At the start of the year I had big goals and aspirations. 1 Million Plus streams. A Million followers on instagram and other social medias. 6 figure income. Safe to say I fell short of almost every goal I had set out to achieve this year. But I learned a lot. Probably the most important thing I learned is I no longer care about vanity metrics. I spent a lot of time this year chasing numbers and analytics. While they can be useful I found it to be draining. Allowing my self worth as an artist or even a person to be determined by outside validation on a social media app or by my number of streams just started to seem unrealistic and surface level. I realized is so easy to get pulled into the social media popularity contest, and it seemed like in order to win you’d have to constantly be putting out content. The thing for me was that I couldn’t seem to get into it. It just seemed performative and not authentic, Not really connecting with people. There’s all these new tools and things being rolled out every few moments, it all just seemed like a never ending cycle of having to keep up. After a while I realized that I couldn’t keep up and better yet, I didn’t want to. I had no desire to always be putting out content and chasing these numbers. What I truly desired was connection with others through my art and my impact on peoples lives. Inspiring, healing and helping others with my art. While I still haven’t really yet found a way to do that through content, IRL is where I’ve have the best results. Which I think means the most. I let go of the expectation of reaching certain numbers and changed my focus to having a lifelong positive impact on the people I meet and connect with. This is where I find my true fulfillment. Helping others. When I started making music that was my goal. To help others. To bring peace, balance, and harmony to the world through my music. Thats what the 8 stands for. Everything up to this point in my life has been shaping me to be able to provide that to the world and I’m more than thankful for my trials and tribulations. Back to numbers, Releasing the need to reach certain numbers in my career and focus on my impact honestly has brought me so much peace of mind. Not saying they don’t matter because they do. We should all have goals and bigger aspirations we want to reach in life and when you reach certain goals that’s definitely something to be proud of, I’m still setting the bar high for myself. But, I’m no longer allowing myself to be defined by the algorithm and I put the power of my self worth back into my hands. Without a doubt ill get everything I visualize and set out to do. Really I already have it if you ask me y’all just cant see it yet. But for now ill just enjoy the ride and be thankful for how far I’ve come and the lives that I’ve touched along my journey. When its all said and done I want to remembered for my art and the positive impact I had on other peoples lives. I thank God for how far I’ve come. This serves as a reminder to myself and everyone else that wherever this music stuff takes me I couldn’t have done it without God. Im simply the Vessel allowing God to express himself through me. And last thing I want to leave y’all with, Gods love is infinite and I’m thankful to have been able to and still do experience it and I’m even more grateful to be able to share that with y’all through my creative expression. To all my supporters I love y’all and to everyone who will support me I love y’all too. Love Prevails. 8 to the World. Till next year