Amateur or pro, steal 30 minutes of your time to let the music inside you speak.
Sing, play, or produce music for 30 minutes without stopping. Right or wrong, good or bad, jazz or Latin, Western or Carnatic does not matter.
You need to let the music speak for itself. Let it stand on its feet, grow, and season itself.
All the interns who work with me now have been practicing this habit, and it is now helping their music and assisting me in adding a zing to my productions.
Start stealing those 30 minutes.