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[Sep. 25th, 2007|09:13 am] |
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Hey, just thought I'd stop on by and say 'Hi!'. I'm still heavily into MySpace, but I've been meanin' to stop by LJ and see what's up. Hope all is well with every body...
Ciao,
Mark |
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| Long time no post... |
[May. 5th, 2007|10:26 pm] |
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Well, I've stopped by once again, cuz it's been a while. I do miss it here and have considered stopping by several times this last month, but...
I'm really in an awkward and 'unfamiliar' state of feeling lately. Things just feel 'blah'.
I won't go into a huge tirade on MySpace, but I've now got 1001 friends and a ton pending yet.
Anyway, not much elss to say and still be brief, so I'm gunna fly. |
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| Thing's are good... |
[Apr. 12th, 2007|12:27 am] |
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Well, I stopped to say 'Hi' the other day and my computer weirded out on me.
Anyway, I can't help but feel a little bashful, seein' as how my MySpace is where I stop religiously two or three (or more) times a day any more. I've only got 810 friends and 660+ pending. I have met new friends in my home town here that we talk on IM and are planning on doin' the hook up to have good times (one hot chick wants to do coffee or a movie some time soon!!!). I have a friend in Maine who wants to introduce me to Stephen King... they live 2 towns apart! If I can get my bad self to Denmark, Maine, I'll get the personal intro and a huge ass lobster dinner! I have gotten personal responses from musicians that I used to tell my self 'If only I could ever meet them ( I could die a happy man!) and these everyday (yet popular) folk are just cool people! Jerry Donahue who does guitar work for Elton John, Mariah Carrey and others, said hi and said he was in between studio gigs, and was glad I'd said hello! It's just amazing and awesome!
I also have huge numbers of Star Wars, Star Trek, Muppets, Marvel and DC comic characters as friends. Lots of super models... and they all drop me a hi every now and then!
I'm kinda blowin' a gasket in a fun way meeting all these folks, or people who wish they were these folks.
I've got several Air force/ Navy pilots... several who fly outta N.A.S. Mira Mar... that's Top Gun School to us civilians. I have some of the toughest men and women in the world on there...
Sorry to gush so much, but it's so personal getting to know all of these people, and having them respond to me personally! I'm fascinated by all of these hundreds of people who are just cool folks. It's just so cool.
Anyway, things are very, very good here, and I'm just enamored (and with good reason) with MySpace. Both Kevin James and Harrison Ford have dropped a line to me! Oh, well...
It's almost 1 in the A.M. here, and I need to wind down and crash. I do sincerely hope that is well for all here in LJ-land. |
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| Wow! Having too much fun! |
[Mar. 28th, 2007|09:50 pm] |
I dunno, I'm really getting hooked on my MySpace site. I now have 477 friends and about 640 pending. I have an armada of Star Fleet/ Star Trek folks of ALL sorts... Klingons, tribbles, Andorians, shape shifters, Romulans, sexy Vulcans, even the ships themselves are my friends! I also have Mr. Miyagi, The Cobra Kai, Van Damme, Segal, Mr. Norris, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Harrison Ford, Jessica Alba, Anthony Hopkins, and innumerable bands of every genre and style! A huge amount of the Star Wars Universe is on my friends list...
At any rate, my right index finger has a cramp from all of the friend add requests!:0
Well, I just stopped for a brief up date and now I'll be off to read and crash. Tomorrow is a day off, but I have official business do attend to at about 7 or so, and need to be up around 6:30 or so... gotta crash soon.
Till next time! |
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| Just an up date... |
[Mar. 25th, 2007|08:57 am] |
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WEll... MySpace is down all over, so since I'm doing my internet time, I figured I'd burn some over here.
Drum lessons were AWESOME yesterday! I only saw one student, but talked to several new potentials! I might just end up filling 2 or 3 days with just giving lessons!
As of last night, my MySpace friends list was up to 221, with 443 pending. I should break a thousand easy here by next weekend. I still like my lj, I just think that MySpace is a little more indepth.Anyway...
It is some what early for a Sunday... I might go read for a bit before heading off to work.
Hope all is well out there! |
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| MY NEW ADITCTION!!!!!! |
[Mar. 24th, 2007|08:45 am] |
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Wow! I've been spending both quality and quantity time over on MySpace... I absolutely LOVE it! I you don't have a MySpace, or aren't sure how to use the one you've got...
