Goal Setting for Musicians Part III
From the Series: Playing in the Mental Key
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In the last segment of this series, we talked about the importance of setting down and writing out your musical goals. In this segment we would like to talk about the importance of setting down and writing out your long term goals first and then your short step by step plan to get you where you want to go.
You need two plans, one long term and one short term. I carry around with me, on a daily basis, two types of planners. One is a small day- to -day planner and the other is a long-term planner. The short term planner is from the company, At a Glance . This is a small 8 in. by 5 in. sized appointment schedule that can be used for scheduling your day and even writing down practice times and goals that you will have.
The planner is split down the middle so that I can write my day-to-day plans down on the left and on the right side I can write my specific music goals for the day. I also have a journal, which is the same size, and it has nothing in it but lines. I usually write my long-term goals in the journal and I like to write my short-term day-to-day plans in that book as well. This journal is like a sketch pad for my brain so I can write out daily ideas, plans and thoughts.
Now, to make sure that this idea works, you need to purchase these items and then use them. This plan will work for anybody or in any type of situation, be it music, art, business, etc. However, the one major factor that I talked about in a previous lesson was that in order for any of this to work YOU MUST TAKE ACTION!!! (Preferably massive amounts of it!)
Now to recap briefly what you must do let me restate the main poits of this action plan.
1. Prioritize your goals
2. Determine what they are
3. Keep a planner and plan out your music lessons from day to day.
4. Keep a journal and write daily your short and long term goals, sketching out and jotting down ideas and plans that come to you.
5. TAKE ACTION!!!!
Next week we will have more musical motivating factors to really get you rolling!!
2 Comments:
I really like this blog! You seem to have a great variety of articles here and a whole bunch of fun pictures here!
I am a brass player myself and am a part of the anti-woodwind movement of America, so I really thought your posts on the bassoon were particularly funny.
Anyway, I'm going to bookmark this blog so I can check it out often.
Bye,
Ronny
Ronny,
You are so totally awesome. I have a ton of stuff I will be postiong here as well as on my web site. I have a Massive eBook that I am going to post for free on my site for musicians that are trying to masrket themselves.
Please keep in touch!
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