Posts Tagged ‘passion’
A Post Revisited: I Lost the Love…
A poem that still is true today.
I wrote this poem over three years ago. I don’t know who goes back to reread my old stuff. I know it is hard to get past the typos, shitty grammar, and incorrectness of other things I wasn’t aware of back then. However, I’ve edited the post/poem and I hope that you can take it for what it is.
I’ll tell you right now, it isn’t about any girl that I’ve dated or had relations with. Let me know what you think
I Lost the Love
She was very good to me. Never talked back and supported me with all the stupid ideals I had. I thought that I would stay with 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?
Tags: life lessons, passion
Now is the Best Time to Start a Business says Robert Tuchman
This is a guest post by Robert Tuchman.
The task of starting a new business can be daunting. It takes a lot of time, responsibility, and effort. And with the state of national economy, starting your own business can be even harder. In this tough economic climate, there are a few things you can do to ease the financial burden and accomplish your entrepreneurial goals.
One thing you can do to brace yourself is to go back to your suppliers—to your telephone provider, landlord, car dealer—and renegotiate. Go to the people you are paying out to, and renegotiate on the contracts you had made with them. See if they are willing to cut you some slack. Although they are dealing with the same slow-down as you are, you will find that they are more willing to do you a favor than lose you as a customer.
I cannot stress enough the need for products you are selling to be presented in more detail. You must make the clients understand who you are and what your product is. Market better! Understand where people are coming from: be compassionate with their concerns. Be willing to work out payment plans for potential clients.
Save money using technology: take advantage of email and video conferencing. You should email documents rather than sending them via snail mail. This will save you in postage and in paper. Also, instead of driving or flying to meet with a client or vendor, you should videoconference with them. Both of these will save you time and money.
Tags: business, entrepreneurship, marketing, passion, Robert Tuchman
My Friend Richard Doing His Thing…
Dedication
Goes home to write blog post at lunch because he wanted to.
Knows the field he is passionate about from salary cap numbers to scouting report of most of the players in the league.
Will watch all the games from start to finish and have the ability to give you a in depth summary chart of what the player or team is going to be like in the games to come.
After the end of the season, there are no more games to be played, with the busy off season soon to get rolling, he is breaking each team down with their needs for the upcoming draft!
If that isn’t passion, than I don’t know what it is. He can be spending our time doing other things to occupy our existence on earth. As everyone knows, my passion is writing, and I’m taking those steps to become the very best possible. However, it is a distinguished feeling when one notices the talent and love for something in someone else, and lets them know about it.
It Wasn’t Easy!
Tags: appreciation, passion
What I See, Story 1- Mr. Homeless guy
This is a new series of post I will do on friday that is called, What I See. During the week I will take photos of various events around me. I will provide a story behind the photo. This is essentially giving my readers a glimpse into my writing, the way I think, and also about my life. It wouldn’t be fair to only talk about writing, I have to be willing to show yall my pieces, too. Let me know what you think.
Mr. Homeless guy was packing up his belongings to begin his day. He had on some old adidas’ sneakers that barely held his feet in place, due to worn out shoe strings. He wore the same outfit every single day, however, whenever I pass him he didn’t smell of an odor. He is a man around the age of his mid 40’s to early 50’s, he is probably younger, but the weathered look of living on the streets for however long, has aged him.
Many people walk pass him, especially during the work-week, I also am a victim of passing him without any care.
Tags: homeless, lost, passion, photography, writing
Why Does Passion Keep Coming to me…Even During Vacation? Ocean and Mountain, California Vacation Part 1
It has been some time since my last real post. I wanted to get one out of the door before I left, but wasn’t able to get good enough internet access and lost track of time and greatly enjoyed myself. Long story later on, but I went on vacation!
I don’t know where to begin and will write a couple of different post towards this very topic, because vacation, chillin out, relaxing, and doing something different is what all of us needs from time to time. I get different things from all of my vacation trips and don’t know quite yet what I got out of this one. So, for now, I will describe an incident that I’m still thinking about, and is something that will help carry my “other” career for some time.
The end of the trip was nearing and nobody wanted to go home, no one wanted to face reality, no one wanted to begin their routinely 9-5 schedule the same way, before the vacation. We stopped along the way leaving the mountains multiple times. I took some pictures along the way from the back seat of the black Ford Escape we were riding in. When we stopped, we got out of the SUV to take more pictures of each other, with the scenery in the background, and even managed to eat a delicious lunch at an eatery in Bodega Bay (I had 2 orders of fish tacos and an Alaskan Wheat Beer).
Tags: lovin life, passion, vacation
Novel Writing Frustrations
How’s the Novel Going?
Novel writing is frustration. I have been at it since the beginning of the year and challenged myself this week to only write towards the novel during the morning time. The past two days are going no where. I can’t seem to get a paragraph down. All I’m able to do is write about the problem with my main character, how I know the second half of the book (in my head), but not the first part. How my character doesn’t interact with enough people to give the reader a glimpse of the main character’s personality. I am totally lost and can’t seem to write without a care in the world. The way I write blog post, inspirational writing, and thought writing is the opposite of novel writing (at least for now).
The Struggles in the Past
I have been saying I was going to write a story for now 2 years. I started a couple of pages from other novels and have thought endlessly of others. But, didn’t have the courage to actually start one, like I have this year. I’m thinking of the perfection of the process and the story I want to tell. I want it to be perfect right from the jump, without going through several edits I know that it is going to take to get it right. But, damn, nothing is working and I am getting to the point of rather reading a book than write towards this novel.
