You’ve hit the nail on the head here,

If you are stuck in a rut in any area of your life, this is the time to examine your habits and rework the foundation.

For musicians, a creative “rut” can be very costly. Examining your habits and how you spend some of that time is a big deal. It can also be quite depressing for the working musician to loose the “inspiration”, however goal setting can really help to bring some of that feeling, that inspiration back and get to working effectively again.

I’ve written something on goal setting for music business analysis: http://wp.me/pRHHO-a9 please share you thoughts and ideas with me. I’d love to get feedback from you on this.

Hakim Callier
Perry Grinn Media

Obviously, there are limits to where you can focus your goal setting efforts. The point of the article was to focus you on the goals that appear extremely difficult, impossibility being an rhetorical exaggeration.

I want to flap my arms in six months and fly like a bird.

All the positive mental attitude in the world would only be enough to make you hallucinate that you are flying. Not good.

Good luck on your education. Installing the right habits should definitely help you reach your goal.

You make a good point, that when you have nothing you have nothing to lose. It can be easy to get trapped by the protectionist mindset into a life you really don’t enjoy. I know a few people who aren’t happy with their life, but feel obligated to protect it. I don’t think being naive and taking huge risks is the answer, but neither is sitting and complaining. Then again, that’s a whole new issue to deal with.

As far as risk taking, I see your point as it relates to health and weight loss. On the other hand, if you are contemplating being an entrepreneur and switching careers from a steady paycheck to nothing, until you make something, this may work in reverse.

If you are a high school graduate such as yourself, it may be easier for you to take risks such as becoming a problogger, instead of continuing your education. On the other hand, you may have a 40 year old well employed writer, with a family, who has a lot to risk if his blog doesn’t make enough money to support his family.

So, I agree with what you say about habits, this is just an aside about risk taking.

Long time no see buddy, glad to see you stop by the site.

Alex,

I suppose it depends how you approach the situation and what your area of focus is. One could argue that at the start you don’t need to take as many risks because the solutions are more obvious. For someone grossly overweight and eating poorly to improve his health it would be fairly obvious. For someone with great health, the next step may be more of a risk because it isn’t obvious. Still, you make a good point.

Just a brief tip, I often try to read articles posted by people in my comments section, but if you want me to, please give the permalink so I don’t need to search for it on your website.

You make a really good point in your post. It’s always harder to start when you having nothing. On the other hand, when you have nothing to lose you are able to take more risks. Check out a similar article of mine at http://www.alexshalman.com/blog titled, Now: The Time to Start.

AS