1.2 - Goals & Allies

Defining my goals and feeling the confidence to successfully complete them has evolved through a process of self-evaluation, inquiry, and a realistic assessment of recourses, time, and energy. Through an honest appraisal of the commitments I have promised to fulfill, along with the more personal desire to dedicate my focus to art and community, I am learning to more realistically balance my schedule and task lists on a daily basis. My Goals purely in relation to my LIPD along with engagement in Gaia U and the completion of my capstone cycle are as follows:

LIPD

• Work diligently and consistently through a self-appointed schedule to complete and review my LIPD in a timely manner, submitting for review by August 1st.
• Utilize best practices and skeletal frameworks of other associates' LIPDs in order to most effectively structure the format and unfoldment of my own.
• Make mind-maps to consolidate the layers of information which I process to design this OP along with my life in general. 
• Design bulk of project/OP goals based on experiences which have commenced over the past year in order to most efficiently maximize completion cycles and output packet reviews.
• Use Mahara as the central design template framework, building the OP as I go, reflecting, reviewing, and revising along the way.   

Gaia U

• Keep up with self-appointed output packet completion and review cycles, noted in my capstone timeline.
• Skill-flex my documentation & reflection practice through weekly journal entries.
• Actively experiment with Gaia work through designing and self-regulating a consistent schedule of engagement, focusing on the immediate tasks at hand.
• Check in with my advisor (Jen English) every two weeks.
• Create a consistent meet-up schedule for think and listens, reflection, and support with at least one fellow Gaia associate (Lauren Bellafiore).

Professional/Patrix

• Harness, maximize, and perfect my skills and abilities as a capable, unique, reliable, practically and inspirationally sourced music producer. 
• Offer music lessons to my community for financial income support, musical skillflex opportunities, creative systems development, peer connection, and mentorship training.
• Share my music gifts with the world through professionally releasing my 2nd full length album.
• Refine my live musical performance abilities both independently and through working with sonic comrades to perfect our playing and presence in order to successfully share our collective sound with a larger audience.
• Become a more reliable, coherent, organized, focused, committed and disciplined human through applying myself with the utmost integrity and presence in all situations. 

Personal/Patrix

• Engage in a healthy, disciplined, and consistent exercise program on a daily basis.
• Practice a daily ritual of artistry and/or craft skillflexing - Song writing, singing/chanting, instrumentation, poetry, music production, dance, and art. 
• Create space for meditation, stillness, and alignment with Nature
• Cultivate healthy relationship & balance between self and community
• Nourish mentor relations

Write Design Analysis & Learning Journey Reflection about participating in a transformation retreat with the Paititi Institute in the Peruvian Amazon - Write a design analysis and learning journey reflection which details the structure, design, and experiential lessons learned from my participation in this retreat. Sharing and detailing my process of integration and how this experience has impacted my life to this day.

Write Design Analysis & Learning Journey Reflection about Recording Engineering Lessons, Practice, & Implementation - Write a design analysis and learning journey reflection which shares my personal process of learning how to record and engineer music through helping others with their projects as engineer and producer. Sharing how its impacted my personal recording process and evolution as an artist.

Balancing Life w/ Gaia U - Successfully balance my artistic pursuits, health practices, work/financial responsibilities, and Gaia U OP work, in a coherent system of action in which I am able to maintain consistency, discipline, and rigorous yet joyful self-management throughout the rest of my experience as a bachelor with Gaia U.