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My Favorite Time of Year.

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Let’s  go ahead and write a blog post.

Just last night the basketball season ended. I’m happy that the Lakers won the title and will look at some of the highlights today and probably tomorrow. However, this is my favorite time of the year. This is when I have more time to do more things for myself. I don’t watch much television anyway. Whatever my fiance has on tivo is what I watch. Now that I don’t have to stay up late nights watching basketball, which it seems I’m doing less and less of as I become more mature, I will devote my attention to my passions and seriously putting down my foot down to making money.

There are plenty of people at work and all around me who hate when the basketball season ends–I love it. People say that they won’t have anything to do and they can’t wait until the preseason starts up again. This post isn’t a dig on everyone else that occupies themselves with television and can’t find anything to do, it is an insight to why I crave this time of year and what I plan to do.

This time of year is the time that I get most of my goals done. Like I said before, I don’t watch much television and now that the basketball season is done I will be on hustle mode. I don’t know what that is, I haven’t struggled in my life before to actually take the plunge into exhibiting this. From what I hear from other people and see all over is that hustling is a mode of survival and is something that we instinctively know how to do. Who knows what is write. I have to figure that out for myself and will need to guide my was and just do what feels natural. As the weeks and months go by I will learn something about myself. I think that thing that I will learn is how bad I want to do what I want to do in life. I will learn that their are things I have to give up in order to reap the reward in the long run. Again, this is the time that I do more, find more, and learn more about me as a human being.

Some of the goals that I have for the rest of the year is to finish editing my novel, develop cash flow from my side gig, and to do more projects that challenge me as an individual. That is it. Oh, and to also set a wedding date.

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Making This Year Challenge A Little More Interesting: An Ultimatum

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I’ve made up my decision. Well, after talking to a good friend about it all. I am giving myself an ultimatum and it wasn’t something I thought about ever since talking to him a couple of days ago.

I Learned Something Last Year Reading One of My Favorite Writers

Most people wouldn’t consider Steve Martin much of a writer. I didn’t, until I read 3 of his books last year. The guy is just talented in all ways and I encourage people to give him a shot–as a writer–if you are not fond of his films. While I was reading his non-fiction work about becoming a comedian, the section that stuck out to me was, well actually there were a couple:

Practicing the passion- Steve worked his ass off without the much thought of making money from it. He did multiple stand-ups, changed his act, talk to many people, watched and copy, to an extent, his favorite comedians.

Money wasn’t an issue until he couldn’t pay for his lifestyle- Steve started to make some money from his comedic act, but nothing to sustain a life of partying, women, traveling around the country, and whatever else he wanted to do. He knew he had to do something about it.

He gave himself an ultimatum- Steve was nearing the age of 30 and realized that his passion had to make him money or he had to do something else. He just wasn’t making enough money and had to be real with himself. I believe Steve gave himself 3 years or so to get paid.

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This Year’s Challenge is Difficult

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This challenge/goal this year is going to be rather difficult. I knew what I was getting myself into, but didn’t truly know what I was getting myself into. See, the reason why I say that is because this is something that doesn’t have a clear-cut path of accomplishing.

Business is some hard shit, just like becoming the writer. The thing that made becoming a writer more focus-driven and planned out was that all I had to was to write. Once I started writing (which I’m still doing this year) everything became aligned and I started to figure out what I needed to do in order to get better.

Becoming the businessman is something that needs to be thought out and it is more about my character than what I’m selling. I have the product already: my skills as a photographer–but I’m lacking in the areas of selling my idea to other people. It is something that will be a battle but once I continue to put myself in those atmosphere and push myself to get better, I will see my potential growing.

This First Month of Business

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