240 You're Not Unmotivated, You're Believing the Wrong Thing: How to Reclaim Your Focus, Confidence, and Momentum

Nov 5, 2025

Explore how your beliefs shape your performance and why unhelpful thoughts might be the root of your lack of motivation. Learn to identify limiting beliefs and utilize bridge thoughts to foster a positive mindset. Discover practical strategies to ‘be before you believe,’ helping you act as the confident musician you aspire to be. Renée shares powerful stories of transformation and offers actionable steps to reclaim your focus and confidence. It's time to change your mindset and elevate your musical journey!

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INSIGHT

Thoughts Create Your Results

Thoughts are sentences your brain repeats that create emotion, drive actions, and shape results.
Renée shows that changing those sentences changes your feelings, behaviors, and outcomes.

INSIGHT

Limiting Beliefs Produce Self-Fulfilling Results

Believing "I'm not disciplined" triggers shame and avoidance, which produces the very result you fear.
The issue is the limiting sentence, not an inherent lack of discipline.

ADVICE

Use Bridge Thoughts To Shift Belief

Replace a limiting sentence with a chosen belief and a bridge phrase like "I'm learning to..." to make it believable.
Then act from calm curiosity and experiment until the new skill and belief form.

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In this episode, you'll learn:

Why your current beliefs—not your ability—might be the real reason behind lack of motivation or progress
How to spot the subtle thoughts that quietly shape your practice habits and performance results
A powerful mindset shift that helps musicians move from self-doubt to self-trust
The truth about where limiting beliefs come from—and how to start letting them go
The difference between repeating affirmations and actually practicing belief
How to use "bridge thoughts" to shift your mindset when a positive belief still feels out of reach
A step-by-step exercise to anchor your new identity as a focused, confident performer
Why sometimes you have to "be before you believe"—and how to start doing that today

If you've been feeling stuck, distracted, or not quite like yourself in the practice room, this episode will help you uncover what's really going on—and give you the tools to shift it.

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THANK YOU:

Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme: Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson.