Following on from last friday’s post, let’s take a look at the future, that is 2008. Remember all the things you’ve achieved in 2007? Bring this energy forward to 2008

What have you learnt in 2007?

Perhaps, you have discovered that your best songwriting time is between 8 and 10 am. Or perhaps you have developped a vocal warm up routine. Or you have taken up reading poetry and it has had a great effect on your lyrics writing.

Whatever you have done in 2007 will have taught you something. Some of it will be about things that don’t work and some of it will be about things that work for you.

Build on your 2007 experience to plan 2008.

Perhaps, in December 2006, you made a new year resolution of writing one song every week. You tried for 8 weeks then ran out of inspiration for a month. You didn’t know what to do with yourself then because you felt yourself going off rail in terms of your writing plan. Well, why not use your songwriting downtime to learn how to use Cubase or Logic? Your 2008 resolution could be to write 2 songs a month and to spend a few hours every week exploring Cubase functions.

Or maybe your new year resolution was to record an album. It’s precise but also vague. You spent 2 months not really knowing where to start. Then you spent 2 months with a few false starts. It wasn’t until July that you really got into it, and by then, half of the year was already gone by. Perhaps your 2008 resolution should break down your task “record an album” into sub-tasks, like “deciding which songs to record”, “arranging the songs”, “deciding where to record” etc

New year resolution shouldn’t be impossible tasks to tackle. If you plan them well, you can achieve them

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