Tag: motivation

Four Important Questions for the New Year

James Christian

For the first few days of the New Year, you will undoubtedly see various individuals and organizations urging you to create new goals, set New Year’s resolutions, turn over a new leaf, and do whatever you can to make this year better than last year.  Of course, I know readers would be terribly disappointed if I didn’t give similar encouragements with regard to percussion. 🙂

However, I don’t want to offer blanket statements about overly ambitious goals that have little chance of getting accomplished.  I genuinely want you to Read more “Four Important Questions for the New Year”

What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Practicing

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Unmotivated to practice?

When I was a freshman in high school, I told my drum line instructor, “I didn’t practice this week.  I just didn’t feel like practicing.”  He replied, “What do you mean you didn’t feel like practicing!?  The only way to get better is to practice when you don’t feel like it!”

 

What Does It Mean “to Feel”?

My instructor’s mini-beratement led to an important shift in my thinking.  As I looked around the world, he was obviously correct.  If you examine the top experts in any field—whether music, sports, science, business, literature, or anything else—those who reach the top must Read more “What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Practicing”