Most of the answers seem to me to be answering the question "what do you most wish for?", and, as such, are the usual "world peace" Miss America answers.

I think that what makes the question interesting and meaningful is if it makes you think of the things that you are avoiding doing merely because you doubt your ability to succeed.

If you ask me (yeah, I know you didn't), practicing toward musical accomplishment is ALWAYS out on this very limb. For instance...

...for years I wanted to flatpick. I loved bluegrass and old-timey stuff, as well as the folk rock that was very flatpick oriented. But every time I'd sit down to try to learn, it seemed as if what it required me to practice was a HUGE step backwards in my playing. And because results came SO slowly, I never had the confidence that I was on the right road to success in the first place. Thus unconvinced, I was discouraged from ever starting. After all, who wants to dedicate HUGE amounts of practice when so uncertain that they are even practicing the right thing.

But I was a bit determined and found a different route.

I took a lesson with Joel Mabus. Sure, he gave me some terrific technical advice on flatpicking -- but the MAIN thing he gave me was the confidence that what I was practicing WAS the road to success -- no matter how slow or cumbersome or unfruitful that practice might SEEM at the outset.

But yeah, I'd like world peace. And a bigger weiner.