Presently I have 193 friends and 331 friends pending! That's 34 pages of new friends to be added. Here in lj-land, that would be an astronomically suicidal # of new friends... over there, it's only a handful, as some folks have tens of thousands of friends... I want to be one of them!
I've got movie stars, rock stars and porn stars in my friends gallery! I've got a lot of the Star Wars Universe there too! I have characters (as friends) from every era of Star Trek, AND the people who played the character! Hell, I've got the whole Borg collective as my friend! A TON of bands and musicians that I'd grown up with... some I'd met a time or two, and others I've always wanted to know!
Then there are all of my friends that I see all the time... it's great that they could turn me on to this thing! I've got the CSI crew for friends, and most of the Mortal Kombat contestants as friends! Space Ghost, Zorak, Brak, and Boltar are all my friends!
Oh my! I am having WAY,WAY TOO MUCH FUN THERE!!!!!!!!! The Sarlacc from Return of the Jedi sent me a 'Sarlacc Bunt cake'. It had gummi worms for tentacles, a halved kiwi for the mouth, and a Boba Fett sticking out of the Kiwi! I loved the sentiment, coming from a friend who could or would digest me for 1,000 years!
Any how, I need to shower and get stuff together, I start giving drum lessons today! Need to leave very soon...
Hope you all can come visit MySpace land... IT'S A HOOT!!!!!!!!! |
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| RE: Wow! Today has rocked! |
[Mar. 19th, 2007|05:37 pm] |
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Well all, I am now the official head drum instructor at the Noisy Neighbor music store in Lynden! I have 3 students on Saturday, and some looking at Thursdays. I start on Saturday, and pay dates are the 5th and the 20th, which will off set the 9/10/11 pay days and the 24/25/26 pay days that I currently have! $24 an hour... like, TWIST MY ARM!!!!!! I won't be setting the world on fire here, but it will help me HUGELY! It will also bolster my XS/ Nutrilite business! This is too awesome. I'm a little nervous, but that's to be expected.
I've got quite a bit of My Space stuff done today! It actually looks like a real My-Space now!
Anyhow, this is great stuff!!!!!! |
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| Gotta work for an hour, in an hour |
[Mar. 19th, 2007|09:03 am] |
Well, today would be a day off, but... I'm filling in on an A.M. visit close to home.
I'd posted a couple of things about the end of last week, the care givers conference, and what not. Well, I left a couple of things out that I've certainly given much thought to over the weekend, such as... I ran into (ha,ha not literally) my friend Larry Miller on Thursday night at the gas station. He owns the only music store in Lynden. I thought it had closed, but Larry told me that business was so well, that they moved to a new building. They now have 2 drum studios, and no drum instructor... Larry offered me that spot about a year and a half ago, or two. Timing was not right for me then, but now... Gunna check on that one today.
Also, at the care givers conference, there were several agencies that were 'selling' their employee benefits, such as work 20+ hours get full bennis, and/or higher pay. I'm kinda wanting out of the care-giving racket, and I actually have it pretty easy where I'm at. It's just 2 paydays a month strewn so damn far apart are killin' me and making me want to look for something more. So, I'm gunna look at least and see what's what.
Finally, I got in touch with a couple of friends from back in my high school days. I talked for almost 2 hours with my old friend Duane. I'm looking forward to hooking up with these folks and making up for lost time.
Any how, I'm feeling very hopeful with the new potential 'work' stuff on the horizon.
BTW, if I start teaching drums at the Noisy Neighbor (music shop), I'm going to see if I can sell my meal replacement bars and XS Energy drinks to my students, or outta the store! I can grow my clientele base, because I'm an exclusive distributor of these drinks, and if people want to purchase them in bulk, I can gladly help them do that... you won't find XS at Costco, or Wal Mart, only thru an independent distributor!
So, I'm ready to have my 1 hour out of the way to move onto more beneficial things today.
That's about all for now. |
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[Mar. 17th, 2007|05:07 pm] |
What a nice day! I was able to leave work early, because my client's son is in town visiting, and I was able to take off at 4 instead of 6. I came home and wanted to get my main St. Patrick's Day ritual out of the way, and I stuffed my self out! I sooooo can't eat like I used to.
