Competition

Intuition is an untapped resource that has incredible powers to guide you to go in the best direction. It impacts how you perform and can help you win.

Prepare yourself to be competition ready. Pre-competition routines is as important as practice. This prep is the way to deal with mistakes and overthinking.

Musicians all practice a lot and unfortunately, they don’t usually get the results they want. They want the perfect practice. And it doesn't exist.

To find another gear, you have to develop the ability to push past your best effort. Then, you can go places where you (mentally) thought you couldn’t go.

Mental skills are a long-term solution (versus therapy) as it teaches us coping skills that give us the tools and the foundation for challenges and life.

Everyone benefits from mental skills that help them work through thoughts and situations. The challenge is knowing when and how to learn these skills.

Accept there are competitors better than you and you aren’t always going to win. You can train hard physically and mentally and you still may not win.

Performance is no simple task. During competition, we can think too much (multitasking) and not do any one thing effectively. Our attention is divided.

Traditional flow is the ability to freely move through a performance with little to no thought - fully immersed, focused, and enjoying their performance.

Focus is tough. The problem is not necessarily how much you have going on in your brain, but that all of IT is taking away from performing (well).