Use Focal Points to Enhance Vocal Strengths

One of the strengths of Brett Manning’s commitment to teaching is his respect for the uniqueness of each individual voice.

The points of focus in his teaching truly honor the unique gift of each voice. His methodology, exercises, coordinations, and coaching technique are used to enhance and bring out the best in each individual voice.

Heighten + Strengthen

His goal is to heighten and strengthen aspects in the voice such as range, tone, pitch, and muscle memory so that whether you’re pursuing a career as a singer, motivational speaker, broadcast journalist, musical theatre performer, you have the tools at hand to help you achieve peak performance - whatever the focus of your vocal-driven career.

Vocal Power

Brett also understands the power that the human voice has to inspire, encourage, entertain, enlighten, and educate.

The voice can move an audience to tears, stir someone to take action, or persuade a listener to speak up, reach out, and bring people together.

Voice = Product + Service

Whatever the purpose and pursuit in your voice-driven career, it is vital that you think in terms of its potential impact as a product and service.

It’s important for you to identify the unique qualities and strengths of your voice that serve as its key selling points.

Showcase Strengths

This will help you with selecting material that uses your unique strengths and abilities for an exciting, dynamic showcase.

You don’t want the material you choose to be confining or mediocre. You don’t want to sell yourself short. You want to stretch and grow as a singer, speaker, or performer while providing a provocative, exciting experience for your audience.

Objectives to Serve

Make sure you also include objectives you have for wanting to serve others with your voice.

In other words, what would you like your audience members to feel, think about, or even want to learn more about? In what ways would you like your audience to be changed by hearing your performance?

Make A Difference

These objectives in how your voice can serve others will help you with choosing material for your song sets as well as selecting stories to share that resonate with your personal passions and your desire to make a difference.

It can also help you with any affiliations you may wish to make in promoting your career such as special interest groups, social service organizations, human rights issues, and so on.

Service Check   

  If you find yourself lapsing into periods where you’re down, or feel like you’ve stagnated or aren’t having much of an impact, stop and take a closer look at your vocal strengths and your objectives in using your voice to serve others.

Set aside some time to think about any positives that have occurred as a direct result of your singing. Stop and think about people who have thanked you after a performance because of something that was stirred in them.

Key Influences

As you assess your potential performance impact, take time to think of those who have had a hand in honing your craft and in helping to shape and fine tune your singing voice.

What specific qualities have they had a hand in developing or encouraging? What impact have they had on feeding your passions and objectives in the pursuit your vocal career?

Give Thanks

Give thanks for the opportunities to serve others that will come as a result of your desire to be your best and do your best. Consider the impact that your being served has had on how you strive to serve others. Write down their names of those who have inspired you to serve, and thank them any way you can. This can help you reconnect, regroup, and refocus.

Learn To Serve Your Best

Stay committed to bringing your best while serving others. You can do this by investing in Brett’s programs, and by booking regular sessions with his certified master associates.

How has Brett’s teaching and the support of his coaches helped you to honor your strengths by nurturing and engaging them?

Don’t hide or shortchange your gift. Keep learning, improve your craft, review the basics, and don’t be afraid to step out and try something new.

Fans + Followers

Get to know some of the people that you’ve come to see as your greatest fans and critics and learn from them. Find out what they’d like to see and hear. This approach will keep your mind supple, your heart open, your soul caring and generous – and it will keep you “growing forward.”

It will keep you informed about how well you’re serving others. It’s a great way to become more aware of how your voice is perceived in terms of what works, and what needs attention.

Use the Forums

Use the singingsuccess.tv forums to share information and experiences that will help you remain open, strong, and also malleable when you need to change or adapt to a situation. Ask for suggestions on how to build on your strengths. Solicit new material for your song sets, ideas for new songs, or themes and topics for special events or speaking engagements.

Service Success

Honor the individual strengths of your unique voice by using them to enhance the material you present and perform. Understand your passions and objectives in communicating with and serving your audience. These are your focal points for optimizing your vocal strengths.

This positive attitude of using your unique gifts to serve others will give you peace and purpose through the rough patches and smooth stretches. It will help you press on past any unexpected stalls and crawls that will creep up occasionally on your journey to true singing success.

Practice Tips to Perfect Your Potential for Singing Success

The pursuit of success requires you to cultivate a commitment to consistency.

In other words, you want to always be prepared to give your best performance - while you also have a plan in place to keep getting better.

Life Happens

This makes sense and sounds simple enough, but simple isn’t always easy. Life happens - the unexpected or unthinkable shows up as Murphy’s law takes you to court.

Sometimes you have too much on your plate or there’s additional stress, and you find it difficult to focus. So, you have to cut back on rehearsal time.

