I am writing this in hopes that some of you have had my problem. I simply can't get motivated to practice. I am lost in this ocean of material and end up practicing the same few things day in and day out, and never getting anywhere. It would be one thing if I were 15 and doing this, but I am 61 and doing this for the first time. ANY encouragement would be appreciated; I've seen enough videos telling me to "stop being a wimp". I didn't get this far in life being a wimp. It would be great if I could just get 10 minutes a day on each module. But if I can't practice different parts of the module each day, it just ends up boring me. Please help me. I just want to complete one 7 module practice day, even if it's only 5 minutes a mod, and then build on that. Thanks.

I am probably not the best person to be giving you advice on practicing, but it sounds to me like you are stuck in a rut. Try to find something to motivate you, you might need to step away from the material you are trying to practice and try a different approach, look into something else that interests you and then come back to the material. On the other hand, some people might suggest you grit your teeth through the boredom and really try hard to get a grip on the material you are trying to practice, it is through this tedium that you will feel greatly rewarded when you see your progress.

Maybe take a break and do something fun, look at some 12-bar blues backing tracks or other styles you might enjoy and practice your scales and soloing with them. Listen to music that inspires you, nothing has motivated me more to practice than listening to something that truly moves and inspires you. My two cents anyways, good luck brother.

Fortunately I dont have this problem I like doing the exercises because for the simple reason that I see I progress.

But I read that you want to do 5 min each module, I can assure you that if you do it like that you will see never progress if you practice like that (I'm sorry being harsh). You need to do them for hours and hours like that you will book progress.
5 min doing something doesnt warm you even up.

You know I have a daily bussy job but I still manage to play around 3 hours a day during the week. I do 1 hour picking exercises. 1 hour ladder exercises (minimum) and 1 hour scales. Thats it for the moment in the weekend i extend everything and play some songs too. I feel and see I make progress on a weekly base. After a months or 2 doing this schedule I do some other exercises but I keep doing Module 1 and 2 daily (there are a lot of different exercises in the module).

I hope this answer didn't dissappoint you but this is my way of daily practice. And I think it is not enough I wish not to have to go to work everyday and could make routines of 7 or more hours a day.

And I enjoy it all

Greetz Ray

i would get some songs you enjoy or want to learn and just stick to that for awhile and have some fun. When you come to something in the song you struggle with then work on that problem. you've then sorted that problem for any other songs jamming you wanna do.
There is more than one way to reach your goal. oh yea and set goals short to long. know where you want to be and get there.

Thats maybe a better advise as I gave Deltadiscos

Great explanation Adam!

You see I think quality practice is important as well. Therefor I prefer it is better to take 2 or 3 subjects from the Daily practice routine and doing them for a long time as I mentioned before. As going thru a lot of stuff for a short amount of time.

If I would have 30 min a day I think I would e.g. only ladders for 2 weeks after those 2 weeks I would start doing a other exercise maybe neo-classical because this is left and right hand related. Like this you would get more out of your practice time and make slowly progress.

Using backing tracks I should do more thats good you mention this here because it make al so much more fun.

Thanks, guys, for the feedback; I think all of you hit the nail on the head. I need to get a routine started oriented around music I like and I think things will start to fall into place.