Things I still need to do:
1. Determine the limiting factor to my personal photography. Is it gear or technique?
Need to try and do more with less, do not upgrade anything until I've managed to push the boundaries of my equipment. Learn to work with the gear I have, and not try to buy a solution.
2. Culture > Strategy
Establish better habits. A winning culture is more pervasive and will have longer reaching effects than a winning strategy.
3. Decide
"The only thing you're more indecisive about than your camera gear, is your girls." - Cake.
You suck, but yes... you're right.
4. Excess Capacity is Wasteful. Streamline.
My music studio, my instruments, the extra computers sitting at home that I built. Make something out of them... start recording again, perform musically, build that server cluster you've always wanted... or sell them all.
5. Take Those First Steps
Breaking the initial barrier is just as difficult as the long run, but the initial push can take you far. Consider all those business endeavours that never took off, the difficulty with moving from doing "free" work to "paid" work. Just do it.
6. Don't Wait for Perfection
A product that can do something 50% now. Is better than no product at all and the inability to do the same task. Plus, this is part of its development... release at 80% ability and build in systems for future updates/patches for the remaining 20% if you're concerned about branding.
7. Learn from Inspiring People
They were special. They did things that no one figured they could do. They inspired, worked hard, and blew expectations away. Learn from people who are better.
8. Be Genuinely Happy for Other's Successes
Your time will come, and it'll appear in a different way. For now, let their happiness be your happiness. Congratulations to those of you who have amazing job offers and post-undergraduate acceptances. See you all at the top.
9. Reassess Strengths and Weaknesses
This was last done a year ago. That's a long time in a person's life... so redo these soon to identify the new challenges that need to be addressed.
10. Let Go
Of people who are no longer in your life. You've had your time together, manage to say goodbye. Of the past, it is already a part of you... no need to try and bring it back to the present.
Get a grip on things again, pull yourself together, and look for new avenues as the old ones fill up.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Rage.
Tumblr needs to stop going down.
The parents need to stop hounding me to get a girlfriend.
Calculus sucks.
I need to buy a better lens.
Why can't I work faster and better?
I need to cook something new, but stop randomly experimenting with ingredients that just don't work.
Someone should go skating with me.
and... some friends should come over and help me finish the beer that's been in my room for 3 months now.
That is all :)
The parents need to stop hounding me to get a girlfriend.
Calculus sucks.
I need to buy a better lens.
Why can't I work faster and better?
I need to cook something new, but stop randomly experimenting with ingredients that just don't work.
Someone should go skating with me.
and... some friends should come over and help me finish the beer that's been in my room for 3 months now.
That is all :)
Monday, February 7, 2011
For Myself
Just so these don't get lost down in your tumblr as time passes, and a little encouragement for what is turning out to be a tumultuous year.
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
— Jim Rohn
“Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves … will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we’re gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?”
— Odysseus’s line - Troy (2004)
Chin up, back straight. Be glorious, be amazing, be awesome.
Do fulfilling work and let the other chips fall where they may.
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
— Jim Rohn
“Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves … will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we’re gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?”
— Odysseus’s line - Troy (2004)
Chin up, back straight. Be glorious, be amazing, be awesome.
Do fulfilling work and let the other chips fall where they may.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Photo Albums
You rarely notice it, but you're changing quickly.
Look back through those albums. At the people in them, how many are still in your life?
What about the emotions felt during the moment, how many promises did you make that were never kept?
How has your appearance changed? Whatever happened to that favorite jacket of yours?
Or you hair, a laughable style in this day and age.
Photo albums. Chronicles of our lives, or painful reminders of the fallibility of it all?
Look back through those albums. At the people in them, how many are still in your life?
What about the emotions felt during the moment, how many promises did you make that were never kept?
How has your appearance changed? Whatever happened to that favorite jacket of yours?
Or you hair, a laughable style in this day and age.
Photo albums. Chronicles of our lives, or painful reminders of the fallibility of it all?
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