TAYLOR ROSS™|MUSIC

I slept till 8:30am this morning. I want to say, "it's because I broke my personal record for distance & pace yesterday on my 5.8km run" - which is true - but really it's because I took a Benadryl in order to get to sleep faster and reset my schedule, which clearly backfired. No matter.

I've been terrible about only having one cup of coffee recently, which is probably the main reason I haven't been sticking to a regular sleep/wake cycle, but today I manage just one and a half this morning while reading 3 James Clear Articles. 

I meditated for 20 minutes and went for a bike ride - 15 miles to barber park and back. Set another personal record, 3:48 pace.

Practiced piano for my upcoming gig - 1 hr. It's amazing how much more motivated I am to practice when I'm getting paid for it, and today's practice went well. Reading, The Inner Game of Tennis, is very applicable to practice and performance.

Did yoga for 20 minutes. I started the yoga for the same reason I started the running - because I suck at it. Today I could feel a difference afterwords; I was more relaxed in a way that tells me I got something that I didn't know I needed. Going to go to a yoga session on Saturdays at 9am at the Boise Institute for Buddhist studies, as part of the Phoenix - a sobriety based community of clearly crazy people. Should be embarrassing.

Good - failure is a necessary data point.

Lately I've been struggling with keeping up with my routine, and skipping necessary steps on my journey of progress. I admit that. But the people who succeed are the people that keep trying. Fall Seven, Rise Eight - Relentless - Grit. That shit. It's how I quit smoking almost 8 years ago, and how I'll be accomplishing a major milestone on July 27th. I simply never quit trying. I failed literally more times than I can remember, but I never stopped getting back to it. 

Today I composed for 1.5 hours-not enough.
Contemporary flute solo.
It's kicking my ass again.
Feels like I'm banging my head against the keys.
And I still feel like I'm using it as an excuse not to build my album.

I did however write a hilarious honky folk chorus, more avoiding.

I know a girl got all I need;
crack cocaine, amphetamine.
That crack cocaine'll be the death of me

If you don't like it you can shove it down,
I smoke crack cocaine pound for pound.
That crack cocaine'll be the death of me.

Just gonna keep laying bricks.

Not of cocaine though.

Daily Core Value Scores out of 10;
Passion - 7
Determination - 8
Excellence - 7
Discipline - 7.9
Creativity - 3.5

woof.

See you tomorrow.