For not keeping your promise.
For failing to pickup your guitar.
For putting other things, less important things, ahead of the things you want to accomplish.
Not everything can be pushed aside, but not everything should pull focus either.
Go play guitar and write a mini song and get back on a creative crawl.
You'll feel better for it.
When you don't feel like writing...
When you're uninspired...
When everything feels wrong...
Force yourself to write something...
A formulated idea. Something from nothing.
It beats doom scrolling for another 30 minutes...
Habits take time to build.
Repetition and intentionality.
Why did this all of sudden turn into pretentious ramblings.
I think they're playing Coachella next year.
Anyways, develop the habit of posting everyday.
Even if it's nonsense.
Especially if it's nonsense because it's one of the many times the nonsensical will serve a purpose.
When the only reason one posts is to do it daily regardless of utility or entertainment value or any other type of value... is it akin to a tree falling in the woods?
That is to say... would anyone hear it and/or care?
I care, which is enough.
This is a relatively new realization for me.
Daily posts are worth if for no other reason than to keep the promise I made to myself to post daily.
Damn... I should go post something on TikTok now, too...
My fingers hurt from playing guitar.
Which is the definition of "good pain".
Here's to calloused fingers sooner than later.
I need to restring my guitars. I've been playin guitar for over 25 years. I've restrung a guitar less than 15 times. Whoops.
The suitcase kit concept album is on the brain again. Songs all based on travel. My favorite airports. My favorite trips, business or leisure. I think the world would be a better place if more people traveled.
And yes. I know how extremely fortunate I am to have had the means to travel as much as I have. In the future, I'd love to be able to pay it forward and enable more folks to see the world beyond their hometowns.
I write better under a deadline. A Song A Month for 2026. Get it done by the last day of each month. Bandcamp will probably be the outlet of choice.
Document as much as you can. There's something worth sharing there.
It doesn't have to be perfect. The goal is to finish. Finished and flawed is better than chasing perfection and keeping yourself from accomplishing your goal.
Showering is an easy habit.
Missing it has dire consequences.
Itchiness, oiliness, and the smell.
If only other habits had the same immediate results, good or bad.
Results make habits easier.
Patience is a virtue.
... sure as shit don't mean productive.
GOAL: Spend 5 minutes a day on productive guitar work. Technique, learning covers, playing (learning and drilling) songs I've written.
Get busy being productive.
I think a lot.
About writing songs, about playing instruments, about starting bands.
Sometimes this leads to an explosion of output.
New songs, documentation of guitar riffs/ideas, the beginnings of what a band could and would feel like.
But most of the time...
I don't get past the thinking. The planning. The ideating. The analyzing.
If I wanted to do it, I would.
But sometimes the thinking is enough.
Get in the habit of doing. Finish something. Take tangible steps forward every day. Even if it's only a step that travels inches.
Life's too short and all that carpe diem accoutrement.
Write a post instead of scrolling.
Give something instead of taking.
Create instead of consuming.
It's not only about blogging or posting or writing.
It's about rewiring the brain to get the dopamine hit from activity instead of passivity.
Be a creator instead of a consumer.
2 minutes everyday is better than an hour on Saturday.
And... we make time for our priorities.
And... our priorities shape our lives.
... has gotta be some sort of record for me.
But it's compensating.
For years of not posting.
2 minutes everyday is better than an hour on Saturday.
5 posts in a day is the equivalent of an hour on Saturday.
Which isn't to say it's a bad thing...
It's just not as effective as 2 minutes everyday.
Inevitably, there will be a day missed.
It is not your job to beat yourself up.
It is your job to get the 2 minutes done the very next day.
If I wrote a blog post every time I wanted to scroll through social media...
... I'd have a not so acceptable replacement for therapy.
What makes people want to create things?
Songs, stories, poems, art.
Why spend time on these pursuits?
I don't have the discipline to cut the cord.
I don't have the vision to see beyond the things that are meant to steal my attention.
Set up the suitcase drumkit more.
Pick up the guitar more.
Write here more.
Scroll less.
Easier thought than done.
Stop quitting.
It gets easier the more you do it.
That goes for good and bad habits.
If no one reads this, you'll be just fine.
IF no one reads this, you'll be just fine.
If NO one reads this, you'll be just fine.
If no ONE reads this, you'll be just fine.
If no one READS this, you'll be just fine.
If no one reads THIS, you'll be just fine.
If no one reads this, YOU'LL be just fine.
If no one reads this, you'll BE just fine.
If no one reads this, you'll be JUST fine.
If no one reads this, you'll be just FINE.
It gets easier the more you do it.
