Monday, May 07, 2007

What is YOUR level of commitment?

“Commitment” is not a popular word these days. Perhaps the word is okay, but the concept is unacceptable to many. Commitment is the key to staying on track to success though. There are certainly other factors, but it is the commitment from which an operating policy can be formulated. Your policy as a singer is the thing that keeps you moving toward your goal instead of straying or otherwise being distracted. Positive thinking is a good thing, but it is having an operating policy to help turn thoughts into action.

An amateur singer might have the policy to practice an hour a day. If that singer is practicing a half hour a day, the policy might be made to increase that time, by 5 or 10 minutes more per day until the practice time would be an hour. Policy might include what time of day to practice and even having a schedule.

Professional singers might have policy covering practice, rehearsals, recording sessions, health issues, business issues and issues of their own integrity as artists as to what and what is not acceptable.

If you think of your singing goal as a destination, yourself as the train, then policy would be the track.

Commitment is the fuel that keeps you going, keeps you working toward your goals and not giving up or taking too much time to smell way too many roses along the way. Smell a few, though.