Changing a Life-Path

Writing about pursuing opportunities and developing a business on several occasions there should be a checklist for people to know when to take bigger risks. Personal experience it is an honest perspective of how the process works.

Start: People learn through life experience while developing a successful business. I worked in the principles office during High School. Some may prefer an apprenticeship. I wanted to be a model and was in a handful of runway shows. Both my parents had full-time jobs. My mom is supportive though being an adult meant getting a job and going to college.

Learn: Modeling experience helped me get temporary office work. However, it was not helpful when going to college. To go to college, work and have time to spend with friends, everything had to be part-time. This is a realization people gain from life experience. I went to school part-time, work part-time at a restaurant and spent time with friends part-time. Having part-time friends was difficult; however, as everyone started serious relationships and jobs, better friends went home at an appropriate hour. Suddenly, calls to hangout became planned events convenient to everybody's schedule.

Achievement: Without a lot of money developing goodwill was beneficial. Many people did not think I would graduate from college. Graduating form Salt Lake Community College took four years. That is two years longer than a two year degree. Without a clear career idea going to class part-time and changing degrees from Graphic Design to a General Associates of Science slowed the whole process, yet the degree is useable. When continuing to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor I had an excess of college courses that did not apply to a Business Management degree though starting as a junior.

It was tough. In High School, classes were boring. Switching from public to private schools did not help. Seeming silly occasionally information was valid. As a school for people with High IQs graduates usually dropped out after finding out they had to attend college to complete secondary education. As geniuses they knew it was only a piece of paper. Perhaps they were right. Obtaining monetary reward it feels like a half-life.

Determination: The goal is not to play-it-safe. Entrepreneurs know how to make a difference for the entire world. This takes a lot of determination. In fact, power of thought and attitude can shift the internal and external world in relation to capabilities.

Thoughts and attitudes change as methods for approaching problems increase. Learning is more than reading. A person uses self-management to avoid problems and develop motivational mantras. My martial arts teacher never bothered teaching us Japanese. The force of a person's chi is not contained in recitations. It is contained in the meaning. "Soft ball" can provoke courage and strength. We develop strength through challenges. I remember stories of Thor and thinking "bigger hammer" when needing extra motivation.

Motivation: Focusing on caring and love is wonderful; however, focusing on destruction is also worthwhile, even though haphazard. Entangled in anger, as motivation, helps realize the importance of change; however, there is a time when the past becomes a detriment. Inability to forgive disables expressing extensions of everything making a person valuable.

Similar to singing thinking about friends despite being happy, sad, angry or introspective add to depth to my voice. Thinking of enemies is shrill and something everyone detests. Like everything in life we approach life differently when thinking of friends; as opposed to, attempting to inflict pain on a deserving enemy.

Friends are wonderful people who deserve better. Someone has to do something. Not too mention I was tiring of the old adage of letting someone else take care of everything. Not helpful in the past. Why should it be helpful now?

Reputation: Some business owners are known for being shrewd, cunning or mean; however, the majority (and even people with bad reputations) are nice people; otherwise, they don't have any customers. Volunteer or explore larger markets. Being able to act as a background extra or be on television assists in gaining a reputation. Get a booth at fairs to become visible to potential consumers.

Testing potential career options takes a long time. I became comfortable with office work to afford food, clothing and rent, yet it was not enough. People suggested volunteer work to establish a new trade. Sending articles to newspapers and investigating potential outlets, it was awhile before gaining positive responses. Eventually my thoughts about economy and business won a Ronald Regan Award. Skill and vision were being verified by professionals.

Responsibility: I am not a wealthy person. This has been a time of anguish and uncertainty. Most of the time I stay optimistic and count successes through people I help; therefore, accomplished the goal while working on monetary success; however, it would be so easy to go back to a regular job, thinking only of myself, paying bills and buying stuff as needed. Luckily, multiple personal goals are being satisfied, so I don't feel drained.

I have always enjoyed environmentalist causes. Living with a relative, I only use a car once or twice a week, contemplating buying a bicycle. Not needing a car and maintaining a humble life without mercantile excess makes it possible to get by while saving money and paying bills. Being self-sustained at minimal cost is a helpful skill before deciding to go from full-time office work to full-time independent artist. It takes a lot of time, so resisting accusing everyone of holding me back was excellent.

Risks: Finally making a leap of faith, when realizing this is important, the safe path is no longer an option. Trying to work full-time and blog would make it ten or twenty years before making a difference. Meanwhile, people are suffering. Time to get serious, I found a method to do want needs to be done now. If done well enough it will pay in the future. I already found a publishing group to publish my first book and my first music CD will be available on Amazon this year.

Time never stops. Blogging while going through this; instead of, an after thought, most everything written is stimulated from thoughts while refocusing my life. The mental battle between refocusing my life and getting a paycheck subsided recently. A paycheck might slow everything down now, yet it was incredibly important while checking off the list. I did not perform a complete 180. I started thinking of how to make interests into an occupation.

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