On Your Mark. Get Set. Hope!

I want to be more, I want to be better and I want to succeed.  Isn't that how we all approach our lives?  How can we maximize the opportunities confronting our potential?  How do we create opportunities to better ourselves?  I feel as though many of us struggle with these questions that can seem unanswerable at times.

I think one thing to remember when facing these questions is to find perspective.  It is hard to keep a positive or hopeful outlook when you face these questions, but you must sustain that mentality.  Keeping a positive perspective can create a disposition that can afford you attention and marketability you did not plan for.  People are attracted to positivity and will reward it.

It is also important to keep an open mind.  What some might see as a burden, someone else could perceive as opportunity... and possibly even greater success.  One thing I have learned is that disregarding something as "beneath yourself" or "not worth the trouble" can emerge later as a glaringly naive decision.

I have found myself to be in one such state.  Where actuality hasn't met expectation. Where I'm constantly reminded that I want more and how it's not just going to find me. So it continues, my pursuit of success and my uphill quest to find out what that is.  My only hope is that when I get there I am able to have some perspective and realize it.

Just A Man and His Thought: I Float Down the River

I've been lucky enough to have to opportunity to get on the water for the weekend on the Wabash River.  It's not the biggest or fastest river but boy is it a lazy one.  A man could answer all the questions this complicated planet poses to him.  Life becomes so much less trivial when drifting along the water with your thought not too far behind.

As I floated on ward, big blue cranes there to guide us a head, I realized that I've been neglecting yet another thing in my life.  Something that seemed to be missing and hadn't really grasped it until this moment.  Man's insatiable appetite for nature and earth's unmasking beauty.  I am an animal.  I should be outdoors. I forget that too often. 

My Friend So Long

Well it's been a long time coming, but I never thought I would see the day that one of the closest friends would leave me.  We became exceptionally close over the past 4 years or so, and even though I didn't share our relationship with everyone else, he still managed to pop his angry little head around whenever he felt necessary.

Of course, if you are not aware of who I am referring, I am talking about Rudolph or what he's normal known as, the ugly cyst on my neck.  We had some good times together, but honestly it was time for a change.

Rudolph was a funny character really.  He had an "abnormal" sense of humor however.  He wasn't too attractive but he loved the attention he got.  He was great at occasionally scaring people and acting gross, but I knew better, he couldn't help it. It was just his nature.

Anyway, we didn't have a big fight or falling out (more of a pouring out honestly) but it was just time for us to separate. I really am going to miss Rudolph.  He and I had been through a lot and it was funny using him for the irreverent shock value he created. He was great at that.  Yet, I'm somewhat relieved his time had come.

It feels wrong turning to my right and not feeling his warm embrace.  It almost feels like I'm cheating on him with my new found swivel-headed freedom.  I will have to work through it I'm certain.  I will have to move on.

Just Another Disappointment

I've got to get it together people! I say I want to write and blog and express my thoughts, yet I can't remember to do so.  It's not a particularly hard  thing to do and I keep forgetting to do it.  I'm not saying I will continue to regain what little composure I once had, but I am going to rededicate myself to this.

I know some of you out there didn't even notice my lengthy departure but I'm back and better than ever (or revitalized in a way that seems somewhat invigorating).

I hope I can earn your reading interest once again and hope I can keep up with it again.