Process

Read this great post by Jeannette LoVetri about singing.
http://lovetri-post.blogspot.com/2013/02/goals-versus-process.html

Here's my favorite quote:

Process oriented training takes longer and maybe isn't as glamorous in the moments when it seems like you aren't really "getting there" but if you don't rush, if you take time to absorb, experiment, listen, explore, examine, question, try and maybe even fall a bit here and there, what you learn will stick.  It will be yours forever and it will be appropriate.  

It's so nice when I find people that affirm what I have been saying for years.   Now if I could only convince my high school students whose whole lives revolve around whether or not they get a solo.  Voice lessons are not about getting a solo in the big high school show.  25 years from now that will not matter.  But the vocal skills you learned, if you were really learning them (exploring and finding ways to make them work for you), will be with you forever.