The Far Corners of the Mind

I am unstoppable.

As simple as a statement as that seems, if you have the presence of mind to actually believe that about yourself, you are just that; unstoppable.

This idea is something I have pondered and postulated about. I have watched YouTube videos, and read blogs. I have watched inspirational films, and read inspirational novels. It always comes down to the idea of positive thought. That is something one must have.

I told you that little piece to tell you this.

I believe that comedians are the smartest and most underrated human beings in the world. They have the best possible attitude about life, and make some of the possibly most insightful observations about the human condition. These are the particular comedians I like:

Katt Williams
Eddie Griffin
Lewis Black
Robin Williams
Ron White

Each of those particular links are the stand-up specials that I have particularly fond memories of, and might be referencing down the line in this blog entry...who knows, it's forty past midnight, and I have to be up in four and a half hours...it would be five and a half...but an hour disappears somewhere into the aether tonight, to only return to us next fall. That, however, is neither here nor there.

Back to my point. Which I have, I promise.

In The Pimp Chronicles V1, Katt says something that is one of the best lines I have ever heard come out of someone's mouth. "I don't even go to niggas' birthday parties if they doin the same shit they was doin last year" That might not be the direct quote, but the gist is there. This is what my blog is about this fine Chicago night.

As Katt says, "'We try to get it pushin' 'round here!" And I truly believe in that. I think if you are a person with goals, any kind of goals, you should strive to do better all the time. I have the blog, the NEXUS site and blog, and I make a very irregular personal journal, but in all of that, I try to keep in mind that every year I want to do my personal year-in-review, and be satisfied that I have my improved my existence. I started last year, right after my birthday, and am truly glad I did. Here is why:

It keeps your life in perspective. When you break your successes and drawbacks to yourself as if you were a stranger, and you review the material you present to the world (because let's be honest, the public and personal material is rarely identical), it gives you a better idea of what you are doing. It gives you a better idea of where you were, where you are, and how close or how far you are from a goal.

A year is any number of things; it is the orbital period of the the Earth moving around the Sun. It is twelve months. It is fifty-two weeks. It is three hundred and sixty five days. It is eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours, 525,600 minutes, and 3,1536,000 seconds.

Ponder that for a moment. Give thought to what you do in one minute of any given day. Think how much you CAN do with ALL that time. Whenever you have the urge to say something along the lines of "well it's only been a week", or any number of time, translate that down to minutes, and even seconds. There are some artists that I know and follow on dA that do sixty minute sketches. In sixty minutes, some of these people produce art that's better than art I spent hours on in my days of drawing. Now ponder that, and think what you can accomplish in sixty minutes. Even more, think what you could accomplish in sixty seconds. Next time you have the urge to use time as an excuse for something not being done, do the math.

I am five months removed from my first personal review, and I have to say that I, personally am doing better on all fronts. Come October, when my year hits, I will be doing even better.

Here are some of the things I keep tabs on for myself, and will be reviewing in October:

Money - let's be honest, you need money to get things done. If hard work was currency, I know a lot of broke people that would be rich.

Love - The people we are with are, in fact, a good indicator of where we are in our lives. If you take an objective look at the person that you are with, you may realize that they are holding you back from achieving your goals.

Family - The most important group of people in your life. Or at least it should be. These are the people that will be there no matter what, that will support you through your tough times, and cheer you on when you need cheering on.

Business - Now for myself, I take this to mean my goals. I see a job as a place you go to or a thing you do to pay bills. Business is what you do, the thing that drives you. It is the goals that make you sit/stand through your JOB, and come home with energy enough to still work on the things that make your soul burn with passion.

There are other things, and this is not by any means an exact science. I simply had a philosophical morning, and it grew into this.

Stay Frosty,
Dalibor