To fill our lives with joy is one of the best things we can do to improve the quality of our life. It is also rather simple to experience joy. I have found that it is often the small things in life that enable us to experience and connect with the feeling of joy.
Even the small gestures like a student remembering their instrument, receiving flowers, getting through to a student, hearing a student perfect a piece. These little experiences enable us to connect with the feeling of accomplishment.
With most things in life, it is difficult to reach your goal immediately after leaving the starting block. The best and most efficient way of filling your life with what you want, is to start small and do it consistently. Every day build on the day before, gradually increasing until you reach your goal. So, every day, celebrate the little steps that your students are taking to towards a goal that the two of you have set together. Know and experience the joy that you both feel as you move towards your goal.
The more you connect with the joy of progressing towards your goal, the more of your goal you will attract to you. Don’t focus on any set backs or obstacles that seem to hinder the progress towards your goal. Find a solution to your obstacle, and then celebrate your solution. Break the goal into small manageable and accessible steps. Daily steps are the most rewarding, as you can then celebrate every day, although weekly may work better to celebrate with the students.
Make it a weekly habit to celebrate the step forward you have taken towards your goal. It takes twenty one days to create a habit. Challenge yourself to find twenty one things about your students to celebrate for the next twenty one days. Your mind will start to attract success on a daily basis going forward because you have already become attractive to success, and you will see the change in your students as well.
