I am a professional musician, worship leader, small business owner, and freelance writer with a chemical engineering degree. But that's just my resume; my profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.
Sadly, because they're different services. How great if I could just do the same thing twice. But I have the band at 9:30, and it's just me and my guitar at 11:15. Some 9:30 songs can't be done at 11:15 because I don't have drums and things. That, plus, I have more responsibility over worship stuff at 11:15, so sometimes I need to help plan the children's message, confessions, activities done around tables (this service isn't in the pews) - that sort of thing. At 9:30 I'm strictly responsible for music.
The bummer is, 11:15 isn't taking off. So it feels like a lot of work for very few (if any) people each week. That might be part of what's sapping my enthusiasm.
Posted: 11-11-2009 @ 8:10 am EST Edited: 11-12-2009 @ 8:03 am EST
Launch one new Potbelly song per week. Goal met.
Post at WordPress at least once per month.
Pending.
Launch one new Praise Band song per month. Goal met.
Write one new original song per month.
Pending.
Write new lyrics once per day through November.
Fail... er, in progress. I started a new "new" one, so I now have two incomplete pieces.
Earn at least $60 per pay period at Textbroker.
In Progress! My first article was accepted.
Current Balance: $10
Earn at least $25 per month at Helium.
Pending.
Current Balance: $0
Complete one Prep challenge per day until complete.
Fail. In fact, I've pretty much forgotten about this.
Resign from Abbott by 6/1/10.
In progress.
Achieve a weight of 145.0 by Thanksgiving.
Trying-ish.
Weight: 152.4
Meals:
8:00am Leftover pizza (4) and coffee (1) Someone had to eat the damn pizza.
9:30am Almonds (1)
10:15am Almonds (1)
11:00am Sauteed dill squash and onions (1) Been craving veggies for days!
1:45pm Half skinny roast beef sandwich (3.5)
3:00pm Chai (1)
5:00pm Half skinny roast beef sandwich (3.5)
7:00pm Blueberry ZonePerfect bar (3.5)
TOTAL POINTS: 19.5
Current real estate goal: Organize garage.
I made a tiny amount of progress, by removing the kids' old shoes and organizing the wrapping paper, since tomorrow is Keith's birthday.
Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day.
Fail.
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