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Why is this so damn hard? Practice discipline

Christian Schulze

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Ailee pretty much nailed it. Procrastination as it's best. With work you hate to wanna "plan" more work so instead of practice I have actually loved the idea of your mode a week jams. They are short and challenging and also not really a practice as imorov isn't a practice.session.
Im just about to finish it today. Just about to record the last one!
 
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idssdi

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I actually thought about this for a little longer. I'm 100% guilty of saying 'i'll do it later' however, I noticed that if I say that and don't actually do it It makes me feel bad and dissapointed in myself so I formed the habit of when I say I'm gonna do something later I actually do it later. This allows me to trust myself (say you're gonna do something and not do it is kind of a pet peeve of mine) and handles the stress of not overflowing myself with things I have to do at a particular time. In principle there are 16 hours in a day so prioritizing what's important kind of makes sense, saying 'I'll do it later' actually helps me prioritizing things. It also helps at moments where I feel unmotivated. 30 minutes of motivated practice is better than 2 hours of unmotivated practice so saying "I'll do it later" is completely fine sometimes. I mean spending 2 hours on something when you feel uninspired while the next day it may take you 30 minutes sounds a bit like a waste of time doesn't it? Time is something you can never get back 😅

Maybe we shouldn't all be so hard on ourselves all the time because I think that may be where this feeling comes from, there's no date at which you need to be able to play a certain technique or song. Just chill a little bit, I've had the schedule of one song a week for about 6 months and it drove me crazy after a while 😅

It still has to be fun you know 😅


(this obviously doesn't count for showers, cooking, chores like cleaning, doing dishes and doing laundry, you will always have to do those regardless of whether you want to)