LJS 94: How I’m Planning for Musical Success in 2018

Welcome to episode 94 of the LJS Podcast where today we are reflecting on this past year and everything that has been accomplished. Brent shares his non-musical and musical accomplishments during 2017, and reveals a confession. He shares his successes and failures, what he's learned, and how you can learn from them too. Listen in!
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It's that time of year! 2017 is coming to a close and I'm sure that you are joining me on reflecting what you have accomplished both in and outside of your musical life.
I personally think reflection is important. Not everyone likes to do it, but I think it can be a really powerful thing and can help influence how we take action from here on out. The end of a year and the start of a new year is a great time to do this. Many use this time marker to judge progress and accomplishments and I think that's a great thing.
In this episode, I share with you some of my successes and failures during this year. I'm happy to report that many of my non-musical goals were met. And these non-musical goals are important, because they also have to share space with our musical goals.
I had a lot of musical wins this year. As a professional musician I've been gigging a lot this year and that's been awesome. I truly feel like I have improved in my musicianship this year and for that I am thankful.
However, I know I have failed at some of my musical goals. I share all of this with you, and more, including some lessons we can take away from it all.
Here's a quick outline of the episode today:

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A special thank you for being an LJS podcast listener.

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How my non-musical goals went this year.

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How my musical goals went this year.

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How I'm going to move forward for a successful musical 2018.









Read the Transcript
Brent: All right. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the show. My name is Brent. I am the jazz musician behind the website LearnJazzStandards.com, which is a blog and a podcast all geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician. Welcome. This is Episode 94, and this episode is coming out on Christmas Day, so I know that everybody who is celebrating Christmas Day ... and if you are celebrating Christmas, a very merry Christmas to you ... you're probably not listening to this show today. You're probably listening a couple days out. And for those of you who don't celebrate Christmas, you're the only ones listening on the actual day this episode comes out.
I was looking at our content schedule, and I was looking and seeing that today's episode, it falls on Christmas Day, and next week's episode ... we always come out with shows on Monday ... falls on New Year's Day. So I hope that you're listening back, whether you're listening on the day this comes out or not. A lot of valuable stuff coming up here. But thank you so much for listening. As the year is coming to a close, I'm just really reflecting on how wonderful this year has been for LearnJazzStandards.com, everything that's been going on with our courses, with our e-books, with just the content that we've been doing, but especially the LJS Podcasts.
I've been looking back and looking at all the really awesome guests we've had on the show this year. We've had Aimee Nolte. We've had Christopher Sutton. We've had Steve Nixon from Free Jazz Lessons. We've had Jeff Schneider. We've had so many great guests, and it's just been a great year. It's been really wonderful, and I just really want to thank you all for listening, just for engaging, for listening week after week. A special thanks to all of you who have left ratings and reviews on iTunes or your other favorite podcast listening services. All that stuff has really helped,