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Day One Hundred Fifty (Year Two)

So, a couple of days ago, SL sent me a link to a blog post by Jon Acuff.  He wrote a great book called Quitter about how to get from your day job to your dream job.  This blog post of his got its genesis from much the same place as my own blog sprung to life.  He posted on his birthday about how great he was at starting things, and about how not-so-great he was at finishing things.  Then he issued a challenge to the people who follow his blog:  make a "finish list" of things you want to get done in 2012, and follow up/through on it.  After thinking about it for a couple of days, I'm doing this.

Here's the link to Acuff's post.  http://www.jonacuff.com/blog/the-hardest-part-of-a-project-is-also-the-most-important/

And here's what I'm certain is going on my list:

1) The record with B.

I'm tired of looking at it not being done.  I'm tired of waiting on other people.  If I've got to refurbish a currently defunct laptop and find ProTools, then so be it.  The steps involved in that can be steps involved in getting this project to where I want it to be... in a CD case on my shelf.

The beautiful part of this is that I know my playing isn't where it needs to be for the serious lead-work that will be required of this project.  I will really need to step up my practicing in order to get my playing to the right point.  I've spent so long fighting with the two sides of this blog... the band side and the practicing on my own side, that it has slipped past me that, in order for both sides to be effective, they need to play off of each other.

In short, I'm tired of making middling progress on both when I know full well I ought to be kicking ass on both, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to boost my practice time (hopefully closer to that crazy 50 hour number than they are now), and start moving toward something I can be proud of.

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