Category: Life
Lifestyle, People, Family, Relationships, Parenting, and Introspection according to how life be lifing.
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I wrapped up the second part of Defining Success Series on mikewriting.com today. It’ll publish in the morning. I’m sharing my personal and professional goals. That was a lot harder than I expected. Not the sharing part, but the listing part. I forced myself to pick “finish lines”. I mean I listed the goals with an estimated…
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The get away was worth it. Brief. But I got some work done and a wrote up some new ideas. I like this theme. I might have mentioned it before, but it helps my writing about people when I’m around people. That’s been a missing element since retirement. I’m gonna add some other activities to…
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My application for the VA’s Vocational Rehabilitation Program was accepted. I’ll sit down with my counselor on Monday. My plan is…well, my intention is to stay self-employed and get into a coding school and use my GI Bill. There are two coding institutions that take GI Bill. This is an area I haven’t gotten much…
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Maybe it was time to leave the zip code. I haven’t been very constructive, but I have felt more light. Less weighed down by that feeling of needing to accomplish 40 things a day. I’m entertaining the idea of taking some hops – Space Available flights. To nowhere in particular. Just seeing what’s out there…
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I’m going to stop labeling myself “better in small doses” and “not a team player”. Sure, I 100% believe it, but I feel like that kind of thinking is gonna hinder me in playing a bigger game – especially in the entrepreneur world. Maybe I’ll figure out different mantras to chant to myself so I…
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I leaped and submitted auditions in Voices.com today. I set the target of 10 auditions and got 9. I’m good with that. We’ll see what happens. I expect to get picked up about 1 in 40. That’s because I’ve been listening to podcasts from other actors registered on the site. I gather that a good…
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Hit he code pretty heavy today. I think for my sanity’s sake I should stop expecting to FEEL productive and just tell myself that I was. The feeling just isn’t gonna happen. I’m not sure what that’s about. I suspect that because there’s so much I want to do that I can only chip away…
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There will be fireworks tonight. The lights are my favorite part. Thinking about fireworks reminds me of the first time I tried to buy a lighter in Alabama around 4th of July. (I moved from Hartford, CT to New Castle, AL in 1990.) The gas station cashier told me I wasn’t old enough to buy…
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That feeling of overwhelm crept up today. There’s still so much for me to learn about Web Development. I have the fundamentals dialed in enough to probably get a client or two. And realistically, I’m sure I know more than anyone that’s considering hiring someone else to build or manage a web site. That might…
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There’s a little light at the end of the dark tunnel. I’ve been in a drawn-out divorce for over a year. And because of my own passiveness early in the process, I’ve been getting my ass kicked – both financially and with the parenting arrangement. It’s refreshing to have someone on your team that’s read…
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I have Tuesdays and Saturdays. Those are the only two days that every day feels like — one or the other. If I have some kind of obligation where I will definitely be interacting with other humans, that’s a Tuesday’s. Those are things like medical appointments or coaching at the gym. Since I associate Monday…
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I’m not done with Christmas music, and I hope they’re still eggnog left at grocery stores. It’s not denial. It’s what I want. I also want to play at voice acting. The voice acting seems like a natural progression from my narrating blog posts. Plus I already have the gear and setup. Plus that. The…