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Leverage yourself to change your world (and others). (Photo: alicepopkorn) Hey there. I’m writing this from LAX airport in Los Angeles. I just finished a seminar by Eben Pagan. It was the GURU Business Plan. Eben charges $4997 to attend this seminar. I got in free. Almond Butter! It was about managing self and doing [...]
Changing the world is easier done than said.
This is a series of posts about changing your world. How do you change your world? Easier DONE than said (challenge yourself to believe this phrase instead of the normal “easier said than done”).
In the later posts in the series, I will elaborate on the main details below.
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One of my favorite phrases comes from a video game, Xenosaga I (which I recommend if you like Role Playing Games).
“Perception and pain are one in the same.”
The “current” main enemy says this as he blows his head off with a weapon, and grows it back. The main characters watch in this event with disgust.
If we think about these words, it says we don’t all feel the same pain and we don’t all see the same things. Our idea of how much a punch hurts can mean something completely different to a martial arts fighter or [...]
Posted on February 16th 2010.
Anti-social is the new social.
Have you seen a group of people typing away on their phones instead of talking?
I have. I use to be one of these people in fact. I had my blackberry (aka crackberry). Now seeing these people waste precious time they have with their friends to type away on their phones, allows me to value my time spent with others.
It isn’t just about being anti-social either. It is a big time waster to type away on these phones most of the time. I know a lot of people who use unproductive behavior as an excuse to not be productive. Do you find yourself tweaking with your new iPhone App instead of finishing that paper or making that sales call? Do you press on the iFart application and laugh in the corner?
I would find myself wasting time on my phone doing useless things like tweaking settings here and there instead of working. When hanging out with other people I would pull out my phone every few minutes to check email or other items. Now, with a few tweaks, I can focus on the important things in my life. Dinner and special time will be interrupted no more. To me as a Vagabond, these few steps allow me to focus on relationships more.
I’m actually planning to experiment life with no phone and only use Skype. Though I would actually want to keep a phone just to keep in touch [...]
Posted on January 26th 2010.
Enjoy this view.
What do you worry about when you travel? Your car? Your house? Your possessions? Where you will stay? Your safety?
I was looking to purchase a house a couple of months ago. I looked at it as a good opportunity to build equity and have roommates pay for my mortgage.
What I didn’t want was the head ache of having a bunch of stuff, the remodeling, the collecting of rent from roommates who don’t pay. It would also tie me down to the house until I could sell it, at a loss if sold early. It would also mean joining an earning treadmill I see a lot of people on.
Keeping up with the Joneses
As a college graduate, I saw how my purchasing habits changed when my income tripled in one year. My desire for certain cars changed. I was getting ready to buy a [...]
Posted on January 19th 2010.
Our friends determine who we are.
When growing up, my mom would be concerned who my friends were. I thought my mom was just being nosy. I’m sure many people reading this had the same situation before.
If you have kids now, you are most likely concerned who their friends are.
The reason for the concern of friends? Sometimes we are not able to explain it without thinking about it, though to put it in words, we are who our friends are.
I’m not saying we’ll only be as good or as bad as our friends, though we’ll be very near their level. Rich people can have poor friends and poor people can have rich friends, though it usually doesn’t mix. If we want to make success inevitable, shouldn’t we associate with the people we want to be like?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
“We are who we are going to be for the rest of our lives after college or high school, except for two things, the people we meet and the books we read.”
I’m definitely going to repeat the important concepts a lot, to reinforce it into my head, and into yours.
I can tell you from my experiences, the friends I’ve had, and the friends my friends had, how similar they were to their friends. The friends who did drugs, their friends usually did drugs. The violent friends [...]
Posted on January 14th 2010.
The journey has only begun.
He was a young man out of college. The journey had only begun. Everyone said he had a great future in front of him. Revenue in the company jumped thousands of percent in a short period of time. They were going to expand and increase revenue even more in the next few years.
I had what most people wish they had during this recession and when times are great. A great paying job out of college, all health benefits covered, a company phone, free food, free dry cleaning, and many more benefits.
There was also potential in the future with the company such as inheriting the multi-million dollar business.
I had a small little problem when I went on a 5 day vacation without letting my supervisors know. I had such a great time away and I’m moving there later this month.
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Reasons for Quitting
Yes, I did resign from my job with a two weeks notice on December 14th 2009.
Yes, many 2009 college graduates, and my fellow graduating peers in 2008 [...]
Posted on January 4th 2010.
