Hi Ian,

You released a new song last week, pushing through the perfectionist urge to keep tweaking — a real win. You also finished the coaching course and arrived at a significant personal clarity: coaching feels like a backup plan, and music and writing are what you actually want to pursue. You noted this group played a meaningful role in helping you build that momentum and reach that realization.

You didn't write the essay about finishing the song as planned, but you felt at peace with it because your priorities genuinely shifted.

You're planning to continue work on a new song and release it by the end of the month. You're also planning to simplify your website to orient it around music and writing rather than coaching.

To keep the writing thread alive alongside the music push, consider pairing each song's release with even just a short written post — a paragraph or two about what the song means or what making it taught you — so writing and music reinforce each other rather than competing for your attention.