Don't you have time for your music? Look at your calendar again

Time is always scarce. The more something matters to us, the more it feels like everything else gets in the way. Days are just too short. Or are they?

Look at your typical schedule for the week. There are some fixed things that you can't skip if you want to stay alive: sleeping and resting, eating, hygiene routines, physical activity. Block those out. There are also unskippable commitments, like work or study —with their respective commute time— house chores, and family logistics (for example, getting your kids ready for school). Finally, there are things that enrich and give meaning to your life, like the nurturing and enjoyment of your relationships, or your spiritual journey, religious or not. Once you block those out as well, you will see the time you really have for yourself, and can decide how to best use it.

At this stage, it's a matter of priorities. What do you want to achieve? What are the most important steps towards achieving it? A to-do list will be very handy, as it will help you establish a hierarchy and organise the resulting activities in the free spaces of your schedule. Even if you got only two hours per week to work on your dream, that's time, and it will add up. Consistency is key, as well as discipline. You must use the time assigned to your goals to work towards them. No distractions, no hesitation, no idle minutes.

There are many resources out there to optimise your time management. Investing a few hours in reading or listening to a few of them, and applying what you learn in a way that you can sustain in your life, can give you entire weeks worth of time in the future.

Is there a time management tip that has helped you? I'd love to hear about it! I'm also happy to tell you about the methods that I use. I plan to incorporate this into my next wave of resources to help you in your music journey. As part of the design of said resources, right now there's a survey to assess what themes and formats would be the most beneficial for my audience. You can answer to it by clicking here. It will take just a few minutes, and you will get a gift to thank you for your time at the end!