Here’s a video of a conversation I had with Steve Looi of Shake 2 Shape Nutrition Club in Astoria, NY on Goal setting, and how to set goals.

There’s some great content in this video. We talk about defining exactly what your goals are in life, and the consequences of not having clearly defined goals.

Goal setting is probably the most important skill you can acquire in life. It really is THE solution to a lot of the confusion you may be feeling. If you don’t know where you’re headed, if you don’t have a clear sense of purpose then no matter how hard you try you will get nowhere. Fortunately goal setting is an easy skill to acquire.

Start now. Set a goal, any goal. Set a goal to discover your interests, passions, and wants in life. Create a list of these things by some exact date in the near future. Accomplish this goal, set another, and I can assure you, you’ll feel a new sense of purpose, confidence and drive. Your world changes when you have direction. Don’t let life itself steer your ship, you are it’s driver… It’s YOUR life.

To your unconventional success!

Adam Shields

http://hadituptohere.com

PS. You can check out, or stop by Steve & Ivonne’s Nutrition Club anytime! Visit their link after you sign up for my newsletter. http://nutritionclubspioneer.com/

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Hi guys!
Here’s a cool post. It’s a 7 minute video on setting and accomplishing your goals, having belief in yourself, strengthening your belief system, thinking positively, staying focused and motivated, and genereally utilizing the key to success…. baby steps!

Big goals, little actions regularly, persistence. These are the keys. Hope you enjoy it!
Leave me feedback by replying to one of my emails :0)

To your unconventional success!
Adam Shields
http://lifestylingbook.com

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This IS The Big Gay Bandit video. It was a joke I played on my sister when i was looking for feedback on a possible recording environment. I got a good rise out of her when she was hit with it unexpectedly. I showed a couple other friends, and one of them (a Mac “Genius”, who lives in a dorm style house with other Mac “Genius’”) did some edits to the video, making me sort-of dance….  Yes, that video is of ME.

I threw the original and their edits together, with some music by Bluetech, to make a funny little video…

Behold!

This is the return of the Big Gay Bandit! lol  nooooo…. I’m not gay, just a bit weird

Sometimes it’s good to take a break from productivity. It helps to clear the head, get a fresh perspective, and new ideas. I’ve been accused, countless times, of “working” too much. God forbid! I guess it’s not work when you love what you’re doing.

So, as a break to my productivity, and “Do What I Love” book marketing, you’re hit by the Big Gay Bandit video. Enjoy!

Hahahahahaha!!!  If you loooove comedy, you’ll love this. Grab a copy of THIS joke book!

Here’s to your not taking yourself too seriously, to better your unconventional success!

Adam Shields

http://hadituptohere.com

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“A riveting, true story, of what’s possible and how exactly YOU can do what you love in life⎯
no matter who you are, or what your past is riddled with.”

My new book, “Do What I Love lifestyling for the nonconformist” is officially launched!!!

• I’m sending you this email because I’m doing a special “Friends & Friends of Friends” promotion, and because I know you, I thought you might be interested in grabbing a copy at a discounted price.

Use this code → TWN6EF7C ← to get a couple buck$ off the book at checkout! Hurry though! This code is only good for the next 7 days. That’s 8/3/09  Act fast!

Click below to get your copy now →
https://www.createspace.com/3387359

Thanks in advance for your support!

Adam

PS. Because this is a “friends & friends of friends” promotion, please be sure to FWD: this to anyone who might be interested in the offer.

PSS. I’d also like to take the opportunity to invite you to enter your email address on my blog, after you grab your copy of the book… I’m giving away a 20 page ebook, and a FREE 7 part video course on how to find your passion in life, and monetize it.

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I admit, I borrowed this post title from Tim Ferris, author of “Four Hour Work week”. He mentioned it in a video he recently posted. I thought it was a great idea, worthy of being ripped off, so I decided to grab it!

Enough said.

Reason 1: It’s fun!

If you sign up, you’ll get info on the “Do What I Love” book launch. You’ll be informed about new blog posts, but you’ll also get the bizarre, occasional rant, rave, or absurdity. The absurdities can be fun, and this makes it totally worth entering your email up on the right there.

Reason 2: You might learn something.

After all, this IS a “How-to” blog. My goal here is to teach you that it’s possible to make an income doing what you love in life. I want everyone to be self-employed…. if that were actually possible. I hand out loads of tips, on a regular basis. Keep coming back!

Reason 3: You’ll be a better person for it.

I cover a lot… yes, A LOT of personal development topics here. This is my interest, and my passion, so naturally I’ll spill the beans, telling you everything I can about how we can all be better, more refined persons. I think everyone should be always working on themselves. I’m a lover of virtue, and you’ll see that in my writing. You’ll learn how being a true nonconformist is the absolute best thing you can do for yourself. Think for yourself, question authority.

Reason 4: You may discover that you actually hate what you do.

Had it up to here means this: You’ve had it up to here with where you’re at in life, and you need to make a change. My book, “Do What I Love” is all about HOW to make that change, as is this blog. I want to force the realization into your consciousness that you may just be spinning your wheels in life. You’re likely just working some lame, dead-end job to make a buck. That sucks! You should be doing something more fulfilling with your life. Who wants to die with regret and unfulfilled dreams?

Reason 5: You’ll create BIG dreams.

What you’ll learn is that you really need to dream BIG to get anywhere in life. And if you fall short of those dreams, and don’t make it to the stars, you’ll at least have landed on the moon. The moon is VERY far away, if you haven’t noticed. Dream big, aim high, reach for the stars, and you’ll be very surprised what you can accomplish.

