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About This Author
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La Bene Vita
I am a professional musician  , worship leader , small business owner , songwriter , aspiring author and freelance nonfiction writer with a chemical engineering degree .
But that's just my resume.
My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.
January 4, 2010 at 8:29am January 4, 2010 at 8:29am
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Resign from Abbott by 3/1/10.
In progress and on schedule.
Brand the biz.
My friend Tony designed a kickass logo for my MochaNotes biz! But right now, I'm focusing on the Michelle Tuesday biz. I talked to Chase about bank account options, because I'd like bars and restaurants to write checks to my stage name. I have to open a biz account. The problem is, I have to open separate accounts for Michelle Tuesday, MochaNotes, and Tuesday Entertainment, unless I create a corporation ("Tuesday Entertainment") D.B.A. ("doing business as") Michelle Tuesday and MochaNotes. Meanwhile, I'm on Chapter 9 in "Small Business for Dummies." Wowsa. It's a lot to keep up with. It's intimidating, and it's no wonder everyone doesn't quit their jobs and start up their own businesses. You gotta really want it. Fortunately, I have a small business already - my Michelle Tuesday business is classified as a sole proprietorship - and I can apply the principles to that much simpler biz before jumping headfirst into a brick-and-mortar biz.
Tony also did some promotional posters for me to hang at bd's, which I dropped off last week. Yesterday, a lady at church asked me if I played anywhere outside of church, because she'd seen a poster of a musician at bd's who looked an awful lot like me, but didn't quite have my name. I confirmed that it was, in fact, me, and that I was using a stage name. My first celebrity recognition! 
Business: Music Instruction Books.
No activity, thanks to a two-week hiatus from my laptop and the music software installed on it. 
Current real estate goal: Organize garage.
Lots of activity!  Keith and I have been working on it over our vacation this last week, though he gets most of the credit. It looks great! ...and this goal comes down tomorrow.
Launch one new Praise Band song per month.
 Pending. I held a planning meeting with the band, and the new song that came out of the meeting was "We Will Rise" by Chris Tomlin, launching on 1/24.
Post at WordPress at least once per month.
Pending, and I'm increasing this to weekly again, since (1) it's in my new website, http://www.michelletuesday.com, and (2) bd's is linking my blog on their Facebook page.
Achieve a weight of 145.0 by 3/31/10.
Weight: 155-ish. I'm up ten pounds. I need at least two months to lose them again, so I'm giving myself three. Goals should be *attainable*.
Meals:
7:15am Coffee (1) and toast (2) with butter (1)
8:30am Bacon (2)
9:30am Bacon (2)
1:45pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7)
5:00pm Coffee (1)
7:00pm Banana ZonePerfect bar (3.5)
10:00pm Chex mix (4?)
10:30pm Noodles (4?)
TOTAL POINTS: 28
Write new lyrics once per week.
Pending.
 one new original song per month.
Pending.
Launch one new Potbelly song per week.
Pending.
Look into real estate for music instruction.
I left voice mails with two agents who haven't returned my calls in over a week. Obviously, they're not desperate to fill their vacancies. 'Tis okay, because it'll be cheaper to teach out of my house until my volume outgrows the house (or I sell it.) We're passively looking right now. The big push here was to get a feel for pricing, so I could work on my biz plan. So I'm taking this goal down for now, and replacing it with working regularly on my biz plan.
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Thanks for sharing!
Even better if she can whistle to the tune of Mozart or something. 
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