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Gather Your Troops

March 2, 2011

I hate asking for help. I usually pride myself on autonomy and self-reliance. And, I’ve recently been reminded how extremely limiting that can be. “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller) For a while now, I have been planning a project titled Amaloboozi. I will be traveling to [...]

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The 2011 ImpossibList

January 19, 2011

I’m a bit late in posting this year’s resolutions (and I know some people disagree about whether or not they should even be written in the first place). But I, for one, operate well and efficiently when I have clearly defined goals in place. After a bit of a slump near the end of last [...]

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Change Your Direction

December 1, 2010

Author and speaker Jim Rohn was crediting as having said, “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” In other words . . . we may not always be able to instantly, as if by magic, change our current situation. Make that scary career move. Get out of that draining [...]

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Kick Procrastination in the Arse

November 17, 2010

There never seems to be enough time in the day to accomplish all the things we’d like to. Work, family and other activities always find a way to eat up every passing minute and hour. Before you know it, poof, another week, month, or year has gone by, and you still haven’t even begun to [...]

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The Donating Drummer

November 10, 2010

Super excited am I! Today is exactly three weeks from the launch date of my new project, TheDonatingDrummer! The long and short of TheDonatingDrummer is simple: beginning this December, I will be donating all or part of my pay from one music gig each month to fund a personal project or goal of someone else’s! [...]

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Muddy Buddy

November 3, 2010

Check another item off the ol’ bucket list! As I mentioned a while back, the Muddy Buddy is a two-person, off-road, bike/run/obstacle course that concludes with a crawl through their infamous mud pit to reach the finish line. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for years now, ever since reading about it in a [...]

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4+ Jerks, 1 Lesson

September 29, 2010

Bikers, travelers, and musicians . . . oh my! All about the analogies today, let me explain four ways that I’ve learned the same lesson. And we begin with a story . . . (1) I’m driving down Powell Boulevard in Portland yesterday morning when a motorcyclist (let’s call him Biker 1) blazes past me, [...]

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My List

June 23, 2010

As I mentioned in the Fearless . . . Ruthless post, “I have a list of life goals that I say I’m going to accomplish . . . a neverending bucket list of places to see, percussion instruments to study, educational materials to produce, languages to be at least passable in.” Inspired by similar lists [...]

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Fearless . . . ruthless

April 4, 2010

I don’t care how busy I might seem to others- I can truly procrastinate with the best of ‘em. Like many people, I have a list of life goals that I say I’m going to accomplish . . . a neverending bucket list of places to see, percussion instruments to study, educational materials to produce, [...]

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