Someday OR Today?
I am learning how to play the piano as an adult learner. What I am proud of is that I am making my schedule conducive for starting something that sparked in childhood, held my interest in my teens and revived in adulthood when it is even more difficult to fit into my schedule.
Since I started, I've had the pleasure of figuring out patterns in the keys and making connections between different finger positions. I've been unexpectedly entranced by how beautiful a note sounds even if I'd been tone deaf to several before it.
I've found myself lost in lyrics, a line taking on more meaning than I expected to make of a casual practice session. I've been bemused by random urges to play interspersed through the day and flash backs about playing as I drift off to sleep at night.
Playing has become addictive and keeping to my goal has been effortless, which is funny because just weeks ago, I was completely unaffected by my keyboard where it sat integrated into the grey of the walls, like the rest of the furniture.
What changed?
I did not set a goal to complete something within a certain time. Instead, I set out to nurture a habit that was small enough that I could complete something everyday.
If you've been wanting to learn an instrument, take a course or are thinking about your goals for the new year, I've created a habit building journal about setting goals that you not only stick to but ones that stick to you over the Next 30 days!
It is the exact method I’ve used to learn almost fifty songs on the piano this year and work my way through the major scales . It has gotten me from wishing I could play one day, to playing everyday.