I'm doing 38 things
コんいちわ！
Watashi wa Amerika-jin desu. I am currently in the process of learning Japanese with the use of memrise.com and Tae Kim’s Complete Guide to Japanese.
Colton Provias's Life List
-
1. stop procrastinating
1 entry . 10 cheers30,378 people -
2. improve time management
1 entry . 8 cheers59 people -
3. inspire someone
1 entry . 12 cheers1,610 people -
4. Become Financially Independent
9 cheers6,593 people -
5. give up caffeine
4 entries . 3 cheers177 people -
6. move out
1 entry . 6 cheers3,461 people -
7. write a musical
1 entry . 5 cheers282 people -
8. learn guitar
6 cheers3,676 people -
9. produce an album
3 cheers54 people -
10. set up my studio
1 entry . 4 cheers7 people -
11. score a video game
3 cheers1 person -
12. Release an iOS app
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person -
13. get out of debt
1 entry . 3 cheers12,156 people -
14. score a film
2 entries . 3 cheers20 people -
15. Score a feature-length film
1 cheer4 people -
16. teach a class
2 cheers175 people -
17. run a 5k
1 entry . 4 cheers2,784 people -
18. conduct an orchestra
3 cheers51 people -
19. visit Los Angeles
2 cheers133 people -
20. visit europe
5 cheers1,626 people -
21. write more than one full score or piece in a single week
1 person -
22. visit all 50 states
1 entry . 1 cheer8,956 people -
23. see an active volcano
5 cheers186 people -
24. pilot a plane
2 cheers23 people -
25. start a business
1 entry . 4 cheers2,469 people -
26. Learn Japanese
2 entries . 2 cheers10,759 people -
27. learn Mandarin
1,381 people -
28. Learn Dvorak
1 entry . 1 cheer193 people -
29. loose 20 pounds
2 entries . 1 cheer514 people -
30. move to los angeles
296 people -
31. blog everyday
55 people -
32. write a book
2 cheers31,073 people -
33. get Pro Tools HD
1 cheer1 person -
34. implement a better pipeline
1 entry1 person -
35. profit from my music
1 cheer1 person -
36. get a field kit
2 cheers1 person -
37. learn french
4 cheers12,760 people -
38. learn german
2 entries . 3 cheers5,392 people
How I did it
It made me
musical 
How I did it: It required a lot of playing on keyboards/piano and saxophone along with writing music. By exposing myself to having to recreate sounds and improvise, I had to slowly learn to associate certain sounds patterns to my own performance. Although I can't say the name of an interval immediately and perfectly accurately, I can recreate it perfectly on an instrument. Read how I did it…
It made me
happy
How I did it: I started with looking through hundreds of designs, looking into creating my own design, and etc. I had a few goals: clean, simple, and content oriented. In the end, the default Wordpress design won. So I just had to fix up the content and now have several posts lined up for publishing over the next couple of days. The first new post in about 45 minutes will even mention 43things. (Website is at ColtonProvias.com) Read how I did it…
It made me
Bueno
How I did it: I took 5 years of Spanish in high school and then worked at Walt Disney World Resort. By working at Disney, I found it very useful to further develop my Spanish so as to help aid the guests better. Read how I did it…
See all "How I Did It" stories...
Recent entries
With 8 music projects and 4 programming projects all going simultaneously, things get clogged up. I’m now working on a way to break it all down so I can push everything through efficiently while maintaining flexibility.
