At 2:36 am this morning I rose, gave my wife a soft kiss on the cheek, splashed water on my face, grabbed a bottled water and began creating a profile for this forum.
See, like many of you I assume, the Unscripted hit me right on the chin. And once hit, life changes. I've always "fancied" that I had entrepreneurial dreams, aspirations, yada, yada, yada but never did a dang thing about them(sorta. I half assed real estate development). I was in love with the "idea" of being an entrepreneur. MJ's booked stripped me of that delusion. But what really got me here? My "real" FTE? Time and the Financial Crises. You all remember that right? Lol.
I'm no spring chicken. I'm not old, but you can't call me young either. I dug myself out of that Sh** Show of a crisis by selling crappy cellphones to adolescents, while being physically threatened because someone missed a call from their sick mother because the service sucked that bad. I went through that after spending 10+ years at a structural engineering firm, going to catered affairs, taking long lunches, and feeling like I was on top of the world. Well, obviously that was all BS as well. So after going into business with man who still signed my checks (never a good idea) and the crises kicking in to full swing, I found myself 15th in line of about 6,000 people (because I got there 3 hours earlier) looking for a job where I could get physically assaulted.
Time. It took a lot of time and 3 jobs later (about 9 years of my life gone) before I was able to "really" help my wife w/ bills. And maybe if we're lucky take off to Santa Monica, or San Diego for a 2 day, eat, sleep, see ocean, sleep and turn around and stay in traffic for 7 hours so we can get home to do laundry to get ready for our 5 day ritual while hoping the lotto ticket we just bought hits so we can be there all the time. I'll never get those 9 years back. And will take another 8 years to get back to the salary I had at my engineering firm.
I won't bore you w/ anything else because I'm tired of talking about it.
I read Unscripted and it stirred something in me. It moved me to action, past fear, past my own BS. I also bought "No Excuses-The Power Of Self Discipline"-by Brian Tracy to give me the added tools I'll need while moving through the desert.
And now my watch begins.
Thanks MJ.
See, like many of you I assume, the Unscripted hit me right on the chin. And once hit, life changes. I've always "fancied" that I had entrepreneurial dreams, aspirations, yada, yada, yada but never did a dang thing about them(sorta. I half assed real estate development). I was in love with the "idea" of being an entrepreneur. MJ's booked stripped me of that delusion. But what really got me here? My "real" FTE? Time and the Financial Crises. You all remember that right? Lol.
I'm no spring chicken. I'm not old, but you can't call me young either. I dug myself out of that Sh** Show of a crisis by selling crappy cellphones to adolescents, while being physically threatened because someone missed a call from their sick mother because the service sucked that bad. I went through that after spending 10+ years at a structural engineering firm, going to catered affairs, taking long lunches, and feeling like I was on top of the world. Well, obviously that was all BS as well. So after going into business with man who still signed my checks (never a good idea) and the crises kicking in to full swing, I found myself 15th in line of about 6,000 people (because I got there 3 hours earlier) looking for a job where I could get physically assaulted.
Time. It took a lot of time and 3 jobs later (about 9 years of my life gone) before I was able to "really" help my wife w/ bills. And maybe if we're lucky take off to Santa Monica, or San Diego for a 2 day, eat, sleep, see ocean, sleep and turn around and stay in traffic for 7 hours so we can get home to do laundry to get ready for our 5 day ritual while hoping the lotto ticket we just bought hits so we can be there all the time. I'll never get those 9 years back. And will take another 8 years to get back to the salary I had at my engineering firm.
I won't bore you w/ anything else because I'm tired of talking about it.
I read Unscripted and it stirred something in me. It moved me to action, past fear, past my own BS. I also bought "No Excuses-The Power Of Self Discipline"-by Brian Tracy to give me the added tools I'll need while moving through the desert.
And now my watch begins.
Thanks MJ.
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