play piano better

It’s been a long time and so much has happened! I’m getting better on reading, I’m learning lots of theory and I’m really improving. I think that I am going to achieve my goal of playing the piano better on February, 2009. It’s only 7 months now! I’ve got a new teacher and I’m studying hard. I am also very happy and this is what is more important.

My plan is still working. Since I’ve stoped procrastinating I have been another person! I’m reading more, playing more and I don’t feel depressed anymore.

In order to complete my chalenge I’ve taken the most strange decision:I’ll wake up in the morning and do everything I like/want to: read, exercise, play the piano, write. I’ll clean my house at night, when my husband goes to the gym. Today was the first of this plan and it worked very well. I realized that after finishing the housework I’m too tired to play, but after doing everything I like I still have enthusiasm left to clean the house… After that I can have dinner and sleep peacefully. If this works, I think that I can study three hours a day, at least, and will be playing a lot better next year.

I want to be a musician – doesn’t matter when or how. Wheter it’s playing the piano or the violin or anything else, I want to be a musician. I think this is going to happen – all I must do is to be patient and keep studying. But the fact is: I’m so in love with the piano that I suffer terribly! My dream is to be a piano teacher, at least, but it takes so much time for me to learn and with all the pressure I put on myself about this, it gets worse.
I would like to hear from other people that started to learn as an adult and how you cope with the difficulties of studying.