Yesterday I had a phone conversation for 5-10 minutes with a Houston base automotive journalist. I was quite surprised that he agreed to talk to me and very humble that he took a couple of minutes to give me some insight on his career that I want so badly to be a part of.

He explained to me that there are so many different routes to become an automotive journalist and that no one way is better than the other. He gave me ideas to help me get my name out there and after some time I already understood everything that he was telling me.

The Bottom Line

When the conversation was over I knew what I had to do to become an automotive journalist. It is kind of funny because before the conversation I already knew what I had to do and now it is so visible. The whole situation goes back to how bad do I want to be an automotive journalist? I have to be the one to test all avenues to see where I can make some head way. The thing that frustrates me about automotive journalist is that there isn’t a direct path to getting there, however that very same reason gives me excitement and joy because it is up to me to become the automotive journalist.

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Tossing and turning. Heard everything that was going on while I was sleeping. People calling, people texting, thinking of the endless things that I put on my “very important” to do list.

I learned so much while trying to get much needed rest this afternoon. I couldn’t finish a movie because I was tired due to doing a 3 mile hitt run, 30 mins of cardio in the apartment pool and also my roommate was kind of loud talking to his friend. Nontheless I turned off the XBOX 360 and the television, got up and went to my bed to rest. I didn’t rest much, but the whole experience was what I needed to analysis myself and see myself for who I was in my eyes.

I wrote about this very thing a couple of months ago how I have no problem getting my workouts done and leaving other things by the way side. Today is a perfect example of that; I did my cardio and ran a couple of errands, came back to the apartment and relaxed afterwards. Today I planned to organize my day planner, put up all of my clothes, read Invisible Man, clean up rest room, move book shelf around, cut my hair, and get some unwanted paper and junk out of the room. At least I have wrote a blog post, but other than the cardio I haven’t done shit. That is all my fault. I am the blamer of myself and have to fix all of these problems sooner rather than later.

There was this one quote by Randy Pausch, the famous Last Lecture professor, said that really stuck to me. It goes something like this, “The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”

Why this Quote?

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