For a Happy and Productive 2010

Besides writing your own spiritual memoir, keeping a journal to document your thoughts is also an important part of personal growth. I started writing a private journal in March 2005 – after reading Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits – and have kept writing it since. I’ve found that writing a journal has been an integral part of my growth, mainly because of the fact humans learn the most during the sharing process.

I put every year of my life as one volume in the journal, and in 2010 I’m on my sixth volume. I also put a title to every volume to signify the main theme of that particular year. One of the most significant themes I have is the 2008 theme: “Hope”.

It’s interesting to see my life progress according to what I project in my mind at the start of the year. Writing “Hope” as the title truly brought back a part of me that had been missing for several years before, and has been an important introductory step into my discovery of happiness. But halfway through writing “Hope”, around the time of my 26th birthday, inspiration struck me and I changed the theme of the journal mid-way: “Action”.

True to principles, writing “Action” has led me to be a productive writer and musician ever since. Now that the new beginning is upon us, I’m thinking whether I should continue the theme of “Action” or change into a new theme. Whichever I do, I’m using this opportunity to share to you the writing and music projects that I’ve started and plan to start, since “Action” has become a part of my life.

The ideas that stir in my head (ongoing projects):

Passionate Living
Integrity, Love, Trust, and Music

Obviously – this is the blog that you’re reading right now!

Passionate Living: Dreamer
A Dream Journal by Endy Daniyanto

Inspired by These Are My Dreams. Writing a dream journal has it’s own benefits, one that I might write about in a future post. Meanwhile, head on over and see what weird dreams I have.

Passionate Living: Inspired
Quotes from bestselling authors

This started as an excuse to use the Tumblr blogging platform (of which I have come to love). It’s mostly quotes from books by TED speakers, and I try to publish daily. But publishing daily, even for short quotes, isn’t as easy as it may sound.

Music Production Tutorial
This simple blog-style magazine is for musicians who want to learn the art of do-it-yourself music production

Part of sharing about the music production methods that I’ve learned so far. Besides learning again for myself, I hope to establish myself as an artist and also engineer. The posts I write here I also post at EzineArticles.

and projects that I want to start:

26 Songs in 52 Weeks
Write and release 26 songs in 52 weeks

Because, you know, I’m just obsessed about being a singer-songwriter. There have been other artists – Jonathan Coulton and Ari Hest – that have done their version of this before, except they write 52 songs in 52 weeks, which is too many for me. This is my main project for 2010.

Passionate Living: Unscripted
Side blog for non-music related thoughts and developments

Since I wrote the article about Parkour Artists, I’ve been introduced to the local Parkour community. And since I’m not a sporty guy at all, being healthy and enjoying active exercise has always been one of my dreams. So I thought I’d make a side blog to write about Parkour, and other interests that may be too short to write here.

365 Days of Happiness
Write about discovering something new every day for 365 days

Inspired by and part of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project. I believe that making a new discovery every day is one of the keys to happiness. This is also part of establishing myself as an expert on happiness.

I too think that this might end up in a mess. But at the beginning of “Action” I said to myself I want to be prolific. And in the spirit of embracing imperfection, I’m going to go through with all these ideas.

Cheers,
Endy