The Ready State

 What is a state of being?  Well the quality of your life is the quality of your state.  Your thoughts and feelings combine to form a state of being.  The Ready State is a central concept for modern musicianship As it is the ideal state of mind  The ready state is a state you have to learn how to cultivate in order to be your best self and live your best life.  It is a state that involves all of you coming to the table to align your head and your heart for optimal performance. I call it the ready state and not the flow state, because there are times where you will not feel in flow and that is replaced with the commitment to complete the task.  The Ready State is an ideal state of mind where you are uplifted by what inspires you and are:   ◆ Ready to apply all that you’ve learned and become  ◆ Ready to get over fears and doubts that are stopping you  ◆ Ready to embark upon your quest  ◆ Ready to play  ◆ Ready to stay and do the work/Ready to practice  ◆ Ready to enjoy the fruits of your labor  ◆ Ready to be your best self  ◆ Ready to allow your best performance  ◆ Ready to integrate all that you’ve learned  ◆ Ready to complete the mission  ◆ Ready to feel the day and bring the joy  ◆ Ready to serve others  ◆ Ready to glorify god  ◆ Ready to embrace what’s in your vortex  ◆ Ready to focus and make things happen   The ready state combines a "mix" of 4 states of being that elevate you into a more equipped state to handle anything that you have to do or that comes up for you.  It is an ideal state of mind. It is a state of optimal performance. It’s the path of flow  Modern Musicians habitually practice and use success conditioning to keep them in the ready state. Priming, self talk, incantation, affirmation and visualization are all tools you will now use to get into The Ready State.    Resourcefulness  The first state of being is resourcefulness. You cannot accomplish much if you don’t believe you can, so the first state in the ready state mix is resourcefulness.  Resourcefulness is an attitude that will find a way or make a way to achieve their goals. Perhaps one approach or strategy isn’t working, resourcefulness will try something else until they get the result. It’s an attitude of being all in on the accomplishment of your goals and dreams.  Focus  If you don’t have focus you won’t complete the mission, and first and foremost Modern Musicians complete the mission. Focus is the fundamental muscle that must be cultivated in order to advance your goals and your dreams. Focus gets placed into the needle moving activities that drive your career forward each day.  Flow  Flow is alignment with the divine, and harmony with your 3 minds- your conscious, subconscious and superconscious minds.  It is a sensation that all is divinely timed, and that you are capable of playing at your best.  In positive psychology, a flow state, also known as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.  It happens when we feel our best and perform our best. It’s what I call a state of optimal performance.  You are one with the task, in the moment, fully engaged, and each moment is more enjoyable.   Love  Love is the foundation of humanity. Love is the root that grows all good things. In order to connect to your heart, you have to give yourself reasons to feel love. You start with self love and that self love starts to emit a vibration that connects you to loving thoughts and thus loving experiences. I think we get lost in these quests that are self defeating and negative in nature instead of looking for ways to feel more love. The first thing we can do is to love ourselves. As humans, we’re not perfect, but we all deserve love, and we’re all capable of giving and receiving love. In order to tap into a loving state you have to think of thoughts that generate love. My love for Modern Musicianship is what carried me through all the difficult times I’ve had over the last decade.    What can you do to achieve The Ready State?   Embrace the mastery mindset  Your career is a long term game with both short and long term goals. It’s best that you embrace the mastery mindset and incrementally improve in each area over time. Your writing, speaking, thinking, learning, meditation should all be embraced with the mastery mindset.  Anchor in positive states/experiences to your present moment  There are positive thoughts that you can think that bring us back to a positive state, and we can anchor those feelings and experiences into our states which is just a collection of thoughts and feelings.   Identify motivation triggers  I have many motivation triggers, some of them are anything that allows me the chance for:  Passionate expression Giving or receiving love Being my best self Earning my glory Being an attractive person Liberating the music business Advancing my desires into physical expression   Are their any specific times during your day or week that you feel you are in the ready state?  What about times that you feel you are not in the ready state?  Simply reply to this email if you so desire.  Or when you are ready to step up and achieve a state of optimal performance, book a music business breakthrough session for some music business success coaching.   Stay Fresh,  Jamie Leger The Music Business Architect for Independent Artists & Creators  --> FREE GUIDE: Double New Fan Signups At Your Next Show!  Proudly Helping Hundreds of Modern Musicians liberate the music business, declare their artistic independence, and unlock their full potential doing what they love-on their own terms.  Founder & CEO of The Music Business Liberation Academy Author of The Music Business Manifesto Creator of the Music Business Blueprint    

JAMIE LEGER

The Trusted Career Growth Expert for Independent Music Businesses

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