My Road To Happiness

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

~ Robert Collier ~

Risk. This morning I was asked what my biggest mistake was and what I learned from it. My biggest mistake was not trusting my gut. When I’ve let my fear of being wrong get in the way of what I know is right for me.

Each time I take a risk it pays off for me. Even if the payoff isn’t exactly what I wanted. Like Mick says, “You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.” Read the rest of this entry »

“The Road to Happiness lies in 2 simple principals:  find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it- -every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”  John D. Rockefeller

Are you on Facebook, constant Reader? Everybody is. That’s what they tell you and that’s what you’ll end up telling other people. “You gotta be on Facebook!” All will be assimilated.

I came late to social networking. Like most people over 30 I just didn’t get it. Why would anyone want to put details of their life out to the world and who in the world would care to read them? Why do I need to know what you’re doing RIGHT NOW?

I felt the same way about blogging at first. Now I see the purpose has evolved from rambling diary keeping by love lorn teenagers without spell check to a legitimate publishing platform. In fact, I’m a big fan of blogging. You’re reading mine, aren’t you?

What I like about blogging is that if I’m having a problem, or trying to explore an area of the world before I go there or maybe I want to change my life in some major way, there is someone in the blogosphere who has done it and posted it for me to read about.

I’ve dabbled in MySpace. The best thing about it for me was the ability to blog and you can see I don’t need their awkward, buggy interface to do that well. The Oracle told me that Facebook was the shizzle but again, I didn’t understand it. So, I ignored him. Then I got a Blackberry.

Facebook for Blackberry

Facebook on Blackberry

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So, I’m on my way to Los Angeles and contemplating the state of my union. Some of the discontent of last year has passed.

I’m thinking about the other times in my life that I’ve bugged out for the dug out. There was college, then New York, then Cleveland. Each time I feel the effects of gravity a little more. It gets harder to pull yourself out of orbit. You seem to weigh a little more, be a little more dense each time. Read the rest of this entry »