Klarinet Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 1998/07

From: "Brent Eresman" <Beresman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 1 Jul 1998 08:15:02 -0000 Issue 224
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:01:38 -0400

I'm in a really different position than you, but i have been through
some tough times before. Yes, it really does affect your
motivation--all of your emotional energy is focused on dealing with
the problem immediately at hand, so that you don't have the energy or
desire to pracice, and even if you did it doesn't seem to get you
anywhere. It's happened to me through the loss of a job, through a
divorce, through deaths in the family...it's part of the cycle of
human life. But it'll come back. Sometimes the things that cause motivation
problems now will give you even more motivation later. While i was
out of work i decided i'd go back to taking lessons (after eighteen
years off) and when i could afford it i did so.

It's important not to get down on yourself because the problems you
face have a negative effect on your practicing. It's a normal thing
and will pass sooner or later. You've got other stuff to deal with
now-- do the best you can in the meantime, and your motivation will
come back with a vengeance when things are on a more even keel.

> I'm in a real pickle here people...I need some good advice, and a little
> bit of motivation mixed in.
> I had a great year at University of North Texas, and was all set for an
> equally great summer. That was until my father told me that he didn't
> have the rest of the money to pay off the semester, and wouldn't have it
> for a long time. So he told me that I was going to have to take the next
> semester off....then my ONLY friend down there (i'm from massachusetts)
> told me she was changing her major to accounting and transfering to some
> school in colorado....so I was not going to go through another horrible
> year of no one to talk to.
> So I decided I was going to transfer to a school closer to home...only
> problem is I can't even get my trnasfer in until I have texas paid
> off...great...and then other problems happened...and I was kicked out of
> my house....so now I'm feeling pretty down on myself and have found it
> impossible to concentrate on anything, and have now gone a week without
> practicing and at least two weeks before that with out anything
> productive coming out of the times i did practice. I have lost alot of
> my motivation...but I know this is what I want to do....i just can't
> concentrate now, and I know that its becuase of whats happening in my
> life, i just need new direction...i hope someone has had something
> similar to this happen in there lives at one point...any suggestions
> would be great....thanks in advance.
>
> jennifer mckenna
> mai_lin@-----.com
> university of north texas
> music ed major/clarinet concentration
>
>
beresman@-----.com

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