Author Archive: Eric San Juan

SAD? Beat It With These Informative Instructions

January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Image source Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression which is believed to affect 4 out of 6 people. As a percentage, it’s 66% or two-thirds of the population. Wow – those are pretty shocking numbers. Yet, a majority of the country put up with the seasonal disorder every year without fighting back. Now that the winter is well and truly here, the feelings of loneliness and hopelessness are only going to intensify with less sunlight. If you are someone who is SAD but wants to be HAPPY, you should know it is possible. Here are the instructions to keep in mind this winter. Avoid Daylight Savings Every state barring Hawaii and Arizona observe daylight savings time to help farmers. There is a myth…
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Unplugged 3: Insanely excited about the next two m2 projects, so that’s great

January 6, 2018 0 Comments

Sat down for my first purposeful recording session in a long while a few weeks ago. Recorded for four or five hours straight, just a mic in a room (an attic, actually) a few feet in front of my amp. Really cold up there. My fingers were numb. Laid down ten tracks of material, lots of layered guitar work weaving in and out of one another rather than the dense sound assault I’ve done in recent years. Tried a new approach to playing and just attempted various iterations on it. The interplay of the guitars excited me. Had about an hour and a half of material when it was wrapped up. Got super focused on working that material over the other day and started mixing….
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Don’t Let Debt Be A Struggle For you

January 5, 2018 0 Comments

Don’t Let Debt Be A Struggle For you Tight finances If you’re not in a secure job with a decent wage, the chances are you’ve had to deal with debt at some point in your life, and that can really make you struggle. Having debt can affect you on a daily basis because you’re constantly having to make cutbacks on your purchases. It might not seem like much if you have to skip out on your morning coffee and maybe miss lunch, but some people have to take it even further. The restrictions that debt brings can be suffocating at times, and you need to find a way through it. It’s not all suffering though, there are solutions you can use to make your financial…
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Unplugged 2: snow daze are no ways

January 5, 2018 0 Comments

My whole life, staying focused has always been a challenge. As long as I’m doing new things, exploring new ideas, doing new tasks, and pursuing creative projects I can keep that in check (usually by multitasking so I’m bouncing back and forth from one thing to another), but it takes work to, you know, work. So to suddenly get slammed with a fairly big snowstorm that keeps the family home, thereby extending their winter vacation home by another four days, isn’t exactly a boon to focus. Love them, but it’s a small house, and no, I don’t have a dedicated, private office space. Still, managed to take three or four rough chapter drafts from my next book and chisel them into finished initial drafts yesterday,…
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Trying to unplug in a plugged-in world, day one

January 3, 2018 0 Comments

On January 1, I decided to unplug from social media for January (aside from the social media work I do). No more checking in on Facebook or Twitter or anywhere else. Just use the Internet as a tool rather than as a distraction. On the first day, I put together a rough mix for a lengthy music recording session I did over the holidays that may or may not turn into an m2 project, cobbled together rough but quite serviceable fan “movies” pieced together from Star Wars Rebels episodes, among other odds and ends. And obviously, I worked that whole time as well. It wasn’t groundbreaking stuff, but it was exactly what I had been missing: a chance to just sit down and be creative…
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