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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.  B. GATES

The lessons we learn from those who are unhappy with us or our product are the lessons that will propell us forward in life.  You know that when you want to learn some new skill you seek out those teacher/mentors that will provide the means for you to reach the level of achievement you are seeking.  That is what your  unhappy customers’ become in your life.  The are a type a mentor.  The choice to learn from them will make us a leader in our life.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.   MLK Jr.

Life will bring us surprises.  Some will hurt.  Some will disappointment.  Some will cause us to question why we should keep on doing our best.  That is when hope has to be fostered.  When we accept the fact-this is it, we are able to move forward in our lives, build on our hope and have joy and thankfulness for the good things that come our way.  It is my belief that  life is what it is.  We have done nothing to deserve the good things in our lives or the bad things.  Our quality of life depends on making the lemonade when life gives us lemons and sweetening it with hope and remembering that if life gives you cherries watch out for the pits.

“Life is an opportunity to develop your focus so that you can again become what you were before you came to earth.  Keep your cool. Find your joy and enjoy.”

 I have some tricks that help me cope with our extreme desert heat.  They have taken the ‘dread’ out of summer for me.   My body-mind health as well and my spirit health are more aligned with ‘joy’ now.   This is what works for me.   WATER  I drink water constantly all day long.  It seems to cool me on the inside.  I go  SWIMMING every chance I can.  It cools me on the outside.   This year the swimming has been less and it isn’t nice.  One thing that didn’t work was turning off the AC and keeping wet towels on me.   Not a good idea.  As my own boss I work  really hard for 6 weeks so I can escape for long weekends to the ocean or the mountains or any wonderful place that is cool.  I  don’t do anything after 5 p.m. unless it is something fun.  Ahh how cool.

I am bilingual.  My second language is music, specifically piano. It has taught me life skills. To play or sing on an accomplished level requires a commitment to working daily, focusing  only on the task at hand, setting daily practice goals, and sticking with it until it is right.  It really is grunge work.  Once the piece is learned it becomes “play”.  

Practice is lonely.  It is just you and the instrument.  It is tedious.  You have to do the passage right 3 times.  It is rewarding.  No one can understand unless they are a musician the feeling of hearing yourself ‘do it right’. 

Commitment, goal setting, determination, learning to hear what I was doing and maintaining the standard of the music are just a few of the life skills I have learned and polished through my music.  We’ll talk about the brain training in a later post. 

All music is a language.  Like any language if we can’t understand what is being said it just becomes gibberish to us.  Those who love complex music are born with the ability to hear and understand it.  We study music just like we study our native language to get a deeper understanding of its intricacies. The longer I study and teach piano the more I appreciate the miracle that any of us can play, hear and comprehend the beauty of complex music.

 I knew at the age of 12 that I wanted to be a piano teacher.  That is one of my core values.  I have discovered on this journey that it is complex music that I enjoy.   I am grateful that the gift of complex music was given to me and that the desire to use it, develop it and enjoy it were also given to me.

To all musicians of complex music thank you for contributing to global beauty.