I wouldn’t normally bother with posts such as this and don’t have a learning log to post it in, but in this case I thought I would share it because I am pretty sure that many before and certainly many after will get to a point (or several) where they “hit a wall” and disappear beneath a veil of “how the hell am I going to understand AND retain all this for practical purposes”.
Recently I have been working through PMT 4.1, Grade 2 Mod 8 and some Ear Training. In the last 3 weeks I found that I just wasn’t understanding the new material that I was trying to learn and that very quickly led down a very dark bottomless hole where I couldn’t understand how I was going to progress and maybe this is all I am destined to achieve with a guitar 
So, today I thought to put all that behind me, pick up my folder of Campfire Songs and just play and sing and enjoy it. I also haven’t used the Loop Pedal for some time so I fired that up and played around with some loops and playing over some loops in a basic way which was also great fun and very enjoyable. Along the way I listened and thought about what I was doing and how much better it was now than back when 
4 hours later I had thoroughly enjoyed myself, my fingers were sore and I was thinking more about the road behind me rather than the road in front
I only decided to share this because if it helps just one person up out of that dark hole in their guitar journey then I’m happy
Happy New Year to Everyone 
