During my sophomore year in WE, Dr. Fansler would often use this phrase, but I don't think that it ever fully hit home with me. The past two weeks have really been a reminder to me that you have to "demand excellence" every single time you do something, whether that's when you pick up the trumpet, when you are writing a session plan for music therapy, or when you are writing that score annotation for music history that you put off until the last minute. No matter what you are doing, you have to "demand excellence" in order to succeed.
Demanding excellence is not easy. It requires a lot of energy. It requires a certain poise or presence. It requires knowing why you are demanding excellence and where you want to go in the process of demanding excellence.
When I was younger, I didn't "demand excellence." I simply did what it took to get by...(there's a blog post about that!) But as I grew older, and of course more wiser, I have realized that I don't like to do things unless I am going to do them to the best of my ability, whether that's learning to rap for my clients or working on the pesky triple-tonguing that has been haunting me for years.
This semester is going to be very challenging for me in regard to both the trumpet and music therapy, but I am very excited about the possible outcome. I have come a long way since my first week of freshman year, but there is still a long way to go...and it's time for me to be more demanding and "demand excellence" in everything that I am working on at school.
With that being said, I generally spend a lot of time on social media, and I have decided to take a little hiatus away from social media in order to help me stay on track and "demand excellence." I will still share blog posts and pictures every so often, because that is just who I am, but I won't be spending all of my free time browsing social media when I could be working on things that will help me succeed.
Don't miss me too much!
This semester is going to be very challenging for me in regard to both the trumpet and music therapy, but I am very excited about the possible outcome. I have come a long way since my first week of freshman year, but there is still a long way to go...and it's time for me to be more demanding and "demand excellence" in everything that I am working on at school.
With that being said, I generally spend a lot of time on social media, and I have decided to take a little hiatus away from social media in order to help me stay on track and "demand excellence." I will still share blog posts and pictures every so often, because that is just who I am, but I won't be spending all of my free time browsing social media when I could be working on things that will help me succeed.
Don't miss me too much!
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