A Daily Routine for Wedding and Party Music

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There is something reassuring about a daily routine.  Helpful and reliable.  My daily routine lets me hit the ground running, as they say. ready to help people with their wedding music and party music.

I agree that in most plans, the devil is in the details.  My daily routine helps me choose what details to focus on, so I begin each day productive in a worthwhile direction.

Urgent issues of the moment often threaten to derailed my train of thought and divert me from my important goals.  My daily routine keeps me on track every time.

How does it work for me? My wife, Bunch, and I wake up with the sun every day, and we often pick up our conversation where we left it a few hours earlier.

I get the morning paper and take a minute to make the coffee.  While I make us a quick breakfast, she reviews the news in print and on TV.  Then I write in my journal for 30 minutes, doing what one of my friends calls “reflective writing”.  Finally we shower and discuss the day’s highlights, she leaves for her office, and I sit down in mine.

Every day.

Conversations with Bunch keep my mind agile and constantly remind me why family comes first.  Journaling keeps me addressing larger ideas that I’d otherwise tend to overlook in the press of momentary urgencies.

A dozen deadlines always compete for my attention, and, frankly, most of them amount to very little in the grand scheme of things.

I love being productive, but where to begin?  Being a husband, I always have personal and family matters brewing.  As a homeowner, there’s always another maintenance project, as well as the never-ending temptation to tidy and reorganize everything.

Being a musician, I’ll usually have a wedding or a party to attend that day.  Every day I’m helping people plan the music for their celebrations, but there’s always a hundred things on my To Do List.

Managing my band, there’s long-term goals to pursue, people to meet, letters to write, calls to make, e-mails to answer, conversations to continue, and short-term projects to complete.

I like to start each day focusing on the most important item. Keeping “first things first”, as Stephen Covey says.  At any given time, I want to be addressing the most important item on my list.

Thank goodness that my daily routine starts with family time and journaling.  Both keep me on track, in a worthwhile direction.

So for a daily routine, three of my favorite tips are

• begin with family time,
• consider your life’s “big picture”,
• start work with the most important details.

I shudder to think what might happen if my daily routine began instead with checking e-mail or voicemail.  I would probably spend the rest of the day chasing my tail, perhaps never getting to to anything that really mattered.

How about you?  What daily routine helped you begin today?  What works best for you?

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