For my New Year’s resolution, I created 52 goals. Each goal is written on a promise card. Every Sunday I select one at random and I have one week to fulfill the goal. This week I selected “I will write a song.” Subscribe to my channel and see if I stay true to my word!Are you a musician? If you write music to the song and perform it, I will feature it on https://becauseisaidiwould.org and send you a free because I said I would shirt! Submit your video in the comments below and email it to becauseisaidiwoul@gmail.com. The chorus comes from MLK’s last speech, The Promise Land: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WZbxYGy3AsHere are the lyrics to my song!“It rolls down like water, majestic heights in a promised land that he’s seen.This is his dream.He isn’t afraid now, getting death threats by mail and a bomb on his porch.He carries the torch. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! Consider the question, have you the strength and the will that will do what is right?This was his life.Top of the mountain, when do you quit and you stop and you say that you tried?He’d rather die. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! We live in his shadow, never forget where we came from, the work and the sweat that has dried.He was the guide.Remember the day now, live out his dream and honor the debt that he paid,Born on this day. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promise land!”
Category: 52 Promises
52 Promises: Week 2
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Hi Alex,
I want to start off by saying (writing?) how unique and fascinating I find this project. I first learned about it on another site and was eagerly awaiting to see the videos. I waited until now to see what your first two promises.
To be honest the videos seem to fall flat for me. Not because of the message, but to be honest I expected the videos to show more of your process in completing these tasks. The first video was to learn to play Euchre. You literally just said “. . .and I did it.” I know there was some video showing you learning at the end but it doesn’t hold any grip for me to watch the next one. The only thing that made me click the second video was how creative it might be to write a song. Again you spent most of your time telling us only the reason behind the promise.
I can understand that each of these promises hold meaning to you and I really do respect that. It’s more than what I can say I’ve done. If there is any critique please try showing your process of your promises more in the videos. Show your end result, show what you’ve learned and challenges you faced to achieve it. It grabs the attention more and shows people what you’ve accomplished and hopefully motivates them more than some person just merely saying they did it.
I wish you all the best of luck and earnestly thank you and your loved ones for the heart behind this idea.
Hi Lucia,
Thank you so much for taking the time to write me! I took your suggestion and tried to include more of the experience into the videos. I’m trying to keep the videos short but I’m considering making a second video every week so I can go in more detail about what I’ve learned. Thanks again for the feedback!
Alex