Thanks for May! - I Also Turned 35 Sunday (Patreon)

Hi everybody, thanks for any patience on emails. I turned 35 over the weekend and turned the computer off so I could enjoy some quiet time. 

I wanted to thank everybody for making May a great month. The live lesson was great, Tasty Tuesday has been a lot of fun and there were some really memorable lessons, Pink Panther, Jurassic Park, November Rain, it was a great month! 

I kind of tackle life 5 years at a time. 

20 - 24 - The first half of my 20s were to finish all my studies, finish everything that was required of me, finish all my expectations. Up to this point in life and I didn't know what I wanted, so I just did what life expected of me. After high school came college, and the blue print of life. It was looking like getting a regular 9-5 and finding a woman and getting married would be the goal for the second half of the 20s but a trip to Panama when I was 23 opened up my eyes to travel. I knew I wanted to travel and see the world and I knew that the real world wasn't going anywhere and could wait a little while.

25 - 29 - I had done everything mom and dad asked me to do, I had lived the blueprint of middle class life, and I decided no more, not for me, time to see the world. I used this time to travel, I lived in Colombia and Argentina in this time, I fell in love, got married, and get my partying out of my system. In this time my newlywed wife and I traveled from Colombia to Buenos Aires, Argentina... in a bus.. for 2 and half months... with everything we owned. It was literally how moved. When we finally got to Buenos Aires we just lived there. We crashed at a hostel and started looking for a place to live and a job at the same time. We took an overnight from Mendoza to Buenos Aires and I remember waking up in Retiro in the bus and thinking "Huh... I live here." The bus station backs up against the ghetto, specifically what is called "la villa" which is a no structure, no code, brick built ghetto, and it was the very first thing I saw in the city. I remember thinking, welp, here we go. I loved every second. 

30 - 34 - Go back to Colombia and start a business. The last five years have been dedicated to making Tenthumbs. Getting it off the ground. Learning, making it an LLC, hiring an accountant, more learning, going to teach English and then getting home and working on the project. They say perseverance is the hard work done after the work gets done. This five years have been defined by perseverance... and a lot of great songs! I made the commitment and I said in a video "new videos every Wednesday and Saturday, I made the promise in one video over five years ago and have never missed a day. 

35 - 40 - ? Who knows, but I know I have some goals. I want the next five years to be defined by me learning to take better care of myself physically and mentally. More meditation and vegetables, less pizza and watching TV until 2 am. I also want to use this 5 years to take Tenthumbs to the next level. I have a lot of ideas for that will be but I want to make it bigger, I want to make it better, and most importantly I want to make it better for you, easier for you, and more educational for you! I also want to define these 5 years as going from a pretty darn good amateur musician that is a really good teacher, to a professional musician as well. Also, quick shots, more VanLife, a Podcast, Africa and Asia!

So there you have if friends. 35 is here and I am looking forward to really dominating and doing amazing things next five years. 

Thank you everyone for being part of the journey up until now, let's take it to the next level!