The Mind Over Finger Podcast - 128 More Joyful Practice - Try It At Home with Dr. Gauthier

Episode Date: April 22, 2022

This is a special episode where I offer you a recap of the concepts we've covered during the Joyful Practice Challenge in March of 2022. Focusing on joy in practice is a powerful tool in becoming more efficient, and you're in for a treat because I have everything you need to get started in this episode! You're going to hear insight from Rachel Barton Pine, Mary Elizabeth Bowden, Vijay Gupta, Tom Hooten, Kim Kashkashian, Brian Lewis, Jennifer Montone, Laurie Niles, Elizabeth Rowe, Ralph Skiano, Mimi Zweig, and yours truly, and we will cover a wide variety of topics, from presence, to rewards, exploration, discovery, using technology, recording yourself, observing your thoughts, and many more. This episode is going to help you bring more awareness, presence, engagement, fun, and results in your practice.   GRAB YOUR FREE COMPANION GUIDE AND ACCESS ALL LIVE VIDEO LINKS TO THIS CURRENT AND TO THE PAST CHALLENGES HERE.   THE MUSIC MASTERY EXPERIENCE - YOUR LIFE CHANGING MUSICAL EXPERIENCE: BOOK A CALL AT www.mindoverfinger.com/musicmasteryexperience

You're listening to the Mind Over Finger Podcast, episode number 128. Welcome to the Mind Over Finger Podcast, discussions on mindful music making, efficient practice, and building a purposeful career. And now, your host, violinist, teacher, and high performance coach for musicians, Dr. Renée Paul Gaultier. Hi everyone. I hope this episode finds you doing amazingly well and that it can help bring even more joy in your day. This is a special episode where I offer you a recap of the concepts we've covered during the Joyful Practice Challenge a few weeks ago. If you've participated in the

challenge, I hope you're still experiencing new insight from the tips we played with. And if it's the first you hear of the Joyful Practice Challenge, I think you're in for a treat. I have everything you need to get started in this episode. And if you want to immerse yourself fully in joyful practice, I recommend you go to the Mind Over Finger Facebook community to watch the daily live videos where we took some deep dives in those concepts and principles, apply them in your practice, and fill out the companion guide.

And before we dive into the content, I want to make sure that you know that there are still a few spots available for the Music Mastery Experience. MME is my highly personalized group coaching program that will get you performing at your best in no time and will support you in reaching your next musical goals. If you're an established musician who's ready for a bigger job or a new dream, you want to feel confident like never before. You want to make more money or you want to renew your enjoyment of music making and love what you do again. Or maybe you're starting out in your career and you want to win that first job or you're a college student wanting to get the most out of

your education or get into a competitive graduate program. The Music Mastery Experience was designed to get you there. If you find yourself in a transition time, ready for the next step with big dreams but some uncertainty as to how to move forward, I can help you. No more delays. Don't wait any longer. It's 100% possible. Those things are accessible to you now and the Music mastery experience will get you there. Go to mindoverfinger.com right now to book your free conversation with me and get your transformation started today. And stay tuned for more details at the end. All right, joyful practice. What is this all about? The joyful practice challenge is something I created in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic hit to help myself and help

my Mind Over Finger community reclaim our creative power when everything shut down and use this time to do something meaningful while connecting together. The goal of the challenge was to focus back on what's at the core of music making that we so often forget, right? The fact that we love it. And the truth is that when we really make joy a part of our practice, when we figure out ways to stay engaged, when we truly are interested, that's when progress happens. So focusing on joy in practice is a powerful tool in becoming more efficient. For the second half of March 2020, I posted daily prompts in the Mind Over Finger Facebook community, and we committed together to spending 10 minutes a day focusing on my suggestions or on anything else that made

practicing fun, enjoyable, and meaningful. It was absolutely amazing to come together this way, and it was so incredible to read everyone's amazing findings and realizations. It was hugely inspiring for me. All of those videos are posted in the Facebook community and you can still access them if you'd like. Also, at the end, I created a podcast episode with an overview of all the tips. That's episode 72 and I'll post a link of that podcast and links of all the videos in

the show notes if you'd like to check them out. In 2021, I enlisted the help of some of my amazing friends and colleagues and we had an absolute blast. With me, I had James Ennis, Tessa Lark, Stéphane Jacque, Simon Fisher, Demire McGill, Billy Hunter, Elissa Tong, and Elizabeth Fadley, and we covered concepts like effortless effort, planning, musical triage, growth mindset, visualization, intentionality, and the impact of being interested. I didn't get around to make a podcast episode for this one, but you can still catch all the videos in the community. And yes, I'll have these links in the show notes. And now for 2022, I brought more friends on board and it was another mind-blowing 10 days of insanely amazing content. So today I'm bringing you a summary of this awesome challenge.

