Prime Real Estate

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!

That's how I feel right now. This year, as my previous entry indicated has gotten off to a big bang! I feel like I am in control of everything and everything is going my way at this point in time. January for me has been a positive month and the first week was just huge revelation in terms of my outlook on this year (and I didn't plan it).

I'm out on my own, out of college and I'M IN THE REAL WORLD NOW, my first NEW YEARS ON MY GROWN MAN. I'm managing everything. Everything depends on me now. I'm happy because I have the tools to bring success this year. I also came up with areas I want to concentrate on this year. Let me begin. Hopefully I can make this blog entry as coherent as possible.

LACK OF STRESS

During the first week of January, the first major pillar that I came up with was the "REDUCTION OF STRESS" principle. Last year I spent a great deal of time worrying and it didn't get me anywhere. I was spending 1 or 2 nights a week at my job staying until 10:00pm in order maintain the type of work I wanted to produce. But this year things will be different. Unlike what I did in the past, which was push myself to exhaustion in order to achieve what in my mind was success, I'll be taking another route. I've realised that, working consistently will keep me at the range I would like to be in, and if I'm not always at the very top, I know I'll still be achieving above average results. It's not worth it being on top all the time if I have to be stressed all the time to keep it there. Hence, I'm redirecting my focus on achieving a unique balance.

FACE

Well, as (unintentionally) fierce as this subtitle may seem, it is somewhat appropriate. I have decided to focus this year on getting my face together. I have sort of let things go since I got in a relationship which seems like a gazillion years ago now. I was a real prettyboy back in the day and I let that fall off. I have been consistent at the gym working on my body but I haven't been taking care of my skin and facial hair as much as I did back in my "head turning" days. So this year, I'm getting back into it. I'm not doing this for anyone. I'M DOING THIS FOR MYSELF. I want to look at my self in the mirror and feel extra confidence with out having to crop from the neck up, lol. So, imma bring it back!


FUTURE

I'M GOING BACK TO SCHOOL. I made up my mind this month that I am going to head to law school. I've always been decent at school and I'm not going to void myself of any real potential. Consequently, I'm not stopping at just college. I'm going to BECOME SOMEONE. I'm going to become someone that leaves a mark. I'm going to make myself proud. I'm going to be respected for my hard work and achievement.

YOUR FIRED!

Psych! Nah, was just playing. I'm not fired...yet. In fact I wanna some small joys this week. I actually got a small promotion. Thanks to someone getting fired (a George Washington University graduate with a 3.8 GPA in Biology, go figure!) and the fact that I have been producing the best numbers in the office for the past few months, I was promoted to "prime real estate". Which in mahatten office lingo, translats into: I've been moved to a cubicle which has a huge window with views of the Brooklyn Bridge, The East River and the Brooklyn Skyline (see pix). I'm sorry if the pix are crappy, I guess iPhone isn't good at everything. But I am very happy about my small but appropriate reward. And inside it feels good!

With that said. I wish everyone good luck in the new year. 2009 will be what you make it!

P.S. I'm a skeptic as far as horoscopes go but this lady might be on to something..check it out.....she's been on point about some stuff that happened to me this month and last month. so I'm putting her to the test.

The Year of Ox...?

Well, I personally have given much thought to where my blog has lead in the past year and upon examining that, I opted to leave it alone for a bit. I haven't posted anything in probably over a month now because I didn't have the inspiration to make it go in the right direction. The excerpts from the past few months haven't delivered what I offered in the beginning of my blog experience, now two year's in the running. The reason I started the blog was lost.

I believe over time that my blog became just a glorified down pour of what unclear emotion I was feeling at the time; just a intermittent outlet, not a solution. It only addressed one aspect of my life and left out the rest as a whole. I didn't write about my everyday experiences anymore, I just wrote about the frustrations in my life; what I needed help with at that particular time.

Hence I spent the last few weeks sporadically planning my reinvention; my renewal. I have also realized that I have slowly grown into lower to intermediate level depression. It seemed like I was not living life anymore the way I should live it. There were no new experiences, valuable lesson's being learned and no new friendships being built. I was living in place of worry and burden, just holding on.

So for 2009, this is what I want to steam from my writing: I want to bring hope and inspiration in my blogs again. I want a return to real and persuasive writing; writing with a method and wit. I want to increase the degree of eloquence in my expression. I want to be able to write about anything and bring some relevance to the table for everyone. So that 's as much as I can say for 2009.

I see this as being a year where I resume positivity and productive energy.

As far as personal circumstances go, as fate would have it, I'm back with the one and only...He seem's to be slipping through the cracks ever so often, however, always at the right time resurfacing and bringing new definition to our constantly developing relationship. Believe it or not, I feel more confident now than I ever did, for reason's I can only personally explain. We are not the perfect relationship, but I do believe we are as perfect for each other as God is willing to show me at this time.


A Positive Special K

Welcome 2009!

P.S. The pic is from our recent and unexpected trip to the BIG A! Hopefully We'll make it down there again and actually to see more of the city than downtown. I also hope we are there for different reason's than we were this time, but that a hole other blog entry.