"They" (yes, those bastards!) say 'you learn something new every day'...
I say - screw them (yes, those bastards!), forget something old every day!!!
Let that sink in a little bit...
I've lived life long enough to know most of the stuff that sounds like it doesn't make sense usually makes the MOST sense in the long run.
Forget something old today!
Make an effort to forget something old today. An old way of thinking, a routine of mediocrity or an outdated approach to living. Life is about adapting to change. EVERYTHING changes. If you stay the same, you fall behind.
Approach something old in a new way. Take a new route home, put your left pantleg on before your right tomorrow, scan through all the stations on the radio or TV without looking at the channel number and find something you like (probably on a station you would never suspect). It's the little things that make bigger things possible. Make a special effort to purposely do things in a new manner and see what happens...
Forget how to go through the same routine, after all where has it taken you so far? Forget how to follow the usual treaded paths, take YOUR OWN path. Forget how to think small, it's for small minded people, not YOU. Forget how to fear the path of success (the work, the effort, the risks). Forget how to fear achieving your dreams. Forget how to doubt your God-given abilities. Forget how to doubt your God.
What do you have left? Everything just becomes easier!!! Difficulties become Opportunities. Challenges open new paths to Experience. Mishaps become Blessings.
You're gonna learn stuff all the time. Do you think you've learned everything you know now in the absolute correct manner? Hell, No! You would be perfect if you did! Since the time you were born, you've been told how things are (or how they are to the people caring for you), how they're supposed to be (according to the people who 'care' about you) and how they always will be (by people who never tried any other way)... by a bunch of idiots that want nothing more than for you to be equally or more miserable than themselves.
People have spent most of your life building borders, boundaries and obstacles around you and your abilities. How many times have you been told that something you want to do or accomplish would be 'hard', 'impossible' or 'it takes a lot of luck'? F them all, go for what you want and get it RIGHT NOW!!! Otherwise, you'll be learning new things, every day in the same manner that got you where you are right now... Are you where you want to be?? (I mean in life, not about reading this blog)
Wake up! You're sleepwalking through life just like they want you to!!! Merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream, MY ASS!!!
You only are issued so many sunsets in your life; How many sunsets have you missed already?? Why keep spending so many of them the same old way? Learn something new today - Forget something OLD!!!
Monday, September 18, 2006
Thursday, September 14, 2006
3rd time is the charm...
You can’t read the whole thing if you don’t read page #3.
You can't eat the whole bag without eating handful #3
You can't walk a mile in another man's shoes without taking step #3
Imagine you are standing out in the middle of a desolate nowhere. Pick a point really far away; as far away as you can see. Far off in the horizon, is this point. Go ahead and name it. Describe it. Use your imagination to make it whatever you want, but it’s still way over there
To get there, you have to take steps; probably a whole lot of them. Each one is as important as the others. Without taking every step, you cannot take ALL of the steps. If you never take step one, you are not walking. If you stop at step 2, you are no longer walking. The point where everything IS and stops being COULD BE lies at the edge of the desolate nowhere. It’s two steps closer, but you’ve stopped without reaching the point.
And that’s the point. Get it? It’s the point. Way over there; far beyond the nothingness. You’re not there, but it is. Soon you will understand. You can’t go between the middle of a desolate nowhere to the point without a little imagination. You can’t get there without vision. You can’t get there without direction. And you’ll never find a way there without reason.
You can't make ALL of the steps happen if you skip step #3.
Write your goals down. Keep it simple. Pick less than ten short-term goals. What do you want to complete? What skill do you want learn? How do you want to get better? What do you want to accomplish in the next 6 months? Pick a point far away on the horizon.
Define your goals. What are they? Why do you want to achieve them? How can you achieve them? What are the necessary steps? Take a whole minute or two and write these goals down onto a small piece of paper. Keep the paper with you all day.
Occasionally, pull the paper out. Look at your goals. What are you doing today to keep stepping towards that point on the horizon? You don’t have to concentrate on these goals. The answers will find their way to you, so stop looking. Merely being aware of your defined goals is the key. Your subconscious will follow your consciousness like a willing servant.
