Monthly Archives: June 2008

All of it is The Same: Blogging and Freelance Writing…

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I just came to the realization that it is the same. I have been going back and forth with my leap of doing freelance writing on the side for well over 2 months. I didn’t do this much thinking and analyzing the situation when I started blogging over 2 years ago. I just simply got behind the keyboard, found blogger to start my writing and wrote. I believe my first post was about starting things and not knowing where it will go. Damn I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t start this blog. I have a couple of people that read what I write, made some great friends along the way, has given me direction and insight into what I think about, and a way for me to express myself through a way that i had no clue that will help me out ever. So that is what I have to do with this freelance writing gig. Take a chance, take a risk, and just do. Don’t worry about the future, don’t worry about if you are making enough money, don’t worry and just make life of whatever I make of it.

So this week and starting now I am an officially a freelance writer. I will write articles about whatever I feel that is interesting because writing is a passion that I haven’t totally figured out that will be a part of my personal legend. Oh yeah I will get monetary value because of what I like to do. Damn that is really powerful. Getting money for something I love to do.

Here my very first post:

“Man oh man, there is so much to life to be continuing being in a routine. Not just I’ll do this on monday, tuesday, wednesday, and so on night, but hell I will do this every single day. I am glad that I have also started this blog. I have been talking about starting and never did until now, I believe this is a breakthrough for life not just today.”

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The Journey Has to Be Just as Important as The Destination

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I realized this the past couple of weeks where I didn’t plan any goals and specific task also while I was finishing up a great book called, The Alchemist. There are a couple of ideas and concerns that were floating in my head about things that I have started and not finished and also about things I want to start and haven’t got the urge to do so. I have also realized that I need to start asking the question why and not what when it comes to passions that I like or think that I might like due to outside involvement.

The past 3 weeks I have been keeping a personal journal of myself and writing about where I am at in my life right now and why I can’t finish when I start a “so-called” passion. The whole process was mind blowing and really helped me understand my mind and actions as they are. It has been some time now since I did a personality test, but I thought the results were dead on. The idea of me being a good initiator got me thinking of all of the projects, business ideas, and passion and hobbies that I have started and not finished. I started asking questions about myself of if I really wanted to do those things or they just sound good to my ears and to other people?

Then I read this quote that summed up pursuing goals, mission, and passions that weren’t really goals, mission, and passions:

Source: The Alchemist

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Criticism… how do you deal with it?

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I was just recently review for work and I pretty much knew how it would go and then my boss said something toward the end that stuck. It was, “It is hard to take criticism from your peers and it takes time for one to accept it”. Over the past few years I would secretly take criticism really to heart and got down on myself about it. But now that isn’t so. I think the main reason is because I am much harder on myself than anyone else can be on me. I am now living up to my own expectations. That statement alone is very very important. Whatever someone says something about me I think about my actions, think how they are looking at the situation, and see if I have thought this way about myself and why I haven’t done anything to change.

The words provide action…

No matter what someone says to you something is always done. You either change or you don’t. If you change that means that you feel that it will be helpful to you in the long run in the way it shapes your life as a person. If you don’t that probably means that you either didn’t feel that isn’t a weakness you need to fix, to stubborn to look at what others are saying about you, or flat out what one is saying doesn’t apply to what the majority of people are saying about you.

Are you going to take what they say and do something about it?

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