In the past few months, I had made more effort into promoting and creating content for my Youtube channel. I took a break after a while to ensure that I don't burn out.
Other than building a bigger presence on Youtube, and occasionally busking and teaching a few students here and there, I haven't been very active at all in my musical endeavours.
A major contributing factor to my lack of productivity that I only realised in the past few days, is that I had ceased my music journaling. My music journaling consists not only of before, during, and after reflections on my practice, but also philosophical and intellectual ideas behind things like effective practice and creative processes - the kind of stuff that I publish on this website.
I had considered ditching posting articles here in favour of making Youtube videos, but now I have the conviction that keeping up with publishing articles on musicianship is a habit that will keep me mentally fresh and proactive. I have confidence that this practice will also help me be more proactive in my Youtube content and other areas of my music career, and managing life in general.
So what can we expect in the near future? More journaling, which means more articles, more videos, more lessons, more recordings, and more performances. Journaling was the missing key.
Journaling is important guys! If you're not journaling, you're missing out on a lot of potential!