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Showing posts with label Song. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Song. Show all posts

Change, Positivity, Goals

I need to change my outlook and my mindset.

I can do what I put my mind to.

Don't be afraid.

There are so many dreams to remember. 

I am wasting my time doing nothing. I am wasting my time on this writing. I am not creating or learning anything.

So what should I do?

I have plenty to give and use up, but at the same time I really don't have much to share around. Energy that is. I guess.

I don't know what to do.

Take action. Make action. Take and make action.  And run with it from there.

Give it a shot I guess. Accentuate the positive.



So much negativity being shone down on how I am living and moving through my life.

I want to change that negativity into positivity.

Apparently positivity is not a word.



Trying just to write what needs to be written in the time that I have.

The morning pages today were not written in the morning, but they were written. They weren't all written longhand (though some were), but in the end, the words were written, and the thoughts were processed, and that was/is the main goal.

What I want to do with my writing is express that what I am thinking about and learning is important.

I am reading The Writing Diet, and it is interesting, but basically a rehashing of The Artist's Way in many ways.

But that is okay. I shall not judge.

There are many ways in which I would like to be able to be more myself in every single way and every single trial and opportunity.

How can I be more myself?

Allow myself to be.

Allow myself to act.

I have stifled myself for quite some time and it is no longer working to keep my mind at bay.

"I am freaking out in my mind." - Car Seat Headrest

There are many things that I want to accomplish.

That is not true.

I want to accomplish only a few things:

1. Lose 60-70 lbs.
2. Make a living as a writer.

Okay, so maybe that is only really two things that I want to accomplish.

Let me go back to my other goals and see what they say for 2017....
  1. Wake up on time every day, and stay awake until bedtime
  2. Earn more than $100,000 / year creatively
  3. Exercise daily
  4. Quit smoking
  5. Lose 50 lbs
  6. Maintain goal weight less than 200 lbs
I have reduced those goals to fewer than six before I even started on this however.

1. Wake up on time every day, and stay awake until bedtime

I am working on this one, but it is slow going, since I have sleep apnea, complex, central, and I need to get an Auto SV treatment in order to get a restful night's sleep. I hope to get this contraption by the end of October, and be sleeping well in November. That is the goal.

I have clarified the remaining six goals into something less....

2. Get healthy

a) exercise daily
b) quit smoking
c) lose 60-70 lbs
d) maintain goal weight less than 200lbs

3. Make a living as a writer.....

a) Can I do this?
b) Is this possible?
c) What would I write?
d) Do I have anything to share?

So, in summation, I really do have only two goals...

1. Get healthy
2. Make a living as a writer

That is my goal, and that is what I want to be doing.

Now, what am I thinking I will do for the rest of my time here?

What do I think that I will be doing here and now?

1. I want to get healthy
a) lose 60-70 lbs
b) stay smoke free
c) exercise daily
d) maintain goal weight less than 200 lbs

2. I want to make a living as a writer
a) sell books on Amazon.com and at local bookstores
b) give away the blog content (it's how I give back)

Now what am I thinking about?

What am I thinking about doing now?

What am I actually going to do?

I am spending some time writing, writing away.

Time to move on.

There Will Be Dancing in the Streets (Original Song by Dave Brey)




We were all listening
to the garage band down the street
The noise it made our hearts rejoice
The music moved our feet

And when the dancing started up
We tore all the walls down
And the band played on as we took on
The whole entire town

Clap your hands
Move your feet
There will be dancing in the streets
   Move your body to the beat
There will be dancing in the streets

The sun was high the sound was low
We were moving in our chairs
And as the music lifted us
We were floating in the air

We started strong and soon took on
An excitable air
The music moving hearts and minds
Of everybody there

Clap your hands
Move your feet
There will be dancing in the streets
   Move your body to the beat
There will be dancing in the streets

The sun was low and the sound was high
As we all started to sweat
The droplets gleaming on your lips
Looked better than the best

And when I saw you moving on
The street in front of me
I realized I'd never been as
Used up and happy

Clap your hands
Move your feet
There will be dancing in the streets
   Move your body to the beat
There will be dancing in the streets

The sun went down
The sound turned up
The night is falling
Party on and on and on and on

Clap your hands
Move your feet
There will be dancing in the streets
   Move your body to the beat
There will be dancing in the streets

Clap your hands
Move your feet
There will be dancing in the streets
   Move your body to the beat
There will be dancing in the streets

Last Cigarette (Original Song)




On the night I left the earth
You gave me one last cigarette
The smoke and heat just lighted up my eyes
And bringing down the horse
Was a feat of metaphysical
Proportions that I cannot comprehend

All the jokes we tell in solitude
Are meant for me and you
And the morning light will show we feel the same
When I saw you through the glass
Our eyes met for a second there
And everything around us disappeared

The heat from our fire is so strong
And it burns so bright all night long
The memory of me and you
The thought that all our dreams came true
In a life we never lived but only dreamt

And now I’m on a starship
Breaking through the atmosphere
Hitting terminal velocity alone
And how I’m finally known
Is by the stage name of Jupiter
And Mars is pissed because he’s second best

On the morning they collect
The ashes from our grave
Our funeral pyre will still be slightly warm
And I never will forget
The breath of life you gave
On the night I died inside to be reborn

The heat from our fire is so strong
And it burns so bright all night long
The memory of me and you
The thought that all our dreams came true
In a life we never lived but only dreamt

The heat from our fire will keep us warm
The heat from our fire will keep us warm
The heat from our fire will keep us warm
The heat from our fire will keep us warm

Waterfall


"And then when we get down there,
Way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it
Oh we'll see, oh we'll see it, we'll see it-
Oh my morning's coming back
The whole world's waking up
All the city buses swimming past
I'm happy just because
I've found out I am really no one"
- Bright Eyes


Quote

"Just do your best. It's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity, maybe I don't have to be good, but I can try to be at least a little better than I've been so far." - The Avett Brothers