Cognition

- Understand fundamentally how your brain works: effective learning, metacognition, and flow.

- Music connects language, motor, visual/spatial, and emotional networks

- Organize & connect content in your internal warehouse - create a tagging & retrieval system

Awareness

- See it, acknowledge it, name it

- What is it made of? What does it feel like? What is it called? Why do you care?

- Cultivate self-awareness. What are your strengths, challenges, goals?

- Cultivate an awareness of history and lineage. Where does this come from?

Relationship

- Curiosity, empathy, inspiration

- Cultivate gratitude for music and musicians, and feel it alive inside you.

- The music you play and listen to connects you to lineages. Understand your place in that lineage as audience, aspirant, performer, etc.

- "Tag" music with meaning - progressions, voicings, melodies, techniques, repertoire, etc.

Effort

- Do the work, be in process, and persevere through failure.

- Practice with courageous discipline - follow a trustworthy routine.

- Show up for opportunities.

- It's not about what you have to prove, but what you have to improve.

Evaluation & Planning

- Articulate a Personal Mission - What is the Reason you're doing this and what do you want to offer?

- Cultivate the habit of setting goals that you can achieve — What do you want to do? How close are you to achieving it? What steps do you need to take?

- Lean into learning - Mistakes are important but only when you notice and utilize them.

Reset & Re-cycle

- Cultivate the habit of stopping to check in - Don't just keep plowing forward through mistakes. If you take the time to stop, breathe, and check in, you can reset your cognition, awareness, relationship, and effort, to be more effective.

- Cultivate acceptance, even friendship, with being in endless process - Set goals, practice, create a -product, enjoy, evaluate, rejuvenate, begin again.

- You are worthy. The best you can do is enough. Reset your expectations and stay in process.