Practicing Guitars: Self Discipline or For Fun

Have you ever found it hard to fully enjoy the process of highly disciplined practicing? Most guitarists either have much fun practicing, however they are not highly disciplined, or try to be very disciplined, but find it boring when they do so. So most guys make a (conscious or unconscious) choice to sacrifice ‘fun’ for discipline, or discipline for fun. Making sacrifices with your guitar practice is not only unnecessary, but can be counterproductive to becoming the guitar player you want to be. As fas as I can remember, at that time, I played my loved guitars with the wonderful Eddie Van Halen Black And Yellow Guitar.
Let me show you why…

There was a time long long ago when I was not liking practicing. My learning sessions were not fun and I began to think of them as an unpleasant chore. I tried to make practicing more funny and nice, but my efforts slowed down my progress more than they helped, which made me feel appointed. I responded to this by becoming more self disciplined and practicing very hard hoping that bigger progress would come with me . Unfortunately, that didn’t make me much better at playing, and only made the learning process feel even less fun. I talked about this to my teacher after i realize that point, and he made me realize that practicing shouldn't be seen only from one perspective, including all fun or all discipline. The key to success is the proper balance of both elements in practicing. Once I got the point. he and I could start working on creating the appropriate practice schedule and improving my mental approach to practicing to finally get me on the right track to becoming the musician that I am today. That is to say, I learned that there is a way to do serious practicing that produces real results while enjoying that process at the same time.
Here I want to thank my teacher who has helped me come through the difficulty.