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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this weekend in that I’ve been reflecting on the past and planning for the future. It’s become clear to me that it’s time to cut certain things down in order to pursue my other passions more. Blogging I started up the blog during an exciting time of growth in my life. I had been reading a lot about personal development and I was ready to expand my creativity in to new (but familiar) areas. A lot has happened since I’ve done so, and now I’m contracting back. I’ve said before that I started up the blog mainly as a vehicle for honing my writing skills, and it’s been invaluable to do so over the past five and a half months. My ability to come up with ideas has been tested and I’m ready to start coming up with some more abstract ideas so I can start writing stories again. I’d also like to rework the two substantial stories I have sitting around here somewhere. Now, I’m not going to stop blogging, but come June, I’m going to cut back to once a week on Saturday mornings. I’ll hop out of bed and get all my thoughts about the past week down, then carry on with my day. That will give me an extra three mornings a week to pursue writing stories or writing things for my other websites (mainly Nintendo-A-GoGo). Music I’ve also figured out that it’s time to cut my music projects down to one if I want any sort of productivity, and of course the one that remains is going to be Philistine on the Sidewalk. I was thinking about how all of my songs on the Nevar Say Die! Compilation, Volume Three album (and there are a lot) have qualities that can be heard in my Philistine on the Sidewalk project. The only one in which an argument could be made is for my Mystic Nova track, but I do plan on incorporating chiptune elements to some of the PotS tracks in the near future. Starting up the Philistine on the Sidewalk project really opened up a lot for me and I think it’s going to take me somewhere that should be really interesting. Also in the music vein, I want to redouble my efforts to make Concatenation Records more well-known. A fair amount of that is going to link into honing my own musicality into one project, as well as touching base with folks that have put out tunes on the label in the past. I still have some more details to work out with this, but things will come to fruition in due time. Work While I’m keeping my job as long as they want me there, I’m not going to be so focused on working during my hours away from the office, especially on the weekend. I’ve got a new cat to play with, books and video games to catch up on, and other things that aren’t coming to mind at the moment. One of the main reasons that I’ve been working so hard is that I’m trying to build streams of passive income in a variety of different ways, but the way I’ve been most successful with is dividends from stock shares. Through building my portfolio, my dividends account for over 2% of my total income now. While that’s not a lot yet, that number will continue to grow over the months and years as I continue to save my money, invest in the stocks, and reinvest the dividends in order to buy more shares and grow the dividends further. I still want to create more streams of passive income, but I can take things a little easier and not stress out about it so much. The Future My future goals are still pretty much in place, so all I need to do is continue to rein things in some and focus more of my energy towards achieving them! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on May 17th, 2010. |
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