This is something I wrote recently in a blog. Some of it may appear a little pedantic and capricious, but it was begot very spontaneously as I can evisage very well what I want. Viz.:
I will achieve my “10,000 hours” goal over the next few scheduled years. I will obsessively then spend time supporting myself financially and doing what I can to make ends meet. I will record many albums, write many songs, join bands, tour, teach guitar and do session recording. I will not sign a record label; or at least, not a major record label. If I were to sign an independent deal then I would only be thinking temporarily so. Eventually I would start my own record company like Yngwie has done with his “Rising Force Records”. As well as indulging in my creativity and creating music and art that I love and is sincere, I will also use my talents and skills to thoroughly, relentlessly exploit the trend bandwagon in the music business. This will include writing music for many kinds of styles. By around 2015-2017 I will have acquired £1million. Success will then be achieved exponentially and everything shall flow from this point. I will continue to heavily spend my efforts writing music for financial gain and writing music I love to keep my artistic creativity satisfied. By 2020 I will have acquired £5million, and at least double that five years after.
This is, basically, what I will then create for myself:
I will be very rich. Enough to have the freedom to work on all of my goals insofar as I need, when I need.
Residence, etc.:
A big house in a quiet setting. Away from busy streets, cities and towns. A very pretty place with nice weather. Lots of wildlife and plants; a very verdant, comforting environment. Palm trees, lots of sun, pretty flowers, etc. Nice driveway. Private residence. Large black gate leading to house, and big walls around the house perimeter. Security cameras will be present at the front gate, around all sides of the house and maybe in the private road leading up to the house. Security will be very good. Perhaps even bulletproof windows, doors, walls, etc. for extra safety. There should be safety escape routes as like back entrances, etc. And there will also be advanced alarm systems. I will have methods and means to protect myself and my property should I need to.
It will be a mansion. As big as is needed to accomodate working on all of my goals, living simply, happily and peacefully, and for even those who I wish to have in my life.
It will have: home recording studio, home gym, a library and study area, a nice garage, good sized bathroom and shower, pretty and big garden, perhaps a swimming pool. I will have spare rooms for friends and guests. There will be an area dedicated to practicing martial arts. The house will be scented with smells as like lavender and much else that appeals to me.
There will be adequate fire protection equipment all round the house. There will be advanced electronics systems and technologies, for, perhaps: operating all gates and similar, controlling temperature, bathroom facilities, and things to generally make life more simple, etc. I will have access to very fast wireless internet all throughout the premises. I will be able to have all the food available that I could want and be able to work on and enjoy every goal and hobby instantly, simply and accessibly. I will have good communication systems in place. The house will be very pretty, and artistic, creative pictures will be present wherever I feel necessary.
I will have, learn and use many different instruments that I like. I will have the resources to easily write, record and create whatever music I wish, and the world will hear this incredible music that is unlike any music ever created.
I will have a website or websites to document all of my ideas and thoughts for the world to view, and information aimed at helping, educating and improving the quality of life of those reading it. I will have a website devoted to all of my thoughts and discoveries about music and guitar and scheduled practice amounts and what I am working on, and so forth, for all of the public to view. I will have excellent, very detailed teaching resources available freely to all aspiring guitarists and musicians worldwide.
I will live simply and happily. Never complicating.
I will make enough money from a musical career to never have to need to work again to attain money. Money will be readily available for the remainder of my life. I will have available: information and books at my disposal to study the countless subjects I am interested in. I will explore Actual Freedom. I will work to improve the efficiency of my thinking, approaches and modus operandi. I will keep my mind and body in the most excellent condition… this will allow me to be happy and at peace, have endless amounts of energy and be very quick and perspicacious in my thinking. I will be very proficient with the English language, and be able to communicate in it and express my ideas and emotions incredibly volubly and easily. I will be very proficient in martial arts and self-defence and thus be able to deal effectively with virtually any potential threatening situations in life that may arise.
I will always readily help out and attempt to improve the quality of life for all of my friends and chosen relationships in particular. And I will do what I can to make the world a much better place. I will focus on the areas most needing to be ameliorated in the world and make radical improvements to the quality of life of countless people and society at large. I will perhaps develop organisations and groups to rapidly and radically improve humanity’s condition, and perhaps even go as far as to intend to influence politics. I will introduce and implement systems, methods and ideas to improve the condition of humanity and the Earth. I will eventually work to achieve Actual Freedom if I find that indeed that is the be-all and end-all solution to humanity’s problems and in finding ultimate fulfillment and meaning in life.