HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GOOD CHRISTMAS
This whole economy thing is crazy, like 2001 all over again. All I can say about this year is that I have had this obsession with being super-productive. I thought it might be the "D" in Claritin-D (pseudoephedra), but I stopped taking that and kept on truckin. I have optomized and disciplined and made efficient every aspect of my life, reading productivity theory and marching through lists like a bat out of hell. It helps, because for the past few years I have been running a company with many simultaneous projects and about a dozen people under my wing servicing distance-training, pharma, and bookshelf-software industries. It seems I am all grown up, and a byproduct of being OCD about being creative is that time just flies by. In three years, it will be 2012, Nostradamus' "end of the world", as well as the end as predicted by Edgar Cayce, and the Mayan Calendar... at least I am having fun (and hoping its all bullcrap). It was a good year for challenging my personal philosophies, and understanding that cause and effect as we know it often do not include chaos. People sometimes are persistent enough to benefit greater from the effects of chance, like this guy. In other words, if you dont play the game, if you are not grateful, you dont allow for the possibility to win by playing (+ a small percentage of chaos that renders rules useless). I rediscovered beer over the past few years, I belong to a beer club, and have several favorites. In my early 20's it was all about liquor (whiskey/rum) go figure. I also am able to exercise and drink without one effecting the other, I have gained about 30lbs in the past 3 years. That is a record for my formerly skinny ass, breaking the 15-year weight stagnation no-matter-what-I-ate-or-did. That alone was my hardest challenge in the past 5/years, and probably the best antidote to the wishy-washy passive-aggressive angst and self-doubt that many an artist feels. I thank God I was able to rewire all those weak and indirect time-wasting behaviors out of my personality. New Years resolutions? Reduce stress and have fun, smell some roses while not stopping, be grateful!