September Practice Challenge: Day 1

Taking breaks and being kind to yourself in the practice room will enhance your learning far more than beating yourself up and practicing for hours and hours without rest, as counterintuitive as that may seem.

I hope you will take the idea of talking to yourself kindly seriously this month, starting with today.

I also wanted to highlight the work of Susanna Klein of Practizma and Sarah Niblack of SPARK Practice. Both of them have great posts about the importance of self-compassion in the practice room. Here are two for you to check out today:

Susanna on having high standards while still being nice to yourself: https://www.instagram.com/p/C82Bvu8As...

Sarah on un-inviting judgement from the practice room: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7E3-aRIz...

Make it your goal for the day to replace one unkind statement to yourself with something more supportive and compassionate. :)

Here's my video series on the importance of taking breaks:    • The Secret to Learning Music Faster: ...  

The music in the background is from my album TRAILBLAZERS, which was released in February. More about the album here: https://www.acisproductions.com/trail...