Be aware. That’s step one. What are you doing? What the hell are you doing? Do you know? Can you define it? Can you feel it?
Be aware. By writing your goals, you have distinguished where you want to focus your life force. Your positive energy, your focus, your good will is all pointing in the same direction. How do I know? You have defined these things. You have thought about your life and times long enough already to name that point on the horizon. You know what you want, how do you get there?
You can't eat the whole bag without eating handful #3
You can't walk a mile in another man's shoes without taking step #3
Imagine you are standing out in the middle of a desolate nowhere. Pick a point really far away; as far away as you can see. Far off in the horizon, is this point. Go ahead and name it. Describe it. Use your imagination to make it whatever you want, but it’s still way over there
To get there, you have to take steps; probably a whole lot of them. Each one is as important as the others. Without taking every step, you cannot take ALL of the steps. If you never take step one, you are not walking. If you stop at step 2, you are no longer walking. The point where everything IS and stops being COULD BE lies at the edge of the desolate nowhere. It’s two steps closer, but you’ve stopped without reaching the point.
And that’s the point. Get it? It’s the point. Way over there; far beyond the nothingness. You’re not there, but it is. Soon you will understand. You can’t go between the middle of a desolate nowhere to the point without a little imagination. You can’t get there without vision. You can’t get there without direction. And you’ll never find a way there without reason.
You can't make ALL of the steps happen if you skip step #3.
Write your goals down. Keep it simple. Pick less than ten short-term goals. What do you want to complete? What skill do you want learn? How do you want to get better? What do you want to accomplish in the next 6 months? Pick a point far away on the horizon.
Define your goals. What are they? Why do you want to achieve them? How can you achieve them? What are the necessary steps? Take a whole minute or two and write these goals down onto a small piece of paper. Keep the paper with you all day.
Occasionally, pull the paper out. Look at your goals. What are you doing today to keep stepping towards that point on the horizon? You don’t have to concentrate on these goals. The answers will find their way to you, so stop looking. Merely being aware of your defined goals is the key. Your subconscious will follow your consciousness like a willing servant.
Be aware. That’s step one. What are you doing? What the hell are you doing? Do you know? Can you define it? Can you feel it?
Be aware. By writing your goals, you have distinguished where you want to focus your life force. Your positive energy, your focus, your good will is all pointing in the same direction. How do I know? You have defined these things. You have thought about your life and times long enough already to name that point on the horizon. You know what you want, how do you get there?
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Return of the Madness is Inevitable! Prepare Yourself Semi-Adequately
Manny, Manny, Manny... what the hell is going on here???
Damn, I've been absent from my blog WAY too long! It's not for a lack of busy-ness. Let's see: Among other seemingly bad omens, bad breaks and bad metaphors; my computer crashed (Thank you, Microsoft; you foresight-less pricks!) and I lost EVERYTHING on it, had to rebuild 100%. That sucked. Kid's pictures - gone. Wedding pictures - gone. Vacation photos - gone, 11+ hours of home-recorded, remixed original music - gone!
If it wasn't for me realizing that I am NOT like all the other kids in the stockbroker field/the soulless corporation I attend for my daily soul-conforming and realizing I am clearly NOT pursuing my creative dreams by educating stupid people on how to get richer than I can ever be answering telephone calls, I would be depressed... Oh yeah, my wife quit her job last week for all the right reasons - I AM proud of her for having steadfast morals, and keeping proper priorities in life... (anyone need a personal trainer???) I just wish we could have crafted a wily lawsuit out of it first.
You know, kids get hungry (Eff you, Latrell Sprewell), bills need paid regularly and shoes get outgrown - my size 15's particularly! Let's see... American dream? check. Mortgage through the nostrils? check. Credit card bills through the wazoo? check. Ahhh, credit is overrated! You can't take it with you, right?? So a little struggle now build character; afterall, we'll LAUGH about this years from now (hope I get a sweet cellmate in debtor's prison - "that broke ass is MINE, bitch!")
