3 Simple Steps Toward Realizing Your Dream - PHH 187

As you probably know, one of the reasons I started Harp Mastery® back in 2012 was because of the number of adult harp students I was meeting who were frustrated by their lack of progress. Although these harpists were at different stages and interested in varying kinds of music, what they had in common was an incredibly strong desire to play the harp, a desire that kept them practicing despite the challenges they were encountering. Although I hadn't come up with the term "harp happiness" yet, I knew that I had to help these harpists find a path that would give them the joy and satisfaction they were looking for in their harp playing. But years before that, I had already discovered something that shocked me about adult harp students. I had started a class for beginning harpists of any age - the classes usually had teenagers and adults - and I became intrigued by the reasons these students wanted to play the harp. Many of the adults had wanted to play the harp since they were young and were finally able to pursue their dream. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but it had not really occurred to me before that there were so many people who had always wanted to play the harp but, for one reason or another, hadn't been able to.  There was the woman who told her parents she wanted to play the harp, and they bought her a clarinet. Another who wanted to learn the harp in high school, but her high school only offered harp lessons to one student every other year, and she was in the wrong year. A third was told by her parents that a harp was simply out of the question and she could either play the piano they already had or not play music at all. Not all the stories were like this, but there were enough, in fact, too many. As an aside, I will say that there's another very happy story connected to this class and I'll share that with you at the end of the episode. What's important about these stories is that for these people, the dream of playing the harp never went away. Life took them away from the harp, but their desire to play was never extinguished. We all have dreams or bucket lists, things we want to do but feel unable to do now. As a harpist, maybe there is a special piece you want to learn, a place you want to play. Maybe you want to develop a repertoire or learn how to serve others with the harp.  What I want to talk to you about today is how to start making those harp dreams happen. Your dreams shouldn't be gathering dust on a shelf. And it's no use telling yourself that those dreams don't really matter, because I can tell you, from my experience with those harp students in my first class and hundreds more that I have worked with since then, your dreams do matter, and they don't go away. We're quickly coming up on a new year. Imagine how exciting this year could be for you if you were able to make your dreams into your reality. It's not as hard as you think. Links to things I think you might be interested in that were mentioned in the podcast episode:  Act on your dreams at the Getaway Retreat Join the January Seminar Series Harpmastery.com Get involved in the show! Send your questions and suggestions for future podcast episodes to me at [email protected]  LINKS NOT WORKING FOR YOU? FInd all the show resources here: https://www.harpmastery.com/blog/Episode-187