1. Pray before your practice time and before you play on Sunday.

2. Warm hands make for better playing. If you play in a cold building run your hands under warm water, and rub them briskly before heading up to the piano. If I try to play with cold hands on Sunday they are stiff and I mess up a lot.

2. Even though it’s not going to happen overnight each step you take at improving your piano playing will help you along the way and you should notice immediate results.

3. 15 minutes every day at the  piano in much better than 5 hours for one day a week. if you haven’t been playing every day try it and see if it doesn’t make a difference in your piano playing.

4. Try focusing on one key a month. Learn the scale, chords, and their progressions. Play songs in that key at your practice time. Focus on perfecting one or two songs in that key. I got the base of this idea from Duane Shinn.

5. Even if you are learning chord piano take the time to practice playing from sheet music. Work at improvising hymns from your hymnal or try your hand at some harder sheet music.

6. You are always learning when you play an instrument. Never think that you are done learning. Keep seeking new ways to improve.