by Tiffany Brooks

Created on: February 11, 2007   Last Updated: April 12, 2007

Are you an aspiring songwriter or a composer? Do you want to be a professional in the music business? The only way to become a professional is to do what professionals do. Pros develop good habits and they make no excuses. As a songwriter/composer, music is your product to market and the only way you are going develop a decent music library is to write everyday.

I want to inspire you to form the habit of writing everyday. Below are six tips that will make it easier for you to commit.

Tip#1: Create a symbol to remind you of the promise you made to compose for at least 10 minutes everyday.

Making the commitment to write music everyday is not easy. There are so many distractions in life that make it hard to commit, but there are ways to get around these obstacles. You can start by creating a symbol that represents the promise you made to yourself to write music everyday. For example, I chose a red ribbon as my symbol that I look at everyday. It helps me to focus, and it reminds me of the promise that I've made to form good habits.

Tip#2: Communicate your commitment to write everyday to your subconscious mind.

In order to make this habit stick, you must involve your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is always working. For most of us, the subconscious mind is working against us. It is like a computer hard drive in which programs are loaded on to it, and it performs the functions of those commands. The commands, in this analogy, represent the internal self-talk that you have with yourself everyday. If you repeatedly tell yourself that you don't have the time or energy to write music everyday, then your subconscious mind will make sure that you don't have any time or energy to write. It's that simple.

Once you start sending the message to your subconscious mind that you do have the time and energy to write, it will stop working against you and start working with you. You will notice that your energy level will increase and you will have the energy to write everyday. You'll also become more aware of the time that you have throughout the day to jot down your ideas. Musical ideas will flow to your mind with ease. It's amazing how brilliant your subconscious mind really is.

To find out more about how to communicate with your subconscious mind, I recommend going to Steve Pavlina's website and listening to his podcast entitled Consulting your Intuition

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