If you've got great web presence, you've got too much time on your hands...

OR you've got someone helping you, OR your a great writer, OR posting, tweeting, and blogging comes second nature to you.

This blog is supposed to be about balancing a music career, marriage and family.  Although we haven't had enough time to bring the blog full circle to touch on all the points.  But this is the problem, it seems that since we've started this blog, we've been everything but balanced.  I would say we're extremely unbalanced.  If we're not able to do what we're writing, then we shouldn't be writing about it.

I (Misty) have been spending countless hours trying to come up with blog posts.  My mind does not stop.  Everything that happens or has happened during Chubby's career, I put on my list of posts (that's longer than my leg).  Chubby and I haven't been talking about regular day-to-day stuff like usual.  We've been discussing blog posts!  He tells me his ideas, I tell him mine.  Instead of "Hi, honey! How was your day?"  its "Hi, honey!  I've got a great idea for a blog post."  Come on now....Maya is ready to throw my computer out the window.   I've also been searching the web looking for informative ideas for musicians.  That could take the rest of my life!

I wanted to give musicians a one-stop shop to get all the help they needed in the music business.  I wanted to create an organized, simplified method for obtaining the information.  I find that the amount of information on the web is completely overwhelming.  You can start by researching one item and end up having 20 extra items on your to-do list.  The links alone overwhelm me, and I lose my focus.  Usually I can't remember what I started looking for because I've covered 101 topics.  One of my goals (out of too many to count) was to organize the information by topic with an action plan.

That brings me to my next point, MY goals.  What are my goals?  What was I put on this earth to do?  What is my calling and purpose?  Is it to be a blogger?  Is it to be a social media superstar?  I think not.

We've been blessed that Chubby has an awesome following every where he goes.  He's been at this a long time and people already know him.  Not to say that it isn't important to connect on social networks, but Chubby is great at face-to-face.  He's also great on the phone. He's a great friend.
 
So I've had to re-evaluate my goals.  I know in my "knower" that I'm supposed to be a wife and mother.  That's what God put me on this earth for.  So I have to go back to the original plan.  The goal that will mean the most when I come to the end of this life.  That I served God, my husband, and my daughter well.  If I continue at this pace, I will fail miserably.

If you are a blogging, gig-booking, managing, publicity getting, social media superstar traveling musician (or wife of) that still has time for your home, spouse, kids, friends AND you get sleep, I want to read your blog.  NO! I want to meet you and shake your hand.   My hat's off to you.

Not to say that we won't post anything ever again, perhaps we'll take a different approach.  You know a blog is a work in progress, it evolves.  But right now I'm not planning on anything.

I hope you've enjoyed the previous posts and gained some knowledge.  Hope to see you at a gig!

New and Improved Blog

I know, I know, I haven't posted in ages. This blogging thing has been difficult to keep up with.  So I have decided to make some changes.  First of all, I am bringing Misty on board to help with posting.  So maybe with both of us working on this, we'll be able to keep up.  We've also changed the name, layout, and copied all the other posts to this new blog. 
We have been thinking about topics, subjects, and ideas to blog about.  We needed a plan instead of just pulling things out of thin air. And this is what we came up with, for now:
Music Mondays:  We'll share what we're listening to, fave songs, new songs, etc....
Tasty Tuesdays:  You know Louisiana is known for its tasty cuisine, so we'll share recipes, methods, maybe even a cooking video or two, by yours truly.
Work Wednesdays: This can be anything related to music industry, web, marketing, business tips, etc...Perfect for self employed musicians...
Things to do Thursdays:  We will share posts and the occasional video of things to do in Acadiana.  Come on down to Louisiana!
Freedom Fridays:  On Friday, anything goes.  We're free to post about anything
Snapshot Saturdays:  I cleaned out our storage unit and found a bunch of old photos, so I'd like to share them with you. Lots of great memories. 
Spiritual Sundays:  Inspirational quotes, ideas, thoughts

I hope you'll enjoy our new and improved blog.  Let us know what you think and don't forget to subscribe.  We hope having a strategy like this will work out a little better.  If not, we will be ordering:

Blogging For Dummies
Peace,
Chubby