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And you’d better believe it’s glorious. Best question I ever asked anyone.

And you’d better believe it’s glorious. Best question I ever asked anyone.

Less than two weeks to go!

Folks- I’d just like to recommend simplicity in your wedding. We thought we were having a very no-frills occasion and even that seems like a huge pile right now… worth it though!

The trick is to know what you’re getting up for. For me, it was writing every day.

Started this with about £14,000 of debt. I’m down to just a hair over £10k now.

Make the monthly contribution that you’re making to your debts as big as you can and pay off the smallest thing first- then take the increased capacity and pay off the next smallest thing. Rinse and repeat. It works.

I got my mobile bill down from £80 last month to £20 this month. It’s amazing how much of a difference it makes just getting aware of what you’re spending & having an idea of how much you’ve used it in any given month…

Now I want to master the guitar. I want to be one of those guys that can just pick it up and be great.

One thing that helps beat procrastination is being really clear about all your goals. Then you’re clear about what activities are moving your life forward and which are just spinning your wheels.

Recognise you’re procrastinating and you can get moving… kid yourself and you’re stuck.

http://www.landmarkeducation.com/

‘nuff said.

£2.5k on the card when I decided to get rid of the debt… down to £2.1k now…

But I’ve made major progress. I went through every single outstanding, un-done thing in my life- all the bits of paper and all the stuff in my head I’ve been thinking about but not actually doing and put them all into a GTD system on a HipsterPDA.

You wouldn’t believe how much stuff was floating around in my head not getting done and taking up space…

So dar, so good, anyway. When my phone & internet went down yesterday, rather than goofing off because there was ‘nothing useful I could do anyway’ I got through a ton of the stuff on the list that didn’t require a phone line. So that worked.

But I want to hook up with a decent label with integrity to get my music out there. I want to be doing this for a long time to come and part of that is about making records!

The mobile bill is impossible to keep down- I thought I’d done really well this month and then they hit me for £80, yowza!

I seem to be spending £120+ a month just staying in communication- some months that’s 1/3rd of my income, which is ridiculous.

So I’m going to look for ways to reduce use.

You get a good foundation to your playing, and you get stretched continually.

I spent years and years playing with a very limited musical vocabulary and breaking out of that was hard work because my fingers were ‘lazy’. Taking lessons will also help you understand what what you’re playing sounds the way it does, and how to play the same tune and have it sound totally different- all sorts of good stuff, and the difference between bashing stuff out at a campfire or an open mic and playing the music in your head.

and if you’re in any kind of field that involves anyone else interacting with you in any way, then you need a website… and a website without a domain name is mildly lame for various (Googly) reasons.

http://www.peacemango.com

I get the tune, I get the arrangement, and then I need to spend some time daydreaming up the lyrics. But there’s just no time. What’s a boy to do?

http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php

reposting this… cos it works :)

It’s nice. And it’s not Microsoft. There are just one or two sites out there that don’t work 100% with it… but that was true of IE too.

I decided I had to do this at the start of 2005 and now i get up an hour early to play. My playing’s improving rapidly and I hardly miss the extra hour in bed- hey, I can sleep when I’m dead.

I have loads more energy, better skin & muscle tone: no animals have to suffer & die on my behalf: and, curiously, all the irrational fears & phobias I had about various animals have disappeared too.