Then, what rehearsal time you have suffers because you’re exhausted or distracted. When the time comes for that special live performance gig you’ve been dreaming of, you stumble and fumble your way through, and it’s not quite up to speed.

Taxing Times

There will be times when things go wrong, or you’re busier than you’d anticipated. But, life works that way; and the entertainment industry will likely present challenges to tax your nerves, demand extra attention, run interference with relationships, and defy any perfect planning you’ve enforced for rigorous rehearsals.

Discipline Rules

Discipline is vital to your arrival, survival, and potential for thriving in the pursuit of your voice-driven career.

Realistic pacing and realistic goal-setting are both key to helping you stay disciplined and keeping your commitment to consistency.

Don’t Skip Steps

Think about how many times you lose focus when you start skipping or shortchanging something as basic as a daily warm up. How does that impact performance? How does it affect how you feel about singing or speaking?

How many times have you been unfocused in your daily practice? Maybe there are several areas of your voice that you know you need to work on. But you simply skim quickly through without focusing on anything specific. You’re afraid to take it all piece by piece – or you lack the patience.

It’s true that you worked out, but that general, non-specific approach may not have sufficiently addressed issues that need attention.

You want to set specific goals for a realistic, manageable routine so that you know what your focus will be on a daily basis.

One By One Point of Focus

If there are several key issues or areas of focus that need attention, don’t skim or shortchange any of them. Give each issue the time and attention that’s needed and deserved – one at a time.

Choose a different point of focus for each day, and set aside a day for a fully integrated and coordinated practice session or rehearsal that assimilates what have been your points of focus earlier the week or in the previous few days.

No Skipping – No Skimming

You must avoid rushing, skipping, and skimming because other aspects of your training, commitment, and quality will likely be compromised. It begins to snowball or spread like an infection. Then, you get more frustrated, stressed, discouraged, and your gift is not honored nor is it properly served.

Keep Challenges In Check

The same approach applies to issues with the material you perform. If a song or two in your set is presenting some challenges, set aside time to work it out. If it’s case where a piece isn’t working at all; find a suitable replacement.

The quality of your performance should never be compromised because of a lack of focus or by deficiencies in time and attention.

Rehearse Rough-Spots

Devote specific rehearsal time to the more challenging pieces, arrangements, staging, or other aspects of your performance. Then, incorporate that work into a regular rehearsal or run-through.

Set Specific Manageable Goals

By setting specific manageable goals for your daily and weekly practice sessions, you will be better prepared for contingencies and challenges that may come when show time has arrived; or when you’ve booked time in the studio.

Forums + Coaching

Share challenges and effective scheduling tips with your peers through the singingsuccess.tv forums. Offer advice on what works and what to watch out for that can throw you off track.

Talk about the impact of having more focus-driven practice sessions that are followed by a more integrated rehearsal or practice session where the pieces come together. Also, share any success stories where your performance has clearly been enhanced by this focused approach to practice with realistic manageable specific goals.

Discuss rehearsal and practice strategies when booking your next session with one of Brett Manning’s certified master associates.

Positive Results

The more you focus on meeting manageable goals in a timely manner, the more positive results you’ll see in delivering on your commitment to discipline, quality work, and consistency.

This approach will help you become more surefooted in directing the steps you must take to achieve the full measure of your true singing success.

 

Quick Tips For Better Communication

To have a successful and effective voice-driven career, you obviously must develop the full potential of your vocal skills and qualities. But you must also become an expert communicator and storyteller.

The most effective singers, motivational speakers, singer-songwriters, broadcast journalists, teachers, musical theatre performers, radio personalities, stand up comics, talk show hosts – must be able to clearly communicate key information and points of view to their respective audience.

Observe - Listen

This ability requires two key communication skills that are often overlooked or are underplayed in the pursuit of a voice driven career. But, if engaged, they can help make you standout as a strong, caring communicator. These two skills are keen observation and active listening.

Shifting Focus

These two skills require you to shift your focus from what you have to say or sing and how you’re coming off, to affirming something about someone else.

Think of how many people you meet that can have some influence on advancing your career and building your fan base.

It can be a production assistant on a video shoot or an engineer in the studio. It might be a booking agent or venue owner. It could be one of Brett Manning’s certified master associates - or even Brett himself.

Gain Support By Giving Support

With each person you meet in the studio, at an audition, in a workshop, at a live performance - there is a potential opportunity to shore up support for your career by using your active listening skills and powers of observation.

Find Out Fun Facts

To get in the habit of affirming others, learn something unique about each person by getting a bit of information about their interests, concerns, passions, or goals.

This sounds like it requires a lot of work, but it really doesn’t. All you need to do is listen, observe, and ask questions about their goals and what drives their passion.

