Date Posted: January 30th, 2011
And again with the lots of time between posts. Mea Culpa.
Piano Teaching
First student I talked about last time, quit before our first real lesson. (Boo!)
I resubmitted the Craigslist Ad, and from that got one new student who will have his first real lesson tomorrow. (Eek!) I had an interview with him and his Mom two Fridays ago, and it went really really well.
Before the interview I had the telltale scared feeling that’s accompanied many of the important conversations in my life. When I’ve had that feeling in the past my reaction was to try to avoid the conversation if I could. This time was different, though. I recognized the feeling as a good sign and let myself do the paranoid preparing (that is practicing the conversation in my head over and over again) that makes me feel better and really does prepare me for the upcoming conversation. Yay me! I will try to remember this for the future.
Two other students came last week for their interview. I had the scared feeling again, but it wasn’t as strong as the first time. I’m hoping that as I give more of these interviews that feeling will go away. It may be a good sign, but it isn’t exactly pleasant.
Piano Website…
…is almost done. Once this is posted, I’ll work on getting that live. Whee!
Diet
Aaron and I quit the slow carb diet experiment a little early because we felt like we got what we wanted to out of it, namely a good dietary reset. Before the diet fruit and fruit juice were staple foods; now I can honestly be happy with limiting them to desert. I think I can also be happy with eating desert desert (like cake and cookies) once a week. That’s a huge win for me. 
Practicing Music Daily
Still working on this.
TPLT
Short term plan for this is to keep the Weekly progress reports updated.
Past that I will give myself one hour a day to work on the site. Can be writing. Can be working on the new design. Can be working on a guest post. Doesn’t matter. I get one hour and that’s it. Right now I waste a lot of time, so this will force me to be more efficient with it. We’ll see where this goes.
Momentum
I’m a lot less frustrated than I was in the last progress report. Things are happening. I have some focus. I’m happy with where I’m going. Yay!
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Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
It’s been a little while since my last post. We’re now well into January and I’ve been silent since before Christmas. I realize this. I’m sorry. *Sigh* Here’s to trying again.
Piano Teaching
Last week I had my first student come in for an interview. (Yay!) We went over the studio policy (finally got that done) and I got to get to know what her goals are for lessons. We’ll have our first official lesson next week. Progress has been made.
I still haven’t put much time or effort into the website, though. Too many conflicting priorities…
TPLT Focus
Even though I didn’t publish anything over break, I didn’t ignore the blog. I’ve been frustrated for a long time about how TPLT is too unfocused. “Living Consciously” is too vague a topic to be exciting… and to be honest I’m too self-conscious to promote it that way. So I spent some time during the end of the year consciously thinking about how to focus it. I’ve come up with something I think will work… but I’ll be announcing it with a disclaimer since I’ve made pronouncements in the past that haven’t come to be.
TPLT Action Steps
There are three things I really need to do for TPLT in order to take it where I want it to go.
- Write consistently for the blog.
- Write up guest posts.
- Work on the new design.
For whatever reason, my brain interprets these as monumental, time-consuming tasks that all need to be done NOW. I can only work on one thing at a time, and because they’re all equally important and time-sensitive, I don’t know which one to pick…. so I don’t do anything. *Sigh*
To be honest, I don’t have a clever response for how to deal with these things, so I’m just going to forgive myself and keep moving forward. Do a little bit of writing, a little bit of working on the design, etc. I’ve heard that works…
Music Practice
I want to get in the habit of practicing my instruments daily. I am not there yet… and to be honest I never have been. I do play /regularly/ (at least weekly with singing and monthly with recorder) but regularly is not the same as daily and play is not the same as practice.
The problem: I have 4 instruments I’m trying to work on (piano, recorder, violin, and voice) and I only have so much uninterrupted time in a day. 2 hours a day (at least) is a lot to commit to. Where will I put it? I’m having hard enough time with 45 minutes of Power 90.
I need to think about this some more.
Diet
Aaron and I are trying the Slow Carb Diet this month just to see what happens. All I can say about it so far is that it hasn’t been that hard to adapt to. It’s too early to make any more profound conclusions.
In conclusion: Nique is Frustrated
I want to be making tons of progress toward my goals and do everything I want to do. I’m nowhere near there yet.
One foot in front of the other… One moment at a time….
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