This is a critical period for those who are preparing to compete at the International competition in Houston, TX Oct. 17 – 22 . Beside your rehearsal work toward technical mastery, your mental mindset is a huge contributing factor to your performance potential.
It is critical for all chorus members to begin now to develop and nurture a positive mindset. How you mentally approach the next 6 weeks and the competition week will have a dramatic effect on your ability to achieve your peak performance onstage.
A positive mindset can directly affect your performance and the performance of those around you by literally helping to grow your energy field. Positivity breeds possibility and if you are stuck in a negative mindset, you are stuck in the land of scarcity thereby severely diminishing your capacity to grow, learn and improve. And, as a pretty cool by-product, you and your chorus will have a lot more fun creating and working in an atmosphere of positivity!
I encourage you to incorporate the techniques in my document Ten Strategies for Nurturing a Positive Mental State Pre-Competition over the next several weeks.
Positively yours,
Jan Carley, Inner Coach of Barbershop and author of Harmony from the Inside Out – Creating and Maximizing your Performance Potential on sale at http://www.harmonyfromtheinsideout.com
Greetings! Very useful advice within this post!
It’s the little changes that make the most significant changes. Many thanks for sharing!
Thanks for writing Eloisa – I would love to hear if you experiment with any of these techniques and what the results are of doing so!
cheers,
Jan Carley