Where do you focus at rehearsal?
Where we place our focus has the ability to either open up or shut down our capacity for…
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The Competition’s Over – Now What?
Getting prepped for competition requires an intense amount of work, commitment, emotion, time and energy, and when it is all over, whether or not you achieve your goal, there can be a profound sense of “let down”. It is important to recognize and deal productively with this “let down” as it can reflect in individual and group apathy, drained energy, loss of focus, lack of motivation and uncertainty about the future.
The Power of Intention – Living on Purpose
I spend each December with my a cappella quartet, Fandango, performing throughout Vancouver. On a particularly cold and…
Top 3 Ways You Can Supercharge Your Rehearsal Experience in 2018
1. BE INTENTIONAL Being intentional when you perform or rehearse has a powerful focusing effect on the experience and…
Interference Management – What’s your level of mastery?
The only thing predictable in any SAI competition is the unpredictable. Despite our best efforts to reduce and eliminate all external…
Does your goal-setting mindset need a shake-up?
I recently returned from the Sweet Adeline International Competition in Denver, and had an amazing week listening to…
How does the need to be perfect get in your way?
I love the following quote by George Benson. It’s a wonderful reminder that no one cares if you make…
Goodbye carrots and sticks
It’s a frequent topic of discussion with many chorus leadership teams – How do we motivate members to…
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
I love this diagram (used with permission from Jessica Hagy’s brilliant Facebook blog “Indexed”). It is such a…
Prepping for competition? Reasons to keep a positive mindset
This is a critical period for those who are preparing to compete at the International competition in Houston, TX Oct.…