Reason 6: You’ll wonder at the discover that there’s a better way.

There’s a much better way to live your life. You don’t have to settle. Don’t settle. You can, and will (with a little effort) have the things you truly desire with passion. We live in a universe constructed on the principles of free-will. Creation is, that we can have what we want. Just don’t hurt anyone in the process. NEVER settle!

And Reason 7: You’ll get to know me.

Who cares right? I wouldn’t. But, I’ll say this in my defense, “I may not be the most articulate cat on the street, but being a pisces, I’ve seen and analyzed a lot of craxy s**t in life. A LOT! Bits of my experience will leak in my writing, and you’ll get a glimpse of the things I’ve come to understand. I’m human, like you, and you’ll really feel that. You’ll be able to relate to a lot of what I say, and you’ll get to know my strengths as well as my flaws. I’m a student of the brutally honest school.

So, there you have it. There’s the 7 best reasons I could come up with for you to sign-up for my newsletter up there. Hope they validate your desire to do so.

I want to thank Tim Ferris of fourhourworkweek.com for unknowingly being borrowed from with the title to this post :0)

To your unconventional success (and my newsletter sign-up)

Adam Shields

PS. 1 more great reason to sign-up….. I’m GIVING AWAY a FREE Ebook, which you can download immediate following your sign-up. In it, I reveal the #1 secret to making things happen in your life. Sounds like a scam and all, but there really is only 1 thing which has worked for me. I was just as lazy as the rest of ‘em at one point. So go ahead, sign-up, learn something, chill, laugh, and get on with it… your life that is. :0)

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I do have plans to put together an album sometime in the near future. It’s part of my plan for building a life according to the things I love to do. In my last post How To Sell Stuff, I talk about HOW to making money doing these things. :0) Extra income right….

If you haven’t read How To Sell Stuff yet, then first check out the song, and the Japanese site (in English), then go read the article. You can make some extra money. Who doesn’t want that?

You can listen to one of my favorite compositions here: Check it out. Go on…. click it!

It’s a mellow track, designed to relax you. It’s an emotional song, expressing some of the “sad

and happy blues” to quote Billie Holiday.

Check out the site too. It’s the site of a Japanese artist, Michi Inaba. She’s a very talented artist, who I know pretty well.

Hope you enjoy :0)

Relaxation is a fundamental part of doing what you love. It builds clarity, confidence, focus, and resolve.

We live in a hectic world, where we’re all too often bombarded by over stimulation of the senses.

It’s good to unwind sometimes. Take a break from our anxieties.

To your unconventional success!

Adam Shields

PS. I hope you have good speakers attached to your computer. There’s a lot of “low end” in the song that you’ll miss otherwise.

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Here’s the BEST solution I could find to the current DRM problem. A way for artists to still sell CDs while giving away free music. It’s a brilliant presentation based on the DRM Problem /Solution paradigm of Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

Basically, what it is is this: By connecting with your fans, and creating a reason for them to buy, you can give them your music for free AND they will still buy your CDs! The same principle applies with internet marketing. You give away LOADS of free quality content, but still give people a reason to buy your product.

A reason to buy might be something like extra tracks released only on the CD, a large pdf file of some personal info, interviews or product info. Behind the scenes info would be something irresistible to fans. Videos are great reasons to buy as well. Extra videos, detailing the creation process, or containing ANYTHING interesting to fans.

Trent Reznor has mastered this with his Ghosts album.

Enjoy the video! You can learn a lot from it…

The source article is at:

http://blog.mises.org/archives/009780.asp

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What kind of music does a nonconformist listen to?

Nonconformist Music of course!

What the heck is that!?

Anything!

This page is intended to be a starting point for finding new music. “Nonconformist music”

Browse the related videos after each video has finished. You’ll be very surprised what you find. I promise…

Here’s a few videos of some of MY favorite stuff.

Bluetech
Prophetic Sines

Tool
Lateralus

Photek
The Margin ‘98 (Doc Scott Remix)

Ishq
Sol
(An Excellent Ambient Track! Nevermind the guys travel pics lol)

Katatonia
My Twin
(We Need A Bit Of Swedish Metal In The Mix)

Richie Hawtin _A.K.A Plastikman
We (All) Search
(Excellent minimal techno video)

Trentemoller
Moan

Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale
Ghost Story

Deep Space Network
Zenn La
(Perhaps One Of The Most Peaceful Summertime Chillout Tracks Around)

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Lucky me. I went with a close friend who knows Moby, so I got to meet him briefly. Now I’m not the starstruck type by any means. I’ve met loads of famous people…. Mike D, Keifer Sutherland, Mob Deep, Alice Peacock, Yo Yo Ma, Adam Horowitz, Milos Forman, Tamra Davis, Jennifer Rush, a TONNNN of Famous Djs, etc, etc… (lol like the name dropping?)

I’d have to say, meeting Moby was pretty cool though. He’s an icon in the electronic music scene, which I’ve been a part of since I was about 15 years old. <——- old school NYC raver here

Hope you enjoy the video!

If you ever get a chance to check out this event, I strongly suggest you do.

Here’s a link to info about it.

Now….. here’s the video I put together. Enjoy!

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Imagine touching down in a place where no one speaks a damn word of English..

A place outside of Earth & Time…

A place full of giant Walruses, moving, walking, growing beds, flying igloos, and bizarre sounds….

Enter into: “The Pingu Zone!”

Don’t forget to subscribe to my weekly newsletter up at the top. I’ll randomly toss out other bizarre, cool videos, and stuff. Never know…. what I find may go viral, and you’ll be the first on the wagon..

To your BIG walrus success!
Adam Shields

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