I'm Stephanie Hoeckley.
Flutist, Educator, Color Enthusiast, and Gamification Guru
Is your practice feeling dull and repetitive but you have no idea how to update your routine?
Are you unsure if the time and energy you’re spending practicing is helping you build the right skills for long-term success?
As a high school or college student, do you have big goals like studying music in college, auditioning for honor bands or festivals, winning competitions, and improving your ensemble chair placement but wish you had a step-by-step plan to help you navigate all the steps and requirements?
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My name is Dr. Stephanie Hoeckley and I specialize in helping musicians achieve peak performance with a healthy mindset and powerful practice skills!
Let me show you how to use gamification to hack your motivation, organize your time, and level up your performance skills so you can make your musical dreams a reality!
There are no cheat codes or shortcuts to becoming a skilled musician, but if you’re working harder but not smarter, you’re probably spending energy building bad habits that need to be unlearned later.
The LAST thing you want to be doing is spending hours working but getting nothing done!
Here’s my secret to working smarter when you practice:
With gamification, I help you use all the behavioral and motivational psychology behind games to help hack your motivation, make more progress, and organize your time so you can always start your practice with a clear plan of action!
- Have you ever felt addicted to a cellphone game? (Candy Crush or Angry Birds, anyone??)
- Have you joyfully spent time customizing your avatar, game characters, and a world, realm, or home? (Like in Animal Crossing, The Sims, Minecraft, or Bitmoji?)
- Have you found yourself spending hours completing mundane, repetitive tasks or quests, but it was fun because you were invested in the game? (À la Pokémon Go, World of Warcraft, and Civilization!)
- Have you felt motivated to explore every nook and cranny of a world because it was there for you to discover? (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I’m looking at you!)
A lot of us have already experienced the powerful effects of gamification on our motivation and behavior!
And don’t worry, even if you wouldn’t call yourself a “gamer,” gamification will still be fun and super effective for you.
(I’m actually not a “hardcore gamer.” Sure, I love playing all kinds of games, but I’m not a serious enough player to deserve that title… #noob)
- You want to hack your motivation and create unstoppable momentum and progress
- You’re fired up about your long-term goals but need help planning and executing the steps it takes to get there
- You’ve fallen into the incremental daily progress trap and you’re discouraged because you can’t recognize or gauge your improvement (I’ll help you see your victories, big and small!)
- You want to have a crystal clear understanding of your strengths and areas to improve
- You’re unclear on what the best strategy is to tackle long or difficult pieces, or how to juggle learning many pieces at once
Let's work together
How can I help you use the creativity and fun of gamification to augment your musical reality?
I’m a student or teacher looking to learn how to gamify my practice or private lessons!
I’m looking for FREE music resources! Including a practice motivation quiz + a printable practice card game!
I’m ready to LEVEL UP my practice with epic digital resources that I can print instantly as digital downloads!
Digital Downloads
Practice Hack Stack
Card Game
This printable practice card game includes 70+ practice hacks:
63 Hack Stack cards – My favorite fun and effective practice hacks that will elevate your playing to the next level
8 Hero Hack cards – Core practice techniques that are super-effective on all kinds of music
How and why each practice hack works!
Comprehensive Practice Guides
What you’ll discover in this guide:
How to Maximize Your Type’s Strengths and Use Them to Your Advantage
Your Type’s Practice Pillars That Will Be the Foundation of Your Practice
BONUS: 30+ of the Best Simple and Easy-to-Use Practice Tips to Maximize your Type’s Motivation!
And more!
Practice Room Affirmation Deck
This printable Practice Room Affirmations deck includes:
70 powerful mantras that will help harness your mind and inspire a healthy perspective as you practice!
Each card includes one focus word and a transformative mantra to inspire your practice and performance skills.
Simple, yet powerful.
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Flute Lessons & Gamification for Dynamic Performance
Jonesboro, Arkansas