You're going to hear suggestions from Rachel Barton Pine, Mary Elizabeth Bowden, Vijay Gupta, Tom Hooten, Kim Kashkashian, Brian Lewis, Jennifer Montone, Laurie Niles, Elizabeth Rowe, Ralph Schiano, Mimi Zweig, and yours truly. And we will cover a wide variety of topics from presence to rewards, exploration, discovery, using technology, recording yourself, absorbing your thoughts, and many more. As I've said already, you're in for a treat. The content that's coming up is going to help you bring more awareness, presence, engagement, fun, and results in your practice. so you can sit back and relax listen to the prompts and keep them in mind as you practice over the next few days and you can also try to recreate the challenge for the next 10 days if you want to try it here are some really simple and flexible guidelines for the next 10 days commit to spending 10 minutes of your practice focusing on one of the prompts or on any variations

of the prompt that come to you. The prompts are a great place to start, but don't feel in any way limited by them. They're merely suggestions. The important thing is for you to explore what brings joy and meaning in your practice. I strongly recommend that you write down some notes every day and keep track of your experience, the questions that come up for you, and your findings. So I've created a free joyful practice companion guide that has all of the transcriptions of my guests' suggestions, links to the live videos, as well as additional prompts and space for you to write down some notes and keep track of your experience. It's a great resource to deepen your reflection and to have even more fun with the challenge. You can download that companion guide by going to mindoverfinger.com slash resources. And of course, I have that link for you in the show notes.

So you can go through the challenge as is, or treat it like a a la carte menu where you can pick and choose whatever you're in the mood for that day. Return to it whenever you're in need of inspiration or something to lift up your spirit in the practice room. Also, as I said earlier, check out the First Joyful Practice Challenge, episode 72 of this podcast, and go back to watch the live videos in the Mind Over Finger Facebook community. All the links will be in the show notes. One last recommendation before we jump in. Think of enlisting an accountability or inspiration partner to go through the challenge with you.

A little accountability goes a long way. And of course, please share your experience with me and keep me posted. I'm mindoverfinger on Instagram and Facebook, so post away and tag me. I would love to share this journey with you. So, are you ready? Let's go! on day one we begin with the fundamental concept of presence with the wisdom of Mary Elizabeth Bowden is there something that makes practicing enjoyable for you what's something that the listeners could try at home to make their practicing enjoyable? I think before I start

practicing, I remind myself that this is, this is going to sound ridiculous. It's like, it's like my me time for the day. I make sure that I'm consciously relaxing and that this is my time to, to do what I love doing. So my first notes of the day are really, I'm really concentrated on sound quality and ease and balance of playing. And I really enjoy that. Well, those early moments of the day, even if the notes are stiff, it's the same thing as if you're stretching your muscles for working out or doing yoga. And I think reminding yourself to set up the day with feeling like I'm so excited to be in the practice room and not judging yourself on where you are that day. If things are not feeling great, don't panic. See it, look at it like, oh, well,

I had a hard day the night before. This is totally normal. And start off with that mindset and having a growth mindset and realizing that it's not just a straight line up. Some days are going to be a little worse and keep a practice journal. There's always a reason for why a day feels bad. You might look at your practice journal and be like, oh, I had three nights of bad sleep or my water intake was like half what it should be. So yeah, there's a lot of things to keep track of, I know. It's great insight.

Thank you. No better way to start, right? So experiment with this in your practice today. Grab the handout and take the time to notice and record your thoughts and impressions. Before you begin, check in with yourself. How am I feeling today? What is my intention for this practice session? What would make it feel like a treat?