Ask Questions

You can ask simple questions such as, how did you get started? You might ask, who are your favorite artists, or who are you mentors? Then, follow up with a question like, what is it that your mentor has influenced most, or how has that artist impacted what you do?

Where Are You From

You can start out by introducing yourself, and then simply find out where somebody is from originally. Then, you just learn how they got to where they are in their career.

This opens the door to further conversation while revealing valuable information. It gives you a point of reference, and likely prompts something you can relate to, with each person.

Just One Piece

Even if you don’t get the chance to talk with someone, keep your ears open, and make mental notes on what they respond to and talk about. Make a point of remembering at least one piece of information about each key person you interact with or encounter.

You might notice something they were wearing. You might remember that they had been sick or in an accident. Someone might have lost a loved one or even a pet. Maybe they just moved.

What Sticks Out Stays With You

Keep your ears open for things that resonate for some reason. Then, you can ask about the issue, or bring it up the next time you work with them. More often than not, it will surprise the individual that you knew this about them, and it affirms their importance.

So, your assignment is to sharpen your observation and listening skills by learning names of, and at least one piece of unique information about, the key people you encounter in the pursuit of your career.

Feel More Connected

It will also make you feel more connected to others as you go through various stages in getting established - from meetings and workshops to auditions and interviews, as well as checking out rehearsal spaces and performance venues.

Forum Fact-finding

Use the forums at singingsuccess.tv to gain more information about others that helps to more clearly distinguish and identify the passions and interests of each individual. Find out how others go about gathering information and share stories on the positive impact that sharpening observation and listening skills has had. Talk about any missteps along the way as well.

Your Next Session

Make it a point to learn more about others you meet when showing up for your session with one of Brett’s certified master associates. And, of course, remember key information that makes each of his vocal coaches stand out.

Heightened Awareness

This will help to heighten your awareness of the impact you have on others. This will also help you shift your focus from self-consciousness to audience-awareness when you perform and will make you more comfortable at any post-performance meet and greet opportunities.

Use your observation skills and active listen ability to build positive support in the pursuit of your singing success.

Bypass Roadblocks with Support that Drives Success

It’s important to have resources to tap for positive energy.

It can be anything from meditation and prayer to motivational reading material, from engaging in hands-on hobbies or listening to specific pieces of music that inspire or uplift.

Heart Full of Friends

But - you also need to have a handful, or better still, a heart full of friends to help you stay healthy and positively focused in the pursuit of your voice-driven career.

Emotions play a huge role in shaping, coloring, and energizing pathways and passages in your journey to singing success.

Negatives Create Roadblocks

Negative emotions create roadblocks and detours, and they can lead to serious breakdowns and crashes that can delay, disrupt, or even deny success you deserve.

Remember that the company you keep is always supportive – of something. Also, the circumstances you face always lay the groundwork or a foundation - for something.

In other words, you want to keep people around you that do not feed negative emotions and will not tolerate circumstances that lay the groundwork for something negative, destructive, or counter-productive.

Lack of Preparation

You will find that many roadblocks you face come from a lack of preparation. In other words, you skipped rehearsals, didn’t warm up, or you still haven’t invested in Mastering Mix or Singing Success or even one of the programs in the Top 7 series.

Fearful - Doubtful

Sometimes roadblocks appear because of a fear of the unknown or doubts about whether or not something will work. So, you don’t try to sing songs that you like because you aren’t sure you can perform. Then, you get pigeon-holed by others as limited. Maybe you’re reluctant to book a session with one of Brett Manning’s certified master associates because you’re afraid you might not be good enough or you’re skeptical. You need positive people to encourage you to break through fears and doubts!

Avoid Arrogance

Roadblocks can also come because you think you don’t need to rehearse. You don’t need to check out new material or invest in training because you already know it all. Suddenly, you’re stagnating and have started cutting back on practice sessions. You compromise by saying, you don’t need to practice, and that makes you come off as arrogant. You then wonder why it’s hard to find decent accompanists or songwriting partners. So, you’re starting to have issues with stress and focus.

This is all the more reason to have at least two or three positive people that hold you accountable in the pursuit of your voice-driven career, from training to dreaming and taking realistic steps to make those dreams come true.

Committed to Success

Your heart full of supporters must be committed to your success. They should never sugar-coat their assessment of your dedication, quality of material, work ethic, passion or pursuit – in other words, they are there with you to help protect and secure your potential for success.

These people must be relied on to alert you to any sense that you are slacking or lacking traction in the pursuit of your singing success.

Encourage Growth

They will encourage fresh ideas, additional training, and the engagement of positive practices, hobbies, and activities that promote professional and personal growth and integrity.

Advance - Enhance

You want this support team to keep you abreast of chances for advancement and keep you informed of any trends and enhancements in the industry that you need to take advantage of.