On the menu were: 2 cans pealed white potatoes with sweet cream butter, 2 cans (4 servings) corned beef hash with embellishments (Lowery's seasoning, onion powder, garlic powder, diced/ dried onion, and Tabasco), a small slice of Kerrygold Dublaner cheese and 1 Killian's Red beer.
I'll describe my beer and the import cheese here, as there had been some response about this from my mention in an earlier post.
First Killian's Red. The label says 'George Killian's Irish Red Premium Lager since 1864.' And on the side it says 'The first Killian's recipe dates back to 1864 when George Killian's great grand father brewed the amber liquid in Enniscorthy, Ireland.
This beer (for a lager) is so much more 'tasteful' and manageable than Guinness... Not as desert oriented as Bailey's Irish Cream, or O'Mara's Irish Cream, but this is beer, not desert liqueur.
Now, Kerrygold Dublaner Cheese comes in a 7 oz. brick and the label on it says (from top to bottom) 100% natural. Kerrygold Dubliner Cheese. Aged Cheese with a distinct taste and a natural hint of sweetness. 7oz(198g). Imported from Ireland.
They have a web site www.kerrygold.com. There are a couple kinds of import cheeses and an Irish Sweet Cream Garlic Butter that they have to offer.
The Distinct taste and hint of sweetness are true. Think of a swiss cheese with a sweet cream butter type of sweet... not sugary, but not sharp and aggressive. This is an AWESOME cheese!
I am, however, sooooo stuffed! If I were St. Patrick, I couldn't drive myself out of Ireland, let alone snakes and such! I do want to down my other Killian's before I need to head out later. No worries, I'll be walking, and all the alcohol should be dissipated from my system by then anyway.
I would guess that the average Irish diet goes something like 'Guinness for breakfast, to wake up, a Killian's for lunch cuz it's light, and a Baily's for dinner/ desert'.
Anyway, in honor of my Dad... Happy St. Patrick's Day. I miss you. Thinking lots of good thoughts.
BTW, my Dad was from Chicago, huge Irish family(17 kids). My Grand mother was Irish and my Grand Father was Norwegian. Dad passed away 6 years ago... his name is Patrick, and growing up he always said that St. Patrick's Day was his personal day, cuz of his name and growing up in a huge Catholic family. It's the birthday of my ex-girl friend from Canada, too.
Anyhow, I'm gunna go, for now :) Irish eyes 'R' smilin'!
Oh, real quick, I ask my client today what the Norwegians over in Norway thought about the Irish. He thought for a sec and says "You know, the Vikings used to sail down and take the Irish women." I laughed hard, cuz it was soooo not the answer I was even remotely thinking I'd hear. Being a quarter Irish, a quarter Norwegian, and half mutt American, I can live with that answer just fine! :) |
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| Happy St. Paddy's Day!!!! |
[Mar. 17th, 2007|09:12 am] |
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Here it is again, the Happy Day thing. So, you were wished double the happiness :)
Gotta work today, can't quite remember why I came to lj-land... I was for sure gunna look something up, I got here, read friends entries and lost my train of thought. If it doesn't return in the next 5 minutes, I'm outta here.
Well, that's about all. |
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| Happy St. Patrick's Day! |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|07:55 pm] |
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I know it's a day early, but that's O.K. I got my traditional Killian's Red and some import cheese from Ireland. I'll get a small thing of corned beef tomorrow and maybe some baby potatoes too.
Went to a care givers conference today... it was very well done.
I've got some reading to do, and I'm gunna crash early, I was soooooo beat after the conference today. The mental overload from all of the info was a bit much.
Anyway... Tah! |
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| My feeling disappointed from my last entry... |
[Mar. 14th, 2007|09:05 am] |
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For my icon, I put disappointed, even though my entry was a lot of stuff to be quite happy about... Well, I've been thinking about my wish, want, or desire to have a true communications flow with some one who has 'drama' all around them, and I'm just disappointed that my hands are tied and that this person has other maladies other than just physical ones. It hurts, but their activities or what they choose to do or whatever, are all not my responsibility or my issue. So, again I'm feeling disappointed.
That's basically it, I just wanted to clarify for anyone wondering about the in congruent icon/message deal. |
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| Busy, busy day... |
[Mar. 14th, 2007|08:51 am] |
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Up sorta early... my eyes wanted to do 7:40, but I told them 'NO!' until about 8:20. Been up for a little while. I kept thinkin' of all the stuff needing to be done today, tonight, tomorrow and thru the weekend.