How can I make it meaningful, fun, and engaging? What can I do to prime myself for a productive practice session? And by the way, if you don't know what priming is, check out episode 91 of this podcast where I tell you all about this super effective technique. Then after your practice session, reflect some more. How did that practice session feel? What am I noticing? What are three things I'm grateful for? on day two my guests invite us to explore and get curious first kim kashkashian invites us to go on

a journey one of the thing i like to talk about is joyful practice not in the sense that practicing doesn't require discipline endurance determination of course as you mentioned but in the sense that when we have this love and this dedication, but can also figure out ways to make practicing enjoyable, I think that we are able to show up at our best. I know that for me, sometimes that means giving myself some challenges, or it could look like many things. But what makes practicing most enjoyable for you? What can the listeners try at home to make practicing more enjoyable or meaningful? Here's an image for us all, I think. If you imagine when you walk into your practice room and pick up whatever instrument it is or sit down to it, that you are taking a beautiful

exploratory walk in a new forest, new to you. You've never been there before. You know how to walk. You know how to use your eyes. You know how to use your ears. But this is a new forest. You've never been there. Every single time you walk into practice. That's a very beautiful way to put it.

Lori Niles encourages us to make things our own and to discover new things in the music. and Lori every year I do the joyful practice challenge because I feel like joy elevates everything about performing about practicing about having a musical journey so what makes practicing most enjoyable for you what can the listeners try at home to make practicing more enjoyable and meaningful I mean for me it's discovery whenever I can discover something new and I think I'm at a I am at a phase in my playing you know um where I really like to make things my own so like if I am practicing solo Bach and I come up with a new fingering that works for just

my own fingers wow that's rewarding I feel so like I like I've discovered gold um and you know So making things your own and discovering things in the music. I love that. That was great. Thank you. How fun are these? So what will you try at home today to make practicing more enjoyable or meaningful? What do you notice when you pick up your instrument and play, simply for pleasure and exploration?

How does it feel? What happens to your body, to your thoughts? What are you discovering? How did that practice session feel? And what did you notice? For day three, I have three guests. First, Tom Hooten talks about managing expectations. Tom what makes practicing most enjoyable for you you've mentioned the importance of joy for you and music making and you know I'm in on this as well what can the listeners try at home to make practicing more enjoyable and meaningful I would say lower your expectation like what Tom what are you talking about lower the expectation so that success happens all the time and once we if we can do that if we're living in the practice room like focusing on five years or like the job we

want to get that can be demoralizing every day you're doing the same thing and it's like the same thing what what if what if success was incredibly easy and and you chopped it down to the smallest thing and you celebrated that you're like i got it five clicks faster or like that was like a little bit more smooth that was a little more beautiful that was i got it in tune like three times in a row i was like yes tomorrow i'll get four and if we can lower the expectation i think that'll make joy in the practice room awesome impossible amazing then Brian Lewis and Mimi Zweig discuss the importance of experiencing success and noticing progress in the practice room the next question is about joyful practice I find that bringing joy

in your practice room is such a great way to enhance everything about practicing and I don't mean to not take things seriously um but you know you were talking about miss delay and that love that she had in this positive attitude and i find that when i really figure out ways to make practicing engaging and interesting and rewarding at a personal level i just gain so much more from my practice. So what makes practicing more enjoyable for you? Success. Being able to say, and so like maybe there's that tricky passage. Well, don't practice the whole page, practice that passage, but don't start on the note that's hard, back up by four bars. Because sometimes what's challenging about that passage isn't just the passage, it's getting into it, right? It's

what you're doing with your hand or what you're doing with your bow. So nothing breeds happiness better than success. And so finding little successes in your practice will make you motivated to keep going. When we only hit walls, that's when we feel that we can't move forward. Love it. So it's like you build it one little success at a time. One step at a time. And then pretty soon you feel better. You feel more confident. your brain feels better you know how to approach more things and then it makes you feel more comfortable playing different styles of music as well that's wonderful Mimi what makes practicing most enjoyable for you or what is something that the listeners could try at home to make practicing

more enjoyable or meaningful for them well let me put it this way I think that everybody wants to as I said before, everybody wants to hear that there's a little progress every time one picks up the instrument. And that progress could be technical, it could be in musical insight. And if that is the inspiration to keep going. I love this. These are so great. And I have to tell you, these suggestions generated a really fun conversation during the live video. So make sure to go catch it in our Facebook community. As you know by now, the link is in the companion guide. So when it comes to managing expectations, noticing progress, and celebrating success, what do you notice today? What are three simple things you can

accomplish in your practice session today? What progress do you notice? What are three things you're proud of having accomplished in the session? And I'll say it again. Use the companion guide to help you deepen this reflection. Now, Rachel Barton Pine has a really fun prompt for you for day four. What is one of your favorite way to make practicing enjoyable for yourself? Okay. I have lots to say about that. So, but I'll be quick because that could be a, you know, one hour conversation. Well, you know, things that worked when we were, when we were five can still work today, which are artificial rewards. So shiny pennies probably isn't going to cut it for, you know, an adult, but you can still say, okay, if I do this stupid passage of finger

