Posted on 28 January 2009. Tags: controlling your life, defining your life, living life, reality, taking control
A person, you for instance, goes through life knowing there are certain things that are essential for happiness. One of those things is freedom. When I was sixteen I was sent to my uncle John’s home in Virginia to see if some sense could be talked into my head. I’d been binge drinking with friends [...]
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Posted in control your life, reality
Posted on 19 July 2008. Tags: ask yourself, big picture, big question, change world, contribution, motivation, optimism, questions, reality, selflessness, what can i do, world contribution, world view
As I get into my forties, sometimes I find reality confronting me. I’m not on top of the world – like I thought I might be by 30. I haven’t made it by 40 either. I had this idea since high school, that by thirty I’d be wildly successful and on top of the world [...]
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Posted in control your life, motivation, optimism, reality, success
Posted on 24 June 2008. Tags: blogging, career, control of life, control your life, freedom, game of life, happiness, inspiration, jobs, life experience, lifes work, living life, living on little, motivation, on top of the game, optimal life, optimal living, optimizing life, personal development, reality, successful blogging, surfing, tough decisions, tradition, ultimate job, unquestioned beliefs, work, working
Does the ultimate job exist for you? For most of us the ultimate job would be to collect a huge salary for doing something fun. My penultimate idea of the ideal job would be surfing. No, not competing, that’s hard work. I just mean just soul surfing at say, Launiopoko Beach Park in Maui every [...]
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Posted in beliefs, control your life, fear, success
Posted on 10 December 2007. Tags: action, consciousness, decisions, free time, freedom, life, living, living life, realism, realistic, reality
It seems I spend a lot of time figuring out what Life IS to me. Today I thought of it as a simple equation. It could be looked at as nothing more than… Life = Consciousness + Free Time + Action A lot of things we do during a typical day, to me, don’t constitute [...]
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Posted in decisions, focusing - goals, reality
Posted on 02 November 2007. Tags: big picture, big view, control of life, life, life focus, living, reality, whole picture
I like to write about the big picture because it’s easy for me to focus on it. It’s the natural state of my mind when looking at anything, I’m trying to see the entire picture and all relevant variables that might be having an effect on the big picture. I was thinking yesterday about the [...]
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Posted in control your life, focusing - goals, reality
Posted on 27 October 2007. Tags: advertising industry, americans, game of life, life, living, reality, types of people
If you’re reading this blog – AimforAwesome.com you are likely different from most of society. I’m going to make some guesses about my readers that isn’t based on anything other than knowing that you seem to like the articles I’m churning out for you here. See if any of these apply to you… You’re driven [...]
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Posted on 19 October 2007. Tags: law of, law of addition, law of subtraction, life, living, reality, reality based life, reality based thinking
Recently I broke down and listened to something about the ‘Law of Attraction’. I am not one to believe in anything that suggests that objective, probability driven reality can be changed by anything like faith or changing your mindset or what you wish to make up in your mind to believe… but, there has been [...]
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