Reachingthe end to hit the beginning. It has been a looong journey. The Peak Performance Project is just about at a close, the results shared in about two weeks or so. I have the same feeling about it as I

 did at the start- the win itself was really in even getting into the top 20. The people I’ve met, the content learned and the strength I’ve recieved as an artist is all I could ever have hoped for. Not to sound like a Hallmark card, but it’s all in the journey isn’t it? (Cue long sorrowful string melody and the perserverant three legged puppy).

Of course, $100,000 dollars is nothing to sneeze at. The fate of a lucky band is resting in it, though each and every one of us has gained something immeasurable- I don’t want to speak for everyone but in this case I feel like I can. For me it has always been the daunting, intimidating nature of an industry that is so vast and so rapidly in flux that slows my jets. You think, “how am i ever supposed to navigate without a compass?”. This program has not only provided me with a compass, but with the extra tools I need to get from A to B. The majority of those tools are found nowhere but internally. Feeling capable is often all anyone needs to jumpstart an engine. Power is power is power- and it all starts in the interior landscape. Hallmark should pay me for this stuff.