I'll be over nighting in Seattle at the folks place. They're out of town until the end of next week. My Uncle Ernie would be checkin' in on their place, but is also outta town till next week. Actually I'm looking forward to this trip.
After work, I've got a 7:30 board plan at one of my newest guys place up in Lynden! Should be a packed house. When I return tomorrow, I'll be getting together with him, his wife, 2 other associates they know, and maybe 4 or 5 others who might be there tonight, to get some 'how-to' info. into their hands! This person is used to prospecting 300 people a day. He had a sales gig a few years ago that took him all the way down to Southern California, seeing 300 people A DAY! The intent on 300 people was to make about 25 sales a day, or 125 for the weekly quota. What we do is much simpler than that... not necessarily easier, but I think probably easier too.
Anyhow, it's 9 and I have stops that I NEED to be at by 10, so I'm gunna fly. More from Seattle maybe? |
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| HMMMM & HMMMMM... |
[Mar. 13th, 2007|10:08 pm] |
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Cracks me up how people can 'strain a gnat and swallow a camel'. The issues of life are so much more than one dimensional topics. I guess I'm just throwing out what's on the top of my head.
Anyway, I'm listening to my good friend Hoobird of Arizona, and a 'concerned' and friendly citizen 'Phoenix', who both kindly admonished me to focus on my mission here and to attend to what I need to while I'm here. I do feel sad that the person I blew up at is... I hate to say this, it makes me sad and to s degree is heart breaking, but, they're dense. I can't even convey or converse with them, cuz they are so 'La-la land' about life issues... so I must keep my head down, nose to the grindstone, do WHAT I MUST DO, and continue on. To this end, I'm satisfied, and I will say nothing further on this matter, because to do so is none productive, and as I said, if what I said was flammable, and this person caught fire, they would just as likely sit down and watch t.v., or try preparing a meal, while all the while burning up in flames... not worth my time. I'm also not responsible for this persons destiny or how they choose to go about this life. They're standing alone in a crowded room, screaming in silence at the top of their lungs... drowning in a sea of air... unfortunately, I can not help.
I'm feeling that the time to go in search of a female companion is getting closer for me. Unfortunately I wouldn't dare bring a potential hottie to my apartment, but I'll have my own place in a few months and that will be a big push toward this end.
I'm heading to Seattle tomorrow and will be there over night. Coming back Thursday and training with my guys on business building.
Anyway, things are fairly grand. It is uncomfortable to be 'shedding' in my living arrangement, but that's part of life. I think if things were healthy and there was an open and realistic flow of dialog, it would be a lot smoother, but when there is this degree of, ahem, 'DUH!' going on, it doesn't just curb that, it cuts it off to the bone by virtue of either not being able to understand, or something like that that I can't place a real suitable bead on.
Anyhow... things are slightly awkward, but semi-laughable. I did also say some what heart breaking, but that's been the case forever any how. The flip side to this, is my being right with God and the Universe and doing what I need to and to stop blowing off my destiny.
I know this all rings of the magnanimous, but I really don't mean for it to. I just am in a good space, albeit, at the expense of those who can't understand. Not my making... so, God help 'em.
Anyway... I need to read and crash, I have things to accomplish. My time is invaluable and I want to treat it with respect... the respect it deserves.
Catch you all later. |
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[Mar. 13th, 2007|10:06 pm] |
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Hey all...
It's been a couple a days, and things've been pretty hectic and busy for me. I thought I'd better post now since I've got a sec, and things haven't built up to where I have a mamoth tome to put in here.
I went and caught 300 TWICE on Friday! I was about 20 minutes early for the 1:05 show, when I was getting my ticket for the 10:05 show... just had to be done, and I'm glad I did!
This was from a couple of days ago, as my computer was being a total spastic case, and I didn't have time to waite for it to normal out. |
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[Mar. 8th, 2007|10:14 pm] |
I wish to thank my good friend Hoobird and a 'Phoenix' for both taking time to remind me of one and the same truth... focus on Mark, Mark's life calling, Mark's mission in life, and let everything else go. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Things are excellent on the work front, and in business as well. I am ever so grateful to my friends (old and new) who are with me on this trip! I'm making new friends daily who are joining my business, and it is AWESOME!!!!!!! Tonight was a really great sit down with the folks I met with on Tuesday. I do believe that they will be going like wild animals! That will force me to not even contemplate slowing down, stopping, or doing nothing.
