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Posts Tagged ‘life’

I’m Such a Failure

It’s true. I continually fail at far more attempted endeavors than I’ll ever succeed at. Lost auditions, school rejection letters, unaccepted grant applications, uninterested publishers, girls who wouldn’t give their number, uncompleted projects, ideas that proved to be altogether worthless. I’ve seen it all- and that’s the

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Repurposing Your Life

Good friend and author Sara Wiseman once explained to me that, in the literary field, there is a term called ‘repurposing.’ This one word altered the way I have looked at the world ever since. Repurposing is essentially the process of reworking a piece that you (or

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2 Lessons I SHOULD Have Learned

“Well, I guess you learned your lesson then, didn’t you?” I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve heard THAT one in my life. Pondering a few experiences from the last couple of months, I realized that I DO indeed learn something every single time

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Benjamin Franklin’s Advice for Drumming and Life!

What? Benjamin Franklin? He was a drummer? Well . . . no. But he did utter some words that can really benefit those of us who ARE! The following is a collection of valuable quotes from Franklin on the topic of time. I’m not the one to

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Tuning and Calibration: for music and life

Read (even if you aren’t a musician) and retweet! It was a Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis. Charlie Waymire and I were in a studio at college, tuning up his monster double-bass drumset for his band’s recording session later that day. Or maybe should I say trying to

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But you’re a drummer . . .

Life hacking; lifestyle design; geoarbitrage; digital nomad. Hot, hot terms out in the entrepreneurial blogging world right now. And man, do I hate them . . . maybe because I’m not a real fan of the whole ‘being labeled’ thing. But what musician is, right? However, it’s

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No Fumar, por favor

We’re finally moving. Here I sit, wedged quite uncomfortably between an elderly man (who reeks of the half-smoked cigar sticking out of his shirt pocket) and an even smellier retired church pastor. The former speaks no English; the latter is clearly excited to have this opportunity to

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