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You know, I just might be a badass, again!
I’m high as a kite right now. On Monday I finished writing my second novel. The most important part about it was that I completed it in 11 days. I had no writers block, had fun writing the story and laughed along the way. It was like I wrote the story for myself and the…
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My Favorite Time of Year.
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…
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Making This Year Challenge A Little More Interesting: An Ultimatum
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…
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Business Experiment Has Begun: Etsy.com
I am officially in business! After nearly two weeks of getting my first batch of purses and handbags (22), I finally put all of them online. I haven’t gotten any emails or purchases yet but know with a little of marketing, the business will start to make me money. I can’t tell much difference from…
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Body Cleansing/Workout Challenge Before my Birthday
7:30 in the morning on a Saturday isn’t wahat I call sleeping in. When I sleep in, I don’t set my alarm, I just let my body wake up when it is ready, and when I that happens I fall back asleep. The reason why I got up and went through what I did is…
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On Business: My Brother is Kicking My Ass at Ecommerce
It has been well over 2 months since I have started my business experiment. Each day that passes by I get a clearer view of the next step with it. The post isn’t about me and the struggles I’m having to sell vintage wear (4), but about my bro, so here it is. I didn’t…
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This Year’s Challenge is Difficult
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…
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Update of Goals from the last month
I have begun my long 4-day work week. I chose Monday’s off, because I always hated preparing for work on Sunday’s and I will always have a 3-day weekend. This off-day will be spent by more writing, resting, and figuring out what I want to do as a second monetary means of surviving. I’ll fill…
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The Trip to the East Coast: Detroit to New York…Solo Road Trip…All I Want to do is Get Lost…
I have been thinking about this for some time. Everything made sense, when I sat down and decided what I wanted to do for a 4-5 day stretch. I could chill in Houston and be totally rested, travel to California that I have done so many times, I could visit friends who I haven’t talked…
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One More Day and Counting Til the East Coast Road Trip
One more day until I start my east coast road trip. My emotions change left and right, and now they are near the scared-as-shit side of the meter. I know it will change throughout the day and also the day of. I still need to get a hotel room in Detroit and New York. I…
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Research Series Week: Part 2 – Making Work Work for Me
We know how much work sucks, whether we want to admit it or not, we spend so much time there and results in being super tired when we finally get home. But, there is a way pass all of this, there is something we can do about this whole dilemma. What I Learned from my…
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Goals for the Rest of the Month…
In a couple of weeks I will be partaking in a shorten work-week schedule. I will get an extra day off, in return I will have to work 4 10-hour work days. It will take me sometime to get used to the longer days, but no time at all to get used to doing more…
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My Upcoming Road Trip!
Road Trippin from Oaks Real on Vimeo.
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Videos of Crazy Cardio Challenge!
Here are the videos I promised for my crazy cardio challenge I did a couple of weeks ago. They total around 20 minutes long, but feel they will give you a good understanding of what I actually did during the week of the challenge. Let me know what you think, and enjoy! CCC: Walking 30…
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Crazy Cardio Challenge Realization Video!
Cardio Challenge Realization 1 from Oaks Real on Vimeo.
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What The Hell is CCC and Why Am I Doing It?
Have you ever done something that you have no idea why you are doing it, but kept on doing so anyway?What did you learn from the experience, was it worth it? I have come to realize I am the extreme person who will try anything. I don’t care how hard it is, I just want…
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How Many Floors Can You Walk? I walked…
“Hey, you want to take the stairs? It won’t take long and we will beat all of these people trying to take the elevator”, a short guy with glasses said. I looked at him and he was dead serious in a joking way. I looked around and thought it couldn’t hurt. I told him, “sure,…
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Follow Up of Going Cold Turkey: 2 Weeks….of No Internet!
It has been well over 2 weeks since I have written a blog post. For the past couple of weeks I have been offline doing other things. For instance, watching photography videos, taking random photos with the skills I learned, reading a couple of books (The Road and Shortcomings), starting my novel, spending more time…
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Going Cold Turkey: 2 Weeks….of No Internet! Can You Do It?
Realization… It is hard to imagine this reality is about to take place for me. The longest I have been away from the internet is a weekend. One of my weakinesses is getting online to either waste time, check my email atleast 15-20 times per day, look at sports news, view current news I don’t…