Life is What YOU Make of it!!!

I really didn’t think about the first time until my best friend and I were talking about our childhood. It was a great one and cherished it. However, the time that we had as really young entrepreneurs was having our own lawn mowing business. It was 8 of us, 2 lawn mowers, and 1 edger. I really didn’t care about the money, it was pure fun doing something we taught could work. We made flyers, went door to door, and recieved phone calls. Our first job was cutting this lady’s yard with grass that was 3 ft tall and tons of ant beds. Just craziness. One of the lawn mowers broke down and we had to come back the next day to finish up the back yard. We didn’t care how long it would take, we wanted to complete the job. We made $67 dollars, I don’t know why I remember the amount, but we earned every single bit of it. I believe we did 2-3 more lawn jobs and that was the end of the endeaver. The business ended for various reasons; some were money hungry, some wanted to use the money for a group purchase, some wanted to do more lawn jobs, and so on. Some people even broke from the group to form their own lawn company. But in the end we were still friends. There are quite a bit of things that I have learned from that experience, they are:

1. Think an idea out and see if there is a market for it.
2. When things start to go to hell, stop and rethink the process and fix what the process is.
3. Enjoy the business oppurtunity, not the money. The money will come later.
4. When you know the market attack it if your life depended on it.

Today was an usual monday, nothing spectacular. But still a learning lesson nontheless. After lunch at work we discussed examples of how we can improve our job. It was interesting because there were so many topics thrown out. Most of the people generating the questions were management people. Most of the “workers” were sitting back listening. Didn’t really have anything to say. But that is besides the point. It seemed like all of the topic questions were related to each other, but one thing that was said during the meeting that was mention that stuck with me. Which was marketing and that was truely it, marketing was what all of the things related to. It was kind of funny and also crazy because all of the books I have been reading lately talked about the subject matter at hand. And the great bit of what was said was about doing things for free, going to extra mile for the client in order to get the job done. I can see that the younger people didn’t really care about that. In other words, there was nothing they were going to get back from the situation except going out into the community and being the companies spokesman. I feel wholeheartly of what the company is trying to do and trying to give more back to the client, because in affect that will lead to more projects and then more profit and so on.

But there is something that is equally important. What is the company going to give back to the employees? Just can’t say the employee should be gracious for an opportunity like this. See it really comes down to what the employee is getting back in return and how the employee is treated. If you shower the employee with encouragement, incentives, and tools to complete their jobs. They will have no problem going to extra distance. Well that is one’s man thoughts, but I am sticking to it.

It has been along time. Been busy with work and business stuff on the side and just learning alot lately. It is crazy how time just flys when you are doing facinating things. There are a couple of exciting things that I am working on and some of them will be discussed in my coming blog post. So stay tuned.

Been quite busy with work and the business on the side, but thought it would be a great time to write something. I have been doing alot of things that have been on my mind, but putting a stopage on somethings that brought joy to my life. The one in particular is racing, mainly autoxing, but still a joy. This particular thrill is a classic case of the 80/20 rule, where you race your vehicle through a course for 20% of the time at the event, while the other 80% you are preparing the car, waiting until you start, or talking to new and old friends. However, when you are racing you put more than 80% of your concentration on driving. Well that is besides the point, but the main point of this whole discussion is about losing passion of something you love while learning new and exciting things.

Well one video that brought inspiration and joy to my heart is called F1 perished heroes; view here.

The video brought back the desire to race again, but more importantly the love for life that all of the racers that died. These men didn’t fear anything and I know if they would have been given that same moment in time where it was their last they wouldn’t change one bit of it. They trained hard throughout their lives to get to that very stage to show their families, people who doubted them, and the world that this was their mission in life and that there was nothing no one could do to take their passion away.

So I challenge you to think for sometime to see what your passion is in life and also methodically come up with steps to experience that passion.

If you are the minority of the majority then you are screwed. Well sorta! People think that you are crazy because you want more meaning out of life and that you don’t want anyone to write your own destiny. Well in my case I am witnessing how people really are and seeing who believes in what I am doing as taking hold of Life. So this foundation of this blog I am going to let everyone know that I am ENTREPRENEUR and will always be.

The reasons are this:
1) Ever since I have been growing up I like the fact that I did things the way I wanted to. However, I did listen to people on the way that wanted the best for me. However, as I have been in my 20’s I have really noticed people telling me what is best for me and giving me reasons why. I am now a person of reason and do things if and when I want to because I want to. People telling me who to marry, to go back to school to get more education, people telling me to never give up my day job, and so on. Fuck that, I will listen, analyze the situation, take it for what it is worth, and in the end do what I feel like doing for myself.

2) As I think about my life when I was a little kid I really didn’t know what I wanted to be. I really didn’t think of something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was simply a Toys R US kid, “I never want to grow up”. That is still true to this day, I don’t want to grow up into other people’s creation. For the longest I wanted to be in the NBA, and kept on practicing and then just got lazy. But still I was happy to be a kid and loved life. But I still had no clue of what I wanted to do and for some odd reason I didn’t look ahead into my 60’s. The reason why I say this is because I couldn’t see myself doing one job for 40 years. I guess the reason was because my parents constantly did different jobs and wasn’t born around that kind of atmosphere.

3) This last point will probaly shock some people but this is the truth of the matter which I realized at the beginning of the year. What I want to do in Life cannot happen in my current career path. This is because my life plan is not determined by my career path. The true persons that I am are an inventor, thinker, compassionate for other people, adventurous, stays outside the box, driven, and open to new ideals, personality, and concerns of the world.

So everyone watch what I say I will do, but also live your life to the fullest and don’t take anything for granted.

My head is spinning out of control and don’t know what to do. So i will do the simplest thing and just stop. Yep, thinking about doing can make you go crazy and it is not worth my sanity. Thinking is probaly the biggest thing that gets people for not doing what they really do. Over analyzing situations can really kill someone. Hell I think it is more worse than not doing anything, because at least you know that you want to do something, but don’t because you are thinking. Alot of people may think that this is a simple concept and it really is, but the majority of those people don’t do shit about it also. The reason why is because of habit. People want to change, but don’t because they are satisfied with the habit. It is alot harder do actually do something new because it is new. That is why so many people don’t meet new new people, lose weight if they wanted to, travel around the world, or hell just do anything that they say they would.

So now is the time. No time is like now. Because you don’t know if you will have tomorrow and hell there is no more reasons to make another shameless mistake of just thinking and not doing.

She was very good to me. Never talked bad and supported me with all of the stupid ideals I had. I thought that I would stay for her the rest of my life. We would help each other through everything, but she turned on me. Or did I loose interest in her?

I don’t really know, but I found someone new that challenges me and keeps me on my toes. See it is not that I still don’t love the old one it is that she let me do whatever I wanted, was very passive, and she always wanted to do the same things even though I wanted to spice things up. I don’t think I will ever give up the new love because things are always constantly changing; however I am learning each and everyday something about her. And as I continue to grow she is learning something about me that she didn’t know once before. It is so much of an adventure for both of us I look forward to smelling her perfume and seeing her beautiful face each and everyday.

That is how life is and the sad part about it all is that there are people that change for the better or worse OR simply settle for whatever life presents them. I used to be the settling type, but not anymore, because life is made of so many things and you simply can’t experience them by settling.