mine — Jonathan Nation

Do you support Sailing & want more people to try it out?

Sailing – I love sailing.

When I was a child my Grandmother sent me to a sailing camp, where every day we sailed Lasers, and a couple additional boats, and I was hooked. I wish more people would experience the joy and excitement you can by being out on the water, harnessing the power of the wind.

Today, I was poking around kickstarter & starting reading through sailing related projects. I came to this one where a guy has been recording his trips on the open sea. Now he wants to edit them together & share it with others. He has a couple days left & lacks about $500 from his goal.

I know many people who want there to be more people to try out sailing & want more content focused on sailing.

Please do two things:

1. Consider supporting this project – this can be pledging money, or telling others about it that might be interested. At least go watch the videos on the project pages [ main & updates ]

2. let me know if you would like a site that collects both media around sailing & projects like this.

I’ve had a domain name for a while & would be willing to put in a little work if others would like to know about sailing focused audio, video and text. Leave me a comment if you are interested.

A Thought on Abundance

In a world of abundance the hardest thing to get is people to care about you.

~Jonathan Nation, Feb 2012

Something To Play – Switchfoot : Afterlife : Less is More Nation [Remix]

From time to time I find a Remix Contest that inspires me enough to take the tracks and mess with the song.

Switchfoot, with their sond Afterlife is currently running such a contest & they did the silly thing of haveing echo/reverb on the lead singer track, I still was inspired enough to do a Less is More Nation remix.

My general idea was to strip the song down to the minimum: First the Lead Singer, then add in some rhythm and more. The words of the song added for extra creativity since it is talking about people putting off really living, some to the point where they are dead. It especially targets Christians who believe they will live in an afterlife, post death, but seem to be putting off living until they hit that point.

I am considering working on it some more, if I do, what would you suggest?

Thanks for listening & sharing with others.

Just Writing – better society

there are times I just sit down and am inspired to write. I go until the train has run out of gas, sit back & see what happened.

Tonight was one of those times with the initial topic of “What does it take to have a better society?”. Your thoughts?

5 Ideas for 2012 that can Change Your Life

We are quickly heading towards the end of 2011, and I am thinking about how I desire 2012 to be different. Here is a quick list of things I’m considering doing to make 2012 special:

Picture a day

take at least one picture each day
Variant: post a picture a day

Read 5 hours per week

Spend an average of 1 hour each weekday, this should cause you to knock out a number of books, no matter if they are audiobooks, physical, or electronic

Cook Something New Each Week

Find some recipe that looks interesting to you. Cook it.
Bonus idea: take pix, post about it

Try a New Hobby & share it

Start something new for you, record your progress & share what you have learned online.
Start with whatever network you already have (Google +, Facebook, a simple website) and improve your sharing over time.

Interview Someone Each Week

Share what you learned from that person with both the masses & send it to someone specific that you believe will gain from meeting this person.

Change Your Life?

Each of these ideas take very little additional work to be accomplished, but the fact is that you have to be intentional & consistent to achieve them. There is also options for you to expand and do more, but a key is to start.

What will you do different in 2012, anything from this list?