Thank you already to all the amazing people msging me this morning and posting on my timeline/s for my birthday. I wanted to see a spectacular sunrise to start the day, I woke up to rain. I'm not mad though, this is South Texas and we need rain. My yard welcomes it. I will be bitching in a couple days when I’m slapping softball size mosquitoes off my skin lol. The rest of the day I was planning on turning off the digital world and enjoying an island adventure. Rain may have changed that as well. Looks like just a good bye from the digital world for the day and just enjoy.
Currently as I make breakfast I reflect on the past year mainly, then a look back at where and why I started this whole Texas trip, how I ended up on the island and everything that has gone on from when I got here on this day back 2011. It’s been everything from good to bad, from ugly to wow; it's been the placement of people, from 7 years ago until now. This adventure is alive because some of you believe in the vision I embrace. Others believe in me to put the vision together. Some think I’m just fahking crazy. The ones that think my ideas won’t work are the ones that drive me the most. The ones that say it can’t happen in the Valley are my motivation to do more. And in some cases they are and were right. Other concepts created innovation in how others approached the game that was already in place.
Over the years I have always asked, what drives to do what you do? Are you even driving to do something? Do you have a direction to go somewhere? Where are you going? Where do you want to see? How can you be the best you? How will you get there? Does anyone else stop and think about that stuff? Do you stop and look around every now and then? Evaluate, focus, smile and move forward. How do you remind yourself of what’s important?
This is a good “Where I stand, Where you Stand, So why are we Sitting” acknowledgement. This title is basically my Texas trip and the title of this blog. This blog I started months before I found out i wasn't able to move to Texas, then did anyway. . .
Where I stand in the world, where you stand in the world, so why are we sitting down as the world passes by? Is life passing by? It may not be? It may have? Life’s paths are funny. And scary. More scary than anything. Depending on the path you are pushed to take because of shitty paths you were on before. The path to get back to the top of the ridge is slowly explored because of the mirage that keeps presenting itself. Another canyon or river, another valley to cross, it always has to be something. Other paths are not so scary. Am I believer in things happening for a reason? Perhaps. I'm a believer of people being strategically placed at times when one or the other are truly needed.
I may need them or they may need me. The group may need each other. That feeling that someone above really is watching and looking out. It's the simple things though. Timing and direction speak loud. There has been a handful of people over the past few years that have really been there to listen and to act on their say. Sometimes those strategically placed people we learn from, some we grow from, some keep us distracted from the real world around us. Some remind of us of the real world we live in. Some remind of us of a world we want to be in. Our world within the world. Some we smile with. Some we cry with. Some we push away. Others do the pushing. Others just disappear over time. Some have been there from when we were kids, others more recent. It feels amazing when the intentions are genuine. It hurts when intentions are masked with smiles and good cheer. 38 years young today. Where do I stand? I stand observant, focused, and goal motivated. Where do you stand? That question can only be answered by whoever is reading this. I do hope no one is sitting.. You should wake up and say more often I’m glad I did that, rather than I should have done that. Life is about an adventure and who you bring into yours.
Sometimes you need to turn your back to the crowd in order to lead the orchestra. I can’t stress this sentence enough. I learned it young and what it meant to do so.
Live life a few years how most people won’t. To spend the rest of life how most people can’t.
The next 4 months will be goal focused like you wouldn’t believe. I know where I want to be on this day in two years. I know where I want to be the day after Christmas. I understand what foundation needs to be built. I know what I have to do to get there. This time next year we make plans for the year after. For now its bye bye digital world for the day and hello Margarita Monday. .. #2020Santorini #3months #Holiday #Adventure #Client4LifeInvited