Music as Motivation in the New Year

Happy New Year! A new year can bring many ways to create or maintain our goals. Research shows that music that we enjoy can motivate us and exercise our skills that help us focus, remember, and plan. You can use music for almost any goal you have. It can be a goal to learn something new (like learning an instrument), or a goal to exercise your memory (using or writing a song to help you remember your grocery list). It can be used to express yourself through singing or listening to a song that makes you feel validated, or it can be used to motivate you to complete a task like cleaning or exercising. Music can be an awesome thing to use to stay motivated in the new year. 10/10 would recommend. 

- Sam White, MT-BC, LPMT