adductives 20 more times, I'm going to let myself have a piece of chocolate. And yeah, so there are the artificial unrelated rewards, right? Or even like sometimes, you know, you don't have sticker charts anymore, probably with the actual stickers, but I'll sometimes put an Excel spreadsheet into place where I'm like, okay, I'm going to have the innate feeling of satisfaction of knowing that I practiced this thing every day for 10 days in a row, even though the practicing wasn't fun. I'm going to have the innate pleasure of seeing in the little Excel sheet that I practiced it every day for 10 days in a row and that feeling of accomplishment, even though that particular thing that I'm practicing brings me no innate pleasure in and of itself.

So a lot of practicing is fun and you don't need any extra reward. Sometimes you can reward yourself with music. So, and I'll advise students and professionals about this, like, okay, I have to practice these five things. Things number two and three are going to be annoying. So number one is going to be really enjoyable. So I'm going to say, okay, I won't let myself practice thing number one until after I've already, you know, suffered my way through thing number two. And, you know, just to have things in an order that's going to somehow keep your spirits up or give you something to look forward to besides, I mean, you have the long-term reward of, I know if I practice this thing today and then tomorrow and then the next day for a month, a month hence, it'll sound

really good. But that's not going to make me want to practice it today, quite frankly. So you just give yourself those, those artificial rewards or those musical rewards. And sometimes, especially for young people, the musical reward can be, okay, you know, you don't want your entire practicing to be new things that you're learning that you don't quite play well, because then your entire practice, you haven't played well. And once we're past our Suzuki days where we have, you know, review songs, somehow we forget about review. And now we're, you know, in our teens and we're playing concertos and we can have entire weeks where we never practice anything that we play well. And that's not healthy for our playing. And so it's not just psychological, it's also physical. We need to be doing something

that we can really achieve every day. So do review, not because you've got to play it in a group class or because your teacher told you to, but you know, let's say you're working on Wieniawski's second concerto and you're just like, oh, I can't do anything up to tempo. It's still pretty out of tune. Well, I remember doing meditation from Thais last year and loving it and feeling I really polished it. And you know what? I'm going to take 10 minutes at the end of my practice and just play my meditation for myself, for my pleasure, so I can feel myself doing something well. That is super, super important. And sometimes we need to do that as grownups also. Yes, I love this. Wasn't that fun? And I hope you reach out to me either by

email at mindoverfinger at gmail.com or on social media to let me know your favorite rewards, either artificial or musical? What artificial rewards would motivate you today in your practice during or after? What musical rewards would motivate you today? What long-term benefits are you noticing from the work you did today? On day five, I introduced some of the life coaching concepts that have changed my life and that I use when I work with coaching clients. I invited the participants to pay close attention to their thoughts and feelings. I strongly recommend you go and watch the video from that day for all the juicy details. But in the meantime, it's really simple to get started. Simply become the watcher of your thoughts and notice what happens to your

practice when you're in that state of presence. Ask yourself, how am I feeling? What am I thinking? Observe the thought you caught yourself thinking and explore it. Is it true? Is it really true? is it helpful to think that? Do I really believe that? And keep checking in. How am I feeling? What am I thinking? And again, click the link in the show notes and catch that video. As I said, those principles had a profound effect on my life, and I think you'll find a lot of value there. When you pay attention to your thoughts and feelings, you can unleash incredible focus power in your practice, and that power will hop on stage with you when it's time. For day six, Elizabeth Rowe shares how she uses character to make her practicing more enjoyable. Elizabeth what makes practicing most enjoyable for you is there something that the listeners

could try at home to make practicing more fun or enjoyable or meaningful oh that's such a great question I get asked this question a lot especially by orchestral musicians who are on the audition circuit because they find themselves facing the same lists the same repertoire the same stuff over and over again. And it's pretty common for folks to get burned out, to sort of get sick of themselves, get sick of the music. And for me, one of the great tools that I use is to really delve into character. And to me, character, when I think about the character of the music, that's kind of an infinite pool. There's that, you know, you think about great actors, I always talk about Meryl Streep. And, you know, when Meryl Streep takes on a role, it's not just

the words and how she says them it's how she blinks it's the the it's the sort of tension or not tension in her shoulders it's how she walks it's it's the inflection that she brings and you can keep digging for layers and for more and more um refinement specificity more of a more kind of three-dimensional comprehensive musical vision and so for me when I can start looking at character It always asks more of me in terms of technique, in terms of sound production, in terms it pulls all those other technical elements up. But it doesn't in a way that I find is very creative and is very satisfying and helps me stay engaged. So I think that that would be that's my kind of number one piece of advice is to use character as a real driving inspiration point. I love that. So as you explore character and dig in for more layers today, what are you finding? What did you try? How did it feel? Day 7 is all about variety with Jennifer Montone.

