SMART Practice: Rocket Fuel For Your Skills. A Systematic Approach To Get Better At Anything.

by Jeff Scheetz

Overview

Do you have anything in your life you would like to get better at? Maybe it’s a new challenge, or maybe it’s something you have struggled with trying to master in the past. Whatever it is, the only way to see real improvement in anything is with a systematic way to practice it.

SMART Practice was developed to allow anyone to maximize their efforts in improving their skill. Being efficient and effective with how you work on your skill will move you forward and keep you from getting frustrated and wanting to quit. If you look back on anything you have given up on in the past, it was most likely due to not having a good system to keep you on track!

SMART Practice helps you; assess where you are, determine what you need to do next, schedule your time in a unique and powerful way with the SMART Zone schedule, drill down on anything with the 5 SMART steps, and learn to use the “Four R Circle” to help you track and review what you are working on.

There have been a ton of books that delve deep into the idea that talent can be “nurtured,” but they usually stop short of giving you a system to help you nurture yours! SMART Practice shows you a step by step system that gives you guidance and clear direction to take your skill to the next level.

If you have something you want to get better at, SMART Practice is simply the best way to get there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732011007
Publisher:	Bam-Zoom!
Publication date:	05/30/2018
Pages:	210
Sales rank:	706,771
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Jeff's musical career includes releasing 9 albums, touring the world, being featured in Guitar magazines in the U.S., Europe and Japan, having various endorsements including his own signature guitars and amps. He owns his own recording studio and has recorded and mixed records for many artists.
He has written music for commercials for Toyota, Chevrolet and many others. He has done music for the Style Network, Outdoor Channel, ESPN and daytime TV shows like "All my Children".
He has authored a guitar instructional book and recorded and released 8 instructional video courses.

As a public speaker Jeff has performed over 300 speaking engagements. He has talked on diverse subjects in diverse places. Whether it is speaking on music education in Boston or L.A., delivering a positive message to high schoolers in Iowa, teaching practice habits in Mexico, or speaking on wildlife conservation in Switzerland, Jeff is always passionate about sharing. The underlying message is always the idea that we can all improve and get better.

Jeff lives and sleeps with two World Champion Frisbee dogs. His dog performance team has performed at halftime shows for major sports teams and corporate functions. He competes at the highest level and has made the podium at the World championships the last three years in a row. His dog TOWSER has been on the cover of DogSport magazine and featured on ESPN's SportsCenter.

He is currently the Director of Education at TrueFire.com where he helps design and craft curriculum for over 500,000 students per month. He also helped design and manages the online classrooms and workshops where instructors and students interact with cutting edge technology. He has worked with multiple Grammy-winning artists to develop their educational curriculum.

Jeff has written for many magazines including Relevant, Riff journal, hm, and more.
He is an avid fly-fisherman and hates to go anywhere without a fly rod. He is most comfortable when he is hiking a mountain trail or kayaking a high country lake.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Part One:Perspective 11

1: What Practice Is and Isn't 12

2: Behind the Curtain 16

3: The Surge 19

4: Lucky or Good? 22

5: 10,000 Hours 25

Part Two:

Science Merges With Art 27

6: The Merge 28

7: Mindset 35

8: Blocked or Random 39

9: Chunking 44

10: Novelty and Surprise 48

11: Getting Good at Being Bad 52

12: Gamification 55

13: Premack That 58

14: Three Ps 61

15: SMART Practice Triangle 65

Part Three:

SMART Practice Core System

16: Intro to System

17: Skill Goal: System Part 1

18: Skillbox Inventory: System Part 2

19:SMART Zone Schedule: System 3

20: SMART Steps: System Part 4

Part Four: Overcoming Obstacles

21: The Practice Minefield 22: Distractions

23: Frustration

24: Procrastination

25: Find Your Johnson 26: Time Enough

Part Five:

Tools, Tips and Techniques

27: Practice Notebook

28: Make it Easy

29: Instructors and Coaches

30: Four R Circle

31: Skill Tree

32: 1%

33: Right, Wrong, Right

34: Practice it Like You Will Perform it 35: Super Slo-Mo

36: The Edge

37: Bump the Ceiling 174

38: Play it Backwards 178

39: Play in the Dark 180 4

0: Play Like Carl 183

41: 5 Times Perfect 187

42: Perspective 189

43: Bored? 194

44: Gratitude 196

45: Conclusion 199

Acknowledgements 207

About the Author 209