Back to the daily grind after a wonderful slow paced weekend in the country. I should do that more often. But here I am tired again, mainly because I couldn't sleep last night. As usual, there's lots going on up in my brain. I talked with George about the end credit music for "The Life" tonight, before I left work, and I'm thinking I'll be finished with the final mix this week and ready to master everything next week. After that, we start talking about the final edit of the pilot and what kind of underscoring we'll need. It's shaping up to be about 40 minutes long so, it may be the longest thing I've scored solo since Kisses and Caroms. Zero Sum Game I scored in part with two other composers chipping in and some of my stuff not getting used in the final cut.
Anyway, I'm as excited as ever about it and all the other projects. Even the ones on hold right now. Tomorrow, to add to the excitement, I have a voice over practice session with my coach and a few of her other students in Midtown at 1pm. So I have time to get back to yoga tomorrow morning and to pitter around town before I go into work at 330pm. Should be a great day, great to dive back into voice over again...but I have to be up in about 7 hours. It never ends.
So with that said, I think I am going to start taking more opportunities to recharge...and reward myself. I've had a long and hard but also fun year. But also grueling. And also brutal in some ways. But also fruitful.
The point is I deserve down time and thinking of how to spend such down time (and some of the money I've saved up) has led me to decide to finally start traveling again. I don't always believe in such stuff but I have been toying with the notion that our thoughts create our reality. Central America and the Caribbean have been in some of those thoughts and so has the idea of doing a yoga retreat at some point. So, a few Sundays ago, while meditating before a yoga class, I decided to direct that thought energy toward such a venture. "I'd like to make that a reality this year." I said to myself. Wouldn't you know it, at the end of that yoga class my teacher mentioned a yoga retreat in Belize that she leads in April, right around my birthday. I took it as a sign and started doing my research. After a few days of looking into it, I started to think about how I should probably weigh all my options. Then, yet another yoga retreat popped up that one of my teachers at a different studio leads. This one in Nicaragua. Unfortunately, it's sooner and I don't think I'll have the money in time to put down a deposit but then who knows. Things could change. Things always change.
I've been thinking about that, too. How you can plan so far ahead in the future but your planning can only take into account what you assume will happen given the set of circumstances that you are aware of, i.e. how much money you will be making at your current job(s), or if a new job will come around in time to help you out. Now, instead of waiting for such a thing to happen, why not just say what you need from the universe out loud. Again with the thoughts creating reality, if I say, "I can't afford it," then I won't. But if I instead ask, "how can I afford it," I'm that much closer to figuring it out. I have to believe it's possible before I can entertain the thought. Of course, I've never been the kind of person to think you can just draw something from thin air but I do think it's powerful to state your intentions because it gives your conscious mind something to latch onto, a goal to work towards. You need a certain amount of faith of course, but what I mean when I say faith, is faith in yourself, faith in your abilities. There is still work to be done. Oh, no doubt about that.
It always helps me in these situations too, and especially when I doubt myself to look at my track record...I'm here, aren't I? Good night for now.
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