I came back out of a vacation of 2 weeks, I’m sorry I couldn’t check this thread earlier.
As long time JustinGuitar team member it is always nice to read that @Richard_close2u can put our values into words exactly as how we feel about it. Even though we differ in style, character and so many things; these things we are always in agreement about <3
I’m going to bend the “we all have issues” comments. We all have but that’s exactly why we are here!
We all have challenges in life with some having more impact on the topic at hand: learning to play the guitar.
I consider myself lucky that my personal challenges would probably be considered by most as “small impact” although they challenge me on a daily basis to persue things in life.
Therefor Thank you @AaronAddams for being open about this and I think you raise a good point.
This helps in managing the expectations.
You stated that you benefit from a rigid structure and concrete steps.
To incorpotate that into an answer to you could use:
I believe you can do both; you can create a schedule that combines your regular progress as your “extra attention to rusty area’s”.
Practise cycles?
I would suggest you could try to work in 2-day or 3-day iterations.
1 day: regular practice blocks as you are use to do
1 day: focus on rusty bits and a small chunck of regular practice
optional: 1 day: 50/50
The clue for you is: self-assessment: find a way to detarmine WHAT the rusty bit is and try to set a mesurable short time goal. figure out a way to do that sels-assessment in a structured way: example: a self-made score card where you grade your progress on your practice areas with either 3 kind of smileys, a 5 star rating or a number if that suits you better. after each cycle of 2 of 3 days, this assessment will not only pay attentino to rusty bits, it will also prevent some “future rusty bits”.
You could approach it as we used to do backups at work.
We made a backup every day
Every thursday we didn’t make a day backup but a week backup
every last thursday of the month, we didn’t do a week- but a month backup
You could use that method with tracking your practice, your progress and how you FEEL about it.
Why do I say this?
Because it will help you identify the areas you should fill in your shedule on “rusty bit slots”.
Also; as soon as you start to doubt your own progress, you have something to show and discuss with the help you call in.
So basically you’re saying you should start logging?
maybe I do but the important thing is to CLOSE the loop:
measure; adapt, do, measure again,…
if you don’t do anything based on the logs, it could still be useful as a kind of closure ritual but you will benefit more to couple assessment to your next action ![:wink: :wink:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=12)