Sunday, January 30, 2011

I've met a new challenge in life - financially relevant decisions. They're strange, emotional, important, convoluted, clear, cloudy, sunny, whatever else you may want to attach to them. Decisions like my latest - sell my truck that's making me money but is impractical to own and creates a very inefficiently run bank account.

Time to reinvent efficiency in my life.

Life reinvention. I watched "The Social Network" last night. Fantastic. Inspiring and powerful. Facebook is valued at 25 billion dollars. Well I have no choice but to fuel my mind to work at 25 billion . Thoughts - recommendation from my father - Digital Marketing class and certification at Rutgers University. Master in Digital Technology Engineering online at Penn State, and find a job that can foster my growth in these skills as well as fund them! Funding, downfall. So how can I make funding "happen." Well, I could sell things, assets, cars, etc... Do more physical labor, always like that, keeps the mind and body aligned, but it gets old quick. Go through my old binders and notebooks and loose pages with inventions, business ideas, schemes of one sort or another - make one of them work. Who knows. Pray? Hope that works, seems to so far.

I'm sick of inspirational videos and books, radio broadcasts for positive thinking, books that show you how to DO IT ALL! MAKE IT HAPPEN! YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE!

B.S.

Reading books and watching videos isn't going to make it happen. Need to go deeper, positive thinking is superficial. Organic growth of thought is more substantial. Constant and relentless puzzle solving in my own mind is substantial. Relentless. Come across an idea? Don't talk about it, just do it. And don't just do it a bit, be relentless. Rob Dyrdek has "Relentless" tattoo'd on his forearm staring him in the face every day. Look where he is at 30. He doesn't burn the candle at both ends, he burns 50 candles and never lets them go out, be that way. Be substantial, and make it efficient. I will. I am already. I always have been. It's been evolving the wrong ways, it's time to engulf everything.

- Matt.