Kai Eckhardt Mentorship Program
Bronze
This
means you will experience the rare
benefit of what happens to you when you stick with one little routine
for a
long time. The effects are tremendous
and you will surprise yourself.
Especially those of us who live in a consumer oriented society
are in
the habit of changing things when we get bored.
Few understand that being bored is often a defense against the
profound
effects of transformation in learning.
You will have to face this problem and get through it as
part of your routine is fixed.
This seems like a small amount of time, but you will soon hit a wall where you feel like you can’t do it on that day for some reason. As you are only allowed 12 days off, you must be careful because the twelve days came come around really fast. It forces you to put your personal practice in a higher category of priority in your life, which is great because often our lives are controlled by external need instead of our own direction. Keeping it up for 108 days will give you the confidence you need to direct your schedule instead of your schedule directing you.
Reasons
you may skip a day are up to you.
It could be a vacation, not feeling well, having very urgent things to
do, or
being on tour. But I recommend you put
up some resistance when you feel like taking time off and try to
convince
yourself to do your practice as a matter of priority.
Some of my students always did their routine
first thing in the morning after getting up and never had to skip a day. If you wait until the end of the day to
practice after everything else, you may not make it through the 108
days
because you run past 12 days of no practice, so be careful.
The first two come from me on 2 video clips. The third routine is chosen by you.
You design it yourself according to a subject you like. The
fourth requires you to play 15
minutes non-stop totally free. This
means you can play anything you
want, but are not allowed to stop the flow.
You should learn to express your emotions through your
instrument and
for that you have to stop interrupting, judging or analyzing yourself.
That does not sound like a lot of time, but will
make a huge
impact over 108 days.
You may practice more than that, but not less. Having
a fixed routine makes all the
difference as you will notice. Keeping
the amount of time you spend on creativity and fixed structure equal in
proportion helps you keep a good balance and allows you to grow rapidly.
After you pay the fee for my course, I will send you the username and password to get into a document where your name appears at the top of the column.
From there on down you will see 108 fields, one for each day. Start on the first day by entering the date plus one of the following characters:
1,2,3,4,5
or N1-N12
1= sad / 2=
boring/ 3= ok/
4 = fun /5 = great/
N = No practice.
N1 (1st day of no practice, N5 (5th day of no practice) N12 (maximum day of no practice) If you miss day 13 game is over. I will allow for one new start at half price, so you can try it once more, but you have to let me know as soon as you cross that line. After the first day, only enter one character per practice session and contact me when you have reached day 108.
It is my job as a mentor to help you with guidance. This means you can consult with me about anything that concerns your practice, your career, your gigs, recording sessions and whatever else seems unclear to you. I can help you understand things that are technical and I can assist you with solving motivational problems, band related problems and even personal stuff as long as it relates to your practice in some way. All exchanges between you and I remain confidential. That is also why you log in with an alias instead of your real name. This avoids comparison as you can see everyone else’s scores in the database.
After the last day when you contact me, please
give me as
much feedback as possible about your study with me, so I can learn and
make my system
better. As a sign of appreciation you
will get a little certificate and some free music from me to round up
the
experience. What happens next is up to
you. If you like the system you can keep
going right away or take a break and come back.
You can also leave it at that and move on.
If you do continue, we use the Karate belt system for colors (yellow
belt, orange, green etc...)
9. I will respond to
you within 7 days maximum.
I do have to watch out with managing time because of frequent international travels and family responsibilities. Should I drop the ball on you against the odds, you should call it to my attention by labeling your email as “urgent”.
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Thank you very much for taking the time to read
through the
details of my new program.
I hope you will give it a try and see a profound change for
the better in the relationship between you and your instrument. You might even have a lot of fun at one
point.
By allowing me to be your mentor you are also sustaining my
livelihood and that of my wife
May you be blessed with good health and good fortune along
the way.
Faithfully Yours, Kai Eckhardt