Thinking About 100 Million Things

Posted on September 17, 2009

I’ve got a 100 million thought spinning around in my head this evening as I sit here writing.  I woke up early this morning to sweet voice of my babygirl syaing, ‘Up, up”.  She slept well in her crib that is situated in our bedroom.  When she caught a glimpse of my eyes trying to sneak a peak at me, she whispered “hi”.  I just smiled from her just cute deliciousness, got her out of the crib and then put her in the bed with us.  Mistake!  She never fell back to sleep.  Needless to say, I was operating on fumes today without getting enough sleep.  I wont be doing that again tonight.

I had a great lunch today with a good friend of mine who also has a baby.  It’s so good talking to her because sometimes i feel we are living parallel lives in some respect.  We can relate and then she has other perspectives than me.  She is more conservative and I think I take a little more risks.  I think I am a little more creative, but she is highly cerebral and the voice of reason.  Conversations with her help you balance things out and she knows where all the great restaurants are downtown.

Well, I had a wonderful walk today with my accountability partner sista, my “aps”.  It was mostly me texting her while I took the 2 and half mile walk around the reserviore in Silver Lake, while she drove  to meet me from her editing bay in Venice beach (she is an amazing documentory movie editor).  We were suppose to walk together, but when I finished the walk she had just arrived and I needed to get back to pick up Lalah from my Moms.  So, we sat in the grass and had our empowerment session.  We keep eachother in check, making sure we stay on track in living our authentic lives.  We make sure that we inform eachother when we recognize that we are allowing fear to hinder our dreams, so that we can conquer that obstacle that we have created in our minds and get over it.  We acknowledge eacthothers accomplishments.

Its really strange how we met.  We were standing in line at thevalet, waiting for our cars after we both had already attended a day long internetmarketing seminar with another incrediby empowering woman name Vanessa Summers.  I introduced myself and asked how she liked the seminar and what type of business she was involved in, etc.  She was just open and friendly.  We talked about my mastermind group and accountability partners and what a great idea that would be.  We exchanged information, and then about 3 weeks later got started as eachothers APS’s.  It has been awesome ever since.  We are flexible with eachother if certain things are not accomplished or are altered a bit after we get more clarity in our lives direction.  It’s great!

Tonight, the baby went to sleep already…She tried to play my guitar tonight while I sang.  She can strum pretty well with her tiny fingers.  She loves music and looks up everytime she hears a guitar or a piano played on the TV. Play a song and her little head just bobbs up and down, she claps…I just love it.  Just wanted to share some of my100 million things today.

What Are the Specifics

Posted on September 6, 2009

I really believe that by putting my goals out there for the world to see will put me under the pressure and keep me accountable enough to actually accomplish these goals.  It’s definitely something I think is scary to do, BUT I think it will keep me in check because I don’t like to give excuses as to why I didn’t accomplish something.  So before I write down my goals for the 90 Day Challenge, I have to truly analyze what I can give myself to do without overwhelming myself.  I’ve to balance and be realistic.  So here is a list so far…

I want to get out at least one email newsletter a week, so that my friends,family and fans (which can all be one person:)) can be kept up to date on the new things that are going on in my life as well as when they can see a new performance or get my latest release.  I need to hire a babysitter just to assist me a couple of days a week so that I can practically have another set of eyes and hands watching the baby.  I can set aside some time to practice more, get some performance footage, get my email newsletter out and get some much needed couple time with my hubby.  I want to maintain a good work out regimen.  I have been running  a few miles at a time with 4-5 mile runs on Saturday mornings at the beach…BUT haven’t been for the past couple of weeks.  I’ve gotta get back on it because I need to lose the last bit of baby weight that I gained when I was pregnant.  I want to step my workouts up a notch and probably go to the gym a couple of times a week during lunch. I want to find and buy a house, too.  Ok…weremy goals a little too ambitious; 1 email newsletter a week, hiring a babysitter, practicing and tapig performances, date nights with hubby, regular workouts and, buying a house.    I think it is all doable, especially if I follow my own advise I’ve written about in previous blogs about scheduling mytime as a Singer/Mommy/Wife /Motivator. 

I’ll keep you all updated as to where I am and what has been accomplished.  Let me know what your goals are and we can keep eachother accountable.  Good luck.  Peace and soul grease, Nichole Ayanna