Something I’ve been aware of a while back called the Pareto principle. It is what you call investing 20% of something you are doing that gives you 80% of your outcome. For me, it was focusing on my piano technique 20% of my time during my road days and it gave me the freedom to improvise and express myself freely 80% of the time.
It can be a constant struggle to focus on that 20% to get that 80% outcome. I am guilty of this and it will sometimes goes against you; while you are thinking that your focusing 20% of your time, you are actually focusing 80% of your time that might not be working on what your focusing on and you will end up with 20% of your outcome.
I guess it comes down to knowing what you need to focus on to get that outcome you are looking for. It can sometimes be a trial and error on what you need to focus on.
At the moment investing 20% on organizing my composing writing process helps me focus on just the music that I am creating. I have been creating templates on my DAW for specific music genres for sometime now and continue to explore and create more templates for other musical genres. It has also been a journey through trial and error with the Post mix and Mastering mix stages but setting up these DAW templates for them seems to be evolving constantly when I learn something new on mixing.
Most importantly my health has been affected by my 80% of doing the wrong things for many years and have now been slowly focusing on the 20% on doing the right things health wise that will eventually benefit me 80% of the time.
