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Jan Schrader (Author: The Secret Of The Thirteenth Month) | Thursday | 9/26/2025
Good morning and happy Thursday! Today we have a new guest to our program. Author, veteran and artist Mr. Jan Schrader joins us this morning to talk abut his book: The Secret of the Thirteenth Month and also his upcoming art show at If These Walls Could Talk on First Friday, October 4th! The event will be from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm and is free and open to the public! His work is amazing so be sure to stay tuned for more! Let's get ready to learn, here's the news:
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Once again, the weather comes from the National Weather Service of Chicago, delivered to you here locally on Good Morning Aurora. We have winds picking up on Friday is a storm that is currently in Florida, and it is having some effect on our weather here locally. We'll discuss and talk about it. Today, as we can see here, we have a daytime high of 81 degrees with a daytime low of 76 degrees. Low mid-70s near the lakefront, so if you are in places like Benton Harbor or other nice areas, you will experience a little bit lower temperature. 65 degrees for today's nighttime high, 52 degrees for the nighttime low. A little bit of cloud cover tonight, that transitions and goes with this. Into tomorrow, take a look at that, 79 degrees for the daytime high, 72 degrees for the daytime low. A windy day tomorrow gusts up to 40 miles per hour. Now, there's also a 20 to 30 percent chance of thunderstorms, as we can see right here, which will come late. And indeed, if it does come, 64 degrees will be our nighttime high Friday night, 55 degrees will be the nighttime low. Now, that 20 to 30 percent up top here turns into 20 to 60 percent right here with breezy conditions with the rain as well. So it'll be like the Wizard of Oz. Don't get swept up in the storm. Saturday, 77 degrees for the daytime high, 70 degrees for the daytime low. A breezy day on Saturday as well, a 20 to 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. Be aware of that. Saturday night, take a look, 64 degrees for the nighttime high, 56 degrees for the nighttime low. The 20 to 50 percent chance of thunderstorms here up top does continue into Saturday evening. Sunday, moving ahead, 79 degrees for the daytime high, 71 degrees for the daytime low, 20 to 50 percent chance of rain on Sunday. But indeed, we do see the sunshine emoji as well with some clouds and be a mixture of weather on Sunday, Sunday night, 64 degrees for the nighttime high, 56 degrees for the nighttime low. And the 20 to 30 percent chance of thunderstorms on Sunday night. Let's recap, ladies and gentlemen, 81 degrees today for the daytime high, 76 degrees for the daytime low. 79 degrees for the daytime high on Friday, 72 degrees for your daytime low. Moving ahead to Saturday, 77 degrees for the daytime high, 70 degrees for the daytime low. And on Sunday, 79 degrees for the daytime high, 71 degrees for that daytime low. That is your weather report here on Good Morning Aurora, the second largest city's first daily news podcast. Our interview today is with author and Marine Corps veteran Jan Schrader. Get ready for a great show. [ Music ] [ Music ] [ Music ] [ Music ] [ Music ] [ Music ] [ Music ] [ Music ] Good morning, Aurora, good morning, Aurora, good morning, Aurora, the time is 9.04 a.m. and you are listening to and watching Good Morning Aurora, the second largest city's first daily news podcast. We have a brand new guest on the program today. And author, you know we love authors. He is the author of The Secret of the 13th Month, which is a book on better time management. He's currently garnering much recognition locally as an abstract painter. He's also a Vietnam veteran who served in the Marine Corps and is active supporting area veterans through his local VFW post. That trail of superlatives can lead to only one guest, Mr. Jan Schrader. How are you, sir? I'm doing very well for this, thank you. Glad to have you on the program today. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. We and I love to read, love our authors, love our veterans on this program, so this is truly an honor. Now, first Fridays, which is beloved in this city on October 4th, you're going to be the featured solo artist at If These Walls Could Talk. Yes. Tell us a little bit about that show that night. Yes. Well, first of all, I'm an abstract artist. And so the show will be all abstract art. It's going to be quite an event where the theme of the show, it's called Pallet Riffs. And it's a fusion of art and jazz. And where that comes from is I've always thought that abstract art was kind of like jazz on canvas. So my website is Canvas Jazz. And so to be consistent with that theme, we're going to have a three-piece jazz combo playing that