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Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!
Written and Published by Nicholas Ambrosino
www.musicsimplymusic.com
mailto:director@musicsimplymusic.com

January 7, 2002

Table of Contents:

1. MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. MTIPS Development
4. Notable Quotables

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1. MTIPS Theme

What do you want to “hear” in your life this year? What do you want to
create? Who are you as a teacher? What is your vision of yourself and how
you show up for your students, family and loved ones?

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2. Welcome Notes

SPECIAL NOTE:
Colleagues and Friends of MTIPS, this is the January issue which, due to
my technical weaknesses, did not reached you in January. So, I decided to
send it as a special issue in February! ENJOY!

Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter! This
has been an incredible 2 months! As many of you are aware, I missed last
month’s MTIPS issue (my first miss in 3 years of publication) and am late on
this month’s! I guess if ever in my life I will give myself the liberty of using
an excuse, this will be the time.

Our new baby arrived 3 weeks early on December 10th, (Nicholas Robert
Ambrosino, 6 lbs. 3 oz.). My family and I were still living in a trailer while
our house was being extended. House was 90% completed on December
21st, giving us 4 days to put up a tree, decorate, move in furniture, get our
new son situated, wrap presents, bake 4 kinds of Christmas cookies, set a
table, and prepare for 20 guests! The time from December 10th through
January 2nd would have made a perfect award winning sitcom! It was
absolutely incredible! And.. I’m glad it’s over.

So it is with an apology and much sincerity, that I extend to you and your
families and belated wish of joy and peace for the holidays as well as
prosperity and love for the New Year.

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3. MTIPS Development

Early in my music education, a teacher gave me an axiom that proved true
not just in music, but throughout other areas of my life. He said, “You can’t
play what you can’t hear.” As I continued to grow both as a musician and a
person, the axiom again arrived, this time in a different form. “You must see
it in your mind before you will see it in your life.”, a coach once told me.

What do you want to “hear” in your life this year? What do you want to
create? Who are you as a teacher? What is your vision of yourself and how
you show up for your students, family and loved ones? In your vision of
yourself, are you compassionate, assertive, motivating, loving, and firm?
Does your reality match up to your vision?

If your reality does not yet match your vision, celebrate!! It means you have
room to grow, and there is more potential to fulfill. There’s an old joke I
recall that asks, “How do you carve a statue of an elephant?” The answer is..
cut away all that doesn’t look like and elephant and leave alone all that does!

This year I challenge you to not necessarily add more to your plate. Goals
and resolutions tend to do that. “I’ll work out more”. “I’ll practice more.”
“I’ll spend more time with my family.” They all tend to result in pressure,
pressure that usually sets us up for falling short of our goals.

Instead, I challenge you to cut away all in your life that does not look like
the vision you have for yourself. Perhaps it means watching less television.
Or getting up at a more productive hour. I guarantee you that once you
remove that which distracts you from your vision, you vision will soon grow
to be so large that it will encompass you entire personhood!

Spend an hour a day focusing on what your vision is for you both as a person
and as a teacher. Spend a day a month on your vision. Take a weekend out
of a quarter and just get in touch with your own “elephant”. Focus only on
those parts of your life and teaching that show up in your vision. As Wayne
Dyer states in that title to one of his wonderful books, “You’ll see it when
you believe it!”
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4. Notable Quotable

Leaders have a guiding vision, a passion that allows them to
communicate a sense of hope to followers. The key to this
communication is not charisma (as many experts have maintained); what
is required is integrity.

- Bruce A. Pasternak (citing Warren Bennis) in Strategy + Business

Taken from A Daily Quote from Coach U, DailyQuote@lists.dailycast.com
Submitted by Diana Robinson, PhD., CCG, who can be reached at
Diana@ChoiceCoach.com, or visited on the web at
http://www.ChoiceCoach.com

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