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My heart feels happy, almost bursting at the seams. I can't even hide it or wait to tell you. I'm so satisfied because I've been practicing singing every day now.

It was sure a battle to get this practice habit up and running!

Remember bliss hour??

If so, then you are a Patreon OG. 

It was my "brilliant" idea to set aside one hour every evening to do something fun like singing.

....... it totally didn't work ha!

It can be confusing, "Am I  lazy? .... Am I too busy??? ..... I know I want to do this.... so why am  I not doing it???"

Not lazy..... not busy.... 

Four letter words, both of those, but it was another four letter word standing in the way, as it turns out.

It's clear to me now.

It's because of...

[dun dun DUN]

FEAR

Having you here on Patreon cheering me on and waiting patiently for me to do it, has kept my head in the game to get to the bottom of this.

And you wanna know what else has helped me overcome the fear and complete two months worth of my singing course practicing every day???

MY VIOLIN STUDENTS.

Over the years I've watched  them come up against this same stuff. So basically, my new secret is I just tell myself what I would tell an adult violin student. I'd imagine the same yearning trying to get through to them, that if only they would listen to me, I know they could develop their talent...

And it really gets me going!

Here are a few of the things I've done over the last two months, that I would tell them to do:

Start with 5 minutes per day

My singing course videos are 25-30 minutes per day which seems like Mount Everest most days. I don't worry about that anymore, and just commit to show up for at least 5 minutes. 

Sometimes I literally just do the 5 minutes!

Most of the time, I find once I'm in it and over that initial fear hump, I actually want to complete the lesson. And somehow everything else fades away, which is a really nice feeling!

One day I really got into it, and was applying all the stuff from the course to The Ceiling Fan Song...

Guess what?

An hour passed by in a flash.

And somehow everything else got done. 

Or at least enough got done that I'm still here! The world didn't implode!

Practice the same time every day, preferably earlier the better

Evening energy is waning, and overcoming fear takes a lot of energy!

Back in the Bliss Hour days, Oscar wasn't in school yet...

But now he is!

WEEEE! :-D

Singing course time is RIGHT when I get back from taking him to school. Inevitably there are at least 12 temptations that cross my mind on that 10 minute drive.

But I've gotten better at saying nope.

Ooh, need to run my the store at some point, might as well do it now?! 

Nope!

XYZ needs to be done on the computer, or what if my website is broken, should I browse to email real quick before opening the course??

Polite pass!

Car needs a wash, should I swing by real quick??! I can even sing a bit while driving through!!!

Nice try subconscious self-sabotage mechanism!! I'm going home to sing!!

The course is helping but seriously puts me in my place as a NEWB.

To those of you who have taken my violin course, it's like I'm just finishing GTAR, scratching out a tune with crackles all around, maybe a good sound if all I'm doing is just singing a sound. 

But sometimes even that cracks. 

....and I have a year or two worth of course stuff still ahead of me.

I look at the piles of unopened course modules ahead and think, "DANG IT! If I had just stuck with this right when I bought the course...."

And then rings into my mind what I would tell a violinist,

You are not behind! You are right where you are ready to take the next step! 

Thank you <3
Jenny