I attended a skool IRL in NYC today and one of the presenters was presenting on how to get your first few wins on skool. He stated that selecting two popular and active communities and focusing on them in regards to consistently commenting and providing value in those communities as a great way to create connections and naturally get your first few members. then he goes to the next slide and there she is! @Rositsa Aleksandrova and V1B1N Tribe as THE EXAMPLE of a popular and active community to consider participating in. I almost shouted out I know her!! 😂😂 so cool to be apart of such a great community with even better human beings doing things the right way!

When I recorded my album “Mind’s Eye”, over 10 yrs ago, a lot of the parts I recorded, like instrumental parts, were made up on the spot. However, while most of the songs were written prior to recording, in some way shape or form, this one idea that I truly wanted to record was this one line chorus “One foot infront of the other!” That’s all I had. I was not even improvising many lyrics to it at first! I’d play the thumb piano when jamming with the ideas also, which was later used as the main instrument in the song! When it came time to recording the first tracks for the songs, namely the drum tracks, the song One Foot still didn’t have any real form.. just one line and a groove! For me, the process that unfolded was such an experience of trusting the moment and letting things truly happen! So the drummer could record the drums to the song we didn’t even have yet, I jammed along on the keys while we recorded the “song”! We had no idea where we were going! I would sing random words and put in the chorus line one foot…We just had fun! While we were playing, the drummer suddenly stopped playing, thinking it would be the end! I was a bit surprised but then said “keep going, come back into it” and he did! Later, I added in the other vocals and instruments, apart from bass. It was all improvised from there on! I hope when you hear this recording, that you hear a freedom and a playfulness that happens when you create music on the spot! Sometimes, music does not want to be controlled or manipulated the way we want it to be! Sometimes, it just wants to be free to be!!! Even if it goes against all reason or convention😝

I do meditate, not always like a Zen monk with legs crossed in a temple in Tibet or in the mountains, but I certainly do meditate on the breath, and work on focusing the attention, the masters call this watching the thinker, the mind and the thoughts will always wonder, it is the meditator or the Yogi who has to bring their attention back to the breath, all life begins with the first breath and ends with the last breath! We are taught that the relaxation is in the exhalation, one of the great Buddhist teachings was, imagine when you go to sleep that you will not wake up and if you do rejoice and be grateful for a new day, if you live like every day is your last, you will have consistently great days, you will have humility and have gratitude for all of your opportunities! I never trained as a yoga instructor, but I did work in the fitness industry and I was a passionate group fitness instructor, at the time personal training was a competitive industry and the 15+ other instructors I worked with oversaturated the potential clients available, at that time I made the decision to switch back to performing live music as a vocal entertainer! Music was always my first Love, I would always go back to it, and it doesn’t matter whether you are being paid to do it or not, if it is your passion it is where you find your joy, your expression, and your release, it often heals us when we reconnect with ourselves, music, art and self expression helps us do this. Although we cannot only do what we are passionate about and what we love, we have to work and earn a living, this is our human condition. I especially like the idea of the Ikigai guy, which is the Japanese philosophy as a way of living. It essentially has four quadrants. 1) do what you love and are passionate about. 2) provide something that the world needs and share it.. 3) find a service that you can offer and be paid for. 4) explore something you’re really good at and do that as well. It is a great gift to be able to spend time doing what you love and are passionate about, it is an even greater gift to be able to share it with others and the synthesis of the two is perhaps the greatest gift of all!