I've been playing every day since mid November 2021.  I did take a week off after hurting my hands but other than that, it's every day.

So, I'm somewhere around 190 days total, 91 or so of which is straight uninterrupted every day playing, as of today, May 30, 2022.  The goals I set for myself back in Nov were to finish Suzuki Book 1 and learn to play a few other pieces too.  I haven't quite reached that goal yet, I still have 2 more pieces in Suzuki Book 1 to go.

The new goal, once I complete Suzuki Book 1, will be to start/finish Suzuki Book 2 and learn even more music outside of the book.  Depending on how life goes, that should be somewhere around Feb 2023.

At this point I'm not sure if I'll take on Book 3 or not.

Katie M said
Well be done RDP. I kind of make notes as I go along and have a big notice board in front of me with stuff in but I tend to not have a plan. Maybe I should. I just think I do as best I can and writing a plan won’t make much difference maybe it will. 

  

I started with a long term plan to use the Suzuki method to learn how to play well enough that I wouldn't embarrass myself if I picked up a violin in a shop.

Once I got started I set short term goals to complete a lesson and record a video of it every week if possible.  That timeline got modified once I got into the more complex pieces but I still do my best to finish each lesson in a timely manner and post a video of it before moving on.  That helps to keep me focused on practicing regularly so I continue moving forward.

Other goals were to learn other music which complements or advances my understanding/technique of where I'm at in Suzuki.  For instance, right now I'm studying Paganini's Sonata #1 (first movement only) which uses 3rd position for some of the notes.  I won't be learning 3rd position in Suzuki until the end of Book 2 so the technique is beyond where I am musically.  However, I understand what's required and all I really need to do is learn how to do it over the next few months as I do the other Suzuki lessons that lead up to learning 3rd position.  No rush or pressure because I will eventually get there anyway.  I will also study other pieces as well such as Ashokan's Farewell and a few more at the same time.

Eventually I will compose the music for a song I wrote for a book I just finished writing.  Before I can do that I have to create the score for Ailein Duinn because the score for the piece I want to learn to play doesn't seem to exist.  Those are even longer term goals that require that I learn how to play, read music, create music, and then compose music.