IMMEDIATE BENEFITS

1. You know exactly how much practice time you’ll get in during the week.
2. Clarity to suggest specific alternatives when your friends ask to meet.
3. Settig your target practice goals before the week begins so you can plan appropriately.
4. Documenting your progress and achievements, increasing your motivation.
5. Creating a sense of urgency to get a specific task done in a limited amount of time.
6. Finding time to practice more or do other things because you wasted less of it
7. So many more…

Saying that you’ll practice “when you have time” is setting yourself up to push your practice aside when something urgent is presented. True professionals understand the importance of prioritizing, and the first step is to make a plan.

If you are serious about investing in yourself, you have to carve out your “Me Time.” This season, start by planning out your weekly schedule.

Set up a weekly calendar on your phone or paper calendar. My students print their schedules out and make it the cover to their 3-ring music binders.

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