Sometimes you've got to act like the person you're trying to become.
You've got to be delusional to be successful. That's what I mean.
In 2016 I moved to London with nothing. I sold everything I owned just to afford the chance to make my dreams real. In my first couple of weeks here, I reached out to some DJs I knew online and went to a gig. I stood next to the DJ booth and took a selfie with the crowd behind me.
The next day I posted it on Instagram. I didn't tell any lies, but I definitely implied that I was the one DJing in that club. It was me trying to speak something into existence — trying to show people, and probably show myself, what I believed could happen.
Fast forward nine years. Today I'm playing my own sold-out show to 4,000 people with our full SYNC production, five minutes from where I live.
It comes down to one thing. I'm not the most talented or anything like that. I just didn't stop. Didn't stop when I was broke. Didn't stop when I had no gigs. Didn't stop when my biggest success was taking a selfie in someone else's DJ booth.
Sometimes you've got to act like the person you're trying to become. Keep that going long enough, and one day you will be that person.
