Keeping the Faith - How to Stay Motivated to Practice

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On a solo edition of You'll Hear It today, Adam discusses what to do if you find yourself lacking the drive to pick up your instrument.Today's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)3:00 PM - Adam hosts a Guided Practice Session available to the public on YouTube8:00 PM - Peter performs his weekly Shelter in Place concert series, also on YouTubeFor the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkInterested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You'll hear of podcast. My name is Adam Manus. Today joining you for a very special solo episode. As we're sheltering in place, we've been
0:22.2	thinking about different ways that we can practice, that we can work on, our playing, on becoming
0:30.5	a better musician, a better artist, a better practiser. And I wanted to share some thoughts
0:36.0	with you about how to stay motivated to practice on a
0:40.4	regular basis. I hear some of the same issues again and again from our open studio members
0:47.8	about practicing and about maintaining a regular routine. And it goes something like this, usually.
0:55.2	There's so much to work on.
0:57.2	I have so far to go.
1:01.5	I don't know what to practice sometimes,
1:03.8	or sometimes I have too much to practice,
1:06.5	and I just get overwhelmed,
1:09.0	and I end up not doing anything. And so I want to talk about a very
1:14.4	cool technique that I've applied during this, during the shutdown as I've been home and had a little
1:23.7	more time to practice. Because even if you have a bunch of time, you know, when we're very busy,
1:27.1	we're like, oh, if I had time, I'd practice five hours a day every day. But then you get a little more time to practice. Because even if you have a bunch of time, you know, when we're very busy, we're like, oh, if I had time, I'd practice five hours a day every day. But then you get a little extra time and you're like, well, I don't know. There's so much to do. And I can't possibly get everything in. I need to get in in the two hours I have. So maybe I'll just sit here on my phone for a while and then the whole day goes by and nothing happens.
1:45.7	So how can we stay motivated to get up to do it every day?
1:51.1	The technique is a very simple technique.
1:54.7	It's the simplest, actually.
1:57.3	It's to make it easy and make it obvious. So if you've been around our podcast and our
2:05.0	YouTube's the last few weeks, you know, I've been talking a little bit about this book by James
2:09.6	Clear called Atomic Habits, which is, it's a very popular book, all about making habits,
2:14.9	keeping habits. And one of the guiding principles of that book
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