Quotes that Actually Mean Something Episode 3

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“Don’t let your dreams be dreams”

This one is self explanatory. If you simply spend your waking hours whining and thinking about how much better your life could be if ______, then you are totally screwed. If you don’t take steps towards making your life the way you desire it to be, then you are shit out of luck when it comes to fulfilling your fantasies in life. Quit crying and start doing.

Quotes that Actually Mean Something Episode 2

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“Treat Everyday Like an Adventure”

This is huge people, if you aren’t enjoying nearly every single day of your life and trying new and exciting things in order to expand who you are and make your life less that of a lump of boring shit, you need to be looking at every single day through the lens of a pirate scope.

Quotes that Actually Mean Something Episode 1

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“I am enough”

This one quote helped me slowly realize how awesome I was, appreciate and love who I am at all times, and generally feel like a wrecking ball when accomplishing goals in my life. Want your life to be fire? Understanding this is critical

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Baby-Steps

So it’s the New Year, and despite my advice about giving the finger to New Year’s resolutions, you have decided to attempt to accomplish a laundry list of seemingly impossible tasks.

You are ready to dive head first into the deep end and wow the world with your jenesequa like natural talents and surpass all those that stand in opposition of your future glory.  You will rise above all other dabblers and hackers in the fine art of your goal and become the pillar of success for future generations.

Either that or you will crash and burn faster than a 747 and wonder where the nearest Wal-Mart is so you can buy a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Pumpkin Cheesecake in reparations.

The problem with starting working towards a new goal that everyone wants to be great now. They don’t have any desire to put in the time, energy, effort, and red bull fueled nights in order to achieve monstrous like results that are achieved by so many before them. I promise that if you think you have a natural talent for whatever it is that you are about to try, you will inevitably fail and fall flat on your ass thousands of times even if you are 8 feet tall and trying out for the NBA.

No one is hot shit enough to just fall into massive success, you have to take small steps that inch your progress forward like a ticking time bomb. After months and years of practice, only then will you become god like in your chosen area of study.

Sucks doesn’t it? Well learn to suck it up and deal with it because even the most notorious superstars of our lifetime got the shit kicked out of them on a daily basis for years until they became the aforementioned super humans that they are today.

From learning form for shooting a basket to a basic two step, you have to inch out your progress so that you can make clear and concise changes that will forever aid you in your path to glory.

You too can become the next Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, or Michael Symon, you just need to take small steps just like they did and eventually you will become a god among men.

Just give it a few years and a few steps

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Gabriel

New Years Bullshitutions

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I hate New Year’s resolutions.

Every year millions upon millions of people set benchmarks for the coming year. From losing 20 pounds to giving up drugs and taking aims to rid the world of leukemia, everyone jumps on the bandwagon of, “making a difference”

I laugh at people’s feeble attempts to change some aspect of their lives. I laugh because I know the patterns, routines, and idiosyncrasies that come to pass every year the clock strikes midnight.

We all revel in the party, the sex, and the drugs that come with the new year festivities, and when you get to break out your Dilbert 2011 calendar you are beyond ecstatic to write in all of your new activities for the new year that will lead to a bigger and better version of yourself.

Ultimately people step up, make a few drastic changes, and maintain their path to glory for a relatively short stint. Their motivation to follow through drops by about 113245 percent after the first week of the New Year and ultimately people fall back into their same mundane routines.

It is like watching a fat kid trying to grab a piece of cake while running in a hamster cage, you cant help but laugh and express dire all at the same time.

If people really gave a shit about changing some aspect of themselves, they would not wait for a new year to start hammering away at it. Making a judgment call to devour half of an apple pie and ten cosmos during New Year’s festivities with the desire to get in shape for the New Year is an oxymoron that you will never escape from.

Just like the budding humanitarian that puts off his new passion to work in soup kitchens for Sunday football, you too will fail if you make resolutions.

Instead of waiting to pull the trigger on January 1st, why not try doing something that matters today?

Instead of watching a marathon of Arrested Development, you could actually start writing that book that you have been clamoring on about. In Lou of watching the travel channel and pleasuring yourself to Anthony Bourdain, you could actually start researching and booking flights for that travel binge you always wanted to embark on.

It really is that simple people, if you want to make a lasting change in your life, don’t pussy foot around, start doing shit right now.

Do more

Gabriel