Hey everyone - Adam here.
7 DAYS UNTIL THE RELEASE OF MY DEBUT ALBUM.
I had a random thought this morning: one day I am going to be a really kickass grandpa.
Increasingly, I have been obsessed with the long-term and how I can help provoke optimism/curiosity towards our individual/collective futures.
This is why I am so excited to share THE MANIFESTO for my project: HEALTH INSURANCE.
WHAT’S HEALTH INSURANCE?
HEALTH INSURANCE: a creative project I have been working on the past two years.
HEALTH INSURANCE: a lifestyle, as well as a social commentary.
HEALTH INSURANCE: a path towards a better life.
2022 is the year I fully committed to becoming a musician. This is something I envision myself spending the rest of my life pursuing.
Want to see the album cover for HEALTH INSURANCE?
HEALTH INSURANCE: the launch to a lifelong project. ( see: the Expiry Date states that this will indeed run TO INFINITY.)
What’s your Rx (Prescription)?
As I have stated before: reading, writing, meditating, exercising, creating & manifesting are all a part of my plan to cultivate good health on a daily basis.
These activities have been my ad hoc HEALTH INSURANCE, really since the start of this newsletter. However, it took the time for deep and meaningful reflection to recognize that this way of living is something I want to dedicate the rest of my life towards.
Taking care of yourself, shouldn’t consist of only going to one physical for the year. IT IS WAY MORE THAN THIS.
Taking care of yourself is an everyday practice. We need to ensure we nourish ourselves physically, mentally as well as spiritually.
Especially at a time in which there is seemingly crisis after crisis. How to ensure we don’t lose ourselves in the midst of all the wrong that’s going on in the world?
HEALTH INSURANCE: is combating against temporal exhaustion.
Temporal exhaustion: a state of being mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present.. leaving us with no energy left for imagining the future.
HEALTH INSURANCE: is taking an active approach in imagining the future & taking action towards the future world we want to manifest and make reality.
Ask yourself questions such as these below…
What makes you tick?
What makes you feel more human?
What makes you inspired to take action to better your live daily?
My Rx (Prescription)
READ.
Have you tried reading 20 minutes in a day? Have you tried finishing that book you keep putting off to the side? Have you tried setting a goal for how many books you’d like to read this month? This year?
Have you ever filled up a page of a notebook with your thoughts? Have you done it over the span of a week? A month? A year?
Have you ever taken 5 minutes in a day to do nothing? Have you taken a second for yourself in a week you’ve found particularly stressful? Have you ever taken 10 minutes for yourself to just b-r-e-a-t-h-e?
Have you ever hit the gym and really challenged yourself on a particular workout, only to realize you can easily conquer it a week down the line? Have you ever set a basic goal in a day to just simply sweat?
Have you ever made the decision to no longer destroy and instead create? Have you ever decided to not let that idea no longer remain “just an idea” but instead took action towards it.. manifesting it into becoming your reality.
Have you ever decided that the previous way of living you had was something you no longer wanted to do, and instead shifted your framing to be curious everyday, dedicated to learning something new… only to realize that you fundamentally changed your life?
A NEW FORM OF HEALTH INSURANCE
At it’s core, my debut album is a celebration of a mindset shift.
It’s rejecting the status quo and standing up for what I believe in.
It’s taking a chance on myself and risking it for doing the things I love most on a daily basis.
HEALTH INSURANCE: is a call to anyone who is upset with their current situation and wants to do something about it.
It’s a declaration that we are here for the long-term and that if we fail based on “societal expectations” the first time, we aren’t going to roll over. We are going to get right back up and fight for the things we really love.
HEALTH INSURANCE: is an introduction to a lifelong ethos. It’s an introduction to a lifestyle dedicated to self-care FIRST AND FOREMOST.
While also taking the time to share our learnings with the world.. recognizing that together we really are better off.
HEALTH INSURANCE: a declaration that we are here to stay. That we are taking a chance on our passions.
HEALTH INSURANCE: an introduction to the inner workings of my mind and my life philosophy. One largely driven by an incessant attention to lifelong learning.
HEALTH INSURANCE: is a commitment to self-education. Away from the traditional institutions and instead revolving around local libraries worldwide. It’s taking advantage of the affordances offered by the internet and using it’s chief innovation in educating ourselves on literally anything we’d like.
READ a chapter of that book you just started to this album.
WRITE a page in your journal to this album.
MEDITATE for 10 minutes to this album.
EXERCISE & break a sweat this album.
CREATE a new world, philosophy and/or project to this album.
MANIFEST the life you’ve been top scared to chase to this album.
Then share your story.
I am so excited to share all my hardwork this coming Thursday.
HEALTH INSURANCE is my debut album filled with 12 instrumental tracks designed to enrich the process of you tending to your self-care.
Little did I realize, that this music I would be creating would become my life’s soundtrack as I found it was music I could tend to my prescription to. I hope it can do the same for you.
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @10AM EST my debut album HEALTH INSURANCE will be out on all music streaming platforms.
Next week for the newsletter, I’ll share a post with all the relevant links for you to follow and give you a way to be able to listen firsthand to my album.
In the meanwhile, feel free to give me a follow on Spotify. And keep chasing towards your dreams.
Cheers to lifelong learning,
Adam Bartley
Just getting around to reading this week’s newsletter. I love the concept of the album. To be used as a background soundtrack to self-care. This will be to young dreamers what Low-Fi Hip Hop Beats is to college students.