The Musician's Way Blog

Do you ever dodge practice?

Say, your practice time arrives, and you race off to do some chore. It might be a chore that you detest, but now it calls to you. Then, instead of working on your music, you start cleaning the house or doing whatever.

If that scenario sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Artists of every sort contend with avoidant behaviors.

Why do we sidestep practice? Often, the answer stems from the nature of creative work. Continue Reading

Whether we plan to create a performance, composition, essay, or mousetrap, we have to launch our project and work on it regularly.

But we all know that creative ventures often fizzle because we, the would-be creators, stall. We convince ourselves that we’re not ready or that no one will care. We procrastinate.

In the end, far too many of us never get started on the things we hope to create and thereby cheat ourselves out of meaningful accomplishment.

Personally, I don’t intend to miss out on forging a meaningful life. I’m committed to doing the creative work that matters to me.

The key to my output is that I live by the following six habits that enable me to get started on my projects every day. Continue Reading