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Day One Hundred Seventy One (Year Four)

Today was a mostly quiet day that continued on the electric theme I established last night.  I worked for a little bit on the Refreshments stuff that I had started in on yesterday, and had a blast doing that. 

I hadn't intended to take the day off from my acoustic pursuits, but that's exactly what wound up happening.  Even as I sit here and type tonight, I'm really missing that part of my playing.  Got to get back into it tomorrow, and, to be fair, I probably need to spend a good chunk of time (at least an hour, if not a little more) working at it in order to feel really good about where I sit at the end of the weekend.

The last thing I want to have happen is to get out of the habit of something this early in the year.  Too often, I've started things strongly, only to not have the follow through required to make real progress, and I'm not about to let the mistakes and failures of the past define my year.

Sometimes it just takes the courage to close the door and say, "I'm going to be in here for at least ____ minutes/hours."  That's the kind of focus I intend on bringing to tomorrow's activities, because I felt like it was lacking a little bit today.

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