Goal setting in your practice:
Guidelines
Before starting to play a note set a simple goal that you want to achieve in the next twenty or thirty minutes.
Use these questions if you need some guidelines:
After completing the first session, take a short break, around five to ten minutes and reflect on:
Start by choosing one or two simple things to focus on. Then, add more challenging goals when you feel comfortable and have mastered the first set of goals.
Use these questions if you need some guidelines:
- What is your particular goal or main objective in this next practice session?
- What are the specific challenges or difficulties within this task?
- What are some of the strategies you can use to address these challenges and work towards your goal?
Which are the most appropriate?
After completing the first session, take a short break, around five to ten minutes and reflect on:
- How successful were you in achieving my goals this session? What things, if any, hindered you?
- What strategies did you use and how effective were they?
- What else could you try next time?
- Please, write it down briefly in your practice journal using the provided template.
Start by choosing one or two simple things to focus on. Then, add more challenging goals when you feel comfortable and have mastered the first set of goals.
By setting goals you are practicing intention, which is a qualitative emphasis on the task at hand,
a psychological process that affects your effort and attention and consequentially your physiological responses.
a psychological process that affects your effort and attention and consequentially your physiological responses.