1. Made excuses for not practicing because you "didn't have time"? 2. Practiced same licks and exercises that you did last year? 3. Felt like you had hit a brick wall in your progress? 4. Felt unsure as to what to practice?

Unless your name is Steve Vai, chances are you've done at least one of above!

They are all symptoms of having a lack of vision.

What do I mean by vision? Vision in this context is having a clearly defined picture in your mind's eye of how you would like to play. It must be a crystal clear, exciting and inspiring picture!

Without an absolutely clear picture of what you would ideally like to sound like, you will not know what you need to practice in order to realise that vision. You will also probably lose drive and motivation to practice daily for many years until you can play like your vision. You may even start using loser's mantra which is "I don't have time to practice".

Sen. La Follette of Wisconsin later ran for President in 1924 on Progressive Party platform. The University of Wisconsin Madison campus has often been cited as birthplace of political correctness. Donna Shalala, former Clinton Secretary of Health & Human Services and University of Wisconsin Chancellor has been called founder of political correctness.

Here is an extended excerpt of passage:

It is difficult, indeed, to overestimate part which university has played in Wisconsin revolution. For myself, I owe what I am and what I have done largely to inspiration I received while there. It was not so much actual courses of study which I pursued; it was rather spirit of institution--a high spirit of earnest endeavor, a spirit of fresh interest in new things, and beyond all else a sense that somehow state and university were intimately related, and that they should be of mutual service.