The first Motivation and Inspiration session of 2024 and that’s not a coincidence.
Your path can be something dynamic but a year is a good chunck of time to look forward to and to look back on.
In this session, I want to inspire you take inventory of what under your belt and where you see yourself going in the near and distant future. How to get from A to B?
There is nothing wrong with setting some abmitious goals but make sure you go in small steps and via some tactically placed milestones on your map.
No need to worry, nothing is set in stone. A musician can always have a change of heart and never ends up where he thought he would years ago. (Sure I did!). You dicover things along the way and your priorities may shift.
I’m delighted that Lieven is doing this one day ahead of my first Vintage Club on practice. Anyone attending both will hopefully have two mutually reinforcing sessions.
Oh, @Richard_close2u , J shall be there for both! The well of Guitar musical knowledge flows forth from all the teachers around these parts! Good for me as well seeing how other teachers have their plans in place. They all are of the same mindframe, but all have just that little bit of “What worked for me and different routines and structure”. Each student is unique, so haveing a few tricks for them to pick from, might be benificial. What works for one, may not work for the other kinda thing. At keast that is where my frame of mind is.
@LievenDV Thanks for this. I have progressed the SWOT which showed me what I kind of knew. The ‘weakness’ list is longer than the others!! No real surprise. As a beginner it’s difficult to know what my strengths are. How do I know that I am good at something. Mind map next.
Than I suspect you could rephrase some of those Weaknesses into Opportunities (an perhaps an extra threat to keep an eye out for as well ;))
example:
a weakness could be: I only know a few chords.
A corresponding opportunity could be: I’m motivated to expand my chord library.
That one can be cut into smaller pieces leading to some SMART goals
Good for me as well seeing how other teachers have their plans in place. They all are of the same mindframe, but all have just that little bit of “What worked for me and different routines and structure”. Each student is unique, so haveing a few tricks for them to pick from, might be benificial. What works for one, may not work for the other kinda thing. At keast that is where my frame of mind is.
