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@dbvirago 10 minutes is really quite simple. Commit to the minimum of 10 per day, and you’ll be better than you were the day before, and there is a science behind the 10 minutes per day. You’d have to ask someone that can remember what it was exactly. Tony reads a lot and is very positive and he puts into action a lot of things he strongly believes will help others.
The key is to focus on a lesson and playing the guitar for that 10 minutes. When taking lessons, once you have the 10 minutes in, just mark the lesson complete. You can walk away at that point and pat your self on the back for doing what you committed to do. As you said, you often practice more than 10 minutes per day, which is quite all right. Don’t spend too long in one sitting at any one thing. It can actually backfire and be counterproductive. I like to split up playing sessions into multiple 10-15 minute sessions throughout the day. Know when it’s time to walk away and come back another time. It’s about progress, not perfection.
There were many times I could only commit 10 minutes per day, especially when my mother was alive and I was her full time caregiver. It was usually a quick destressor at 10 p.m. or later after she was down for the night.