TAYLOR ROSS™|MUSIC

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Up late, 7:30
I only had one and a half cups of coffee yesterday at about 7-7:30am before I went for a 4 mile run, and I still couldn't sleep until about 1230am last night.

Keep Going.

Coffee and three James Clear articles.
A little bit of surfing the web but no more than 20 minutes or so, max
Then composed for 3 hours, 9am-12pm
Contemporary flute solo - some good work; elongation of phrases, concretizing structure through rough version of notation. Came up with an interesting climax utilizing the common factor of of the work, and incorporated some techniques which suit the work nicely; Breath sounds, overblown harmonics, idiomatic tremolos etc. 

Then I ate breakfast and went and ran errands. This whole place is just unending square mileage of concrete leveled nightmares. A gray future hell-scape reminisce of the city scenes from Heavy Metal, even the nicotine clouds that these dopamine driven meat sacks push out their Prius windows to vape-rape everyone within one city block is  electronic now.

I navigated my way through real time apocalypse to Staples - for a nice black moleskine journal. It's beautiful. I keep a Daily Reflection Journal to reflect on how I've approached my day re: the prioritization of my core values; Passion, Determination, Excellence, Discipline, & Creativity, and I was doing some Pat Pattison Object Writing for 10 minutes everyday but I haven't since I revised my habit tracker and didn't include it on there. It was engrained enough yet. I'll be getting back to that. But this journal is primarily for creative writing, heady introspection cathartic poetry, specifically. I'll make it a habit to write and write and write, and eventually I'll have a compendium with some bits of universal value I can use as fodder for my album. Then to Guitar Center- For some thin fender guitar picks, and Rite Aid.

After I survived the way home I managed to complete my meditation late in the day, and my yoga.

What I learned today was that if I compose before everything I get more of it done. There's nothing like waking up to coffee and reading James Clear articles, and I think I' be useless if I rolled out of bed straight to composing. It's nice to have a buffer time to get my mindset oriented towards the day. However the flip side is I'm less likely to complete my other habits that depend on a chain of actions beginning with meditation in the morning - 50 days 20 minutes a day going strong. But if I built those habits from scratch I can rearrange them and formulate a schedule that PRIORITIZES COMPOSITION while still allowing for the completion of health oriented behavior. 

I  learned that I like composing because it's an act that facilitates and even requires solitary effort. Every time I have venture out into the city in anything other than to downtown, the greenbelt or some parks on my bicycle, yuchhh.

I also learned that I like doing yoga, I mean I love doing yoga. Again, I suck at it, but to notice the difference in how I feel before completing a round vs after, is astounding. I also like to do yoga before I meditate, as opposed to after.

No running today
No biking
No piano Practice, second day in a row.

I did finish Grit by Angela Duckworth last night, 
and started, Tools of the Titans by Tim Ferriss.
17 books down, 13 to go for my yearly goal.

Im writing this all to Reckoner, by Radiohead, on repeat. 
It brings me someplace no other song can.

Going to finish my last set of 20 pushups to make it 100 for the day, before I post this, eat dinner to round out 1800 calories, and get to bed early.

The best day starts the night before.

I think that while I'll still be completing this post everyday, 
I'm not going to post to instagram anymore. 
Recording my life on my website gives me energy, 
posting on instagram takes it away.

See you tomorrow lovelies.