But for every obstacle that seems like a slime covered rock in the pond of life, there is always the blessing side where all the goodies lie in wait... mmm, tasty invertabrates. Another bad analogy since two of my aquarium inhabitants; a red-claw crab and a green spotted puffer (red and green, yeah! more metaphors), have gone to the big lake in the sky. (I've been busy practicing my pet funeral ceremonies, for sure!). Of course my 3 year-old daughter keeps asking where "Mr. Krabs" and "Mrs. Puff" went to... (hey, I named them; I'm a SpongeBob fan too).
Anyway, half-full or half-empty, it's STILL just a freeking glass. Come to think about it, a half-empty glass of scotch would be a very good thing right now.
I've chosen to see the blessings in life.
- I didn't lose my kids, my wife or my memories just the pictures of them. I have about 20% backed up, mostly the better ones.
- Wouldn't be so bad if my digital camera wasn't as broke as I am! Meanwhile a Wolbouti tribesman would trade me 50 ebola-ridden acres of his inheritance for the shiny trinket even if it is worthless to me at this point. I guess it's not so bad.
- I didn't lose 11 hours of homemade music, I gained the opportunity to make those songs better! Or forget them altogether - I hang onto too manny things as it is! OK, GOD, lesson learned... thanks!
- Since I realized my employer doesn't want to utilize my creativity, I no longer care for my employer, I have felt a burden lifted from my being. I have stayed there through 9 years of fear. Stupid fear. "What will I do?" fear. That's not me... 9 years is NOT me. As with all things, getting fired WOULD be a blessing! What would I do? What I always do... figure it out, of course. Times can be tough, as long as I'm alive, I'll be tougher... eff it, that's why!
In the meantime, I bide my time, enjoy the meager benefits that I provide for my family and I stop waiting for opportunity to ride in on a shiny white horse. I am going horse hunting, donkey slaying, goat wrestling if I have to. The time has come not only to take a shot, but to fill the sky with shots in every direction. No opportunity will be laughed off, excused away or taken as unworthy. Everything is opportunity to me now, and opportunity is everything.
- I didn't lose 2 colorful pets, I gained the ability to enjoy the rest of my gilled friends even more; to be honest - the puffer was an a$$hole to all the other creatures (liked to eat my fancy shrimp and snails) and the crab was just plain dumb (even for a crab, DUMB)
- my wife can now begin chasing her dreams as she's no longer tied down to a corporate fustercluck (ANYone need a personal trainer? She can send you workout seesions via e-mail!) . Not only do I have your back sweetie, but I'm right behind you!!!
- more importantly I decided it IS TIME to chase my dreams:
I will write with a passion never before emitted from the Stilesmaster.
I am currently actively pursuing a literary agent I can semi-trust/mesh with to FINALLY get to the task of pushing my more complex story ideas from my brain onto a paycheck. Those 'movie ideas' I've been fermenting might as well be books first at this rate... what have I been waiting for anyway?
Well, it's not like I haven't been writing at all - I still crank 'em out on ArmchairGM.com.
So prepare for the Madness all eight of my loyal readers (that's me, 2 others and all of our 'other' schizophrenic personalities), The time is upon us to open up the windows and clear this stale air out!
Join me in the battle. Take every opportunity to make everything opportunity. Seize, beseige and rampage against the things you do that you "don't do". Be you, don't be what they want you to be...that's what they want. What do you want?
Go get it!
Damn, I've been absent from my blog WAY too long! It's not for a lack of busy-ness. Let's see: Among other seemingly bad omens, bad breaks and bad metaphors; my computer crashed (Thank you, Microsoft; you foresight-less pricks!) and I lost EVERYTHING on it, had to rebuild 100%. That sucked. Kid's pictures - gone. Wedding pictures - gone. Vacation photos - gone, 11+ hours of home-recorded, remixed original music - gone!
If it wasn't for me realizing that I am NOT like all the other kids in the stockbroker field/the soulless corporation I attend for my daily soul-conforming and realizing I am clearly NOT pursuing my creative dreams by educating stupid people on how to get richer than I can ever be answering telephone calls, I would be depressed... Oh yeah, my wife quit her job last week for all the right reasons - I AM proud of her for having steadfast morals, and keeping proper priorities in life... (anyone need a personal trainer???) I just wish we could have crafted a wily lawsuit out of it first.
