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Day 19: Composing vs. Blogging, or How I Was Made to Make Music!

Posted on July 21, 2022

My daily compositions have been streaming out of me easily and joyfully for over fifty days. So far I have always found it easy to sit down at my computer in front…

Day 18: Pursue Your Own Personal Version of Greatness

Posted on July 20, 2022

I think it’s important to believe that you are capable of great things. I’m not talking about doing what other people think is great. I’m talking about pursuing your own personal version…

Day 17: “Thought Magma” (Original Composition)

Posted on July 19, 2022

One of the happy side effects of composing something new every day is that sometimes I come up with a diamond. This is one such piece. I wrote it last month, and…

Day 16: Countering The Negative Monkey Mind

Posted on July 18, 2022

I’ve been doing a lot of self-examination recently. Wait, I’m always doing self-examination! Yesterday I wrote about being hard on myself. To look at that theme a little closer, I’ve been noticing…

Day 15: Using my great focus for good

Posted on July 17, 2022

So I am a GREAT FOCUSER. And when I use this power well, it is amazing what I can accomplish. I can run marathons, adopt Intermittent Fasting to lose (and keep off)…

Day 14: Walk-Running My Way to Marathon #3

Posted on July 16, 2022

This morning at 6am, I stood outside our flat, donned in the same gear I wore on many a weekend morning last year: light moisture-wicking t-shirt, baseball cap, shorts, running socks and…

Day 13: The Music Composition Train Rolls On… (featuring “The Sleepy Blues Bullfrog”)

Posted on July 15, 2022

I have been composing a new composition each day for a month and a half now using Logic on my computer. I have been loving it 🙂 It’s been incredibly fun to…

Day 12: Everybody Has Strengths…Here Are Mine

Posted on July 14, 2022

Everybody has strengths. I find that the more I acknowledge my strengths, the happier I am, because the more I appreciate who I am, and the more I can focus my life…

Day 11: Morgan Housel’s “The Psychology of Money”

Posted on July 13, 2022

(Note: Our Internet was down for three days, so this post is being posted on July 14, 2022, though I wrote it yesterday, the day I consider it “published”) A few days…

Day 10: We Are Good to Go!

Posted on July 12, 2022

(Note: Our Internet was down for three days, so this post is being posted on July 14, 2022, though I wrote it on July 12, the day I consider it “published”) Okay,…

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