Active Support

Support is not a passive term. It is proactive, assertive, and always on the lookout for your best interests.

These people know your weaknesses and vices, and they will intervene if necessary. They are also there at times of illness, loss, crisis, and personal challenge.

They Have Your Back

These are the people you can turn to when something isn’t working out as well as you’ve planned. You can freely discuss family issues and challenges with them. These are people that you know will have your back, even when you may have turned your back on them.

These people know what positives you respond to that can uplift, focus, encourage, and inspire you. They can see to it that these things are engaged or are readily available.

Anchors

It is important to find this core heart full of people for loyal support because the very nature of the entertainment and communication industry is driven to a large extent by changing opinions, varying tastes, and shifting trends.

These people will help anchor you when the seas turn stormy and the tide dramatically changes in a matter of moments.

Forum Focus

Use the forums at singingsuccess.tv to make at least one solid connection with someone to include in your heart full of support. Talk about the concerns and challenges you face that most frequently create roadblocks or periods of stagnation.

Coaching Corner

Build a strong bond with one of Brett’s certified master associates. Ask them to hold you accountable and responsible as the keeper of the gift of your unique voice. Give them permission to be ruthless, when necessary, in keeping you focused and flourishing.

Product Placement

Invest in one of the products available from Brett Manning, Tom Jackson, and others through this site. Let your commitment to nurturing your gift be part of the accountability check for those who provide a heart full of support for you and your career.

By having support from people that have your best interests at heart, you will face less roadblocks and experience more rewarding scenic views, as you blaze trails to true singing success.

Use Down Time to Fine Tune Singing Success

Whenever you’re fumbling through a season of disappointment, you don’t have to fall apart and feed the fumbling through self-criticism, skipping practice, canceling voice lessons, or neglecting your gift.

Appearances May Be Deceiving

In fact, the down time can be put to good use. But the first thing you need to do is acknowledge that you’ve hit a wall, or you’ve reached a plateau. It may only seem like you’re down and fading fast or getting nowhere.

Sometimes these seasons of stagnation come about soon after a major breakthrough or a series of positive experiences where a door or several doors opened to advance your career.

Post Breakthrough Blues

A slump or plateau can come right after you’ve made major strides in working through Mastering Mix or Singing Success. Maybe you’ve tackled Mastering Harmony - you’ve been excited because you feel like you have more to play with vocally. It may have prompted you to experiment with arranging or with making changes in your existing song sets or style.

If you feel like you’re slumping, don’t panic! It is natural to hit walls, plateaus, and slip into a slump after experiencing a series of wow-moments or positive experiences. In fact, your plateau or slump may simply be a perception issue.

Walking in the Light

In other words, you’ve had your light-bulb moment, and now you’re simply walking in the light. The excitement of that moment when you got-it and learned something new was dazzling; so, as you press on, you’re seeing things you hadn’t noticed before. You might even now recognize additional challenges, but that doesn’t mean you’re not making progress. And it definitely doesn’t mean you’re a failure or stagnating. In fact, recognizing that there are challenges up ahead and seeing things you know you need to work on is a good sign.

Sparks Will Follow

Don’t forget that there was a lot of struggle and fumbling that took place leading up to those wow-moments or light-bulb experiences. Think of your first experience with working through one of Brett Manning’s programs. There may have been coordinations that have been tougher than others for you. But you pushed through and finally got it.

Keep Expectations High

So remember that many times, it’s the pressing on through the rough patches, challenges, and plateaus that sparked those shining moments. So, keep your expectations alive, knowing that another breakthrough or more wow-moments will eventually come.

Short-term Goals

When you think you’re in a slump or have a wall, take time to remind yourself of your achievements and recent progress. Get together with mentors, peers, or members of your support team and celebrate your accomplishments. Then, set up several short-term goals for advancing your career. It may be working on your website, networking, creating new material, or finding new performance venues in your region.

Results-driven

In setting these goals, ask what the goal will accomplish in terms of helping you to move forward. Sometimes you’re in a slump because you’re not being challenged. Instead, you’re focusing on things that are too easy or are not that productive. Again, you want goals that are results-driven and will advance your career.

Pump the Positives

To keep yourself from spiraling downward, set aside time for indulging your favorite songs, and for brainstorming with your peers. Many times when you are engaging something that makes you feel good and positive, it reminds you of your love and passion for what you do and encourages you to take risks so that you can enjoy more opportunities for greater success.

To help you stay focused on moving forward, ask yourself questions like: what do I want to work on? What impact do I want my voice to have on others? How does my care for my voice affect my attitude and physical health? How does attitude and overall health shape and change my voice?

