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Thirty Years of Awesome

I was a late bloomer, I have been learning my generation backwards, if that makes any sense. I spent a lot of time in my youth trying to figure out which end was up, forget knowing what everyone else was doing. I was clueless, and no not the like fucking movie. However, what I can say is that our generation was smart, had good taste and while very needy, emotional and prone to whining, overall we’re a pretty smart and awesome bunch.

The following information is not given out so that you can make fun, so stfu! I used to really enjoy country music, so much so that I listened to virtually nothing else with a few exceptions… those exceptions I made I now see as my brain’s way of telling me there was more to music than a steel guitar and nasal voice.

There’s speed metal and Rage Against The Machine and Sublime and Mos Def and John Legend and Blues Traveler and Live and Incubus and oh hell I could go on and on. I have always had a deep love of music, no talent, but much appreciation. I just had it on the wrong channel, country music never fulfilled my need for expression and oddly music now does that in a profound way for me. The other cool thing is that our generation produces today some of the most awesome entertainment ever created.

For example, Robot Chicken:

You cannot tell me you don’t love it! If you don’t um…do you like country music too? Just kidding, I still like George Strait

One thing I’ve never had an appreciation for was drama. Never once did I enjoy a bit of it unless it was in a movie. Some people have a huge flair for drama and those are the kind of people I try to avoid like the plague…THE PLAGUE!

In about a month I turn 31…several years ago I heard a song by Tim McGraw…STFU!.. called My Next Thirty Years…good stuff. Have a seat and enjoy:

Hug a 30 year old today! Have a good Friday everybody, do something fun this weekend and tell me about it!

Tags: 30, apple a day, birthday, drama, grunge, rage against the machine, robot chicken, rock, seth green, speed metal, the plague

Push It

I’ve been guilty of dropping the ball on projects I’ve started, so far none of my unfinished business has been a big deal. Thankfully.

There are a few things I have had as long term goals and I overall my bigger goals have always been in the back of my mind, pushing me to work harder, learn new things and take risks. I’ve steadily made progress towards my goals and have even reached a few personal milestones. Motivation is key.

Motivation is a word that sounds much more complicated than it really is, its made to sound like this daunting mountain “motivation” that has two sides and both are uphill.

Do you want things? Have you worked to get things before? Of course you have. Look who’s motivated!

It really is that simple.

If you want to achieve your goals, there are some basic rules that must be observed. Don’t act like a know it all because you don’t know it ALL, ask questions when you get the opportunity of the people who are where you want to be, emulate them and realise they too are human.

Be real, be you and work hard. Not everyone can be born into a wealthy family, define wealthy in your terms and go get it.

I’m still working to get to my goals, and I will reach them one by one, my methods are proven and working.

What are you’re major goals, your terms of success? I’m guilty of not giving myself credit, are you? Do you hold out on praising yourself for your achievements even when someone else recognizes you for them?

Tags: credit, goals, motivation, pushing it, success

Change Your Shoes

It’s a common sentiment, “Walk a mile in my shoes”, or, “Try to relate,” it’s easy to tell someone to try to relate to someone else, but is it as easy to do?

The truth is we are a self involved people. It’s hard to see past ourselves, our problems, our families and our hardships. I know we all mean well, at least most of us do, and we’d like to think we consider other people’s feelings pretty consistently, but do we really?

I don’t think so. If that were true and we were really good about empathizing with each other, the crime rates wouldn’t be as high and there would be less victims overall in every walk of life.

When you come across someone who gets under your skin, or makes you very angry with their actions, Stop. Take a breath. If you know this person well enough to know their circumstances, consider them before you become emotional, is there something in that persons’ life that is causing them to react to this situation in a way that they may not otherwise?

Have a little moment to yourself and think about the other person, what they might be going through, what kind of difficulties they could be facing in life, even if all you can muster is, “They must be having a bad day” that still gives you the mental understanding that there’s another person involved in this besides you, including whatever has happened to them today.

Your next question to yourself is this: Do I have to make this day harder on them? Immediately after that, ask yourself this: Can I make their day better?

Do you hold the key to a smile on that persons’ face? Use it! Can you do something to lighten their load and make life a little more bearable for them today? Do it! What do you have to lose by helping someone out today?

I challenge you this week to do one thing each day to bring a smile to someone’s else’s face, it doesn’t matter who or how easy or how hard it was, do it and then come back here and tell me about it, how did it make you feel to be the source of a smile?

Changing the shoes you’re seeing the world in can change your perspective drastically.

Tags: can you relate, change perspective, circumstances, empathize, empathizing, feelings, hardships, having a bad day, mile in my shoes, positive thinking, relate, smile, truth