Set Your Own Goals

We have discussed some critical practice tips in this weekly letter and they are all good and necessary.  This week, we are reinforcing a concept that further enhances the possibilities of success for your child. 

This principle is taken from the classic Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz.

“We adopt the goals we set for ourselves, not set by others.”

Your child must be the one who chooses performance and practice goals, with your overseeing eye, of course.

If you can encourage your child to set a weekly musical improvement goal, that is the best motivation you can ever hope for.

Perhaps it is to practice a tough few bars and perform them ten times perfectly.  Each week you will help select a different passage of music.

Maybe the goal chosen is to practice every day at 3:45 for fifteen minutes. 

When we include our child in the goal setting process we will see more positive results. 

Have fun with this one.

  

Carolyn Biggs

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