Renewal - Revival

Whenever you face a plateau or slump, it’s a good time to revisit one of Brett’s products or to invest in another. Turn these plateaus into a season for planting new ideas, new skill sets, and possibilities for renewal and revival.

Stay Actively Engaged

Stagnation comes when you stop growing or ignore opportunities. When you go out of your way to resist or avoid challenges, you’re clearly setting yourself up for some serious downtime. So, always keep your gifts actively engaged, whether it’s reviewing the basics, trying something new, or brainstorming with others that share your passion for a voice-driven career.

Learning Experience

Look into opportunities such as workshops, industry-related seminars, auditions, and contests to keep yourself stimulated and provide opportunities for learning and experience.

The more you know, the better prepared you are for making sound judgment calls and wiser business decisions in advancing your career.

Use the forums at singingsuccess.tv to discover opportunities to grow your knowledge of the business and to share success stories and challenges met in working through Brett’s programs.

Session Season

A slump or plateau is the perfect time for booking a session with one of Brett’s certified master associates. To get additional feedback on your progress with vocal challenges you’re facing, you can skype a session with one of his associates that you’ve never worked with before. This can spark new ideas and boost your confidence, while providing a fresh perspective on your gifts.

Use down time to entertain fresh ideas, new concepts, bold moves, and results-driven plans for making the most of your true singing success.

Positive Chords & High Notes for Singing Success

Once again, it’s that time of the year when many people turn to goal-setting or making lists of resolutions after reflecting on the past twelve months.

Before setting your resolutions and defining your goals, take time to note your accomplishments, achievements, and any progress you’ve made over the last year in taking on challenges personally and professionally.

Plus Points

You must first get in an upbeat frame of mind so that you avoid nitpicking and can think clearly. Then, start off by coming up with a list of ten positive points for reflection.

This points might include things such as any changes you’ve made in your fitness level. Maybe it’s an increase in your commitment and consistency when it comes to warming up and actively engaging in a regular practice schedule.

Advance Enhancements

Be sure to note any enhancement of changes you made in the year before that you are continuing to build on. You want these achievements, accomplishments, and actions to be affirming. This will serve as evidence that you are on the right track and will encourage further development.

Your Significance

Think of what you consider to be some of the highlights or more memorable moments from the past months that made the year special. Then, ask what role you played in making that moment memorable or significant in some way.

Better With Brett

Assess your work and time spent with Brett Manning’s products and any sessions you’ve had with his certified master associates. Where do you see your greatest measure of progress? What do you feel are some of your greatest achievements as a result of using his products and programs, and in applying coordinations and practices presented in his teaching?

Efforts + Results

Before you set any goals for the next year, it’s important to pat yourself on the back and acknowledge efforts and results generated over the past year that have helped you become more confident, competent, and comfortable, while giving you a sense of having greater focus and control.

Nix the Negatives

There is a tendency when setting goals to look for negatives and weaknesses. It’s often gauged to tear apart or put down. So, set your primary focus for the upcoming year on reinforcement of positives as you strengthen and build on what is working best.

Natural Correction

You will find that this positive approach will help you naturally make corrections and adjustments, without putting so much emphasis on what’s wrong. Those issues that need attention are kept in check and don’t become a much bigger issue that they need to be.

Again, when your focus and energy are directed toward pointing out the positives, you will naturally be driven toward refining, tweaking, and polishing, while also leaving room for new ideas to explore or incorporate.

Play To Your Passion

Negatives will likely come up as you assess your achievements and accomplishments. But, for this exercise, keep it clearly centered on the highlights and positive points that play into your passion and pursuit of a vocal career.

Share Brett’s Impact

Use the forums at singingsuccess.tv to share the positives you discover in looking back on the last year. Point out any major changes that have come about as a direct result of specific lessons, exercises, and coordinations engaged in Brett’s teaching, whether through products and programs, sessions booked with his certified master associates, or through tips provided through the clips, blogs, and newsletters.

Boosting Others - One By One

Each time you visit singingsuccess.tv find at least one person to compliment and encourage. The more positives you share, the greater your sense of worth and value.

And always acknowledge any progress, accomplishments, and achievements that have come about as the result of others you’ve encountered through this site.

Resourceful Forces

One of your goals or resolutions for the upcoming year should be to actively engage the resources available through Brett’s products and programs. Make the commitment to book a session or sessions with one or several of his gifted coaches.

Brett’s Fundamental Foundation

Brett stresses and honors what is uniquely you as a vocal presence and force. Let the year to come be dedicated to building on the solid foundation and fundamental pillars of Brett’s teaching and methodology.

Keep building on those positives as you pursue the full potential of your true singing success.

