Good afternoon everyone! How's your week going?  We are at the mid-week hump so not more to go! :-) As far as I am concerned, I've been quite the busy bee lately between work and getting ready for my upcoming show. I am in the process of learning a bunch of new songs for my upcoming show and loving the process of doing so.  It's like trying a cuisine, except better since you have a preview of what you are getting into.   I received my delivery of the postcards and posters for my show yesterday.  It was a great moment to go home from a fantastic evening with friends to get that reminder of my upcoming show.  I couldn't help but wonder... how did I survived for so long being away from performing?   Well, that will NEVER happen again.  It's like the air I breathe. It took me years but I finally came to some motto's to live by.    I wanted to share them with you as much as they may seem cliche: - Always look for the positive within you and around you. - Always seek to learn.  When you are learning, you are growing.  The moment when you think that you have nothing left to learn (which is an impossibility as far as I am concerned), that's when you start aging. - Never take things, people, circumstances and what you have for granted.  Take the time to appreciate them every day and it will cheer you up.  SERIOUSLY! - Be assertive.  In the time that you are being indecisive, trying to make a decision, you are losing the one most valuable commodity there is... time.   Take a piece of paper, jot down the pros and the cons and just DO it! <strong><em>In summary....live your life such that if today is your last day, you can honestly say to yourself that you have no regrets.</em> </strong> Be back later~