When Opportunity kicks

Darling,

My coffee is fresh and it smells like the streets of Morocco. Dusty, mysterious, secret streets that hide messages to everyone that dares to search for the unseen. Coffee inspires me. It brings me face to face with my own questions and brings out the best answers my mind can come up with.
I've promised to tell you what the main ingredients for grabbing a spontaneous opportunity would be. Spontaneous opportunities can, actually, bring you fame. They don't come often in life, but when they do, be sure to step up and take everything that you are being served!

These are my suggestions to you, so that you are always prepared.

• never, never ever stop training - your voice, your skills, your eyes, ears, body, focus, sensibility - if  something shows up for you today, you might just want to be in a great shape to take full advantage of it
• being prepared doesn't only mean singing/playing your instrument every day, taking into consideration that creativity is also developed in so many ways, so I encourage you to find as much methods as you can to train your creativity - I will be sending you another letter with some ideas that might help you!
• keep up with your healthy eating & exercise - you need a strong, healthy, body if you are going to go on a tour or at a lot of auditions
• check your progress with me (your teacher), other teachers and other musicians - believe it or not, many times you can evaluate yourself by paying close attention to other artists, their technique, their results - I don't mean to copy their technique, not at all ! But sharing experience, studying various show ideas, some approaches, watching concerts of other artists online or going at shows and actually buying the tickets to show your appreciation and support - these are good methods to improve yourself as an artist
• develop your talking in public skills, your manners, your walk and gesticulation, your way of talking without making big pauses, with confidence and in a friendly way - what I am trying to say is that you must be a pleasant person to talk to, to entertain any kind of an audience; you can't only get up on a stage and "do your job" (OK, maybe in an orchestra you will do that, but otherwise...); also, keep an eye open to self spiritual and mind development, so that you became a more profound being on every level
• don't add up to your age by not taking care of yourself - drink a lot of water and get a reasonable amount of hours of sleep per night; ladies, use that make-up remover every evening, to prevent wrinkles and try to be a positive person as much as you can-it might change a very important person's opinion about you one day!
• use the word "No" as it is: if you don't feel that the proposal that you have received is a real opportunity for you or if you have a bad feeling about it, refuse it immediately; also, if some of the conditions don't suit you, be free to negotiate
• don't compromise your heart; instead, put all the time and effort in something that is being proposed to you, make changes, adjust, practice more, try a new approach - everything in the limit that your morals and ethics allow it to coexist with all the other aspects of your life

I hope that opportunity kicks in as soon as your are ready for it. So ... try to be ready Now!
Yours faithfully,
Your music teacher