Having recently finished Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” for the second time, the first time being via audio book, I decided to take the first step on a new adventure. And...here we are. In the book, he threw out a quote from one of his old teachers, and it struck chord with me, for obvious reason. Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have wasted the time putting it in his book.
“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and thing about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right idea to show up in your head.”
So, like I said, here we are. Doing something. I’m not entire sure what, but I have a vague enough idea of where I want to end up, so I figured “Fuck It,” that’s enough to go on for me.
For whatever reason that I have yet to definitively figure out, I decided to drop my life back home last year and join the United States Army. I had a good thing going; all of the career opportunity anyone could ever ask for, I was in school, had been working hard on my physical health, and my mental health was at a lifetime high. Why not screw it up entirely, against all sound advice given from numerous people, and go off to chase this random hunch of a dream and join the military?
Fast forward to 8 months later, and here we are. With many stories and details in between that will come out later, I’m sure, I am sitting here broken physically and emotionally. Mostly physically. But, more important to this random story I am telling to probably no one ever, I am going to be medically “retired” and have to think more about what I want to do with my life when I get back home to California. I hate the term retired in this scenario. It feels...undeserved? Whatever, more on that at another time.
I mostly doubt anyone will ever be reading this, but hey, at least it is a step, right? I figure, if I can build a multi-faceted business of my own, I probably wont end up trying to chase down some ridiculous mistake again. Or I will, but hopefully it will still be a learning experience. This is my first stop off of the train though. Social Media presence; every business of every type needs a solid one. What I envision for the whole process once fully developed is to be involved in restoring and flipping real estate properties, using both Tumblr and YouTube to create different dimensions of what will be going on with the business. Restoring and renovating flea market finds and old furniture, to stage in the homes, and recording the entire process for a YouTube channel. And, using Tumblr as a platform to document my personal journey through it all. The thought and leg work that goes into everything. To be able to maybe help someone become successful with their own processes, as they follow me struggle, and probably fail a couple times, through mine.
