No, I haven’t fallen off the edge of the world. I’m working hard on my music projects, of course. I entered two songs in the Great American Song Contest. I’ve also made 2 Squidoo Lenses, Songmeister and Synthesizer. These two pages make me an expert at each topic. Exciting stuff. I’m looking forward to Christmas, …
Category Archives: Music
Day 41 of 48
Only one week left. I’ve made substantial progress internally, and have started to build a network of people who I believe will be instrumental in the journey. I have been with the book for several weeks, had time to reflect and have taken away the following: Being successful and sustaining by doing what you love …
Day 35 of 48
Last week, I finally finished 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller. The rest of the 48 days are dedicated to getting my music composition business off the ground. I’ve identified my strengths, weaknesses and passion core. I’ve learned what needs to be done to be successful. There are two basic paths …
New Beat-Dead Dad Column
You know I’m working on building my personal network, so here’s a little column I wrote for colaspot on the details of my personal “Yeah, I have a guy for that.”
Day 18 of 48
Over the weekend, while working on my daily draft (four lines of text to music each day) I managed to finish up the composition stage on one song. This happened to be a song I really enjoy, and I was able to get it into a rough demo. Today, I spent a lot of time …
Capture the Song
I’ve got a lot on my mind, so you may notice that I’m frequently publishing short little entries. I’m still capturing at least 4-lines of lyrics to tape everyday, mostly with some accompaniment. Since I’ve gotten back into writing regularly, inspiration seems to come at odd times. Lyrically, I’m always prepared because I’ve got the …
Day 10 of 48
Sometimes the news that hits you like a ton of bricks is actually what you expected all along. I can’t really explain any more than that, but today, Dan Miller’s 48 Days to the Work You Love has me recreate my resumé. This is probably the oddest resumé I’ve ever created, but maybe that’s been …
Day 2 of 48
Yesterday, I told you that updates on my 48 days to the work I love would be sparse. Oh well. Dan asks this today: If you want different results next year, what will you change in what you are doing now? I agreed yesterday that change is the key to progress. Something has to change, …
iBook Returns With No Change
I received a call from Visual Graphics and went to pick up my iBook with a replacement drive the day before my warranty expires. Of course, like the car that won’t clunk for the mechanic, she wouldn’t give in to their poking and prodding and they determined that the drive was fine. The night before …
Daily Progress
Yesterday I promised myself I’d squeeze in a daily activity into my schedule. I didn’t really commit to anything because I’m already reasonably overextended, but I knew it had to be something that was related to my passion. If nothing else comes of this commitment, I’ll have earned the fruits of practice. Zack pointed out …