{"id":941,"date":"2015-01-02T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2015-01-02T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:02:26","slug":"yes-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Yes!  I Can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">There is a disorder which can hinder your music ability!\u00a0 It\u2019s the <em><strong>\u201cWhy Bother?\u201d\u00a0 Syndrome.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 How often have you asked that yourself or heard that question?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">\u201cI\u2019m going to learn to read music better this year!\u201d\u00a0<em><strong> \u201cOh, why bother? &#8212; It\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to play at Carnegie Hall!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">\u201cI\u2019ve got some songs that I need to get published so I\u2019m going to find out how.\u201d\u00a0 <em><strong>\u201cOh there are so many songs out there already, why bother?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">Don\u2019t let a \u201cwhy bother\u201d attitude in yourself or other people kill off your new ideas, plans and dreams!\u00a0 Let\u2019s get positive and tune them out!\u00a0 Remember before Roger Bannister ran the 4-minute miles in 1954, experts said it was impossible.\u00a0 Within months after his feat, many more runners did it.\u00a0 Now hundreds have!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">If you want to be a successful musician, you\u2019ve got to stop the \u201cWhy Bother Syndrome.\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t allow yourself to say \u201cWhy Bother?\u201d\u00a0 Instead say: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>\u201cHow can I do this?\u201d<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>or <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>\u201cWhat will it take to make this work?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">Sometimes old habits die hard.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let this trap of \u201cWhy Bother\u201d cut off your progress and growth.\u00a0 Squelch the nay Sayers and then DO IT!\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>YES I CAN!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\">Remember that:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 24pt;\">I + M + P = S<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMPS.png\" alt=\"IMPS\" width=\"471\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMPS.png 471w, https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMPS-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a disorder which can hinder your music ability!\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cWhy Bother?\u201d\u00a0 Syndrome.\u00a0 How often have you asked that yourself or heard that question?\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m going to learn to read music better this year!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cOh, why bother? &#8212; It\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to play at Carnegie Hall!\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve got some songs that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/?p=941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes!  I Can!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentecostalmusicians.com\/PMblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}