Every year comes and goes, and it seems like in the last couple of years my life has completely transformed from being one where I go from job to job trying to figure out how to land consistent work to one where I now have a settled life. Would you think I would enjoy having that kind of predictable lifestyle? Well, I do because I can count on steady income and not have to worry where the next paycheck is coming from. However, my new year's resolution is going to be more about fine-tuning my life and getting back to where I once was as a musician.
Over the last year I have had to sacrifice a LOT musically in order to further myself in the workplace. Living in places for so long now without any shot at consistent practice time has obliterated what I used to have as a player. I have gained tremendous endurance from playing in the wedding band, but all the skill and finesse I used to have is in reserve until I force myself to work it back up for, say, Christmas or Easter. My New Year's Resolution includes forcing myself to practice on a daily basis even if it has to be on my shitty practice mute so people in the apartments beside me don't complain. I need to get back to playing music full-time.
Also, in the last year, I have been extremely inactive and feel my health is in serious decline relative to what it once was. There's really no excuse there - I just turned into a lazy slob. I need to make a serious commitment to maintaining physical fitness so I don't feel like a slumbering 40-something when I'm still years away from 30. My gut is developing; I'm always sore, and I never feel fully awake even with a massive dose of caffeine.
Along with resuming physical activity I need to eat better. I really can't say that I eat better than I did last year because I went from eating tons of fast food on the road in the truck and kind of burning it off by loading/unloading tables and chairs to eating way less healthy food overall at any given time. Again, that's my fault because I'm not proactive and when I come home at 6 every night, Kerri has been home for 2 hours already and I don't feel like making anything. It stems from an unhealthy lifestyle that causes me to be drained after sitting in front of a stupid computer screen for 8 1/2 hours every day.
Finally, my ultimate New Year's resolution is to climb my way up, over, and around the corporate ladder until I find a job within the company where I work that doesn't force me to deal directly with customers, doesn't have a work schedule that is completely inconvenient for what I want to do in life, and allows me energy when I get home from work. I want to be productive in AND out of the workplace. Where I am now requires a lot of planning of conservation of energy, even if I did have a stellar lifestyle. I work with a guy who is a fitness machine, and even he is ready to crash at the end of every day. Can't complain about the benefits and the pay relative to what we do, but it's killing me. I'm stuck for the next 4 months until I've been full-time for a year. In the words of Bart Scott - "Can't wait."
That's it. I got up to get a drink of water, and it turned into my spilling my New Year's resolutions onto this page. The way my blogs have been spaced out recently, it may be that I don't blog again until next New Year's Resolutions are ready to be made. Either way, until next time...
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