Noah B Woodworks

A woodworking page for the free time foot soldier

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Hello there! My name is Noah Budd and I am a woodworker from southeast Michigan. I hail from a small set of towns in the Upper Peninsula called Houghton/Hancock. I lived there for 24 of my 31 years, and graduated from Michigan Tech in 2019 in audio production.

In my free time I am a dad first and hobbyist second. I make music, read books, smoke pipes, and kayak fish. I am a broadcast engineer in my professional life, working an early morning 3:30 – 11:30 am shift. The early bird has most definitely gotten a worm or two.

Thanks for stopping by my site and feel free to reach out to me on Instagram @noahbwoodworks or via the email found on the contact page

-Noah

    Falling Apart

    One of the main reasons I started this daily blog was to simply get into the habit of writing my thoughts down. It is a personal archive but also an exercise in discipline. I am absolutely not feeling like writing today but I saw something last week that motivated me to make small changes in my life. Psychologically, talking about your dreams gives you the satisfaction of achieving them. The people who discipline themselves to practice routinely end up actually achieving their dreams. The people who talk about their dreams without action give themselves the satisfaction of achieving the dream without actually doing anything.

    I have made this mistake so unbelievably often in my life. All throughout my 20’s I was talking about how I wanted to make it big in the music industry and making excuses for why I couldn’t work on achievement. It is an easy cycle to fall into if you’re not aware of the repercussions. I fell into the habit of making plans with no thought of how to execute them. Your dreams can make you weaker instead of lifting you higher. It is a painful truth to realize.

    I tend plan so much that I even scheme for what to do when I don’t feel like doing anything. I’ll give myself resources and source material to draw inspiration from. I assume that when I don’t feel like doing anything that I’ll be able to inspire anything at all. That is rather naive of me. The real obstacle is not inspiration, but getting started. When motivation is an issue, getting started feels like I am about to climb a vertical wall. Putting one hand in front of the other and lifting myself onto one foot is the real problem. Discipline is the issue, not inspiration.

    I must endure the discomfort of daily practice and put myself into action, instead of sitting idly by as time gets away from me. In the video I watched last week they said “dreams without action quietly waste time. And time once lost, can never be reclaimed.” It is with small, steady actions performed every day that I’ll bring myself closer to my dreams. Train insane or remain the same.

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