You know, kids get hungry (Eff you, Latrell Sprewell), bills need paid regularly and shoes get outgrown - my size 15's particularly! Let's see... American dream? check. Mortgage through the nostrils? check. Credit card bills through the wazoo? check. Ahhh, credit is overrated! You can't take it with you, right?? So a little struggle now build character; afterall, we'll LAUGH about this years from now (hope I get a sweet cellmate in debtor's prison - "that broke ass is MINE, bitch!")
But for every obstacle that seems like a slime covered rock in the pond of life, there is always the blessing side where all the goodies lie in wait... mmm, tasty invertabrates. Another bad analogy since two of my aquarium inhabitants; a red-claw crab and a green spotted puffer (red and green, yeah! more metaphors), have gone to the big lake in the sky. (I've been busy practicing my pet funeral ceremonies, for sure!). Of course my 3 year-old daughter keeps asking where "Mr. Krabs" and "Mrs. Puff" went to... (hey, I named them; I'm a SpongeBob fan too).
Anyway, half-full or half-empty, it's STILL just a freeking glass. Come to think about it, a half-empty glass of scotch would be a very good thing right now.
I've chosen to see the blessings in life.
- I didn't lose my kids, my wife or my memories just the pictures of them. I have about 20% backed up, mostly the better ones.
- Wouldn't be so bad if my digital camera wasn't as broke as I am! Meanwhile a Wolbouti tribesman would trade me 50 ebola-ridden acres of his inheritance for the shiny trinket even if it is worthless to me at this point. I guess it's not so bad.
- I didn't lose 11 hours of homemade music, I gained the opportunity to make those songs better! Or forget them altogether - I hang onto too manny things as it is! OK, GOD, lesson learned... thanks!
- Since I realized my employer doesn't want to utilize my creativity, I no longer care for my employer, I have felt a burden lifted from my being. I have stayed there through 9 years of fear. Stupid fear. "What will I do?" fear. That's not me... 9 years is NOT me. As with all things, getting fired WOULD be a blessing! What would I do? What I always do... figure it out, of course. Times can be tough, as long as I'm alive, I'll be tougher... eff it, that's why!
In the meantime, I bide my time, enjoy the meager benefits that I provide for my family and I stop waiting for opportunity to ride in on a shiny white horse. I am going horse hunting, donkey slaying, goat wrestling if I have to. The time has come not only to take a shot, but to fill the sky with shots in every direction. No opportunity will be laughed off, excused away or taken as unworthy. Everything is opportunity to me now, and opportunity is everything.
- I didn't lose 2 colorful pets, I gained the ability to enjoy the rest of my gilled friends even more; to be honest - the puffer was an a$$hole to all the other creatures (liked to eat my fancy shrimp and snails) and the crab was just plain dumb (even for a crab, DUMB)
- my wife can now begin chasing her dreams as she's no longer tied down to a corporate fustercluck (ANYone need a personal trainer? She can send you workout seesions via e-mail!) . Not only do I have your back sweetie, but I'm right behind you!!!
- more importantly I decided it IS TIME to chase my dreams:
I will write with a passion never before emitted from the Stilesmaster.
I am currently actively pursuing a literary agent I can semi-trust/mesh with to FINALLY get to the task of pushing my more complex story ideas from my brain onto a paycheck. Those 'movie ideas' I've been fermenting might as well be books first at this rate... what have I been waiting for anyway?
Well, it's not like I haven't been writing at all - I still crank 'em out on ArmchairGM.com.
So prepare for the Madness all eight of my loyal readers (that's me, 2 others and all of our 'other' schizophrenic personalities), The time is upon us to open up the windows and clear this stale air out!
Join me in the battle. Take every opportunity to make everything opportunity. Seize, beseige and rampage against the things you do that you "don't do". Be you, don't be what they want you to be...that's what they want. What do you want?
Go get it!
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