Failure and effort
I'm a perfectionist. That means I have an irrational fear of failure. Engage if you're relatively confident you can win--or, at the very least, not…
Thirty minutes
The difference between being a well-read person--someone who reads a significant number of books in their lifetime--and someone who doesn't is thirty minutes per day.…
Failure, the coach
High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…
Make a plan
My brilliant choral director in high school, Marcia Yost, had several catch phrases that I still remember. One was, "Don't forget your pieces and your…
Focused practice
We'd all like to skip to the part where we're awesome. We all enjoy the feeling of competence. It's much more fun to play an…