My New Direction
Tags: frustrations, novel writing, passion, realization, writing
Outliers, Taking my Passion to a New Destination With a Little Twist
I push the snooze button, yet for another time. It is now 6 a.m. and know it takes 40 or so minutes to get to work and still smell like shit. But, all I’m going to do is sit in my cubicle and look at my computer screen. So, I skip the shower, wash my face, brush my teeth, put on my wrinkle as can be collar shirt I wore last week and to the club (which still smells like smoke), and run out of the door to my car. I hop on the beltway and quickly realize that I have gotten on a paying road, where I am setting in traffic. I finally make it to work, as I get out my car I think to myself, “Should I take the stairs? They wouldn’t know exactly what time I got in? I should talk to a couple of friends so it looks like I have been here for quite sometime”.
I finally arrive inside my office and my boss gets on me for being late and said he will need this and that for a presentation later in the morning. I get started and complete the work, not caring one bit. I make it to lunch and decide to sit in my car. I sat there in the car (no a/c, started transforming the car into a race car) and thought. I thought about what I have been up to in my life. I thought I was a failure, and thought ‘is this it?’ Damn, I was having a quarter life crisis 2 years before the actual time and didn’t even realize it.
When I started to examine my life, I knew something was missing, I knew I had to do more for myself. I was an expert in the automobile field, but didn’t want to be that guy that could only talk about cars and didn’t care or relate to other topics that were important to people. I knew I sorta liked reading and eventually would read whatever I could, but knew this was a slow process. I didn’t want to continue to watch television and relate to people for 5 minutes on a show that wasted 30 minutes-1 hour of my life. So, I started to listen to podcast and to stretched my net as far as I could: while at work I listened to politics, audio-books, everyday life, current events, pop culture, social media, technology, business, and whatever else.
Tags: experiment, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, passion, reading
Why Should You Read My Blog?
Why should you read my….
blog? Why should you spend your important time reading what I write for fun? Why should you listen to a 27 year old municipal worker, who doesn’t have all of it figured out himself? Why should you listen to a dreamer and a person who goes on rants about following your passions so much? Why should you listen to somebody who is pretty much in the same position in life tell you life lessons?
What’s My Story
Those are very good questions and this very question can be ask for anyone who is online trying to give valid advice to people. I started this blog almost 4 years ago on a thought of just to write a paragraph. I didn’t know what I wanted to do at the time and went to work like any other person to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. I have a very interesting look on life and thought it would be a chance for me to tell my story and also figure out what I want to do for me. Each day is precious, we hear that statement so many times, and don’t realize what it means until we are pushed beyond our comfort level. I was telling a reader of my blog a year or so ago that we are all lost, we sit in our cube or where ever thinking about the future and not living in the moment. We really don’t know what we want to do and we know what we are presently doing isn’t it.
Experience is King
So lets go back to the questions up top. Through my writings and defiant actions I have accomplished going on a magical trip I dreamed about ever since I was in high school. I managed to bullshit my way to jobs mainly by leaning on my past life experience, than the actual job description. I manage to stop being timid and short-coming through my writing and eventually to real-world situations. I have been able to document the ups and downs of the business venture I started a couple of years ago and the continuous pursuit to start another successful business. I have tried different activities and suppose hobbies to figure out what I liked. Through my words and actions I have found my passion and am taking steps to make it a reality.
Tags: blog content, new direction, passion
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
A couple of years back when one of my younger brother’s and I used to go out hitting on chicks at the bars/clubs we came up with conversation starters so we could get to know the girls a little better for the short period of time. I never used this question, but heard my brother use it a couple of times. The girls would laugh and they would talk about their problems at work and what their real dreams were. My brother had his already memorized, so he had no problem trying to impress the girl and also letting the woman know that he was doing something with his life. I still think of that very question now. I know what I want to do and am taking steps to make it a full time reality, but now I think about it for other people.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
When we were kids we were asked this question multiple times. From our parents, relatives, teachers, and whoever else who was atleast 15 years older than us. As I sit in my cube I see and hear people who are not doing what they want to do. People complaining about the best time of the work day is lunch and when they go home, when it is monday wanting it to already be friday, thinking of ideas so they can do those full-time, and simply not wanting to be there in the office because it is the ‘same ol’ same ol’‘. So now it is the beginning of another not-much-different-work-week; a week that starts off shitty (monday), gets better through ‘hump day’ (wednesday), and the best day of the week (friday). But during the week is what drains the life out of our souls and all we want to do is get home to sleep, drink some beer, watch some crappy tv, and think about what we really want to do.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Rick’s Music Gig and Much Much More!
This is the first of many articles categorized appreciation. I will be writing about people who inspire me and who I truly appreciate for what they have done for me and my growth as a human being. So here we go and I do hope that yall enjoy this part of the blog.
I’ve known this guy for 8.5 years and I have seen him grow into a great man. My friend Rick has recently started playing his guitar and singing with his friend for a little over a month at a wine bar in the city. I have been to a couple of his gigs and sees his excitement and love for singing a song that someone else has sang or something he has written.
Tags: appreciation, happiness, passion
- @YEAdamMcFarland The full screen editor are badass, I get plenty done, but there shouldn't be a reason for so many choices. 12:37:20 PM November 13, 2009
