Goals for 2025 (for these D.I.Y. Rock Stars) 🌠

Goals for 2025 (for these D.I.Y. Rock Stars) 🌠

Loosely accompanies Gab & Jam,

340. Goals for 2025 (for these D.I.Y. Rock Stars)

(video: https://bit.ly/340goalsfor2025vid  and podcast: https://bit.ly/340goalsfor2025pod  )

Even though THIS year has been out of pocket and INCREDIBLY weird, we are still reflecting on the past and still deciding on what we want to focus on this coming year. 

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Check out the episode for the full discussion.

Natural reset:

As you know, we decide on our goals for the year in the season of the “natural reset,” in the reflective time between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year. And even though THIS year has been out of pocket and INCREDIBLY weird, we are still reflecting on the past and still deciding on what we want to focus on this coming year. 

Vision Boards?

—Needless to say, the plan is to update our Vision Board to reflect the following goals. (If you want MORE on the benefits of creating a Vision Board for the D.I.Y. Rock Star and tips on creating and updating your Vision Board, check out the links below.)

Vision Board Posts you might like:

• The benefits of creating a vision board (for the D.I.Y. Rock Star) (blog post): https://bit.ly/rockstarvision 

• How to create a Vision Board (blog post): https://bit.ly/visionblooming 

• The value of refreshing your vision board (podcast): https://bit.ly/refreshvisionbd 

• Refresh your vision board (video): https://bit.ly/Ep154refreshvisionvid

• Refresh your vision board (podcast): https://bit.ly/Ep154refreshvisionpod 

• Vision Board Cheatsheet (free download): https://bit.ly/visioncheatsheetdownload

• Vision Board Printables (instant download): https://bit.ly/visionprintablediy 

The benefits of creating a vision board (for the D.I.Y. Rock Star) (blog post): https://bit.ly/rockstarvision

Goals:

First, we will share a few goals that we have as a partnership and then, we’ll share a few individual, personal goals.

—You MIGHT remember that we started Gab & Jam in 2017–so, we’re going on 8 years now—and though THIS year, we reached 105k subscribers on YouTube, THIS has ALSO been the LEAST active, as far as content creation (due to factors beyond our control). But now that recovery is going SO well, we are READY to look forward to seeing what we’d like to accomplish. So, here are the partnership goals that we want to accomplish in 2025:

Partnership Goals:

1.  Next album

We’d like to begin thinking about—and working on—the next album.   –Along with that is figuring out what the sound is going to be, which is always exciting and terrifying at the same time.  –But that’s the first thing we want to start experimenting with.

2.  Nurturing our community

Even though this has been quite a strange time—where we have HAD to put communicating with folks on the back burner—we realize how IMPORTANT it is to continue to nurture the people who are signing up for our email list and joining our Facebook groups. So, one of the returning goals is to STAY consistently communicating with them (in the form of the monthly newsletter, responding to messages, etc.). –Back in the 1980s, when we sought out a major label record deal, all we REALLY wanted to do was to find people who liked our music and who wanted to hear MORE from us.  Well, our artist mentoring funnel has helped us achieve that.  And even 4 years later—without ANY real tweaking—these Facebook ads CONTINUE to bring people in.  Once they listen to our music, they have the option to join the email list, so we KNOW when we receive a notification that they want to be added to the list, we feel grateful, honored, and gratified that we are on the right path.  So, making sure that we communicate with these individuals regularly is VERY important to us.  We want to do MORE of that in this new year.

3.  Travel more

We had taken our tax return money and took the family to Paris, France in 2017 and to London, England in 2018.  Needless to say, we ceased international travel at the onset of the pandemic.  As things began to open back up, we spent more time exploring the USA—places like Nashville and Chicago (see Travel Adventures playlist)—but now that the world has learned to live with Covid, we are hoping that we might be able to embark on international travel again, so that’s on our list for partnership goals for this year. –ALSO, I started writing our travel book for the D.I.Y. Rock Star, so I would LOVE to add more to that this year….

If you missed our FIRST book, go HERE to get a special discount.

Stay true to who you decided you wanted to be when you started this journey (even if it takes longer to reach your goals):  https://bit.ly/255longhaulblog

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Bruce’s goals:

1.  Fitness

While we are not quite getting the number of steps that we got PRIOR to Bruce’s big, scary health crisis, we are continuing to work to get a set number of steps each day and to work on other fitness goals, including adding in some strength training.

2.  Playing the bass

As you may already know, as a part of Bruce’s recovery, he is getting back acquainted with the mechanics of playing the bass and he’s excited about that.  This means that he wants to spend more time diving back in.

3.  Songwriting

Getting back to songwriting is important.  Due to the intense focus on the basics in life, we have been away from the daily routine of songwriting.  However, now that we are at a better place in our recovery, we are planning to add songwriting back into our regular practice.

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Vox’s goals:

1.  Weight/shape

Though Bruce CONSISTENTLY tells me how wonderful I look and about how I don’t need to change a change a thing, I feel as if I need to work on my weight/shape.  I have lost weight BEFORE and can do better again, but I am ready to get started.  –I realize that NOONE would blame me, given the crazy year that we’ve had, but I am NOT happy with MYSELF.  –I want to feel better, overall, and wear the things that I like and I want to feel attractive in them, so I KNOW that I need to trim some inches for this to work.  Taking better care of my nutrition and exercise will help me achieve this goal.

