Originally Posted by: JOMJ

However, I do this when I am going a bit too fast then I actually should. I want to "get there". And with "there" I mean: I want to get to the point of nailing it. So very focused on the end result instead of enjoying the moment and taking it at the right pace.

Those words could be the biggest lesson of them all, since it will follow you through out your playing experience. Every time you learn a new trick, you find yourself back at "The old Same Place". Forget that lesson, and you will have a difficult time advancing your skills, because that "I want it now" attitude will only frustrate your efforts.

As Lisa has so elequently stated "You will be able to preform that new skill, just as soon as your are physically ready"... not a second before. Practice is where you get physically ready. You body will tell you when it is ready, not the nagging voice your brain. That nagging voice is responsable for a lot of people just giving up on playing the guitar. That is because they keep tell themselves "I will never get there"... and with that attitude it is NO SURPISE.

I think it was Anders who said something like "If you keep beating yourself up about where you want to be, instead of enjoying how much you already can do, it will be a long slog". It is not so much embracing the "Right Pace" as embracing the only pace. You only learn as fast as your body can actually accomplish, so relax. Patient, persistant, practice pays. Embrace it, because, everthing from there on is dirivitive...