Happy New Year!
Are you like me? Did you make it part of your new years resolution to practice every day? If so I have some ideas for you and would love to hear your ideas too!
- An egg timer! You can buy them at the dollar store. We are trying to build habits and to build a habit you need to repeat
the same action for 28 days according to some people. So set your egg timer to 5 minutes at your piano or guitar every day and play for at least that long. - Consistency! Do your practice at the same time every day. Got 15 minutes between dinner and your favourite tv show starting every day?Use that time to play a bit! You brush your teeth right when you wake up and right before you go to bed, maybe grab your guitar and strum a bit then too! Before you know it you will be playing every day, multiple times a day!
- Finally, Visual Progress! For this I think we should all set up two jars, one with 28 beads or rocks or something in it and one that is empty. Each day you practice move a rock to the empty jar to fill it up one day at a time to the 28 days! Miss a day and dump the whole jar back into the starting jar and start all over again. Not only will you see your progress dumping the rocks back into the starting jar will make you sad so hopefully you will become more consistent and practice every day!
What are your ideas? How do you motivate yourself to make the time to play every day?