley (president of Pepsi at the time)

Wanna become legend-worthy? Do something that’s not only great but also disruptive and game-changing.

If you’re turning heads, disrupting an industry, and generally pissing a healthy portion of people off, then you’re on track to possibly achieving legend status.

Break New, Sometimes Controversial Ground

Of course, what you do has to be great (not just good). But that greatness also has to break new, sometimes controversial ground.

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  • About Lifebeat

    Documenting my quest for an unconventional full-time music career. And helping you do the same with your creative passion.

    Oleg Mokhov

    By Oleg Mokhov, the world's most mobile electronic musician.
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