 

Turn Quirks to Perks for Singing Success

There’s a tendency to downplay things that make us feel self-conscious, and with good reason. If we’re uncomfortable, that insecurity or sense of not being focused will be clearly conveyed and will likely steal focus during your performance, rehearsal, or even at your daily practice or a coaching session.

Vulnerable + At Risk

Think about it. Whether you’re giving a key note speech at a convention where the crowd is a bit rowdy, or singing a brand new song that takes your range to its limits, or auditioning for a role that you knowa would be a stretch but a great boost to your confidence - each of these examples involves an element of vulnerability or even a perceived risk of falling short.

Define Character

Each of us is only as good as our most challenging moments. It’s those times of exposure, compromise, adjustment, and even improvisation that serve to define character and even potential strength and promise for your gifts.

In order to become a more confident, competent performer, you must take risks, be transparent, acknowledge imperfections, and keep stretching to strengthen what you communicate and deliver in your voice-driven career.

Take Control

That is why it’s important to note the areas where you aren’t as secure, and work on ways to become more proficient, comfortable, and in control.

Again, it is the victories and accomplishments in facing fears and taking on these areas where you feel vulnerable or insecure, that will help to build and establish your reputation as a seasoned vocal artist of note.

Workout with Peers

Get together with some of your peers to evaluate each other, focusing on those areas where you feel vulnerable. Your peers share a common bond in terms of challenges, fears, concerns, and dreams that can help you with addressing vulnerability.

As a group, you can indulge exercises and coordinations from Brett Manning’s teaching and methodology to help each other gain more vocal confidence and control.

Corner Coaches

Work with several of Brett’s certified master associates to target specific areas where you want to gain more confidence. By working with several coaches, you’ll gain greater insight into how you’re perceived while getting positive feedback from several different knowledgeable resources on the progress you’re making.

Playing with Styles

If there are things you’ve wanted to try stylistically, but have let your fear of ridicule or self-consciousness stop you, create a safe, open, encouraging environment by working with your peers and several coaches on style issues and other challenges you’ve been reluctant to face.

Helpful Healing

Also give time and attention to what has been identified as quirks or even flaws by yourself or others. Bring these points of vulnerability to the forefront, for healing and helpful feedback from your peers and coaches.

Share Risks

The more risks you face in terms of fears and vulnerability, the stronger you will be as you gain a greater confidence in the full spectrum of your vocal texture, phrasing, color, and tone.

Share your experiences with others through the forums here at singingsuccess.tv, and include links to clips of your progress. Don’t be afraid to ask for feedback, and always provide positive, constructive support for others.

Invested Interest

Invest in another of Brett’s products as part of your commitment to tackling areas in which you are vulnerable. And, book a session with one of Brett’s certified master associates that you have never worked with before.

And the Winner Is

Make the commitment to push the envelope as you take risks and explore soft spots in your voice and artist image or public persona.

Let the perks in your quirks be part of what shines brightest in establishing your truly unique singing success.

 

Turn Worry to the Wonders of Singing Success

One of the biggest deterrents to taking risks, making progress, and staying the course in the pursuit of your voice-driven career is worry.

What if I forget the lyrics to this new song? What if nobody shows up? What if the sight lines are bad? What if a fight breaks out in the bar? What if it’s somebody’s birthday and their party draws a bigger crowd than my song set? What if the monitor goes out or there’s feedback?

Dismiss the Unlikely

Think about how many things go unfinished or unaddressed due to worries over what might go wrong or thinking about not being good enough or not being accepted. Think about how much energy is spent on worry over things that are highly unlikely and extremely far-fetched.

For many people worry can escalate into a paralyzing fear that can then create a host of other troubling behaviors that threaten your progress and promise, such as neglecting or putting off dealing with issues that you know you need to work on.

Obsessive, excess worry can morph into panic attacks, most often due to unrealistic expectations or, in same cases, fed by doomsday-thinking where you’re convinced that your career is over or pointless at best.

Perks + Positives

Yet, worry can be a positive thing when it brings legitimate concerns to your attention that you know you must be addressed, such as extra rehearsal time and preparation for learning new material or when trying some different arrangements.

Evaluate

To get a handle on issues with worry you need to evaluate the likelihood or legitimacy of those worries that are the most prevalent.

Those that are unrealistic are also unproductive and must be dismissed, otherwise they will begin to snowball becoming time wasters and road blocks in your journey for singing success.

Those worries that are realistic, and should concern you, must be evaluated in terms of the results generated and any potential benefits or strengths that will come with addressing the worry in an effective, timely manner.

Checklist, please…

Set aside some time to make a list of things that are worrying, troubling, and concern you that are clearly impacting your voice-driven career progress, pursuits, or goals.

Get Real + Take Control

For each worry, ask if it is realistic or unrealistic. Then, note if the worry or concern is something you can clearly control.

