I debated starting this blog for quite some time.
"What good will this blog do?"
"What should this blog contain?"
"Will I have the time to blog anything?"
"Maybe I should do like everyone else and vlog on YouTube instead of blog."
Then I would say, "Maybe tomorrow. When I have more time."
But today, I had a thought. What was that thought you ask? Well, that thought was a prayer. A prayer to ask the Big Guy Upstairs to just guide me. If there was a way to create more time, show me. If there was a step that I needed to take toward becoming my own boss, don't let me miss it. If there was a way to be the pebble that drops into the stillness of an ocean on one end, and create a tsunami on the other side, help me see the steps. And that is how this started.
Now, let me be clear. First of all, I am no professional blogger, so I expect that this will start off like most things in life and be a little rough around the edges. As long as I practice, then I'll get it to polish. Second, I am not a religious person by any means, and He knows it. Third, if you read all of this in Obama's voice either out loud or in your head, like I just did, then chuckle at yourself, because you cannot deny there was some fun behind it (and if you didn't before reading this sentence, you're welcome).
By profession, I am a troubleshooter, and a dreamer. I look at the problems, and determine causes and solutions to everything around them. I've been doing it since I was old enough to multiply. So for me, a person that has only wanted to help people grow, this is probably the best place for me to do so.
But I digress.
Why now? Why start a blog today? It's simple really.
Consider this...
As the old saying goes, "Time waits for no man." Does this not mean that a person that waits for time shall wait in vain? One can say it does. If you think about it, it is like waiting for a date to pick you up to take you to the movies, only the date was already there watching the movie, expecting you to show up and join then as they entered the theater. Time is a loner. It has no friend in man, creature, or plant. Time cannot become attached to anything. It must march in knowing that all things come to an end someday. For me, that is the time to share what little wisdom and knowledge I have obtained in my drop of life. As it says in the Old Testament of the Bible, "There is a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted."
As I see it, I've been born, and I still need to plant. I have no idea when it is time to pluck the plants, or more importantly, when I will die. Time does not divulge such details to mere mortals that must exist within it.
As I said earlier, I've debated starting this blog mostly because I didn't have the time I wanted to research how to blog, the time to get the writing correct, and hell, even write the darn thing. I wanted it to be perfect. I wanted to know that when I produce something, that it would be a representation of my best work. I was waiting for the perfect storm, the perfect time, the perfect mood. All the perfect conditions. Instead, as I write this, my calendar is going off with alarms reminding me that I need to make the bed, check my work email, check my personal email, get ready for bed, prepare for the day tomorrow, do all the tasks on my task list, etc. Things are never going to be perfect. A hard lesson to learn.
Now, before you read on, a little assignment for you. Go back and reread the last paragraph and see what the most common word is in the paragraph. Take your time...
Find it?
The word that you will find the most of is the killer of time. To work toward perfection is to further find the meaning to the old saying "Time waits for no man." Perfection takes a lot of time, time that we, the most gifted species on the planet, do not allow ourselves to have. Consider that almost all great nations contain powerful companies that wish to perfect their portfolios by being the #1 provider of a service. Period. And to get there, many people have to work long hours to complete the necessary work to move the company an inch closer to that goal. A goal that, with enough time that has passed, will continue to be out of reach for many of those companies as they far from their leap into the depths of history, alongside Blockbuster, RCA, E.F. Hutton, and MCI WorldCom to name a few.
So... in the immortal words of a good friend of mine, "You always have 5 minutes." That means, you always have time. You just have to have the will to use the time now and not let it pass you by. What will you use your 5 minutes to start?
"What good will this blog do?"
"What should this blog contain?"
"Will I have the time to blog anything?"
"Maybe I should do like everyone else and vlog on YouTube instead of blog."
Then I would say, "Maybe tomorrow. When I have more time."
But today, I had a thought. What was that thought you ask? Well, that thought was a prayer. A prayer to ask the Big Guy Upstairs to just guide me. If there was a way to create more time, show me. If there was a step that I needed to take toward becoming my own boss, don't let me miss it. If there was a way to be the pebble that drops into the stillness of an ocean on one end, and create a tsunami on the other side, help me see the steps. And that is how this started.
Now, let me be clear. First of all, I am no professional blogger, so I expect that this will start off like most things in life and be a little rough around the edges. As long as I practice, then I'll get it to polish. Second, I am not a religious person by any means, and He knows it. Third, if you read all of this in Obama's voice either out loud or in your head, like I just did, then chuckle at yourself, because you cannot deny there was some fun behind it (and if you didn't before reading this sentence, you're welcome).
By profession, I am a troubleshooter, and a dreamer. I look at the problems, and determine causes and solutions to everything around them. I've been doing it since I was old enough to multiply. So for me, a person that has only wanted to help people grow, this is probably the best place for me to do so.
But I digress.
Why now? Why start a blog today? It's simple really.
Consider this...
As the old saying goes, "Time waits for no man." Does this not mean that a person that waits for time shall wait in vain? One can say it does. If you think about it, it is like waiting for a date to pick you up to take you to the movies, only the date was already there watching the movie, expecting you to show up and join then as they entered the theater. Time is a loner. It has no friend in man, creature, or plant. Time cannot become attached to anything. It must march in knowing that all things come to an end someday. For me, that is the time to share what little wisdom and knowledge I have obtained in my drop of life. As it says in the Old Testament of the Bible, "There is a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted."
As I see it, I've been born, and I still need to plant. I have no idea when it is time to pluck the plants, or more importantly, when I will die. Time does not divulge such details to mere mortals that must exist within it.
As I said earlier, I've debated starting this blog mostly because I didn't have the time I wanted to research how to blog, the time to get the writing correct, and hell, even write the darn thing. I wanted it to be perfect. I wanted to know that when I produce something, that it would be a representation of my best work. I was waiting for the perfect storm, the perfect time, the perfect mood. All the perfect conditions. Instead, as I write this, my calendar is going off with alarms reminding me that I need to make the bed, check my work email, check my personal email, get ready for bed, prepare for the day tomorrow, do all the tasks on my task list, etc. Things are never going to be perfect. A hard lesson to learn.
Now, before you read on, a little assignment for you. Go back and reread the last paragraph and see what the most common word is in the paragraph. Take your time...
Find it?
The word that you will find the most of is the killer of time. To work toward perfection is to further find the meaning to the old saying "Time waits for no man." Perfection takes a lot of time, time that we, the most gifted species on the planet, do not allow ourselves to have. Consider that almost all great nations contain powerful companies that wish to perfect their portfolios by being the #1 provider of a service. Period. And to get there, many people have to work long hours to complete the necessary work to move the company an inch closer to that goal. A goal that, with enough time that has passed, will continue to be out of reach for many of those companies as they far from their leap into the depths of history, alongside Blockbuster, RCA, E.F. Hutton, and MCI WorldCom to name a few.
So... in the immortal words of a good friend of mine, "You always have 5 minutes." That means, you always have time. You just have to have the will to use the time now and not let it pass you by. What will you use your 5 minutes to start?
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