Subject: Connecting for Opportunities

Connecting for Opportunities

August 1st, 2018 at 6:00 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, I hope you're all enjoying the summer months. I definitely prefer the warm weather over cold so I'm spending as much time as I can outside. My day job even allows me to work from home every Friday so I often spend the day ...

Know what you pay for the technology you use

July 1st, 2018 at 8:23 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, If you have a website, and you should, it's important to keep track of the technology you use and what you pay to use it. Why? I recently received a domain name expiration notice in the mail from a company called iDNS, a ...

Be OK with Being OK

June 1st, 2018 at 9:06 pm EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, This is coming to you a little later than usual. My day job has kept me busy and I've had to work some overtime to finish up a big project so my side projects have suffered a bit. This month I want to encourage you to be ...

Is your life too convenient?

May 1st, 2018 at 6:06 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, Having the right tools can help you finish a task quickly. I realized how important tools are today when I was working on a blog post and I wasn't able to export the image I was creating from Canva. They were having a tem ...

What keeps you writing?

April 1st, 2018 at 6:00 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, If there's one thing this newsletter does for me, it reminds me of how fast time goes by. I'm always surprised when it's time for me to sit and write out another letter to all of you. Why do you write? What do you want to ...

The Slow Drip

March 1st, 2018 at 12:52 pm EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, Do you ever feel like you aren't making the progress you hoped for? Like you're not anywhere near where you want to be with a song or a project? The last few months have been like that for me and I'm not sure it's going t ...

Take songs apart and see what they're made of

February 1st, 2018 at 7:00 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, If you're looking for ideas on how to write songs, I would HIGHLY suggest listening to the Sleeping At Last podcast. I have been a fan of Sleeping At Last for many years and for the past several months Ryan has been letti ...

Leave It at the Door - A New Year's Challenge

January 1st, 2018 at 6:00 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, Welcome to 2018! A new year with new opportunities. To start off this year I would like you, if you have a smartphone or even a cell phone, to consider my Leave It at the Door challenge. This challenge allows you to be mo ...

The gift of rest

December 1st, 2017 at 6:00 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, The "hustle and bustle" of the Christmas season is here. It's easy to get caught up in it. It's easy for the time between Thanksgiving and New Year's to be a stressful time. To ease that stress, plan for times of rest to e ...

Book Reading Challenge

November 1st, 2017 at 6:00 am EDT

Dear friends and lyricists, 2018 is coming quickly! The last couple months of each year, I start to work on plans for the next year. A big part of those plans include what I want to read. If you’re not a reader, this is my book reading challenge fo ...