night. We're going to have wine and cheese and other things to eat and some giveaways. And it's just going to be a very pleasant evening, particularly in conjunction with the first Friday event. There'll be a lot of people on the street. It's open to the public. We'd love to have everybody come out and say hi and get a chance to share my artwork with them. And just have a very fun evening. And a slice of cheese and some artwork. The folks who watch this program love our first Fridays. And this is going to be a nice blend for that downtown scene. Everyone knows where If These Walls Could Talk is located. It's a really nice, you know, right there on Stulp. Stulp Great Place. Stulp Great Place. Stulp, yes. Okay, when did you start painting? And how did you make the connection to paint while listening to jazz? Well, the two kind of coincided. I've been a jazz affectionado for some time. Actually, really started back in college and got into the jazz scene at that time. It's grown over the year. The artists have changed. We've got some great new younger artists that are phenomenal. But I've always liked jazz. And so I have this affinity to be playing music all the time anyway. So I'm playing my favorite music. Well, as I'm doing my artwork, I have it playing in the background. I just find it kind of inspirational. But as far as when I started, I've only been painting for about three and a half years. Oh, wow. And I never set out to really do any art for the public. I just started out painting for myself just as fun. And for fun, it was something I've kind of wanted to do for a lot of years and never really had time. I had a very busy career in the financial services industry. And so finally, in semi-retirement, let's call it, I started painting a little bit and really enjoyed it. And my wife was a great -- my late wife was a very great inspiration and kept encouraging me to do it. And so I kept experimenting more and more. And so we were kind of a funny story. We have a place down outside of Phoenix. And we were down there at an art gallery. And we stopped in and we were looking around and got talking with the people. And out of the blue she system. Well, you know, my husband's an artist. To me, I'm not an artist. I'm a guy who likes to paint. He threw me out of the boat. And so he said, "Well, do you have any photos of your art?" So I showed him what I had on the phone. "Oh, wow. You've got to join our gallery." And I said, "Well, I don't think my art's good." And it's absolutely art's good enough. So I did. And so that was really kind of confirmation that my work might be okay. And then some time passed and I started selling some paintings. And that was really the confirmation. When somebody handed over some bucks for what I was doing. That's when you know, "Okay, I got something here." When people are willing to hand over their money and know that maybe you have something going. So no formal art training whatsoever. There's been this in the last three years. Now, palette riffs, which I love because I'm an art fan, or a jazz fan as well. I grew up, my father loved jazz. I mean, W and UA '95. Oh, yes. Yes, absolutely. I'm from a young lad to now. You are right. Jazz takes so many twists and turns in an audio fashion. But it allows you to go with it, to express with it, to feel with it, to get rid of your woes or your cares for that drive home, or wherever you find yourself listening to it. So I think I really like palette riffs because that's really what's happening. And to combine that with art, art terminology is brilliant. It really is. Absolutely. It's reflected in my work because, as I say, my work is very free form. Some of the things that are noticeable right away is I use a lot of heavy texture in my work. And I do that for a few reasons. One, I like the three dimensions. Flat artwork is fine. There's nothing wrong with that. There's some very fine talented painters who can make a flat painting look three dimensional. I don't happen to be one of them. So I do it the other way. I actually make a three dimension. And the other thing I like about that, and I couple that with a lot of metallic and high gloss paints. So I like that because if you have the painting on the wall, and there's the light changes in the room during the course of the day, it changes in appearance to a certain extent. Right. Yes. And so I find that quite interesting. And it's not as static as a lot of art is. It gives it some life and some motion. And it gives you, as the artist, your own unique style, which is what people understand and they see and they like. And that's what makes people follow at certain artists. Yes. The one comment that I do here repeatedly is the unique quality of my work. It's unlike things that people have seen. With that, I also will frequently include kind of an Asian flair to it. Over the years, I acquired an interest