Everyday from Monday to Friday I set aside 30 minutes during my lunch break at work to practise and experiment with lyrical and musical composition techniques and concepts.

I have never written a single lyric nor complete song before starting this ritual during the summer and now I am at a point where I can create short verses and groups of phrase that have amazed a couple of my friends who never knew I was capable of writing them.

By next year, I hope to have complete sets of lyrics and musical structures to compose full songs.

Oh and my goal is being able to make a living from my writing. In the past I might have said “writer” or “novelist”, but the medium doesn’t concern me as much anymore.

You could use some optimism then. Positive visualization is great for that.

I’m the opposite of you – I need my optimism tamped down a bit.

I like the smart and sexy checklist. I’ll have to think about how to incorporate some of those ideas into the goal setting process that I use.

On the other hand, there are still a few things missing from that addendum. Perhaps once I’ve written it all out, I’ll try and create a funky acronym of my own 🙂

Thanks for sharing the resource! I’ve added it to my list of tools to check out.