Today’s Recap

Change has become an interesting phenomenon for me. I used to fear it. Now I embrace it for the most part. I get excited about the idea that when change happens, and I mean significant change, it means I am going to face new and exciting things. I don’t know how many people feel that way about it. It’s especially strange when you are so used to doing something and all of a sudden you just don’t do it anymore. Like leaving a job that you’ve gone to every day for a few years, then you leave it and it’s weird not to go. You almost want to go because you’re so used to going, but you can’t because you no longer work there. I recently made a decision like that – not work related. I have stopped doing something I have been doing with some regularity for a while. I’ve replaced it with something else in a sense, but it still feels weird. It’s too personal to go into details here, but you can get the point. The whole experience just confirmed for me that I was right in being hesitant about getting too close to a few people. Strangely at the same time I feel like it has landed me right back in the laps of the people I was originally akin to. In other words, it’s like I left home for 3 years and now I’m back and it feels good to be back but it feels weird to have left where I just came from.

Speaking of weird I had a somewhat unusual experience tonight. I came home expecting to jump into some work and struck up conversation with my wife. I LOVE my wife!! This was unusual because normally by this time she would be in bed and I would eat something light and get some work done here in the office. Next thing I know I am in the middle of this great, intense conversation with my wife and I’m thinking to myself, this is so cool. We were just standing in the kitchen and having this great conversation about life, raising kids (even though we don’t have any we are of course experts on the subject J), and all kinds of other “life” stuff. The kind of stuff we used to talk about when we first dated. Anyway it was fun and I felt like writing about it.

So my life has taken a recently strange twist and I feel good about it 90% of the time, lost about it 5% of the time and apathetic the other 5%. Perfectly normal I’m sure.

Anyway that’s my little diary like entry for the day.

Tomorrow I spend the day working with my favorite client to work with – Home Front, Inc. – great people, fun to work with and they do amazing work on people’s homes. www.homefrontbuild.com if you want to see more about them! Hopefully if I get home early enough I can record some QuickBooks and an excel tutorial. I have not been getting the time to do that and I really want to.

A quick update

I can’t wait for Windows 7 to come out on October 22. I’ve seen it, heard about it and read about it – that it’s better than Vista, MUCH more stable and solves many if not all of the problems that Vista has had. If you’ve bought a new computer recently then there is a good chance you are eligible for a free upgrade from Vista. Check with your manufacturer or wherever you bought your machine. As for other areas of my life – it looks like I am headed to NY for a very brief visit from Sunday to Tuesday. Mostly to see family, but I will be popping in to see a new client who saw one of my videos on QuickBooks. This is exciting because for a while now I have wanted to start getting clients in different parts of the country and I am seeing it happen now. I did a couple of online QuickBooks / Excel trainings with someone in Alabama recently, and I’ve been getting some calls from people in other parts of the country.

The new website www.youre-a-miracle.com is moving along. We have about 21 subscribers now and hopefully that will continue to grow. I really enjoy doing them. This does take some time so I have not had time like I normally have to work on QuickBooks tutorials. I have to think about that.

What’s going on with me?!

I have been very busy in other areas and realized I have not been posting anything here. I just launched “You’re A Miracle” which is my new motivation and productivity blog. I am sending out a daily e-mail with an MP3 to download. These are 3 minute recordings where I talk about what I do to keep motivated, organized, and productive. I have learned to live a life filled with passion for all areas of my life. I love my family, LOVE MY DOGS, love my career, my friends, and there is really very little about my life that I don’t like. Does this mean I never have a bad day? Of course not – in fact I have them all the time. I just keep learning how to deal with them better and better and the number 1 thing I do is always remember that the best thing I can do is keep a positive attitude.

My life is going through a shift. My term with Thought-Life Connection (TLC) appears to have come to an abrupt end, specifically because I launched You’re A Miracle and it was felt that this was a conflict. I don’t agree but I respect the wishes of KC Pierson, owner of TLC. I have learned much from him and as a matter of fact the experience has lead me to spend a good deal of time reflecting on how many people in my life have influenced me, KC being a recent and significant one. He always will be. This is a very long list, starting of course with my parents who have loved me dearly and unconditionally my whole entire life. If I owe a tribute to ANYONE, it has to start with them. With a long list of mentors, coaches, guides, and influences, KC comes in as the most recent one. In the past 3 years I have learned so much from him that I know he has help shape the person I am. Still I am my own person shaped by him and many others that I come across in my daily life. I will continue to be shaped by the experiences I have and the people I have them with. Sometimes it becomes apparent that it is time to move on. I know that the You’re A Miracle launch was the catalyst for this change, but I also feel strongly that it was just a catalyst for the inevitable. It actually feels good – like I am free to do what I want where I want when I want. Not that this wasn’t the case before but this is just the feeling I have behind the change. I’ve embraced it and I know that this is happening because this is exactly what is supposed to happen.

So many changes have taken place in my life that change no longer scares me. In fact I’ve learned to get excited about it. The word inertia is defined as resistance to change. In physics it is used to refer to something whose properties don’t change regardless of the surroundings, but when used to refer to people the context is a little different. It does not carry a positive connotation when it comes to people. When people resist change they stop growing because change is inevitable and resistance to the inevitable will lead to frustration. One of my high school teachers once explained that this is what many of us go through as we get older- adults by and large do not like change. I’ve learned to get passed this by embracing change. By recognizing that the universe or god, or whatever you want to call it has something in store for me that requires this change in order to prepare me for it. Now I can get excited about it!

Life is really, really good!

Amazing

I actually got away from the computer for a few hours today, played with my Playstation3 and then watched some TV!

Watching more Knight Rider before I go to bed! I love Labor Day Weekend.

I have no idea

It’s about 2:15 am and I have no idea what I am doing, but I just feel like writing. I just finished watching episodes of Knight Rider. I used to love the original show as a kid. I actually like this show – but I think I saw that it was cancelled. Oh well! I just think it’s so cool that you can watch TV on your computer. Who knew this was heading this direction. I remember getting a computer as a kid. Monochrome monitor, DOS operating system. Running basic computer programming language and getting the computer to print my name repeatedly on the screen was exciting. My first amber colored monochrome monitor was exciting. When you think about it the stuff we have now is incredible. And it just keeps getting better. It’s hard to imagine what it will be like even in 10 years from now. People watching TV on their phones. Personally I would much rather watch TV on my flat screen mounted on the wall, but if you travel a lot, then I can see where this is ideal.

I should be sleeping, but I can’t. Too many ideas flowing and yet there are deadlines to meet. Tax extensions are due on September 15 and I have 3 clients to complete all by the end of today. Really by 2pm since I have to meet someone at 3. I’m amazed my wife hasn’t come out and dragged me into bed. Maybe she’s given up on doing that. Why do I insist on staying up? What am I avoiding? OK I think I am actually going to go to bed now..

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