in Asian art. More toward the zen side, simplicity, clean, a lot of negative space. And so that's reflected in my painting as well. That's wonderful. The time is 9, 12 a.m. you are listening to and watching Good Morning Aurora, the second largest city's first daily news podcast. If you are just joining us, we're here with author, painter, Jan Schrader, also a Marine Corps veteran as well. First Friday, if these walls could talk, it's going to be a fantastic show. You can see and meet Mr. Schrader there and check out his painting and artwork palette riffs. What time does the event start on before? It starts at 7, runs from 7 to 10. Okay. And even if you can only come for a few minutes, we'd love to have you come and say hello and get to meet you and share what we have. Absolutely. Hossway Pais, Good Morning to you. Julia Lindberg is here, one of our great listeners. She says, "What a lovely, humble gentleman." Yes, he is. Thank you very much. John Harker, Lorraine, Good Morning to you, Johanna Rebman. Tracy Duran, Good Morning to you. And thank you. Josie Mendoza-Geller, Good Morning to all of you great folks. The time is 9, 13. Now, so we talked about, you are, admit Westerner, born and raised, and the Asian influence in your work that you talked about a lot of negative space and things like that. What's next? What's next for Jan Schrader as a painter and artist? Before we move on to the book. Yeah, that's a very good question. What I find is, as I keep experimenting with what I'm doing, I find new directions for it. But that's kind of consistent with the whole jazz concept because there's no limits on it. Right. And so it gives you a chance for riffs, if you will, for innovation. And so I just keep experimenting and I've got a lot of really bad art in my basement because the experiments went wrong. Sure. But if you want some free art from Simee, it's not good but I'll give it to you. But anyway, that's what you learn. And I look at it that every painting, every one of my paintings is really an experiment. I don't do a lot of sketching. I don't do a lot of preparation. I'll get a general kind of vague concept of where I want to go with it. And that, again, it's very improvisational. Right. And sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. It's genuine. Yeah. It's genuine. I mean, for example, cards on the table. I've read all about you prior to our interview here. But I don't want to be, and I don't think the audience wants to be. The people who watch the show don't want me to be an expert on Jan Schrader. The point is to have the expert come in and share with us. Sure. All right. Last question about jazz. Favorite jazz artist? Well, I'm glad. And people ask me that all the time. And there's so many of them. And I get this kind of gridlock. So I actually took time to write some of them down back in college when I was getting into it. And I really like people like Ahmad Jamal and Flonius Ma, Cal Jader, you know. Guys of that ilk and Chet Baker. Oh, man. Charlie Parker. Great stuff. Yeah. Classic guys. Great stuff. And Ellington, of course, was still around. And so those were great guys. But since then, there's been a lot of really good artists that have stayed popular. Some of them are now gone. Paul Desmond was one of my favorites. I think he was, you know, with the, of course, he did so much of his work with Brubeck. Right. But a Brubeck. Man. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And of course, I think Paul Desmond, actually with Brubeck kind of defined jazz in the early 60s when they, when they did take five. And of course, Desmond wrote that. But it was such a watershed moment because it was done in five, four time, which nobody for. Or not to any great extent. And then, of course, they had the fabulous drummer, drummer Joe Morello that, that really took that piece and drove it by, you know, changing the beat with every couple of bars and stuff. And it is a fantastic song. Yeah. It really is. I mean, it stands out amongst jazz songs. Yeah. And he was, he really had one of the warmest sounds for a saxophone, you know, of anybody. And I like Gene Harris on piano and Oscar Peterson. Okay. And of course, Lionel Hampton, Mil Jackson on the vibes and Stan Goetz, that's one of my other favorite saxophone players. And Herbie Mann, Bill Charlap on the piano. And more recently, Diana Kral, I think she does some really interesting work. Oh, I'm not familiar. Yeah. She was a very good vocalist and jazz pianist. And then I also, I have a real fondness for Latin jazz, Afro, Afro Cuban jazz and so forth. So I like guys like, got a Barbieri and Pacito de Rivera and Arturo Sandoval, probably one of the greatest trumpeters of our time. Are they Fanya folks? Yes. Us. Well, some of them are. That's a little more toward the salsa, kind of rhythm. Okay. That's correct. And while there is some crossover