There are a number, it's just which ones to post I suppose. There are some long-term goals in progress, some rather personal short-termers which sort of are long-term at the same time, if that makes sense (so really no timescale on them at all), and a few others. The main ones would be:
- Write, write, write. I've sort of stopped altogether since I got off holiday a few weeks ago, which is a bad sign altogether! I guess I sort of ran out of inspiration - I get periods where I can't stop writing, then periods where I can barely write a single line. I can feel inspiration coming back now though, so time to stop procrastinating and get the notebook out!
- Get more involved in music and guitar playing. Sounds like an odd one, but I'm only realising now how I've really underused my guitar playing for the six-odd years I've had a guitar. For too long I've sort of shrugged, and talked myself down, like, 'oh I'm a sort of alright rhythm player, I could never play those chords, or solos, I'll sort of be in the background'. No more. I'm bored of it, frankly. My self-inflicted inferiority complex in this department is just one of many bad habits I'm trying to shake off, and now that I'm actually throwing myself at guitar playing a bit more, and just enjoying it, I'm discovering that I'm a bit better than I give myself credit for. I'm no Hendrix, believe me, but I'm progressing along a bit more now than I have for a few years.
I place this new-found confidence in John Frusciante, the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist, who has a real 'less is more' style to music, using simple chords and suchlike to create really great tunes and melodies, which is right up my street. Also, instead of being awed and feeling inferior to the great musicians I know personally, I'm becoming a proverbial sponge - instead of saying "man that's awesome, I can never do that", I'm saying "okay, so how do you do that?" I'm already enjoying playing that bit more, and I seem to have developed a penchant for things with a bit more of a groovy beat, slightly funky stuff - brilliant fun to play! :) I'm sort of halfway along this goal already, but the mindset change is the key part here for me. - Read! I've got so many books I'm meaning to read, not out of necessity but out of interest - can you believe two of those books are ones to do with the Clash?! Hell, one of them is a Joe Strummer biography - you'd think I'd have my eyes metaphorically glued to the pages of that one! These are just two of many, though - several novels, some poetry, drama, biographical stuff, it's all there. I'm even tempted to start diving into my parent's bookshelf and reading some of their books on art styles - Vince Ray in particular looks brilliant.
- Sort out my room. I suppose this links into more personal goals, but my room is due a massive clear-out - I have so much 'passing interest' stuff that I only really use or do anything with once in a few years, less than that, so now is time to go back to basics and focus on what I really love, and rid with everything else. The clearout began today, and it's going well, and will sort of lead into my plans for a complete redecoration of my room, to give it some life, some sorta identity - at the moment it just looks like a place where a teenage boy sleeps and stores his stuff in. Time to change that :)
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