Visualize
I read in a book that you should visualize success at whatever you are aiming towards to increase your chances of a positive outcome. Or something like that. I’m paraphrasing. This is something I’m trying to incorporate.
I know that nerves are going to be there no matter what. Which is crazy, considering my advanced age, but nerves come regardless. I think that’s one of the funny things about life. When you are young, you assume that the current worries and problems vanish as you get older. You think that you will have things figured out. that is not the case.
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The people I’m around worry just as much as the people around me when I was in college and when I was in high school and middle school. What’s even more crazy, is that people worry about the same kinds of things. They worry about girls or boys. They worry about having enough money so they can go to a concert. And in my case, I worry about performing. Both on and off the mic.
I don’t think I’m going to use my mic at Akon, but I will bring it because, you never know. There may be an opportunity for people to cypher or to freestyle and I want them to be able to rock as needed. And thinking about this now, I need to download a few beat tapes. I need to pad my arsenal with as much stuff as I can think of. Some of it will be mine. MOST of it will be mine, but there are some ways to assist with what I’m trying to do, so that I can get the victory.
I need some stuff from Meagan, Saamus, Charles Hamilton, Sir Michael Rocks, all of the nerdcore, left of center hip-hop. And I need to keep pushing up to and including the moment when I start. And I need to see it. I need to visualize myself succeeding. I need to visualize myself having fun. I need to visualize myself doing whatever I can to make it work.
- Z
