Gabriel Hummel

Haters Gonna Hate

There will always be naysayers, dream crushers, punks, liars, doubters, non believers, anti evangelics, and destroyers of humanity no matter what corner of the world your find yourself in.

This is the ultimate crux position, as you are not only aware that they exist everywhere and you will be able to train yourself to ignore them, they will still always be there.

These haters are obvious and are defined as,

“A person that simply cannot be happy for another person’s success. Instead of giving acknowledgment in courtesy, a hater often pursues his/her point by exposing a flaw in the target subject. Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy. The hater doesn’t really want to be the person he or she hates, rather the hater wants to knock somelse [sic] down a notch.”

The key in deflecting haters Is obvious, keep on doing.

Trying to master the art of French cooking and get called out for a deflated soufflé? Haters gonna hate.

Want to save to travel the world but get denied a foreign visa? Haters gonna hate.

Looking to start your own internet business only to have everyone tell you that it has been done before? Haters gonna hate.

Keep moving forward, and you will find that the haters will never stop hating, so why not end their tyranny over your soul now?

Haters gonna suck it

Gabriel

Being Angry Doesnt Make You Right

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Ever been in a situation that caused your blood to boil to hell levels? Where you were absolutely certain that you were right and that the other person was wrong, despite any extenuating circumstances?

Of course you have, we all have (unless your full of shit).

Angry and irate people exist in nearly every facet of life. We run into them at grocery stores, at work, and even with family and friends. Often times we are at an impasse as to why or how this person is so irate, unless it is us who is so, “sick of this bullshit”.

The vocal minority is always the group that gets the most coverage in life, from family gossip to Dateline, everyone loves a good tounge thrashing even if the deck is stacked in favor of the passive (dare I say happy?) party.

The angrier these people get, the more in the right they believe they are, no matter what circumstances have unfolded.

A person hits you with their car while riding a bike? You shouldn’t be riding in the street.

You are given a hamburger with sauce when you clearly asked for no sauce? Obviously that counter worker is not competent enough to run the burger counter.

The angry always get blinded by emotion, and as a result, never make rational or proper decisions. Essentially, all angry people and everything they say should be taken with a grain of salt and generally ignored until they can regain their composure.

Vivid emotions do not propgate truth, so it is best to step back when you, or another person is angry, and really try to understand what is occuring before you try to bite the head off the nearest human being.

Rational is better

Gabriel

Death by Complacency

Complacency Kills Flour Mill

One of the biggest struggles that I and many others go through is the notion of the never ending story. That is the feeling that your life is constantly being Tivo-ed and played over and over again with no lasting force pulling you in any different direction.

The most interesting notion of this dilemma lies in the fact that you know that something (or many things) in your life needs to change, but you are so un-blissfully content with your current circumstances that it becomes nearly impossible to motivate yourself to shake things up.

So what is one to do? Do you continue on your path to mediocrity and accept defeat from the jaws of life? Or do you develop a laundry list of life action items and proceed to disassemble nearly every aspect of your life in an effort to make changes for the better?

The answer is both.

You and I both know that changes need to be made in life in order to get more of the things you want out of it, even if that means picking up a few bad habits from the past. On the same token however, taking your life and sending it hurdling down a canyon with only a t-shirt left salvageable is likely not a keen course of action.

The beauty is that you can have your cake and eat it too in regards to this life dilemma.

I started out by figuring out the list of things going on in my life that should not change no matter what choices I make that will send my life into a tailspin. From daily exercising to eating right and spending time reading and writing, I know that if those things take a backseat, my life will likely go up in flames long before I send it off a gulch.

Convexly, the same exercise needs to be taken in regards to things in your life that you are doing that you know are not conducive to turning up the volume on your life to 11. Things like playing hours of video games, watching too much TV, aimlessly reading web articles about teenage celebrities that you know that no one should give a shit about.

After the usual suspects are lined up, begin to reinforce the good and strike down the bad.

This is a twofold exercise, by in which as each worthless activity is sent to the chopping block, a new activity that is conducive to your new aspirations must take its place, less you fill your precious time with more frivolous activities.

That’s is, it really is as simple as knowing the things that suck and rock in your life and making fine adjustments as needed. Before your know it, your life will be on full blown steroids and ready for world domination.

Now, how do you motivate yourself to get this shit done?

Drop laziness (part 2)

Gabriel

Personal Decision 2010

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In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
-William James

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion
-Chinese proverb

The Marketing of Self Loathing

Selling a product as a marketer can be as simple as pushing a unsatisfying self image upon an unsuspecting victim watching television.

From hair products to clothing and even hamburgers, its nearly effortless for a marketer to play to the weaknesses of a demographic. An ad littered with photo shopped 20 somethings having the time of their life is a sure fire way to cause the 40 year old stay at home mom to reassess her self image.

What they don’t teach you in marketing school is that it can be painstakingly simple to avoid all the blur and speed of modern day advertising.

This is accomplished by having a fundamental love for one’s self.

Self love is one of the most underrated aspects in modern society, from a perceived necessity to volunteer your love to others and even making your life goals in alignment with the expectations with others, love for one self is seemingly hard to come by.

I challenge you to look in the mirror and tell your naked self how much you love yourself.

Go ahead, do it.

The mere act of coming face to face with one’s self in a mirror is daunting to many people, and could cause untold levels of emotional unrest.

But do it anyway.

Cultivating that love for who you are will have so many positive implications, I don’t even know where to begin. Your life will go on steroids.

Best of all, you will find that the glamour of Hollywood, advertisements, and magazines, will fade to a point of a burning out candle.

Fuck everyone else before you learn to love yourself.

Gabriel

Haters Gonna Hate

Being Angry Doesnt Make You Right

Death by Complacency

Personal Decision 2010

The Marketing of Self Loathing

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