Changing my life - Day 1

Well I finally decided to do it. Im going to change my life. This sounds like a huge thing to accomplish, and I have tried before but this time it will happen. I have more confidence in that than I have ever had and, I am starting this blog as a place where my friends can keep up with my struggles and keep me accountable to myself.

For the longest time I have been scared to do things that I have wanted to do my entire life. Along with that, I have lied to myself about how I am pursuing my goals. I have realized recently things that people have been telling me all my life.

- You need to make things happen. You cant just wait for them to happen to you.
- Make your own opportunities. (Especially in this town)
- Pursue your goals
- Its ok to dream, you just have to back up that dream with some action

So, those things said...

Many of you know that my whole life I have wanted to be a puppeteer. The odd thing is that I was paralyzed by that dream. I didnt even pick up a puppet until a few years ago. When I finally did it seemed to come to me naturally. I still have a lot to work on but I do think, now more than ever, that puppetry is what I am meant to do.

There are many other things on my to do list of life that I am going to stop putting aside and start working on.

So here is my list to date:

TO DO

Practice yoga every day
Workout every day
Learn guitar
Get back into performing in any fashion
Work on my puppetry skills every day
Get scuba certified


Now I do have some obstacles. Mainly that my current job demands a lot of time. I am going to take this one step at a time and do as much as I can. Hopefully without burning myself out.

So, here on Day 1 it begins.

Tonight - I will pick up my guitar and practice chords. (Thanks Matt for the tips)
Tomorrow - I will do some improv, I will practice my guitar, I will create a puppet vid and post on YouTube.

Hopefully thats not all that I will do but hey, I shouldnt start too ambitiously. Baby steps that I can definitely do are much better to start with I think.

So thanks for reading and the support that I know you all will be giving me along the way. Today is the start of a happier life path for me. Time to get back to living my life and stop watching it go by.