Every month I come up with a list of six habits that I want to make routine for myself. For the most part, for the past 6 months or so, 5 of them have remained unchanged because I think that these are core to what will make me a better person. Those habits are meditation, gratitude journaling, exercise, reading, and drinking 100 oz of water. These are the habits that I know will serve me in the long run. Do I complete each of them every day? No, that would be exhausting. And then the sixth I have changed from month to month based on what my needs may be. For instance, I noticed that I am leaning a little too much on sweets and desserts in the past months, so this month my sixth habit is: not sweets or desserts. This sixth habit I truly try to stick to for the entire month. And then there are my monthly goals that I set for myself. Among other things, this month I set for myself to complete two more “perfect” days than I had last month. For April, that translates to 20 of 30 days wher...

I have been neglecting this blog for far too long this year. Sure, in the past, I have made commitments (and failed to follow through on those commitments) to keep this blog updated regularly. So today, I am going to get back on the horse and commit to posting more regularly. Ah, what does regularly mean, you may ask? And my answer to that would be a resounding: “I have no idea!” What I do know is that I need to start updating this space more often and work on my journey toward being more creative. Why do you have to be more creative, you ask? “Well, I’m not sure.” would be my answer. But I know that it is something that I have always aspired to in one form or another since I was a little kid.  As a kid, I wanted to learn an instrument. Music always fascinated me as a kid, probably because my older brothers were always listening to loud music in their bedrooms and in their cars. This was a bit problematic because my elementary school music teacher made it clear that I was not a ...

 In my last post I wrote about how many New Year’s Resolutions just aren’t sustainable. I also gave my solution to the typical New Year’s Resolutions, a 30 day or one month resolution. So here it is, my goals that I have set for myself for the month of February.  For me, February is going to be about setting a baseline. I know it seems like it is a bit nonsensical. Why didn’t I do this in January? After all that is the first month of the year. Well, to be honest, I just never thought about it before now. So how am I going to establish my baseline. I have set myself three goals related to that, and one other goal.  Goal #1 : I have to fix part of my diet. What that means is that I am going to go through February with no candy and no desserts. I am a huge dopamine addict, specifically when it comes to anything sugar related. I could be driving home from work and knowing a convenience store is coming up decide that I want a candy bar. And when I go into said convenience stor...

 This is the time of year when gyms fill up and liquor stores struggle for business. But everyone knows that both of these situations are only temporary, because by mid-February most people have moved on from their resolutions and back to doing whatever habits are so ingrained in them that no meaningful change is ever realized.  In fact, it is such a forgone conclusion that New Year’s Resolutions won’t last that they have made a national “holiday” out of it. National Quitting Day is typically the second Saturday in February, this year that will be February 8th.  Most people give up their New Year’s Resolutions for a couple of reasons.  1. They fail to plan. They don’t use a framework when planning their goals like a S.M.A.R.T. plan. Smart is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time bound. They say “In 2025 I am going to lose weight”, instead of “In 2025 I am going to lose 5 pounds a month by doing (inset plan here).” I have been more than g...

In the last week or so you could say that I have been… lazy doesn’t feel like the right word. I would probably say unmotivated or undisciplined. I haven’t felt like myself in the past week. It was a bit of the feeling that I didn’t get enough sleep the night before, everyday. I, rightly or wrongly, thought that I had so much to do and no time to do it in. So I did what anyone would do, nothing. I’m not entirely sure what was wrong. As a consequence I got very few workouts in last week. Instead of doing what I should have been doing (working out or exercising), I spent that time either sleeping, doom scrolling, or wasting time watching videos on YouTube. To be fair I do quite a bit of those things on the day to day, I was just doing more of them. And to add fuel to the fire (or lack of fire in this case) I was also snacking on stuff I shouldn’t have (specifically a lot of Peanut M&Ms and Snickers Bars).  Three out of seven days I made the effort to go beyond my comfort zone and ...

This isn’t the first time that I’ve begun writing this blog, and truth be told, it probably won’t be the last either. Over the years I’ve tried my hand at this several times; sometimes I get a couple of weeks in, others is just a failure to launch. Do I expect this time to be any different? No, but i hope that it will. I hope that I will become some sort of prolific blogger, and that this blog will eventually turn into a muse for me to start vlogging, and I will finally fulfill a longtime dream of mine to become a content creator.  Who am I? With the preliminaries out of the way… Hello World, my name is Ken, and this is my space. I am an aspiring content creator who doesn’t really know what he’s doing. I’m 51 years old, and ever since I was very young I wanted to be a creator.  It all started with music. I have always loved music, and wanted to create music as a young boy. My tow fascinations as a child were the guitar and the saxophone. My school did not offer guitar lessons,...