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Nov21

celebrations, perspective and growth

Posted at 3:42 AM • One Comment

It’s been an amazing week, my birthday was this past Monday (16 November) and the celebrations began on the 14th and carried on until the 17th – not a bad run.
It’s also been an inspiring week.
-Monday evening I gathered a small group of friends and ran around in the woods in the dark with cameras and audio recorders.
-Tuesday I made a last minute decision to hop on the train and go to the live taping of episode 230 of Diggnation at the Manhattan Center.
-Wednsday I went to RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT to see Gary Vaynerchuk at his book signing for CRUSH IT!

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Putting myself into all of these situations really gave me an opportunity to get a fresh perspective on the routine that I’ve settled into recently. I’ve really been reeling for a purpose since I left my 9-5 job at the beginning of the summer – and truth be told I had let my field of vision become very narrow.
I had become focused on the small city that I live in and the small group of friends that I travel with on a day to day basis.
I had let myself forget about the bigger picture that I always planned to tackle. So; here is what I have come to after the end of this week.

-everybody that I let in to my world matters
-pettiness and anger are a complete waste of my energy
-I’ve learned to just apologize for inconsequential shit; even when I don’t see where I’ve been wrong; just in order to move on.
-listen. listen. listen. listen more than speak.
-don’t waste my time doing things that I DO NOT LOVE
-I have NO boundaries; the only thing that holds me back is myself

and most importantly I’ve realized that I don’t need to be the guy with the most toys or the biggest bank account to be happy. I just need to live what I love and earn what I need to comfortably cover my needs.

So; that said – my long stalled and idled project is back underway. I have no excuses now. I have the time; I can cover the initial investment; and I think that I can make it work. There will be more about this in future posts.

Also; I’m going to see New Moon tomorrow…. I’m not sure why. expect a review as part of my new project.

May27

Post Memorial Day wrap-up…

Posted at 12:02 PM • One Comment

Well folks; the dust has settled and the holiday has passed. First off… I blew the diet completely out of the water for the entire weekend. Velocity diet failure. I had a great first 11 days; and then I started messing up. I apparently can’t handle adding ANY type of solid food without going off of the schedule. So, its time to jump back on the horse and give it a go again….

Otherwise it was an amazing weekend; I did some work on my recording computer to get it back up and running again so expect some new music to be posted in a week or two. Also, I got my first sunburn of the season. Summer is on!!!!

May20

Velocity Diet – Restart; new Day 1

Posted at 7:53 AM • 2 Comments

Hmm… it’s been a few days without any update… so, heres the story…  This past weekend I was involved in a wedding party and had to travel quite a bit.  I was not fully prepared to manage my diet needs so I ended up just eating normally all weekend.  I tried to keep it healthy, and I think I did because before my weekend I weighed 372, and today I weigh 374 – which i am sure is almost all just water retention.  SO, I am back on the plan, but I figured that I would start counting over again. Lessons Learned?  Yes, plan well in advance to be able to work your diet around events such as weddings, etc.

Also, I got a twitter account this past weekend.  It’s kind of fun.  http://twitter.com/billbates if you want to follow me.