Everything Ukulele | Custom Tyde Ukuleles with Tyler Joersz
Terry Carter
Let's talk about Custom Ukuleles and the incredible and creative instruments of TYDE MUSIC CUSTOM UKULELES.
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Everything Ukulele | Jazz Ukulele with the incredible Christopher Davis-Shannon
Terry Carter
Christopher Davis-Shannon one of the best Jazz Ukulele players in the world will be joined us to talk about how can you play jazz with your ukulele!
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Everything Ukulele | Ukulele Woods with Paul Okami
Terry Carter
Paul Okami from one of the best Hawaiian Ukulele Brands, KoAloha, joined us to talk about ukulele woods!
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Everything Ukulele | Hawaiian Koa Wood with Joe Souza & Kahiau Souza
Terry Carter
Learn from one of the BEST HAWAIIAN Ukulele Companies all about Ukulele woods!! The founder of Kanile'a Ukuleles directly from Hawaii, Joe Souza, and his son Kahiau will be joining us!!
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Final Results - 30 Day Vegan Challenge
Terry Carter
This episode I breakdown the results of my 4 week vegan challenge. Although I was only planning on doing it for a month, I have decided to continue on with my plant based life. My end weight after the 4 week challenge was 177.6 pounds and I started out at 181.4 pounds. I essentially lost 5 pounds by not changing a thing, I still worked out, meditated, and surfed, but only cut out meat and dairy from my diet. I’m feeling and looking better than ever. What has really helped me is having the support of my wife, who also did this challenge with me. She has been doing a lot of cooking which has...
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30 Day Vegan Challenge (End of Week 2)
Terry Carter
Today, I'm going to talk about how I'm feeling after finishing my 2nd week of my 30 Day Plant Based Vegan Diet. Just to be clear vegan is cutting out all meat and diary out of your diet. I was out surfing this morning and got motivated to rush home and record this. Even though the kids are stirring and the dog is out and about I wanted to share with you exactly how I'm feeling both mentally and physically. I'm feeling outstanding, my energy in incredible and I'm loving of my body is responding to this plant based diet. Although I don't sleep much anyway but I have been averaging 3-4 hours of...
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30 Day Vegan Challenge
Terry Carter
Today I'm going to talk about my 30 Day Plant Based Diet that I'm trying. As a successful musician you can't perform at a high level if you don't feel good. Many of you know that I'm big on exercise, eating well, meditating, positive thinking, and reading a lot. Although lately I haven't been feeling 100%. I wouldn't say that I have felt bad, but I feel like there was some room for improvement. In attempts to better health I decided to do a 30 day all plant based diet. This is something that I'm a little scared of. I have eaten meat and dairy my entire life so giving it up, even for 30 days is...
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How To Deal With Failure When You Suck
Terry Carter
In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how I dealt with a performance where I sucked and learned to be better. Part of any kind of success is also going through some low points or failures. Today instead of telling you something I did well at or excelled at, I’m going to discuss something that I failed at. This is a story that is hard to discuss because we want to believe that we always perform at high levels and that we are essentially “perfect.” I got a call from a good buddy and wanted to know if I wanted to teach a summer guitar class and perform for the faculty concert at what...
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Track Your Goals | Lose Weight | Sugar Detox
Terry Carter
In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how to Track Your Goals and achieve the success in life that you are looking for. You have your dreams and you set your goals but now you have to track your progress along the way. I'm going to use my weight as an example to demonstrate how you can use tracking to reach your goals. I set a goal to get to 180 pounds. Since I was at 191 pounds that meant that I had to lose 11 pounds. My first step was to start a sugar and carb detox. For 3 weeks we completely cut out sugars, yes even fruit, and all carbs (breads, grains, etc.). I still did my daily...
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Hearing My Music On MTV
Terry Carter
In this podcast I'll discuss how and when I got my first composition on MTV. Around the time I was graduating from the University of Southern California with my Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar, I was working around Los Angeles as a professional musician. One of the things I wanted to get into more than anything was studio recording work. At the time I was mainly playing guitar but I was also working up my skills as a lap steel, dobro, banjo, and mandolin player. I was also studying country guitar with the great Steve Trovato and loving anything that had twang, like Johnny Cash, Jerry...
info_outlineIn this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how to Track Your Goals and achieve the success in life that you are looking for.
You have your dreams and you set your goals but now you have to track your progress along the way.
I'm going to use my weight as an example to demonstrate how you can use tracking to reach your goals.
I set a goal to get to 180 pounds. Since I was at 191 pounds that meant that I had to lose 11 pounds.
My first step was to start a sugar and carb detox. For 3 weeks we completely cut out sugars, yes even fruit, and all carbs (breads, grains, etc.).
I still did my daily exercise, lifting weights, stretching, and meditation but really focused on controlling my diet.
We already lived a pretty healthy diet but decided to step it up a level.
To track my weight and my progress I decided that at 7:00 AM every Monday I would weigh myself. This allowed me to get an accurate weight and allowed me to see if what I was doing was working.
Week 1 I weighed in at 191 pounds. By week 2 I dropped 2 pounds and was 189. Week 3 I got down to 185.
So it was working, just by simply cutting out sugar I had dropped 6 pounds.
By tracking your sugar intake and reading food labels, you begin to realize that there is sugar in everything. So many products that we buy at the grocery store, many which you would never think of, have sugar in them.
Sugar is so addicting and taste good, that many companies put it in to not only help with taste but to sub-consciously get addicted so you will buy the product again.
Finding foods without sugar can be difficult but with a little work and awareness it can be done.
Week 4 rolls around and I'm at 185 again. To be exact it was 185.4, just like the week before. The next week 185.4 and then the following week 185.4 yet again. I started to think that the scale was broken.
Four straight weeks I didn't fluctuate at all. Although this can be discouraging since I'm working so hard and sacrificing foods I love to eat but I had to stay the course until I reached my goal of 180 pounds.
The following week I get down to 182 pounds. Finally have a month I start heading in the right direction again and lose over 3 pounds.
Then the next week I hit 181 pounds and then at the time of this video I was 180.8 pounds. So I was 0.8 pounds away from my goal.
The main reason I did this was for health reasons and to overall feel better.
By tracking my weight every week it allowed me to see if what I was doing was working. Is the diet I'm doing working? Is the exercise I'm doing working?
Let's say that one week I was 185 pounds and the next week I went to 187 pounds. Then I could look back and ask myself, "why did I go up 2 pounds?" Did I eat poorly? Did I not exercise enough?
Whatever the reason, I now know that I have to make some adjustments this week to get the results that I'm looking for.
The line to success is never straight, it's a winding road that you have to learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and find new solutions.
But, if your not tracking your progress then you don't know how close you are to your dreams and your goals.
Even though I'm using my weight in this example you can do this with anything, doesn't matter what your dreams or goals are.
You need to track it, write it down everyday, every week, or every month whatever your system it to track it.
You have to track it, this way you don't do something for 3 months and realize that what your doing isn't working.
All your dreams are possible, all your goals are possible, but track them, and keep an idea of where your at. Also, when you hit small milestones and start having some success you start feeling good about yourself and start gaining some confidence.
I have 0.8 pounds to go to hit my goal and when I do I'll set a new goal. Update I did reach my goal and got down to 179.6 pounds.
Track your dreams and track your goals.
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Terry Carter