what makes practicing most enjoyable for you is there something that the listeners could try at home to make practicing more enjoyable or meaningful i'd say variety hitting it from all the angles you can think of both repertoire wise practice technique wise and sort of like time of day duration just anything you can do to make it different so that you're always really like alive and focusing and um yeah kind of following your body and following your mind as to what it wants to do right then variety is so fun and it's actually one of the best ways to be super efficient and effective in practice because it really solicits your brain in different ways. It triggers new neural pathways, and it keeps you engaged. One of my favorite ways

to boost the results I get in the practice room. And as I did in the first iteration of the joyful practice challenge, and funnily enough, creativity was also the prompt for day seven on that one, I will challenge you to come up with at least five new ways to work on a passage. Pick a passage that presents a challenge at the moment and think of at least five ways to work on it that are completely different than what you've done for this type of difficulty in the past. Get really creative. Here are some suggestions that I can offer. How about playing it slower than you've ever played it? Analyzing every movement, every detail.

or maybe do some fast practice with note groupings. Play it in a different key, or if you're a string instrument, try it on a different string, or play it backwards with a different style, or arrange an etude to fit that passage. Try anything that comes to mind. Have some fun and get in touch to let me know what you've tried and how it worked. on day eight Vijay Gupta encourages us to use a technique that seems to scare a lot of you

but that is so good for you and that's recording yourself Vijay what makes practicing most enjoyable for you what can the listeners try at home to make practicing more enjoyable and meaningful? Well, so often enjoyable and meaningful fall on the opposite spectrum. Another important tool I would say that has led me over the long term to find much more enjoyment in my practicing is of course the recording device, the dreaded recording device. And this is actually where I find a lot of enjoyment in posting what I practice, what I'm working on to instagram um when i was learning the bartok soul sonata i posted a 30 second reel every day because i was so daunted and i was like i need some help so it became enjoyable to practice it with the

idea of sharing it even sharing it totally imperfectly in the uh sort of social media ether right and so you know even a year ago i was recording a minute of bach every single day because i was you know playing with a brogue bow and playing off of bach's original bowings and i just wanted to try it and just see how it landed and how it felt. So I would say sharing something is enjoyable, but also recording it and being really clear about what I want to say that makes things enjoyable and truly meaningful, because it has to be meaningful to me in order for it to be meaningful to another person. Amazing. So good. And for this one, I also will encourage you to go catch the live video in the Facebook community because I share one of my favorite techniques

to start recording yourself that might make it easier for you if you're a little bit resistant to the idea. It's my record, reflect, refine technique. In a nutshell, pick a passage, something short, maybe just one phrase, but no more than two. Set clear intentions, then perform and record it as you listen notice three things you like about it notice one thing you would like to improve and repeat that process twice simply playing your small passage and listening back right away noticing three things you like about it and one thing you would like to improve and yes noticing things you like about it is important So don't skip that step and catch the video replay to know why I think that's so important.

Okay, day nine definitely was a lot of fun for all the participants. Rolf Schiano shares the technology he uses to make practicing more productive and enjoyable. Talking about making things enjoyable, is there things that make practicing more enjoyable for you? So what can the listeners try at home to make practicing more enjoyable and or meaningful? So there are a couple of things that I've been discovering lately that have been helping me enjoy my practicing more. You know, playing technical passages with mixed up rhythms has always been something that I've done. But I have my go-to rhythms that I use when I mix things up. And recently, a colleague gave me a copy of Contemporary Violin Technique, Volume 1, Part 2.

