Fast Food Times…

There is a lot of things I love to do in life, some of them are play my instruments, ride my motorbike or cook and eat nice meals.

I have to say; I do enjoy cooking as much as I enjoy eating, from the moment I am buying the ingredients until I am getting the benefits of the meal I just made, it is a pleasure. It comes with a price, TIME. If you want to get all the flavours well mixed you have to give to all the ingredients “Time” to cook together and you will have the best experience.

But we are living in a society going too fast, everything should be quick and easy, if I am hungry just grab something from a shop and eat it quick to carry on running around like a chicken with no head, if I am learning something it has to get into my brain and my system fast, if it doesn’t happen, I better stop doing it because is too difficult or too long.

“Unfortunately” or “Fortunately” this culture of “The Fast Food” it doesn’t apply to everything in life and the music is one of those activities like cooking a nice meal…It needs time, love, dedication and consistency.

I see all over social media, YouTube and many other platforms all kind of offer like “Learn to play a song in 2 weeks”, “Get the perfect body in one month”…you know what I’m talking about.

It really makes me feel sad reading all this because these people offering this “Fast Food Method” are putting down their own effort and the love on these activities, and I can tell you, is not true, it doesn’t work like that and I’m sure they didn’t learn or achieve what they are offering in that way.

As you can see here in my website I can play several instruments, not perfect but good enough to tell you that it takes time, dedication and a bit of obsession I would say to get a decent level of doing any activity. If you do something repetitively everyday you’ll end up being good at it even if you don’t want to.

Let me tell you a couple of experiences. When I was living in Tenerife, one year I was looking to start a new hobby, something that I could enjoy doing and was related with the place I was living, the sea, the sunshine, etc. It was my birthday and I got myself a present…a surfing lesson. I couldn’t even stand once on the board by the end of the session but I had a great time. I understood It wasn’t for me, not because I failed on the first day but because I realised it will need more time and dedication I could not give to it.

In 2018 I had a couple of life changing events, I was 94 kilos (14.80 ST) and I “Decided” to do something about it. I took me “2 Years” but today I can say proudly I’m 72 kilos (11.33 ST) and I feel great thanks to the time, dedication and that bit of obsession I put into doing what in other circumstances I wouldn’t. It wasn’t easy but my determination was stronger than the difficulties.

If you are thinking on starting anything in your life by the time you are reading these humble lines, it could be starting to learn a new skill, changing your diet, doing exercise, anything you are taking on, I hope my experience and this reading can help you to have another view and make you “Decide” how much time you will be willing to give to this activity you are taking on, and I suggest to find the joy of doing it even when you feel you are failing at it, because failure is just another way to learn.

Remember, time is a gift, a very precious one. We all have the same time and is 24 hours a day, what we do with that time is our “Decision”.

Have a nice day…