Happiest Musician Minisode: Seasonal Change

So let me ask this.

How do you want to feel? How do you want to feel? If the answer is abundant and flush with cash...

What systems are you putting in place to make that happen? How could you raise your teaching prices? How could you get a additional job? How could you do some reach-outs to ensure that you are on the hiring lists of the people that you need to be on the hiring lists of in order to work as a musician this fall? If how you want to feel is luxuriously free and easy, as though it was still summer while still not being summer, I wonder what part of your day could be devoted to having leisure time, I wonder how you could pay yourself first by setting in place some hours of the day that are for you to, I don't know, read a trashy beach read kind of novel.

If how you want to feel this September is motivated, ambitious, actively engaged in new learning, a la Back to School, What does that look like for you? What kind of project could you put in place for yourself? What kind of structure could you build into your day to make sure that for half an hour, one hour, two hours, you are devoting yourself to this new learning project, whether that is I am learning a new recital program, I am learning a new piece, I am learning audition material, I am learning how to code and build websites, I am learning how to launch within my online business.

What structures can you put in place for yourself this September, October, November, this Q4, this musician Q4? to have you want.

I think we can feel sometimes, I'll say that again, I think I can feel sometimes as though once summer is over, all of the freedom that I had is now over.

The days are going to start getting shorter.

I am restricted by the school year schedule of having to get my child to school and back home from school every day.

There are concerts most weekends.

The structures have come back into my life that did not exist before.

But the opportunity within a structure is to build a small amount of daily or weekly time in to devote to the thing I want.

Whether that thing is more learning, more creativity, more earning potential.

Whatever it is, we can build it in to a routine instead of relying on the freedom and flexibility of summer to just make the time happen.