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Day One Hundred Sixty Three (Year Six)

Today was an okay day.  Not super productive, but not a bad one once I made my way into the studio.

Tomorrow starts the first full week of the new year, and I'm in the mindset right now that one of the things that has bogged me down in the past is trying to do too much at the same time.  That said, I'm thinking of setting a weekly focus that will be a main goal, and then filling in other, smaller things around that.  All of it will be in the name of finishing things this year.

Since a lot of my goals revolve around songwriting, my main focus this week will be on song ideas.  For me that involves a few different steps:

1.  Collecting - or gathering up everything I've got right now that's a potential song idea.
2.  Evaluating - or seeing where that idea stands (what works, what doesn't, what's missing)
3.  Sorting - or seeing what ideas fit with what projects.
4.  Writing - both to fill in missing parts on various projects, and to see what else is out there.

The Mrs. is gone next weekend on a school trip, which means that if I can make it at least through the collecting stage by the end of the week, I can work on the rest of it with an empty house.

In a perfect world, I'll also:

1.  Keep going in Fretboard Mastery
2.  Get back to the Jerry Lee Lewis biography
3.  Pick a song to work on this week from my list of goals for the year.
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