New Year's Resolutions

Well, I won't have time to pick up the guitar until Thursday at the latest, but I can certainly get back into blogging before then.

I came across some good information on how to make and keep New Year's Resolutions. Highlights from the article:

One resolution is better than many.
Set specific, measurable, realistic goals
Tell lots of people about the goals. Even blog about them. The peer pressure, especially for women, will help you stay on track.
Don't treat setbacks as failures.

So, my resolution for 2008 is to learn how to play guitar. More specifically, I will:

Practice at least twice a week
Blog at least once a week

And, as an over-arching goal, I hope to play a tune at an open mike night and not completely embarrass myself before the end of the year.

Immersing myself in some rock tonight

It's just another way to say "I'm going to a TSO concert instead of practicing."

I had some good inertia going with the practice schedule, then Thanksgiving came up and BLAM! Nothing.

I have very little free time between now and the end of the year, and I was thinking about just saying "screw it," and picking a practice schedule back up after January 1st. But I've decided to try to get back into a practice schedule starting Monday.

It may only be one or two days a week, but it'll be something, and then I can kick it into a higher gear in 2008. I've already found that lunch practice works well for me, and it's an otherwise less-than-productive time of day (other than the days I go out to run errands, that is).

Look for an update on the TSO concert sometime this weekend.

--the musishian