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Woebot has got me on the following regime for 30 days.
I've been at it for a few weeks. I'm 95% compliant. How do I feel? Like Friggin' Superman.
best regards, David Story 
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 cognitive-behavioral therapy app I'm not a shrink. Use at your own discretion. If you are in distress, immediately seek medical help.
https://www.businessinsider.com/therapy-chatbot-depression-app-what-its-like-woebot-2018-1#an-obvious-advantage-of-woebot-is-that-its-constantly-available-with-the-tap-of-an-icon-provided-you-have-a-smartphone-i-once-chatted-with-woebot-late-at-night-was-when-i-was-feeling-panicky-6 I just finished day 6. Yes, it helped somedays. You work with it each day about the same time, whether you feel up or down. I'm mostly feeling up these days. But, one day I wasn't and Woebot helped a lot. The article above explains a personal experience and some of the science behind the app. David.  Great questions from David Allen What's got your attention right now? What's the next action? Some hypotheticals
Have a great day doing something. David  Was there shock?
Was there pushback? Was it difficult to learn? No, no, and no Sounded awesome too. We were playing a straight 8th piece, I threw in a drum beat inspired by Drake. Now I'm pumped. What a breath of fresh air. David Goal setting is a great first step. Congruency is another.
Goals have to take into account your present reality. Reality cannot be ignored. Consider the following.
Sometimes some preparation is the first step on goal achievement. best, David A new blog: http://jazzdrumtranscriptions.blogspot.com/
This blog hosts transcriptions, charts, and drumbeats that I'm learning. It is part of an autoethnographic experiment in learning: learning by ear verses learning from instruction books. The notation is a record of this process. I still work from Syncopation and Stick control. I still take lessons. But I'm working a lot less from "how to drum books". My thesis is this: that which we struggle by ear to learn will "stick better" and be easier to recall in performance because it engages our auditory, kinetical, and visual senses differently. From ear to hands, not eyes to hands is a different cognitive path. The finer points of musical interpretation cannot be notated. How would you notate quarter notes as played by Tony Williams or Terry Clarke and capture all the nuances of execution? You can’t. I will spend the next year on this project and see what happens. Best regards, David I've reached the age where my cohort is retiring. Or, has been retired for awhile. There is tension.
Retirees top topics of conversation:
Attitude to time: Accountable to few. Laidback with occasional flashes of anxiety. La de la... Musicians who are still in the game topics of conversation:
Attitude to time: Accountable, pressured. Excited, fully alive with occasional flashes of anxiety. Best, David Story Avoiding burnout is a constant challenge. Sometimes we just have to step out. I'm just back from two weeks in the woods, fresh as a daisy and ready to... slowly get back into it. 
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Some additional strategies I employ.
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AuthorDavid Story: Professional pianist, drummer, composer, and educator. Well into his 4th enthusiastic musical decade, David works with adults pursuing musical dreams in the autumn of life, while he maintains an active presence in the Toronto arts scene. Archives
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