The other day at one of my flute group lessons, we were all performing for and critiquing each other on the pieces we're all playing for flute federation (that's this weird kind of messed up competition thingy up in Salt Lake that I'm not excited about). Anyway, one of the problems I had with my performance was that I appeared to be a little nervous. So my flute teacher says to all of us, "there is no one to be afraid of. You're biggest competition is yourself." These words really rang strong to me. It's so true! It's not really how good you did compared to other people, but how good you felt you did compared to how good you thought you could have done. With this in mind it's much easier to control nerves and focus. If you truly think about it, the only person you're competing with is yourself. I've always told myself this when I'm playing sports and I've always been able to focus because of it, but I've never really thought of applying it to nerves in general. Whenever you're not feeling good enough or are nervous about something, all you have to do is tell yourself,"I'm gonna show myself how good I am and have fun," and you'll survive.
PS this was cheesy, but at least I'm starting to write shorter blogs.
2 comments:
shorter blogs? lol Kathy, I would think Mr. Rich might not like it if it was just one short paragraph. I really like that quote it's so true. And sorry I haven't replyed on your other blogs, it was because of school and I was well lol kind of too lazy too. But oh are you ready for the presentation on friday? Our group is almost, but not 100% ready.
That quote is very true, it's something you have to think about. I also heard someone say that you shouldn't be afraid of how well you can do. You are amazing.
PS I'm the one who has to start writing shorter blogs, yours are great. How was your day?
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