I have tomorrow off, and I sooo can't wait to devote time to getting business going on! Lots of people to check back with and to meet!
Anyway, I'm gunna go, focus on my mission, and just say 'thanks' and nod no matter what the real deal is with what others say or think... it's not my issue or my loss. I can only control me and what I choose to do, and I choose to not be broke, or poor, or to remain where I am in this life. And when I make XXXXX amount of income, people will say " Oh, that Mark guy is soooooo lucky!" But in all reality, I'm not 'lucky', I'm a hard worker, doing what most people, or rather average people refuse to do. No luck here, just hard work and sheer determination. Any one can copy what I'm doing, cuz, I'm only copying other people... I'm not reinventing the wheel. Anyway... |
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| Distancing continued... |
[Mar. 7th, 2007|07:31 pm] |
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First off, my apologies on the heavy nature of part 1 of this deal. I'd like to say that I absolutely can't stand the scatter brained/ shot gun approach used in part 1. I've had all day to mentally chew on this and upon rereading part one, don't feel that I said anything that I wouldn't truly have said anyway. I don't like having to cram a bunch of thought into a short amount of time and space. Please bear with me as I may repeat some of the things I'd mentioned in part one. Not to be redundant or annoying, but because I'll be in a flow and rhythm.
So, first off, I can appreciate your being there for me, but how am I supposed to read that? I mean truly? I'm on my way to a permanent better space in life, why on earth would I regress? I have raised the bar on life for myself, why are you wishing I'd lower it? I'm comfortable with pushing myself for bigger and better. Does this scare or offend you? Good, maybe you should seek to raise the bar in your own life, stop leaning on everyone else at the sports pub to buy your drinks, sport your birthdays and Christmases, and just plain up grade your station in life. There is no caste system in place here, you aren't a poor waif who is incapable, or at least not according to the philosophy coming out of your mouth. Now are the philosophical ideas you are saying lies, or real? Why aren't you show casing them?
So, you WANT to try and be my equal... O.K. here it is:
1.Build YOUR chapter, that's all on you. I don't mean one new person every 9 months (HUGE YAWN!!!!)
2. Are you talking to 10 strangers every day about your business? No? Oh.
3. Get a job... not minimum wage, but a real job. I'm sorry, but I don't think you can hack an 8 hour job let alone an 8 hour a day job AND a 12 hour a day job, AND build a business ALL AT THE SAME TIME! All I'm saying, is can you even muster the strength to do 1 third of that? No again...hmmm. I'm not asking you to be superman, man!
4. I don't have any more than those 3, but you gotta get somewhere in the near by universe to at least come close, and you don't... I'm sorry, that's your choice.
Oh, 4 will be 4.5. Start Doing something instead of a ton 'o nothing. Talk gets old fast... real fast. There's a lot of talk about 'ambition', and why this is this, and that is that... how about DO SOMETHING? I still am earnest about hearing all about your definition of ambition, cuz, you see my skepticism lies in the fact that I have NEVER, EVER heard of an ambitious person who wouldn't get a job, wouldn't build a business, would call in sick to work/ school when ever the urge hit them, slept in until 3 in the afternoon, was more into going to the pub than enriching the lives of people around them. So, again I ask, WHERE'S THE AMBITION????????
It has been stated to me that you have already learned ALL of your life lessons. I have to ponder (albeit, on a shallow level) on this, because if that were true and a real deal, 1. You have no Earthly right ore reason to be taking up space on this level of existence, or 2. People should be coming in droves on a daily basis to bask in your wealth of wisdom and knowledge, or 3. You should've been contacted, for certain by now, to be the next Dali Lamma. Why are none of these 3 things true? If ya can't get an invite to Thanx-bloody-giving, or to a Merry Friggin' XMAS/ NEW YEAR, then WTF??????? That does not resound of huge ass enlightenment to me... sorry, but it's 100% unanimous amongst all of the other 100% of wrong people that I've ask this of. So, the whole world is wrong... hmmm my, how strange.