For example, let’s say you’ve learned three new songs. One of the songs repeatedly brings the break in your mix voice into play, even when you’ve made key changes.

Consider Results

So, the worry or concern is realistic, but it’s also controllable through practice, as well as exercising proper coordinations. If it’s ignored, it could compromise your performance, and that might hurt your confidence or add to frustration or even more worry.

If it’s addressed and mastered, your confidence is secured, and you’re on your way to having a successful, strong performance and feeling of accomplishment.

So, the initial goal is to dismiss the unrealistic worries that you have no control over, and focus on addressing those that are real concerns that you are equipped to handle and can grow from in the process.

What’s It Mean + How’s It Feel

For those worries that you must address, each must be clearly identified. Then, you want to acknowledge how the worry and the issue make you feel. In other words, what does this mean to you? Why is it such a big deal?

You want to legitimize your concerns over the issue which leads you to a plan for getting a handle on taking responsibility for addressing the worry. And then, ask yourself what the desired results are, and establish what it means to you to achieve the desired results.

Positive Progress

This gets you focused on positives such as making progress, feeling accomplished, and gaining more confidence, as opposed to staying wrapped up in the problem or concern.

Forum Focus

Use the forums at singingsuccess.tv to talk about worries you’ve found to be unproductive, unrealistic, or uncontrollable, as well as those that you’ve found to be instrumental in helping you grow your confidence and competence, while increasing levels of comfort, control, and commitment.

Session Success

Take a moment to assess your worries or concerns through sessions you book with one of Brett Manning’s certified master associates. Determine which concerns are realistic and controllable, note the benefits of achieving positive results, and proceed with a workable plan of action.

Product Investment

This same approach applies to investing in one of Brett’s many effective products and training tools such as Mastering Mix, Singing Success, The Top 7 Series, or his latest, Mastering Harmony. Note which concerns are real that you can control; cite the perks in asserting yourself, and proceed with a positive proactive plan that incorporates Brett’s teaching.

Positive Charge With Focus

Take charge of your fears and concerns. Focus on the results of fully investing in the unique gift of your voice. Your level of commitment to taking control speaks volumes in fine-tuning every aspect of your true singing success.

 

Honor Your Uniqueness with Singing Success

Among the most negative career-threatening traits that are prevalent in any competitive field where public recognition or popularity come into play are envy and jealousy.

If someone gets something that represents a level of success or achievement that you want for yourself, you should celebrate and be happy for that person instead of knocking their accomplishment or making negative statements that imply their path to success was tainted in some way.

No Put Down

In fact, by belittling someone else, you project an even lower opinion of your abilities and can tarnish your reputation, possibly missing out on opportunities that might have otherwise come your way.

Celebrate Achievements of Others

You should make it a practice to rejoice in the successes and accomplishments of others. This will immediately lessen any feelings of envy or jealousy and will also affirm your own self-worth and potential.

Learn From Others

By acknowledging a competitor’s success and achievements you can then gain insight that may help bring focus to your own potential and unique gifts. If someone achieves a level of success that you aspire to, examine their efforts more closely, and see what you can learn from them.

Ask yourself what it is that they have done that you admire. This might even help you see what it is that you want to do more clearly or may even help you to make needed changes or shift your focus in some way.

Subjective Assessment

If you find yourself thinking that someone doesn’t deserve the recognition or award they’ve received, ask yourself what it is specifically that you feel they could have done better. Remember, too, that an assessment of creative endeavor engages many factors that are subjective - unique to the individual talent and the tastes of the individuals that are passing judgment.

Committed to Compete

Resist the temptation to turn your assessment into an argument for why you should have been recognized. Be truthful with yourself about acknowledging any feelings of jealousy or envy that come up on the inside, but don’t vent or voice those feelings to others. Instead, think of it as a reminder that you value your worth, you want recognition, and are committed to finding a niche for your voice-driven career.

Check Your Motivators

If you find that jealousy and envy keep rearing their ugly heads each time you hear of success for one of your peers, it’s time to take a closer look at the motivating factors for your career goals. If this response has become habitual, you might want to review your career focus as well to make sure you’re on the right path and doing what you need to do to pursue your full potential for success and personal satisfaction.

Avoid Negative Attention

If you find that you tend to regroup and refocus each time somebody gets attention, then you clearly have a serious issue. It’s not a bad thing to want to be applauded for your efforts. But, if your main desire is to be the center of attention, you could be setting yourself up for potential disaster. Think of how many examples there are of people that act-out through negative behaviors because they like the attention they receive.

List Traits You Admire

Take time to make a list of those that stir some degree of envy or jealously; and then, note what qualities exist for each that stir these feelings. Look for positive traits and qualities that you aspire to, and develop a plan for improving in these areas.

