The best thing you can do as a musician is to start looking around you and notice how many exciting and interesting things are happening and how much you can learn to enhance your playing.
First of all, listen to different styles of music. You might have very intriguing dicoveries which can inspire you to create your own style and approach to flute playing! The flute is not just a piece of metal with a dozen keys - it is one of the first instruments humans began to use along with percussion!
Get to know about other cultures and their traditions. So many things out there!
Read!
DON'T NEGLECT your own body! This is crucial because using it in the right way helps us to play our instuments! Find out what kind of activities make your body feel happy. It can be yoga, pilates, dancing, different excircises, swimming etc.
Play different instruments - whatever you can get. Sometimes it can be an amazing relaxation to play some samba rhythms on percussion, or some nice folk song on the whistle pipe.
Be happy about what you're doing. You can learn the technique of flute playing: it's all a matter of your organised practice and patience. But you can't escape from who you are and become someone else trying to "reach the standard"... Just learn to release your emotion and let it fly!
