Thursday, July 11, 2013

...Start Dancing!


If you don't like your tune choose a different dance.
Now let me preface this by saying that I don't have all my shit together. I don't do everything right. I am about as far from perfect as Andy Dick is from straight and as Tom Cruise is from reality. I don't feel like a hypocrite saying this because, I worked-out twice today and updated my resume'. I like to think I am on my way to some sense of sanity.

With that said, Here goes...

If you really NEED something in your life then you should have it, or at least be creating it. Now I know some things can't happen over night, but there are steps you can do today that move you toward that direction. So, you want to go back to school, and you can't start today? What you can do is read a book, talk to some who's in school, go on-line (not to read some stupid blog or look at porn) to do some research.

If it really is a need then stop putting wants in the way. Do you really NEED to watch another episode of Honey Boo Boo or Under The Dome? If you really want to watch some crappy TV that's fine, but workout while your doing it. Or surf the net for a new job while you watch the next episode of The Voice. I see people all the time putting their wants ahead of their needs. Going into debt to buy a new outfit so they can feel sexy, or buying a new TV so they can look impressive. You don't need things to be sexy or impressive. Too many of us spend time and money on illusions. It is one thing to go into debt, and park a shiny new car in the driveway of that huge house, so you can look wealthy. It is quite another thing to actually have wealth (investments and a retirement plans.) Don't chase the illusion. Stop WANTing and stop NEEDing; prioritize. Go after it! Whatever "it" is, take a step toward "it" today.

You're not going to FIND "it" either. You don't find love or find soulmates or find best friends. Relationships take work. Work is not a bad thing either. We often view work as something to be avoided. Like the way Mary-Kate Olson avoids food or the way Tom Cruise avoids reality ...oh did I pick on Tom already? ... How about I go with ...the way American Idol voters avoid the talented. You have to create the good things in life. If you want to date a guy who's a good dancer, take a dance class. Get good at it yourself. If you want to date a sexy woman put down the Cheetos bag, and do some crunches. If you want your husband to pay attention to you; pay attention to him. If you want to be loved; show love. If want a soulmate, get some soul. I guess the Nuns at Ascension Catholic School (where I spent 1st through 3rd grades) had something right: "Do unto others the way you want them to do unto you." Can't believe I just referenced the Golden Rule! Sister Theresa would be proud.

Stop working at cross purposes. Go after what you want. Be who you want be... Be who you want to be with... Be with whom you want to be.

Stop screwing around. Get off your ass and make a change. Maya Angelou said it this way:

"Live loves the liver of it."

And Maya knows how to dance, damn it!


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