Secrets: A bad habit....

I got a funny question last night (ok so I get a lot of them) on Facebook.
It's really quite odd how many of the questions I receive from my listeners really do make me THINK about some things-things that I might not have considered otherwise.

The question had to do with bad days, what I do to fix them and avoid them and quote "Why are you so damn happy all the time?!"

Ok, first off this really made me giggle....a lot. I don't see myself that way honestly-but up until this point I haven't really viewed it like I must look like to people on the outside looking in. It was almost frustrating sounding, like the questioner couldn't understand why I am how I am.

The letter ended with "And if you have any bad habits, I would really like to know just one-because I'm dying to know".

I'm still laughing a little because, well that is just kind of an odd request you have to admit! I am so far from perfect and without

But here it is. A lot of the time questions I get are so inappropriate that I will refuse to answer them. But this one struck me as very unique and so thought provoking I decided to answer.

Smoking.

Yep, you read right. Smoking. How dumb was that for a singer?

I started when I was 14 and gave it up over two years ago.

Roll-your-owns were my favorite, it made me feel like Will James riding along with an ugly slightly lumpy cigarette hanging out of the corner of my mouth. Then of course there were the drawbacks, I set my truck on fire one time accidentally (I'm NOT telling that story), and my singing and speaking voice started to get raspy and deep. I started seeing the effects to my body and freaked out, I could live without a lot of things in life but NOT without my voice.
So I quit cold turkey. Just threw them all out and haven't looked back. I like that feeling more than I did the smoking. Sure a cup of coffee and a cig in the morning is the BEST cowboy breakfast ever...at least it used to be to me...but now, I have my health-my voice-and the knowledge that I had a bad habit and kicked it.

Done. Simple.

So there you have it my dear, that was my bad habit.

I have loads more, but for now that will have to do. I still enjoy the occasional good Cigar once in a while (I love them) or pipe, but only a couple times a year. For now, I enjoy my voice and knowing I can hit a note without it becoming raspy and sounding like a German Bar Maid from the old days.

The letter I got sounded so hopeless in a lot of ways, like the bad habits were something you could never get out of-but really, please don't think that. You have the ability to change. You are the most complex and beautiful thing here on this earth, you were given the skills to see something-hate it-and change it.

Do not give up if you trip sometimes and the bad habit returns or rears its head. Life is about change and getting back up again after it knocks you down.

Don't give up, and know that YOU yourself are worth fighting for.
You are worth taking care of.
You are worth.

Don't give up.


xoxo

~Adrian

Next up: Bad days and a good way to fix it... 

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