Balance between Perfection & “Inspiration”—part
2
If you are finding the colors very
dim in your life, it may be time to re-discover your “inspiration”. Some people have the opposite problem - they
seem to just jump from one inspiration to the other. I have a student or two
like this who loves to play inspiring music but doesn’t want to slow down long
enough to perfect any of it! It must be
in balance. I tell my students: when you stick with this piece and learn to
really play it well, you will see what joy it brings.
My husband (Dr. David Fry) calls it
the discipline of doing something UNTIL you are “inspired”. He once heard Zig Ziegler say at a
conference: "A thing worth doing is
worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.” “Inspiration” fuels action. Consistent action fuels “inspiration”.
The author Sarah Wolf Frey is my daughter who is a 20
year veteran of applied music teaching.
In her words “There are some ‘lessons’ that have become more and more
true to me about life in general...”
This series is used by permission of the author.
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