Keeping The Momentum Going

Isn't momentum a fab word!  That's totally off topic but it really is.  Anyway the point to today's post is that it's hard to find the energy to keep the pace up when learning is so stop/start.

Let me explain.  I'll be focused on an instrument - let's say guitar and learning a new song and it's easy to keep pushing forward but then that comes to an end and there isn't automatically a new one in it's place.  Often this is because we're changing direction, maybe soloing for instance.  So, it's like a grand halt followed by a period where I struggle to get back up to speed because I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing.  But I do and I move on and then screeeeech!  The breaks go back on.  Sometimes I'll transfer my attentions to another instrument and whatever I'm doing on that, sometimes I'll do it across multiple instruments and other times it's a song I'm writing.   But always comes that sudden screech and halt and I need to pick up the pace again.  It's particularly hard after I've just finished a song because I feel

As long as there is a carrot dangling in front of me that's fine but sometimes I stop and it's like being totally totally lost, have powered forward without a thought in the world then suddenly realising you have absolutely no idea where you are!

I need to be careful to always move forward and not stagnate or move sideways.  Keep the focus on improving, developing and increasing my skills rather than applying the ones I have over and over again.  I think lately I've been doing ok with that but there is always that risk when I have so much going on that I'll lose sight of what I'm really doing.

I'm going to try and use the songs that I've semi-completed to keep me moving forward.  Try and push on an instrument with each of them.