Don’t Fear the Music
Like many people, I tend to put off difficult stuff until later. Luckily, I can do a bunch of easy work now and let the other stuff slide until closer to deadline. I work really well when under a tight deadline, so I know that the shorter time will add motivation later on.
I’ve been putting off doing a difficult arrangement for several weeks now and finally got up the motivation to tackle it. It was partly the weather- a rainy day always puts me in a productive mood. Give me rain and a hot cup of tea and I can sit happily at my desk for hours.
As is usually the case with these things, once I got into the music I discovered that it wasn’t very hard at all. The whole thing took me about four hours to knock out and I loved every minute of it. Typical.
One day I envision doing all of the (supposedly) hard stuff first and then really feeling “off the hook”.
Now after working on it for the last four hours I just have to get the music out of my head. That usually only happens when something else comes along to take its place.