Q: okay, here's the situation. i am trying to listen to 1,000 albums of music this year. i am on track so far. i also want to release five album/ep's and i have each one planned. i am less on track with that, but it still seems feasible. at least, it was until today.

today my piano teacher said I should be doing three hours of practice per day, and currently he has five jazz tunes (including one i have to transcribe) for me that I need to know inside out in a month, for an assessment. this would of course be doable and appropriately challenging under normal circumstances, but there is already so much going on, and i don't want to give up any of it.

I'm already doing all but the bare minimum of schoolwork i am not passionate about (english, maths), and I don't play computer games or watch TV, but it just seems like there are not enough hours in the day.
what is the best way to manage my time so that i can work on Multiple Projects even more swiftly and efficiently than I already am?
A: i'm not sure why you need someone else to tell you to transcribe tunes. can't you just decide on your own which tunes to transcribe? better yet, if you already have it on your agenda to listen to albums, why not just transcribe the albums you are listening to instead? also if it is on your agenda to make multiple albums, that is valuable real life musical experience. i don't see why you need to 'practice' for so many hours outside of that. if the piano teacher you mentioned is not willing to work congruently with your already established agenda, then i think those 2 agendas will come into conflict, as you have surely noticed