Happy New Years guys! Thanks for making the past 5 months at GuitarPlayerZen.com great!

Now that all the partying and relative visiting is over, we all are brainstorming what New Years Resolutions we will attempt for the new year.

It can be overwhelming, exciting, and scary to think about what will take place in 2008. There will be failure for us all, and there will be success for us all. The important thing is to strive to make your life great; set clear goals for yourself that are you are passionate about. Just thinking of the end result should cause a stir of excitement from deep within.

We’ve made our list of New Years Resolutions. Now it’s time for you to start making yours. Here are some great questions (borrowed & adjusted from NLPWeekly.com) to ask yourself to help formulate your mission for 2008:

Before we give you the list take the following into consideration.

Take your journal (or share your answers in our forum) and write down the questions in the same order. Answer them as fast as you can, write down any association you get and don’t worry about getting the right answer or the one that you would wish. This is not about defining your goals, but about aligning your causes.

Try to answer all of these questions in one day. The real benefit of doing it at once will reveal itself on the day after.

Do not try to make sense of each question. Just write down whatever comes to mind, even if it’s the most idiotic thought you ever had… these idiotic thoughts will flow back during 2008 in such a creative way, that you’ll know their value only then. Sorry, but I can’t clarify it in any other way - experience here is much stronger than knowledge.

To make it work better - don’t read the questions before you answer. Read one question at a time, answer it and then move on to the next.

That’s it - now get to work:

• What are you afraid of? Which of these fears is not real enough? Which of these fears cause you to sweat just thinking about it? For how many years did you hold this fear?

• Do you take criticism well? What is the first memory (time stamp maybe?) you can recall, in which you were criticized unfairly? Will you be willing to feel not appreciated again in 2008 if it means you’ll become stronger and better?

• What aspects of your guitar playing do you enjoy? Think hard now… what if you didn’t enjoy these parts, would you still play guitar?

• If you would make a picture out of your whole life, as if it had everything in it, and then make it larger and brighter and stronger - would that make you feel good or overwhelmed with disappointment?

• Do you generally encourage or dis-encourage others?

• Are you satisfied with your technical ability on guitar?

• Are you satisfied with your musical creativity?

• How much fun should you have in 2008? Why?

• How much money does it take to realistically make you satisfied financially?

• Are you satisfied with where you are at in your guitar career?

• Make a list of your strongest skills. Make sure you have at least 5 of those written down.

• What is more important for your self improvement - discipline or freedom?

• Knowing or learning from scratch?

• Knowing or learning from someone else?

• Teaching or learning from someone else?

• When you’re 80 years old, looking back on 2008 - which are the regrets you will not be willing to think about? How would you make sure you’re not seeding these regrets?

• Can you remember the most passionate and exciting experience you’ve ever had in life? Could you make it stronger right now, as if it’s happening all over again?

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