Wonderful happenings!
When I don’t have time to make posts (okay, always), rather than make this blog totally dead on the water, I think I’ll use it to show you songs and music videos you probably haven’t seen.
Tonight is a very comical one. It’s by David Lee Roth (lead singer of Van Halen).
It’s very unlike Van Halen songs:
Oh yeah, I just watched the video for the first time in years.
It’s a hilarious video, that’s all.
Later!
After a long time, I hope people learn that I don’t say everything just because I like alliteration:
I am perpetually positive and obstinately optimistic.
It’s not just a fun phrase. It is the core of my being.
I hope you understand the obstinate part now.
When I become appethetic to something, I’m neither optimistic or pessimistic because I don’t think about the outcome because I’m appethetic. People can drive me there. That’s where I am.
Back in the day, this was in the summer of 2013, I was talking to me friend, Kate. Basically, Kate said that everyone has, at some point in their life, a game changer. The game changer is an experience that wakes up a lot of things and advances a person to a better stage of life.
It was obvious to me that I had such an experience, but Kate explained that a person never keeps the good part of the experience. That a person has the experience, it serves its purpose, and it leaves. Being the optimist that I am, I thought that that wasn’t possible, and that I was going to keep all the good parts, too.
It’s like a tech stock. A person can buy it. If they sell it when it goes up a bit, they have a little profit. But they no longer have it. When it goes up a ton more, they don’t get a computer or anything fun! But they learn an important lesson:
Foron’t sell your eggs before they hatch. Have patience, and allow things to appreciate on their own schedule.
I had such an experience, and while I didn’t end up with a winning stock, my life has improved from the lesson. It matured me in a lot of ways, and I got over a lot of things that were holding me back. It was a catalyst to the good things in life.
I had a list of the things that I’ve accomplished, but it just sounded like I was bragging. Let’s just say, I am psychologically awesome, physically awesome, and professionally awesome.
On the physical part, I have worked out and actually had to spend $800 on new business clothes because my chest and shoulders are so broad. I have muscle definition, too. In order to run, breathe, or just not get sick, I got surgery at the end of October. The surgery is the very last thing I have to do to reverse everything from my accident.
All my friends know, I am perpetual in nature, because I used to bug them. The follow ups and the shout outs are just easy. I used to have too much time on my hands. Plus, I’m a communicative gentleman. Yes, I have to hold my horses before I communicate a lot with a lady.
However, I figured out how to chill better. I don’t communicate all the time. It’s awesome because I tend to get better responses.
Life has been great to have given me such an experience while I was young and for waking me up so I could man up.
I’ll finally be able to calm down and take a deep breathe. My apologies to anyone who knew me back before I could do so.
To the public eye, I may appear unchanged, but if you take the time to get to know me, you’ll learn how great of a person I am especially now that I can sometimes just step back and take a deep breath.
The point of life is to have fun and meet people.
Optimism helps that.
A man becomes and remains optimistic by loving the people and experiences he has, learning from but not comparing anything to the people and experiences from the past, and not worrying about the people and experiences of the future.
The present masters most because it is here, and it is the only thing possible to experience. The past was there only to teach us, and no one knows what the future holds.
The future will be best if a man simply does his best, acts genuinely, and is receptive to others.
Enjoy the present. It makes up the entirety of your life.
With the addition of a job, I’ve finally developed some kind of a ‘normal’ day! I’m excited because this allows me the stability and good habits I’ve wanted for a long time, but couldn’t do them because I couldn’t predict plan a day, let alone a week!
So here’s my approximate daily routine:
• Wake up, 6:00 to 8:00, depending on late night working the night before
• Business (networking or working at home, typically reading business news and scheduling my social media posts for the day). Sometimes the networking starts at 7:30. I miss these 50% of the time because I am often working until 1 or so. That’s where I could hone up my tendencies. I do this until lunch, often there are lunch networking events
• Go to work until evening. I usually leave work by 4, 5, or 6
• Evening free time: I get to do what I want. Frequently (3 to 4 days per week), I just happen to want to do business-type things. Either client meetings after work at one of my offices or networking of some variety. This is also when I host my social events. If I had a lady-friend, this would potential be an opportunity to see her, but we would mostly see each other on the weekends
• About 8 or 9, I go for a run. After I get home, I go directly to the gym for weight stuff. I mix abs and a protein shake somewhere in there. The protein shake is usually dinner, along with fruit. I basically eat a lot of fruit, as I’ve used it to replace cookies (well, usually….)
• After I get home from the gym, I have free time. I use this to clean, type notes here, work a bit, or do whatever
• Go to bed hopefully by 12ish. When I spend this free time working, it turns into 2 because I get on a roll. Then I miss my 7:30 networking
I am so very happy! This is a sustainable routine, and it’s making me super healthy and obtain my goals! Believe it or not, I actually prefer being stable!
People say that when you get older, it’s harder to stay in shape because your body changes. Your metabolism drops and your energy drops.
I don’t think that’s true because my energy levels do not drop. I’m able to contain my energy more, but it’s definitely always there.
In the past, I was like a bowling all on a tight rope – a lot of potential energy that can be released at any moment.
Nowadays, I’m more like a car at the top of a hill – it can roll down the hill whenever and however fast the driver wants.
However, it is, in fact, harder to stay on shape, but that’s because this summer I have had to take a week or two off here and there because I get hurt easier.
It sucks.
So now I just have to be more careful and not be oblivious to my body when it tells me to pay attention to something.
Luckily, I still heal about as fast as Wolverine, and I don’t get sick after my surgery in January.