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Kicking things off on my birthday month with a BANG!
For those new to the challenges, it isn't to compete against others. It's to push yourself to greater heights, have some company & inspiration along the way, and a few ideas the help get us focused. For example, you can use this waving of the analytical knife to help organize your goals:
1) Exercise/Diet - Set a specific plan or goal(s). Keep us posted weekly (or more) on your progress!
2) Creativity - Music, art, writing, acting...set a goal to complete by month's end. Keep us posted!
3) Personal life - Re-affirm your personal relationships, get to that project/chore you've been avoiding, or just read a book you've always wanted to read!
4) Professional life - Set a work goal or change jobs or....just tell us what it is and keep us posted!
My personal goals include:
1) Exercise/diet - Keep adjusting my workouts to continually keep my body guessing and mix my eating up in similar fashion (including periodic short-duration fasts)...and I'll be alcohol-free until my birthday on the 23rd!
For those new to the challenges, it isn't to compete against others. It's to push yourself to greater heights, have some company & inspiration along the way, and a few ideas the help get us focused. For example, you can use this waving of the analytical knife to help organize your goals:
1) Exercise/Diet - Set a specific plan or goal(s). Keep us posted weekly (or more) on your progress!
2) Creativity - Music, art, writing, acting...set a goal to complete by month's end. Keep us posted!
3) Personal life - Re-affirm your personal relationships, get to that project/chore you've been avoiding, or just read a book you've always wanted to read!
4) Professional life - Set a work goal or change jobs or....just tell us what it is and keep us posted!
My personal goals include:
1) Exercise/diet - Keep adjusting my workouts to continually keep my body guessing and mix my eating up in similar fashion (including periodic short-duration fasts)...and I'll be alcohol-free until my birthday on the 23rd!
Oh...and I'm currently completing a 48+ hour fast. I'll update here for the actual time once I eat later today!
2) Creativity - We had a few scheduling delays due to some family stuff, but hoping to get at least one of my album projects recorded before year's end. One is a surprise EP featuring a specific style of composition that I've showcased before (details upon release), one is a collection of Alien Blue songs re-done as solo artist (Alien Blue was my blues duo), one is another set of cover songs (follow up to my 2017 album "Public Domain"), and finally, one is a collection of original material (acoustic guitar & vocals - the electric band album is still being composed). The rest I hope to get done in 2026.
3) Personal life - First, become more streamlined and minimalist while strengthening connections and time spent with family & friends. Second, Complete two more classes ("Ancient Greece" and "A History of Israel") via Open Culture.
4) Professional life - See item #2 above - haha! But also...we've been doing a massive overhaul & will start uploading again at my Patreon page, and the goal is moving everyone over to a lower-cost subscription model (via Patreon and/or direct subs) for teaching music and more (other than private students, though we need to get them signed up to access the extra goodies there).
Soooo.....share publicly or privately, and please don't hesitate to reach out for anything you may need!
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If you value my work and want to support it......contact me for lessons (guitar, electric bass, ukulele, social drumming, songwriting, etc) or feel free to leave a tip (one-shot or monthly):
2) Creativity - We had a few scheduling delays due to some family stuff, but hoping to get at least one of my album projects recorded before year's end. One is a surprise EP featuring a specific style of composition that I've showcased before (details upon release), one is a collection of Alien Blue songs re-done as solo artist (Alien Blue was my blues duo), one is another set of cover songs (follow up to my 2017 album "Public Domain"), and finally, one is a collection of original material (acoustic guitar & vocals - the electric band album is still being composed). The rest I hope to get done in 2026.
3) Personal life - First, become more streamlined and minimalist while strengthening connections and time spent with family & friends. Second, Complete two more classes ("Ancient Greece" and "A History of Israel") via Open Culture.
4) Professional life - See item #2 above - haha! But also...we've been doing a massive overhaul & will start uploading again at my Patreon page, and the goal is moving everyone over to a lower-cost subscription model (via Patreon and/or direct subs) for teaching music and more (other than private students, though we need to get them signed up to access the extra goodies there).
Soooo.....share publicly or privately, and please don't hesitate to reach out for anything you may need!
=====
If you value my work and want to support it......contact me for lessons (guitar, electric bass, ukulele, social drumming, songwriting, etc) or feel free to leave a tip (one-shot or monthly):
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