Happy New Year!

Posted on | January 13, 2009 | No Comments

Welcome to 2009! I am finalising my timetable now and spots are limited. If you would like lessons please email me as soon as possible for the best chance of getting in. Check out the "Availabilities" page for times which are definetely available. My after school timeslots are almost completely full and finalised. If you would like one of these timeslots it is worth getting on the waiting list, as my students often need to change their timeslots in March when university starts.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

Do you have one this year? I don't – just a series of things I want to achieve. The building of my long awaited new home in Bunya with it's lovely studio space. Continually challenging myself with new repertoire. Keeping up with my physical exercise over the long term, rather than in fits and starts. 

 I have been pondering how to keep myself motivated to exercise. I have invested in a pool membership. This means I am motivated to get there and swim my laps, so that I am not wasting money. I have put it on a monthly debit system. This means that it doesn't stop – it has no end date. I believe learning is like this. There is no end date to my singing. To my practice. To my performance. to my research. I intend to be a lifelong learner because this is my passion. This is my business and this is my career.

I have been doing scales since I was 15 – 21 years so far of doing my scales and learning new songs. Persistance does work. I was not the best singer with a lot of natural talent when I started (just ask my poor neighbours back then!), but I REALLY wanted to sing. I had a dream and I worked at it.

If your New Year's Resolution is to pay more attention to your voice, to develop it into a thing of beauty which you can rely on to serve you well, to stay healthy, to bring joy and pleasure to you and those who your sing for, try committing to lessons for longer than a term. Try a year. I ask all my students to commmit to coming on a per term basis, but thinking back over the concert last year, I was most pleased with those students who had been coming to lessons for a year or more. Why? Because of their commitment to improvement. I could HEAR how far they had come. It was fantastic. Challenge yourself. Commit. 

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