like Tito Puente and guys like that, they also, in their own right, are great jazz artists as well. Not Joe Sanchez, Chucho Valdez. You're speaking my language now. Right. Yeah. We got to hang out sometime. All right. And she's at this event. October 4th, man. October 4th. If these walls could talk. I, you know, I'm a little bit younger, but boy, Kenny G, Boney James, some of those guys, those are the guys who my dad really used to listen to. That was the NUA crew. Yes. Yes. Gosh, those good times. Good memories for me. Again, jazz says so much in its, in its music. It says, it says a lot. Anyway, I can talk about jazz all day, 9/18 is the time. Better time management. Yes. I think everybody, everybody could use some tips on better time management, harvesting the time to achieve your life's dreams. Yes. First of all, what does the average person get wrong about, about time management? Their perception of time. Okay. You'll notice the subtitle is Harvesting the Time to Achieve Your Life Stream. This book was co-authored with a great friend of mine. Actually, we've been in the Marine Corps together and, and then had business careers that took us on somewhat parallel paths. And so we really started preparing this to, to create more efficient ways for the people that we're managing, we're both in production management, sales production management, in our various careers. But what we found is that the perception of time has such a great deal to do with how we execute our time. And it's really started. My friend, David Thomason, had quit smoking. And so he, he found, you know, all the times when he would have gone out for a cigarette all, suddenly all he hit, he had at least like five minute periods of time that he could use for something else. So this was before, of course, email and so forth. So he started writing postcards to people and so forth and using that time to stay in touch with folks. All of that transmuted into looking at how we can use small bits of time to our advantage. So here's what he did. We said, okay, let's, let's, let's say that we're awake 16 hours a day. And let's assume, and I think it's fair, that we waste two minutes an hour. Okay. So that's 32 minutes a day that's wasted very conservatively. I think we will agree with it. Yeah. Yeah. If you do the math on that, which we do in the book, you find out that that equates amazingly to 24.3 days in a year's time. Wow. When you put it in that perspective, that is a lot of wasted time. Well, when you realize that the average work month is 24 business days, this gives you, if you were to use those two minutes every hour, you would have picked up an additional 13th month, thus the name of the book. That's the secret of the 13th month. Now that's, that's easier said than done to say, well, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to save two minutes an hour. The question in is how? Well, first of all, you have to recognize the opportunities there are to utilize that time. Right. And then you have to have strategies to do so. It's all laid out in the book, right? The thing is that going back to the perception of time, what we find is that too often tasks don't get, are not begun because there's this overwhelming perception that it's going to take too long to do and we can't get it done in the time we have. That we are taught as kids, don't start something you can't finish, right? And that's a real fallacy because, let me just give you a real quick example. Let's say you have a garage or a basement or a storage shed or something full of boxes that you need to go through and get rid of or what have you. When you go and you open the garage and you go, "Ah, this is going to take hours. I don't have time to do this." So you put it off. I'll do it next weekend. Next weekend comes same thing you don't have time. But what if you did this? What if every day you took just a box or two and went through it? Now it may, it will take a longer number of days perhaps, but you'll get it done. Eventually you come to that last box and if you don't, then all that time that could have been utilized is wasted. So one of the first strategies is recognizing the value of small periods of time. Amen to that, amen to that. And one of the things that I have done repeatedly is I talked to people and their doubters about how this can work. So I give them a copy of the book and I say, "Go in there, we've got some exercises." And one of the exercises is take common tasks that you do in a day, making it a bed, loading the washer, unloading the dishwasher, those kinds of things. Write down how many minutes you think it takes to do that. And then time yourself, do it and time yourself. And invariably people come back and say, "Well it didn't take as long as I thought it was going to." Exactly. And so that's the beginning of the perception of accurate time usage. So we go into all