Never stop practicing! have you ever hear that?
Hey! have you ever lost a streak of something that you really think is important to do? could be going to the gym, keeping a heathy sleeping routine, a heathy food intake, drinking water everyday…. practice violin???
Well, for me this is probably one of the most recurrent habit that keeps coming back! I call it “the break” or “the fall” ! so many cool projects started but fail, how many we can keep consistent, right?
This post it’s me trying again to get back, getting back to my website, maybe trying to feed it with useful things and ideas! Crossing fingers now to get it going again :)
Here it goes the idea of this post, which sooooo related to the violin playing, how to keep consistency? How to never stop practicing, maybe this could be called the art of return.
Some ideas below that might help us bringing back something we wanna do (just came to mind that Rocky Balboa phrase)
“It ain’t about how hard you’re hit, it’s about how you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Get up!”
Below are some insights that helps me getting organized again:
One fuel to motivation comes from being accountable, the moment you realize that you can achieve what you first propose, it boosts your morale to keep going!
Examples of concrete goals:
Small and progressive steps
Try increase your difficulty little by little, there’s no reason to plan a 3hr practice session if you never practiced 30min regularly, maybe even 30min it’s too much for you right now, start with 10min then,
Some ideas of progressive steps
Play things that you like playing
Its important to balance our practice routine between technical exercises and repertoire that we like playing, after all, we play to have fun, right?
Find in your repertoire your favorite songs, it doesn’t matter the genre or style, allow yourself to have fun.
Start your practice with your favorite piece, with your favorite composer
Listen or watch your favorite performer, that is also considered practice!
Never stop and visualize the big picture
Even with breaks, the idea is to never stop! it doesn’t matter how slow you go, just keep going!
If you can visualize that in a period of 6 months you progressed 1 piece, or one of your goals was to practice 20 days and you did it, there you are!
See the big picture and never stop, if you fall you can get up, learning to return to do what you love.
Watch my 20min beginner practice! maybe that structure can help you!
Happy practice!