You know this book? I have been using this book since I was probably nine years old. Yes, very familiar with it. It's covered in coffee and it's gotten some good use. This is like, I mean, this is just a goldmine for, you know, using mixed up rhythms. So whereas I might think of three or four mixed up rhythms that I would use, you know, there are 20. on a page with a given note group so i've been enjoying working my way through those i really like finding ways to play actual music so whether i use smart music which is a web-based

application that has a bunch of different accompaniments available to practice or using something like the amazing slow downer which is uh an app that you can speed up or slow down recordings to play along with there are a bunch of pianists on youtube that have just recorded just the piano parts to a lot of the solo repertoire and in addition to that that's why i wrote this book called um little scores for audition success which are just like arrangements that you can multi-track of all of the excerpts so that you get really into the score it's like score study but it's like interactive score study and um so just finding ways to like make the music more rich and give it more context. Another thing that I really have enjoyed that was suggested to me by

a student is do you know about the super metronome? No, I don't know about the super metronome. I can't believe I don't know about the super metronome. The super metronome is can be super fun, especially if you get kind of creative with what kinds of beats you use. So it's essentially it's like a drum kit metronome um and it's available as an app on your ipad or your iphone or i don't know if it's on android or not but using like a latin beat behind music which would or just your scales you know like um trying to find things like the difference between playing with good rhythm and playing in a groove you know right it's so much easier to feel a groove if there's like a groovy backbeat to actually what you're doing so with some of my students we

use the super metronome just even when they're playing their scales i'm gonna i'm gonna download this and i'll put a link to the the book that you mentioned which is by galamian ivan galamian very famous violin pedagogue who might have taught all of the violin teachers or any you know everyone has studied with someone who studied with galamian here in america um in another way that I like if I might jump in there too is adding the rhythm from some song or any song or a pop song or you know if you practice a passage with the rhythm from of course I'm blanking right now I know exactly what you mean like anything it could be anything yes it could be anything using that for your scales or any difficult passage yes lots of fun can be had

i feel like i've been saying this a lot but that's the point of a joyful practice challenge right how fun was that and in the live video ralph sent in another video where he demonstrates how he uses the super metronome and that was pretty awesome i highly recommend you watch that one as well and you can find it by using the link in the companion guide or in the show notes so reflect on what technology can be of service to you in the practice room, helping you make progress, stay engaged, and have a lot of fun. And I'd love to hear about your experience using the Supermetronome, so please get in touch. Finally, for day 10, I don't only go back to where we started, but I bring back the one tip that I've concluded every Joyful Practice Challenge with

no shoulds, no shame, just relentless tenderness. So let's go back to where we started and in your session today, just play with no shoulds, no shame, just relentless tenderness and be there. Experience it with no expectations and no judgments. Let go. There will be plenty hours of hard, dedicated work ahead in the days and months to come. So take those 10 minutes and make them deliciously yours. Listen with tenderness. Feel your body with tenderness and reconnect to what it is you enjoy about music making. Let your thoughts and your feelings rise. let them come and go. Simply notice. Notice how you feel in what's enjoyable right now. And when you're done, see if you can carry that peacefulness in the rest of your practice that

day. When you let the pressure, the need to, and the have to get in the way, you close your mind. If you bring more of this relentless tenderness in your daily practice, I think you'll find that you're much more engaged and interested and, as a result, way more open to problem-solving solutions and much more efficient. so this is it for the joyful practice challenge 2022 edition this challenge brought me so much inspiration hope and joy and it was so special to share that with a really awesome community The insight they shared was mind-blowing. I love this community so much. So I hope you try it out, and I'd love to hear back from you what you did, what you observed, how you felt, what kind of results you got, or any thought that crosses your mind about the experience. So get in touch with me and share your experience. A last few words as I wrap this up. As I've mentioned at the beginning, there are a few available spots for the Music Mastery Experience, my highly personalized group coaching program, where I'll show you how to implement mindful and effective practice techniques, make them habits, and get results. My clients win jobs, experience optimal performance, and enjoy playing again. And all of this is accessible to you right now. I've spent years developing my deep practice model and putting it to the test in my own career and with my clients, and I can't wait to share it with you. You will learn to direct your attention and your intention and to channel them to a superior level of confidence, productivity, and performance.

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You can find more information at mindoverfinger.com. And of course, I'll have that link for you in the show notes. So that's what I have for you today. I wish you happy practicing, and I can't wait to hear how it went for you. Don't forget to share today's episode with everyone you think might benefit from this insight. Share a post on Instagram and Facebook and tag me so I can say hi. I'm mind over finger everywhere. Be well, my friends.

Once again, thank you so much for listening and à bientôt. Thank you.