kinds of different strategies, how we go about things. One of the problems that so many people have is what we call longitudinal thinking, where you have to do step A, then step B, then step C. And often that's a hindrance because you can often do C before you do A, and so you don't have to do it in this linear manner that we perceive it to be done. Learning some tricks like that can really help you have more time. This resonates with me because I am 14 years cigarette free. I was a career cigarette smoker. I know how much more productive I was. But it's so true, the time where I would go out and have a cigarette, that time, my goodness, the time and the money just increased like it was. And you also mentioned that when you're thinking about doing a task and you're consistently putting it off, there is something going on with the average person where you open that shed door, when you open whatever it is, the vision of the work seems daunting, that fight or flight, you know that, that, ah, yes, yes, ah, and also to your point too. 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Rules and restrictions may apply. If you think it's going to take you five minutes and you do the steps in this book and I think this is, ah, ah, bonus the time harvesting journal I was reading as you were going along. Yes. So that you're going to subconsciously psych yourself to do it quicker than that five minutes you wrote. Mm-hmm. You're going to try to get those dishes done or whatever it could be. Yes. So, I look forward to reading this book and delving into it as I have my chamomile tea with lemon every night because that is true. Yes. And I can tell you, as a person who was a career cigarette smoker, when I kicked the habit, man, I got so much more productive. Yes. So much more productive. 9/25 is the time. If I just make a comment on something you brought up, it's very, very important we addressed it in the book. And that is the whole psychology of procrastination. And there are many reasons, psychological reasons that people procrastinate. And some is they don't want to deal with the unpleasantness of the task. Right. That's a very basic human life. Yeah. But there are others. In some cases, it's a matter of fear. And it can be a fear of feeling to get the task done properly. Now, that can apply often in work situations, not so much in home. Now, although that's true in home situations too, but especially if you're given an assignment at work and you're given some latitude in the time frame and so forth, people sometimes put it off because they're really afraid to tackle it. Yes. And doing it wrong, getting criticism from their peers or their boss or what have you, or just fear of not knowing how to do it. Right. So there's the unpleasantness, there's fear. There are other reasons as well. Some are very, well, they're all self-defeating. But in some cases, it's that in doing so, in doing the task, you may have to give up some other thing that you're doing and you don't want to have to do that. Right. You're a trade-off and you're compromising with yourself. It gets a lot into the psychology of those issues and we give you exercises in there to deal with all of them. I resonate with so much of this book, 9/27 is the time. Just a couple of what's included in the table of contents. I just want to read a lot of this for folks. Who and what is responsible for your lack of time? More deadly habits. The secret to plan, procrastination, the eighth deadly habit, determining your why, making the dream come true, the first steps, setting a realistic goal, your natural built-in success system, excuse me. I mean, the book is the secret of the 13th month, harvesting the time to achieve your life's dreams. What if you could have a 13th month or more every year for the rest of your life? What if you could finally have the time you long for to pursue your life's dreams? Well, in regards to time, Friday, October 4th, it's 7pm to 10pm. If these walls could talk custom framing and gallery, 32 South Stope Avenue here in Aurora is going to be the event. So the show ends on a positive note. What is your message today for the people of Aurora as we land this airplane? Well, I'm so impressed. We just found out recently that Aurora was named as one of the 10 best and most creative, I should say, cities in the country. And so kudos to Aurora and to the incredible resurgence and renaissance that's been going on here. And we're just very happy that we can be part of it on October 4th and support the city. Wonderful, wonderful. I want to say thank you very much to our guest, Mr. Jan Schreider, and also to our friend Lyn Cornanke for putting us in contact with Mr. Schreider here. Right now we're going to go to our commercial and Buenos Dias Aurora, the second largest city's first bilingual news podcast. 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