Why do you love music? What is your reason to make music?
If you are not clear as to your intentions, your goals might be a little cloudy. If you are not pursuing your higher purpose, your goals will not have much power driving them.
When we are honest with ourselves, we can connect with our deeper intentions in truth, and when we are aligned with our true purposes in life, we will find that our efforts and our circumstances will synergistically conspire to achieve success.
What is success in life? What is success in making music? What do those things look like? Are we trying to force things to happen, without any clear vision or direction?
Consider this: your intention is powerful. Your vision is powerful. Your purpose is powerful. Your identity is powerful. When all those things come into alignment, you will be unstoppable. You might be selling yourself short by not doing a thorough inventory to make sure your desires are in line with the power that drives your life forward. When you are pursuing your destiny, hard work and setbacks just make you stronger.