Hey friends! While I’m working on my end of year post, I realized that I miss you. I really just want to check in with you more. Share with you weekly the things I am learning and what I’m doing to learn and grow. How are you doing? How’s your year been? Mine’s been great and when I’m done with a super cute video-year-in-review thing-y, I’ll post it, LOL!
One of my resolutions for the upcoming year is to write a weekly post. I just signed up for a blog content challenge with XOSarah. I’ll tell ya, I am all about having a coach for everything. Right now I have a biz Coach, Coach Glitter aka Tiffany Lee Bymaster , I have a music Coach, Jimmy, (he’s not taking new students right now) and next year I am adding a (GULP!) walking/running/fitness coach. These people keep you accountable, teach you, love you, scold you, hug you, and sometimes are your therapist. It’s the only way to actually move forward and improve. Kids have a different teacher for each subject, right? ‘Cuz they are the expects on that subject. They’ll get to the meat and potatoes of the subject in a way that others may not. Time is of the essence, get on it!
Speaking of time, it’s a super busy day! I’ve got to go practice for my upcoming music work, run my PTA program at school during lunch and then I have voice and piano students and more practice this afternoon. Not to mention homework and dinner! This #momprenuer is in full force! But you know what? I wouldn’t change my crazy schedule for a minute! I want to be more organized and proficient and choose more essential things, (ah, reference to my upcoming book reviews!) but I love the hustle and bustle that being a wife, mommy, chicksinger and writer brings. Life is amazing. Yours can be too! CHOOSE it! Love where you are. Wait, stop!!! LOVE WHERE YOU ARE. I say it for myself as well as you. I have a long way to go to be the successful person I dream of being. Having a coach will get you there more quickly and effectively. Let’s do it!
Have a beautiful day on this first day of the last month of 2016! XXOO
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Always LOVE reading your blog posts, my sweet friend! Always an inspiration. And LOVE< LOVE <LOVE the snow…very fun!!! 🙂
Thank you my friend!! Your gig in China looked amazing!!! Can’t wait for rehearsal and chat on Monday!! ❣️
i absolutely agree with this! i don’t have real life coaches (except for my mom, really!) but here’s where i focus my time:
piano coaching: pandora, (i find songs i like, and time permitting – immediately sit down at the piano and figure them out. if time doesn’t permit – i screen cap them and work on them later), gospel piano tutorials on youtube, and straight up and down scales.
voice coaching: old school ella fitzgerald, paula cole, jann arden, kelly clarkson, aretha, and believe it or not – arianna grande. her voice is CRAZY HIGH and it stretches me to get up there!
life: i try to fill my personal life with people who think COMPLETELY differently than me. there is no fun in forever staying the same (to me). i am constantly looking for ways to expand my brain and imagination. one of my favorite parts of 2016 was meeting my friend adam, who truly believes he is an alien! he is a shaman and an intuitive and dances in the forrest and believes jesus was a zombie alien (I SWEAR!) and one of the funniest people ever, but REALLY out there – i am SO HAPPY and SO ALIVE every time i’m around him because we share NONE of the same ideas. he expanded my mind so much and really helped me find love and excitement in things most people would find mundane! 😀
work: I HAVE TO BE SCARED. if it doesn’t scare me – i’m not doing it anymore. i have played very safely work-wise all throughout my 30’s, and i am quite tired of it. so i am constantly on the look out for things that make me uncomfortable and scared and after i do them – i feel SO much bigger and better and accomplished because i CONQUERED something – i didn’t just do something i knew i was good at – i got better 😀
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!! i can’t wait to work together! <3
ok ok OK!!!! this is so crazy good! this is the stuff, right here…and I can’t believe you wrote Jann Arden, she is unbelievable and I got to accompany her!! best thing, “I have to be scared”…the stuff I’m working on now, I need your input, ‘cuz I’m def scared about what I’m doing, lol! I love you and can’t wait to really work with you!!