Personal Update 201802 | 28 Feb 2018 | Wednesday
Greetings,
I hope you’re doing well. Thanks for taking a moment to read my latest update.
Deep Dive
Since last fall, I’ve been doing a ‘deep dive’ into a specific topic each month, gathering data, doing research, and developing solutions, practices and systems that once implemented can continue on auto pilot. Here are some examples. I spent about a month studying KETO diets and intermittent fasting. Based on that research, I’ve further honed my diet and wellness strategy. In November, I began researching cryptocurrency. In addition to buying small amounts of cryptocurrencies, I began working on building my own mining systems, and investing in cloud mining. In the first year, the ROI should be 20%. In the second year, the initial principal investment should have doubled. I’m using a creative combination of existing mining approaches and systems. In January my focus was on saving and investing. In February 2018, I’ve been studying audio systems and have revisited and expanded on the audio services that I began offering back in the 1980s. Audio services have always been an area of interest for me, and something I’ve been offering my existing customers, but now I plan to focus on audio more — which I’ll explain below.
Audio Services
I’ve had an interest in high-end audio systems since I was a young teenager. Over the years, I’ve spent many hours evaluating systems and setting up my own components for audio production and audio listening. In the mid 1980s, my first nice system consisted of a liquid cooled Denon DENON DRA-425R receiver and some Boston Acoustics tower speakers. I used it as a home hi-fi system, but also as an amp for a Yamaha DX5 keyboard. I also used that system for the ‘Oakland Sound Studios’ business that I launched in Iowa City back in 1986. Thirty years later that stereo system is still running. Audio systems have changed much since then. In my deep dive this month, with a LOT of help from my brother Sherman, I created a much improved and revamped Audio Services page on the Resources for Life website. As a musician, and enthusiast of composing my own music, my interest in audio is multifaceted. In 2000, I began the Heart Songs personal selections of music offered in an annual CD that later became monthly selections and continues 18 years later. In 2011, I established the Inspiring Music Videos website as a place online to offer a curated collection of music videos that inspire, energize, and promote the creative process. In the year ahead, I’m looking forward to developing some audio tracks based on nature sounds around Iowa City. On the Audio Services page I refer to music with a purpose. I believe music can offer us something beyond superficial enjoyment.
Multi Sensory Renewal Spaces
The audio systems I’m working with have a clarity and accuracy that result in not just hearing music, or listening to music, but experiencing music in a deeper way that can envelop the listener. In addition to offering an in-home demo services, I plan to do some consulting to help people create their own multi sensory renewal spaces. These would be acoustically insulated room conversions where people can rest, floating in a zero gravity chair, listening to relaxing music or nature sounds, smelling essential oils, surrounded by the natural light of candles, and watching inspiring HD natural scenes from around the world — all configured depending on each person’s preference. Such rooms could be used for relaxation, meditation, or as studios for massage practitioners and energy healers. The idea is to create a space where people can experience renewal and healing.
Wellness
In February, I didn’t get to the gym as much as I would have liked. I ended up getting that cold thats been going around, and as with others who experienced the cold, it kept me out of commission for quite a while. I’m hoping in March to get back to my wellness plan.
Thanks!
Many thanks to all of you who keep in touch and provide support for the work I do.
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Origins. For those of you who are new to these monthly personal updates, they began about 17 years ago out of a desire to share from my personal life about topics of lifeways (faith), health, career, finances, relationships, effective living, and activism. This is based on the life map presented on the Resources For Life website.