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Day Sixteen (Year Four)

So, the email for the second round of START went around today.  We got to pick our groups, and share at least one of our risks.  It begins on Monday.  What I'm risking is two-fold, and perhaps a bit tougher to measure as the weeks progress, but whether or not I am successful will be painfully obvious at the end of the 24 days:

1) The Lesson Binder.  People who have been following me for a while know my struggles with the creation of a lesson binder.  I'm tired of having it sit unfinished (and at least somewhat unSTARTed).  This 24 days is just the kickstart I need to really get it done.  As an added bonus, I think moving in the middle of this will almost help the process, because it will force me to go through everything as I put it all away in Dubuque.

this leads perfectly into my second risk, which is...

2) Setting up the new Studio Space!  I've ranted here over the last few months about how excited I am to finally get my recording gear out of one corner of the living room and into its own space.  Can't wait to have a room to be messy and musical, to listen and to create, to build up and break down, analyze and improve.  With all of my resources and all of my CDs in one spot.  With a table big enough to really work at.

I'm a bit concerned that those goals don't offer the kind of noticeable progress that my recording of 3 songs did the first time around, but the only way to grow is to risk, right?  And it's called the Start Experiment, not the Finish Experiment, so as long as I get somewhere and don't lose momentum after the 24 days, I'll at least be in a better spot than I was when I began.

Knowing me, I'll keep working on the stuff from Round 1, too, so get ready, it's going to be another EPIC 3 weeks of blog posts.  Probably with before and after photos of studio stuff.  Make that definitely.

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