Thirty Day Challenge Progress Report

Thirty Day Challenge Progress Report

If you don’t all remember, my thirty day challenge was to practice piano for an hour everyday between 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock.

I’d say that I’ve been pretty successful at fulfilling this promise to myself because I do practice every day for an hour... for the most part (did I trick you?) Anyways there have been days when I’ve practiced for 45 minutes and said to myself, “Close enough!”, leave the piano, and call it a day which is cheating. Sometimes there isn’t even an actual valid reason why I stop practicing before my goal of 1 hour! Mostly, though, I’ve been a pretty good kid and I think Santa will be able to overlook these flaws in my behaviour and visit my house for Christmas this year.

In the pursuit of making my thirty day challenge an everyday thing even after the challenge is over I have enlisted the help of my mother, the most reliable human being on Earth! I told her to force me to practice every day even if I made up lame excuses.

The rest of my motivation has been from myself. This is because at the time my family was looking for a piano we were very serious about one piano from a man named Norman. We almost bought it before we found another cheaper one that worked just as well (and looked better, too). We went back and told Norman that we didn’t want his piano anymore and he just had a tantrum on the spot! He said, “You know what? Your kids are not even going to make it far in their piano studies so you don’t need a good piano like this one anyways!” and so we just walked out. That made me want to finish my piano studies to prove to him that at least one kid from my family would finish and finish well! Even if I never see him again to prove it to him.

I don’t think there is anything about my thirty day challenge that I need to change because I know that it’s doable. I just need Spartan discipline!