Look, I don't want this to be a slam fest, but for God sakes, the conviction expressed that you do have all of the answers has bound me from being frank with you about this stuff. After all, the statement that age has nothing to do with maturity also has me at bay... how can I share even the most minute ideal to chew upon with such an enlightened and mature person who in all of their infinite wisdom puts me to shame? I consider myself wise to some degree, not even CLOSE to having learned my life lessons, and I'm still waiting for even the slightest trickle of anybody to come knocking at my door. But, i'll tell ya what... when it comes to work, I get special assignments and preferential treatment, cuz I strive to be good at what I do. In business, I'm respected and looked up to, because I say nothing and do what needs to be done. Amongst my peers, I'm looked up to and do get asked my insight and opinions on things... I SOOOOOO HAVE NOT ARRIVED!!!! NOT!
While I'm being candid, I need to say this, as it has been a severe wedge in our relationship that you have no idea has been ruminating and festering for quite a long while... 2 things actually. 1. I wish you could just relax, and not have to be 'the man'. Like with the magazine sales guy... if you could just say 'O.K. Mark, you've dealt with this situation before', but instead, its 'screw you (Mark, male, guy, man...)' and off you go doing the 'I'm the man' thing. 2. It really bothered me that again, being the man you basically gave Randy, Tom and me the huge middle finger, cuz the AWESOME wisdom on that one was "We'll work this from 2 different angles". Well, you haven't worked yours at all, and when I mention employing powerful techniques for business, boy you just had to shoot them down with your vastly superior knowledge of business and work. Randy kinda shrugged your leaving off, you didn't, haven't and won't buy anything from my or Tom's business, yet you are asking me to buy from yours... go figure. Anyway, yea, Tom a bit and myself a bit were both extremely disappointed in you and in how all of that was gone about. We were TOLD, GIVEN THE IMPRESSION, ETC., ETC., that you were gunna change the world and blow all of our hair back... what happened? Couldn't get a free web site and having to buy product not appealing enough? You looked at what we've got, we weren't about to hand a website over to you, Kyle did, you've done nothing with THAT website, you are a billion miles from any form of business support and the best advice you've gotten was a mimic of what Tom said initially 'Get people in front of me', but instead, all you've got is a DVD to show people. No in the flesh successes... now that's severe wisdom! I AM F**KIN' IMPRESSED! People need/ want energy drinks, vitamin supplements, make up, books, games, electronics, etc., etc., etc., things that they can feel and love owning... I couldn't 'love' a sight unseen/ felt purchase... sorry, that's the nature of human beings. Pre - Paid is a fine service, but frankly, people want substance... touch it, feel it, taste it. I'm truly sorry that you've disqualified your self (due to being uncoachable, and not taking heed to successful people) from being eligible to be a partner not just in Quixtar, but in any other projects in the future. I wouldn't dare after getting the middle finger of business from you, ask you to join me only to get 'My better idea is...' and 'I'm working with so and so over here, a billion, jillion miles away, cuz I'm so G*D- D**NED Enlightened!' O.K., fine, you go consult your business expert on how to do YOUR THING, cuz you told me to my face that you are too good for my team... I'm glad your team is so tried and true. I know mine is... and because I'm on a winning make things happen, success coming my way team, I should lower my standards and the bar that I've established for my self????????? How about PISS UP A ROPE?! Not gunna happen! You shoulda thought about all of this before employing that amazing, astronomically awesome, above and beyond insight, knowledge and wisdom.
I really don't have much more to say... I'm not crying over your departure or at your choice to stay low on the rungs of life's ladder, and not raise your bar or strive to be more than what the average/ common person thinks about people with blindness, or what not, after all, YOU ARE PROVING THEM RIGHT... how sad. That really does suck! To have such awesome philosophy and yet choose to be a ward to the state and not kick the ever lovein' crap out of the impoverished station in life?! Like I said, there ain't no caste system in place here. I'm not Shooting for less in life, and life will give you what you 'demand' of it and work for... |
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| Distancing... |
[Mar. 7th, 2007|07:24 am] |
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It was and is not really surprise who the person is/was who sent the reply on my distancing. Unfortunately, they (once again) missed the point that instead of pointing the gun straight at them, I made my response as wide open as possible, so I guess I will need to be more direct about my distancig.
