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Building Your Career - The Psychology Of Drumming

by thedrumninja on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 12:40

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Great careers rarely happen by accident, especially in the competitive music industry. If you want to make an impact or even just make a living you need to take charge of your mind and condition it for success.

The following exercise will help you to uncover your goals and sculpt them into daily steps that will bring them to fruition. If you are driven enough to follow through, you’ll be amazed at what can actually happen.

1) Make a list of all the things you would like to achieve as a drummer - Do you want to be a session musician? Do you want to attend Berklee? Do you want to be able to play like Vinnie Colaiuta? Do you want to make millions in a rock band? Do you want to be a Grammy Award winner? Don’t limit yourself in any way, just write down everything you would like to happen if there were no limits at all. What excites you the most?

2) Close your eyes and visualize the big picture. Imagine a movie scene that represents all that you want to happen. What are you doing? Where are you? Who are you with?. Try to make this movie as real as possible and make sure that you can see your self having the time of your life.

3) Enjoy your movie for as long as you wish and need to create those positive emotions. Notice what insights and ideas you get from the images and stories that unfold in your mind. Let great things happen to you!

4) Open your eyes and use the energy that you have created to answer the following questions:

- What can I do today to achieve my goals?

- What can I do better to achieve my goals?

- What’s stopping me from reaching my goals?

- What can I do to overcome it?

5) Take action on all of your best ideas!

Quotes To Remember:

‘The future comes quickly, faster than you might think. Where do you want to see yourself 5, 10 years from now? Ask, answer then get to work on the answer!!’ - Walfredo Reyes Jr.

‘Strive for excellence at all times’ - J.D. Blair

‘Become the best musician that you can be because that is your

product - your own personal musicianship’ - Steve Smith

You can find more lessons and exercises like this in The Psychology Of Drumming

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toddc Says Describe success.

Submitted On: Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 - 11:03 AM

Most people have only a vague if any understanding of what success looks like for themselves. If your description of success starts off with what it is not, then you know you've got some work ahead of you.

If you take the time to sit down and write the story of your success you will be amazed at what you can achieve. Describe where you live, what you see, smell, and taste. What do you do on a daily basis from the time you get up until you go to bed? Write about the people in your life and how you interact with them. Do you have family, kids? Once you have all the details, work your way backwards to the present and ask yourself for each item: what does it take for this to happen?
If you require change to realize your vision of success that's easy too. There are only three questions to ask and answer:
1. What do you need to change?
2. What will you change it to?
3. How will you cause the change to happen.

Everybody's notion of success is different. It's important to know your definition of success because whether you like it or not your going to go down a road. It may as well be yours.

thedrumninja Says Re: Describe success.

Submitted On: Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 - 8:32 PM

Very true Todd, thanks for your great advice.

We are all heading down a road but it's not always the one we want. Thankfully, with the appropriate self-questioning and subsequent actions we can adjust the direction and the final outcome.

It's not easy, but it is possible! ;-)

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