Today my fellow classmates and I had the opportunity to walk across the street to the RVS building. There we got to meet an artist who showed us some of her work and how she has designed her website to make it appealing to someone who wouldn't know her. We were assigned the task of making a SMART goal for our music careers that was realistic and feasible.
My goal for school is to create a five song album with my band, having each song be unique and original. In order to do this I would like to get together with my band and take a look at some popular music and discuss some pros and cons and find away to differentiate ourselves from whats currently on the radio. My goal deadline is the end of the school year because that is the maximum amount of time that we have to work on it and I want to have enough time to make it sound professional. For my personal goal, I would like to save up at around $1000 dollars for a new acoustic guitar and an upgraded loop pedal.
TIME MANAGEMENT
This week in class, we are working on managing our time wisely and prioritizing our school work to ensure our success. We have an assignment that requires us to research solo artists websites and learn about how they are laid out to improve our own websites. Since I am an avid procrastinator, I find doing assignments very difficult as I have to fight with my brain in order to convince myself to finish my work. I am currently working to change the way I think and get all of my assignments in on time. In order to do that, I will make smart goals that will keep me in an organized manner and prevent me from wasting my time in class and at home. Smart goals are very helpful to stay on track with an assignment and are good to look at as a reminder of what is needed to be done.
Along with these ways of making sure our work is done, we have been scheduling our day out on Google Calendar to help set certain time periods to do homework and other things that need to be done. We have also mapped out our daily schedules which I think helped me since I saw how much free time I had available and how much time I could use for homework while still having enough time to have fun and do the activities that I enjoy. All together I think these assignments will be very helpful to get me out of the habit of procrastinating and saving my work until the day it's do or later.
Along with these ways of making sure our work is done, we have been scheduling our day out on Google Calendar to help set certain time periods to do homework and other things that need to be done. We have also mapped out our daily schedules which I think helped me since I saw how much free time I had available and how much time I could use for homework while still having enough time to have fun and do the activities that I enjoy. All together I think these assignments will be very helpful to get me out of the habit of procrastinating and saving my work until the day it's do or later.
Celebration of learning
I was able to attend the celebration of learning but unfortunately our group was not ready enough to perform due to lack of time management and poor planning. It was very difficult to have to make the decision not to perform because I was very excited to play our new set but I would rather it sounded good as opposed to rushed and forced. For future performances, it is very important to me and my band that our songs are all ready and sound great to ensure we perform to the best of our ability. For our independent performance we will be performing at lunch at some time in January to make up for the fact that we weren’t at the celebration of learning. To plan for this, we will be putting up posters around the school to make sure people are aware of our performance so they can decide if they want to watch. In order to make sure we are prepared, I would like to have our songs picked and have everyone learn them as soon as possible to ensure we have time to practice, make transitions, and make sure everyone knows their role. I am hoping to make the celebration of learning the first and last time we miss a performance.