The point about success, IS NOT MONEY... because of the blindsided, lack of ability to understand that this is not my measuring stick, I will bluntly say, that success is foreming a chapter that grows each month, not regresses down to 5 people. Lack of growth for 9 months is boring... it equals stagnant, cest pool. I feel trapped in an organization going NOWHERE FAST. Ever hear the saying 'Time is money?', well, time is money and my time is becoming very valuable, people are waiting and depending on me to show them how to get out of the fiunancial hurt that they are in. I can't just throw my time to the wind.
Also, I DO NOT get 3 day weekends in which to go to the bar and have others buy me alcohol, while I'm living on government funding, and have a business that I could be SUCCESSFUL at, but refuse to do anything with. I have a job, a business and several timely hobbies... in short, I don't have hugr amounts of open time to splurge.
Let me touch on that one. Superbowl weekend, the person who I'm distancing from had just returned from a week in Washington, D.C., had all weekend and then some. I had 3 hours after the Super bowl before I had to go to bed. First off, because I was involved with a movie that I was wanting to see, and NOT wishing to have an ear yaked off, this person decides that that would be the time to clean house... I didn't have the time to waste on that one! Then at a meeting following that, this person tries to shame me and bolster their own ego in a conversation about the Chinese New Year. That tactic only works if one even CARES what others in the room think... I didn't, and don't. And as for ambitious, since you'd said you so are... how? Can you please describe ambitious? Is it ambitious to see how many beers someone will buy you? Is it ambitious in 0 growth in your chapter? Is there ANY ambition in business WHAT SO EVER? Where is the ambition? i CAN't see it and I AM asking for help on this one. No, I can't go with just words any more, I do believe talk is cheap! Do something, and say NOTHING!
I've got to go to work and I don't even have time to do spell check.
Is ambition applying JUST at Curves? I knew that that probably wasn't gunna happen, I know Bellingham economy... was I supposed to be impressed 'Oh, I'm applying at only one minimum wage job, aren't you prowd? Wish me luck'. Like ya, prowd of 1 job app, or staying in the same position. It has urked me that I've been told that you consider your self my equal, and that you WON'T gwet a job, yet you fancy yourself as being able to work as I do... please just do it and stop saying you can. I love NFB philosophy, but it's all philosophical here... all in YOUR head, please prove me wrong and realy get an ambition and do something! This is all why I fgeel the need to distance... too much talk and not enough back up of that talk.
You're a good friend , but too little action on your part, can you do instead of say?
That's all. |
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| AH YEA! Day 65 with 300 (Not Frank Miller's 300) left to go! |
[Mar. 6th, 2007|10:16 pm] |
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AWESOME day! My new client is so very, very cool. He makes it easy to work with him and he has such a strong drive to get over his limitations... In short, my client is a cake walk and has 1,000% of the right stuff... attitude, positive out look, humor, etc. Looking forward to tomorrow and Thursday!
On top of that, there was a business briefing that was invite (new unexpossed to business new people and thier I.B.O. inviters... no new people, no attendance). Well, my folks had, ahem, 'challenges', and were an hour late, so we missed the plan... so, what does Mark do? Mark fly's into I.B.O. mode *(I.B.O.- Independent Business Owner) and hold a plan of my own. Could've done sign ups johnny on the spot, but we don't do that, we want people to take and make well informed decisions before committing to anything. I must've said all that they needed to hear, cuz they made comments like 'Wow, this isn't like what I thought it was gunna be', and 'Wow! You don't make money off of people, like a pyramid (which by the way looks more like how the government is established, or your work place... can you ever pass up everyone and be the president? In fact, would the people successful and more knowledgable ahead of you give you enough support to do better than they do at your work place????)', and 'Oh, cool, you make 'refferal bonuses' based on the traffic you drive through YOUR online mall...' YEP!
So, we missed the industry proffessional (my friend/ mentor Randy Sears, who by the way makes about $60,000 a day whether he likes it or not... hmmmm!) and I got to share where I'm at and where I'm headed.
All in all, today was GOLDEN! One of those days that if it could only be every day like this! WOW!
I am way blessed and I thank God daily that I was in a place to meet my good friend Tom Ellis and that I was just smart enough to say " Business meeting? O.K." A real life changer. I can't wait till 300 more days've elapsed and I'm writing from New Year's 2008 about the awesome year that my whole life took a change as well as all of the people that I've brought with me!
I need to go, gotta get up early tomorrow and do this ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!! YES! |
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