Have you made any new year’s resolutions you suspect you won’t be able to keep? Think about it this way. For every time you don't succeed never look at it as a failure but as a rehearsal. Somebody once told me that young songwriters have to get through all the ‘no’s’ — all the hundreds of rejections — before you can get to the ‘yes.’ So best to get your no’s over with. All those rehearsals. Every one matters.