I want to rule the world

"if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air." - meditation, nayyirah waheed

Urgh, mon dieu. Whatta week! I am back at uni and as usual the start of the semester is a lil bumpy but it's no big deal. I am trying to decide on some grand theme/idea to base my entire body of work around this year, and as is generally the cause with these things it's proving to be a very difficult task. However, I had two revelations in the past week, the first being that after years and years and years of failing I have finally discovered the secret to rolling my 'r's (it lives at the tip of your tongue, not deep in your throat), and the second being based on this quote from Amy Winehouse: "There's no point in saying anything but the truth." For some reason that quote has been rolling around my head since I first heard it and I can't seem to file it anywhere yet. Perhaps there is some link to the truth and to my work for the year...my job is to build the link I guess. I totally get off on the idea of dealing only with the truth in all aspects of life, art, work etc...I don't know, time will tell.
I have also recently re-discovered the joys of good time management. I wrote THIS piece for Grassroots Resistance but before you read I might just add that goal setting is also an amazing tool that, when harnessed correctly, can be literally life-changing. I'm not talking like dreams that you turn into goals - these are super important and relevant, but you cannot expect to just be ~successful!~ because you've written it in your list of goals for 2014. Nah, no no. Attainable, everyday goals are a part of daily routine. You gotta have long-term, medium-term, and short-term goals. For example, a short-term goal of mine for tomorrow is do my singing exercises tomorrow and practice for Nebraskatak's gig tomorrow night + other stuff I can't remember. A medium-term for the next few weeks/months is reach X amount of likes on FB for Frida, release a new tune with artwork and get X amount of gigs for the next however many weeks etc + other things similar. Long-term, generate a liveable income from only music/art etc + other things ya know. I have a lot of ambition which is great but it's like if I just put up a picture of Beyonce on my wall and said that my goal was to have a life like hers the chances of that MASSIVE goal being achieved with no stepping-stone goals set in place are like minus a hundred. I guess I should probably be a life coach huh...

^^ Me with some of Gonzalo Ceballos's work for Frida, so beautiful it made me cry ^^