This artist and I met through the course of this year over a project that he wanted to finish. He started conceptualizing for this project quite late so we got to recording quite late in the year. It's needless to say we still have work to complete in 2018 and he wanted to know how he can ensure that he completes what he sets out to do for the year. I told him to firstly take the unnecessary pressure off himself. He got quite worked up about not being able to finish his project in 2017 and it really bothered him and all that extra pressure wasn't helping. I advised that instead of setting a whole lot of goals for 2018, he should break the goals down into habits. By doing this, he'll be able to dedicate his time to finishing small bite-sized chunks of work each day instead of freezing up before the end of March.
There are many theories out there on how long it takes a human to develop a habit but that's not important right now. What's important is that habits are built. Are you completing your daily tasks? Are you finishing a song, a beat, a blog post, a video etc daily/weekly? If you can complete a month or two of this then your habit will surely be set.
What should your daily tasks involve? The trick will be to reverse engineer your tasks from your goals that you wanted to achieve and see what you come up with. If the goal is to come up with 2 albums in a year, break it down and challenge yourself to write one song every week. By the end of the year you'll have enough music for 4 albums. Habit set. Goal surpassed.
They say that the success of next year lies in your daily activities. Do best and develop those habits.
Regards,
SB