If the quality or trait is not natural or appropriate for you, counter it by noting strengths and potential that you have that you feel are a key part of what defines your uniqueness in the pursuit of your voice-driven career.

Discuss this issue with members of your mastermind group, support team, mentors, and any of Brett Manning’s certified master associates that you work with on a regular basis.

Uniqueness Makes the Difference

Brett Manning’s teaching and methodology honors each individual’s unique voice. His programs are designed so that the full potential of each individual’s unique gift is honored, encouraged, engaged, and strengthened.

Be grateful for the differences between you and your peers and competition. Those differences help to define and reinforce your uniqueness in the market place and will play a role in what it is about you that makes a difference in determining your success.

Achievements of Others

Use the forums at SingingSuccess.TV to honor the achievements of others and to celebrate the diverse uniqueness of those in the membership community. Talk about issues you’ve had with jealousy or envy, and share your stories on overcoming any negative behaviors that have surfaced in the past.

Gratitude for Your Place

Be thankful for your unique place in the pursuit of your voice-driven career. Look for ways to use the resources and products available at SingingSuccess.TV to help make the most of your unique gifts.

Stand firm in your commitments to bring out the best of what is uniquely you that will establish that place for your personal success in the voice-driven career you have chosen.

Don’t Let Fear Ruin Your Vocal Career

If you want to be a successful singer, speaker, actor, or performer, you must give yourself permission to falter, fumble, fail, and fall. These should not be your ultimate goals, but there needs to be a clear understanding that, before you can fly, you need to get over the fear of falling.

Think about learning to ride a bike. What would have happened if you gave up after that first scraped knee once the training wheels came off? You would have denied yourself the freedom and fun that comes with biking, and you might have never ventured beyond your own backyard – at least not without your training wheels.

Risk Potential

Success in your voice-driven career demands an awareness of risks that must be taken in order to develop your gift to its greatest performance level, and to optimize opportunities for exercising and sharing its full potential.

Adapt to Change

That means you might stumble, and you’ll likely have weak spots that require attention. Your tastes will likely change as you gain more experience and exposure. Demands for new material or shifts in subject matter or areas of focus will also be influenced by your audience or fan base.

Spinning Trends

At times, you will be at the mercy of trends while also having the opportunity to be a trendsetter and to put your own unique spin on things that become popular or in fashion for a season or two.

Lasting Communication Comes First

Remember that the success of your voice-driven career is rooted in communication, through the messages you deliver, the stories you tell, and the images or impression you convey as you sing, speak, entertain, enlighten, inform, inspire, and engage your audience.

Don’t Belittle - Don’t Berate

When things go wrong or fall short of expectation, never berate yourself; and do not put down members of your band, development team, cast and crew, or support group. Always look at the situation to see what worked, what didn’t work, and what needs work in order to turn a falter, fumble, failure, or fall into a fearlessly faced future feat!

Learn From Mistakes

Mistakes are teaching tools that refine the design of your unique gift. Learn from the bold moves you take, the risks you shake, and the daring decisions you make that don’t quite work as planned. If your focus becomes a series of put-down’s, it will quickly evolve into a major shut down.

Stay Open

To be a successful communicator, you must stay committed to the encouragement of an open exchange of ideas and concepts often aren’t truly tested until they’re engaged in front of their intended target audience. So, be bold and brave, and be kind and forgiving, so that bouncing back and pressing on becomes second nature in developing the full potential of your voice-driven career.

Face Your Fears

Identify your biggest fears for your voice-driven career, and look for ways to face these fears as part of your career path to success. Find something in each fear that intrigues you or excites you that will become an anchor or focus for tackling each fear. This will help to boost your confidence and help you stay committed to trying out new ideas, finding fresh material, and growing your fan base.

Security – Understanding - Courage - Confidence - Education - Selflessness – Daring

Use your mentors, support team, and mastermind group to table issues on fear of failure. Create a contract or success statement that validates the need for taking risks and being bold. Come up with a personal definition for success that you can call to mind as the situation warrants. For example success could be defined by assigning key qualities that are required such as: Security – Understanding - Courage - Confidence - Education - Selflessness - Daring.

Use the forums at SingingSuccess.TV to share the successes that have come as a direct result of lessons learned when falling short. Share those successes that have evolved by facing the fear of failure and other fears and risks.

Harmonious Commitment

Step up and book a session with one of Brett Manning’s master associates. Make the commitment to invest in one of his programs, including his latest, Mastering Harmony, a program that was developed by Brett with ten-time Grammy® winner Claude McKnight of Take 6.

Reward Risk

Reward risk and use the times you fall short as opportunities to draw closer to achieving the full potential for success in the pursuit of your voice-driven career.