2.  Music promotion

Getting back to promoting the Obtanium Flow and Thrillsville albums are at the top of my list.  –Whether we EVER create anything new or not, I realize that we have some GREAT music that has NOT be shared with enough people and it is my goal to change that.  –When the BIG, scary health challenge happened, I dropped EVERYTHING—as you can imagine—but since we are doing SO much better and I am able to turn my attention to other things, I want to be sure to the world hears the REST of the two albums that we had just released, so before January is over, I want to be sure that the “Daylight” video is released and the “Thrillsville” album is uploaded to all the streaming services.

3.  Collaborating again

Because this past year has been SOLELY focused on Bruce’s health and wellness, collaborating on everything had taken a back seat.  I have missed it SO much that I am looking forward to working with Bruce on new songs, video ideas, podcast topics, etc. –After all, we met through music and have been “collaborating,” in a sense, ever since.  So, this period of time has been really strange, because creating together had been taken out of the equation altogether.  I am happy to see that we heading back to exploring our creative core, which has ALWAYS included collaboration.  I am ready for MORE of it, so I am setting the intention right now.

4.  Curate with intention

While I had THOUGHT of doing this before, I couldn’t quite bring myself to do the work.  But now, I am ready to create playlists on related posts and topics.  Such lists would be perfect for email sequences, for website navigation purposes, and for literal YouTube playlists.  What’s more is that we DEFINITELY have enough related material now—after nearly 8 years—that we feel confident that we can compile lists that might benefit someone looking for insight on certain topics.  –Online marketers stress how important it is to be of value to the community you serve, so THIS seems like an easy way to do just that.  Therefore, I have plans to put this plan in action.

Here's our newest "Clouds" Obtanium Flow t-shirt design: https://bit.ly/obtflwtshirt623

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Did you know that along with putting together our next album, we are working on our first book? Here’s the link, if you want to pre-order: https://bit.ly/diybookorder

Use the code NEWYEAR2024 at checkout for a 25% off discount. Limited time only!

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Every music artist needs to grow an email list. Here’s why: https://bit.ly/254emaillistblog

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81+ types of social media posts: https://bit.ly/277socialmediapostsblog

Gab and Jam Episode 46 Steal My Stuff

https://bit.ly/Ep46stealvid  

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What do you think?

Those are our goals for 2025.  We hope that, by sharing ours, we have given you some inspiration for your own planning for this coming year. 

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If you like this post, you might like:

• Why do I need a website? https://bit.ly/252websiteblog

• Here’s why to be on more than one social media platform: https://bit.ly/Ep141moresocmedblog

• 10+ Social Media Tips: https://bit.ly/socmediablog

• EPK Basics: https://bit.ly/251epkbasicsblog
  

Join our independent artist community Facebook group: http://bit.ly/diyrockstarjoin

Here are some great reasons to use a pseudonym: https://bit.ly/128pseudonymblog

Self-Care for the D.I.Y. Rock Star: https://bit.ly/7self-care 

What are YOUR goals for 2025?

Tell us what you think. 

Leave them in the comments below.

Want to know how to take better band photos? https://bit.ly/betterbandphotos

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Which is better; releasing singles or an album? https://bit.ly/294waterfallblog

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MPC One+ Unboxing: https://bit.ly/mpconeplusunboxingpost

File Management for the D.I.Y. Rock Star: https://bit.ly/229filemgmtblog

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So, will we do it again? HELL, YEAH! 🙌🏾 In fact, our NEXT livestream is scheduled for soon, where we will debut the next music video for Bourgeoisie Paper Jam’s album “Obtanium Flow” --unless you are a member of our Patreon community. (If you’re in our Patreon, you will see the video one week earlier. Join here.)

Limited edition “Obtanium Flow” designs:

· “Clouds” T-shirt design: https://bit.ly/obtflwtshirt623

· “Retro Flow” T-shirt design: https://bit.ly/flowretroshirtaug23

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If you need to do social media, here are 10+ social media tips: https://bit.ly/socmediablog

Need Contest Ideas for D.I.Y. Rock Stars? https://bit.ly/contestideasblog

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Here’s what we’re into now:

· We’re featured in Variety Magazine! https://bit.ly/featuresxsw2023

· The video for “Every Heartbeat” is doing well in Indonesia! https://bit.ly/everyheartbeatvid

· The Tony Webb "Funkalicious" video is going crazy in Honduras, y'all! https://bit.ly/twebbfunkaliciousvid

· One of our videos for our song, “Tell Me What You Want,” is going gangbusters in Vietnam! https://bit.ly/tellmewhatyouwantvid

If you like this, you might enjoy:

· Basic Recording Studio Setup: https://bit.ly/246basicstudiopost

· What to do when real life interrupts your artistic process? https://bit.ly/241reallifeblog

· 7 Strategies for rebounding from creative burnout: https://bit.ly/239digoutofburnoutblog

· How to give better interviews (for D.I.Y. Rock Star): https://bit.ly/236betterinterviewsblog

· How to give better live performances: https://bit.ly/219betterliveblog

· How to collaborate better (for D.I.Y. Rock Star): https://bit.ly/Ep163collaborateblog

· How to write quicker, but better (for D.I.Y. Rock Star): https://bit.ly/228writebetterblogpost

· Should you ever play for free? https://bit.ly/214playfreeblog

· 17 Tips for taking better band photos—ESPECIALLY if you taking them yourself: http://bit.ly/betterbandphotos

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NOW:

New single, "Lovely Mystic (Obtanium Flow),” by Bourgeoisie Paper Jam http://bit.ly/BandCampPMG and

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Until next Monday, here’s wishing love, peace, and chicken grease!

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