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Perseverance and the Princess Bride

March 24, 2014 / / 10 Comments

Hey Folks Happy Monday!  It was a crasy weekend so I just have a short thought and a short video for you.

This is all about perseverance.  The ability to keep going in the face of great adversity.  The ability to keep blogging and building your business despite the demands of life, or your family, or anything else that gets thrown in your way.

This clip  is from what is probably my favorite movie ever (even though I had to give up a top 10 favorite movie list years ago.  Too many good movies on it), The Princess Bride.  This movie has been around since 1987.  If you haven’t seen it, shame on you.  Go rent it.  Get it on Netflix.  But check it out, it is really good, and PG so the kiddies can watch too!

To set up the scene, Inigio Montoya has been searching for the 6 fingered man who killed his father for over 20 years.  He has been totally obsessed with finding this guy and challenging him to a duel for his fathers honor.  He finally finds said 6 fingered man and the next scene follows:

So take this into your life and your blogging, Stay the Course.  Even if it takes you over 20 years to reach your goals, you can achieve them.

Even when the odds are against you and everyone is trying to cheat and stab you in the gut when you come around the corner, find that place inside you that holds your drive and your purpose.  Find it and tear it open.

Stick with whatever it is you are doing until you meet your goals.  You will succeed.  Man I sound like Nate Hangen today.  That is a good thing!

Go enjoy the day.

-Justin

Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 5- Moving Again

November 11, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Do you ever get a strange little…Deja Vu feeling? That is what I had when we got into this new house.  Imagine if you will a deep dark hole.  Then imagine throwing everything that you own into it, except the computer of course.  That is just how I felt On this July 1st when I picked up my second Uhaul truck in a week.

And then it was just doing it all over again.  Moving your entire house twice in the space of a week is exhausting, not only mentally, but physically.  Or maybe I should say that the other way around.

(Picture is from William-Adolphe Bouguereau and is depicting Virgil and Dante‘s journey through Hell in the Divine Comedy.  Read it if you haven’t, it is interesting.  The captions are mine)
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You Are My Blog and You Will Submit To My Will!

November 11, 2013 / / 8 Comments

I have spent most of today working on setting up a shopping cart to handle the millions of orders that will be coming into my blog when I start to sell stuff.  Do I need to do this or should I just build a couple of pages and call it good?

At this point I am not sure.  It has been a bunch of work and I still don’t have much done.  I am seriously questioning my logic on this.  I think the thing that makes me the most mad is that I just can’t let it go and let it beat me right now.  Damn you PHP I will reach into your guts and squeeze until I get what I want.

Wow what a rant I had prepared but it has now all but fizzled out.  I designed a new logo, figured out a new drawing program, made some buttons, and now I am going to shelve the whole works for a couple of days.  I need to write and get out and comment on some blogs!  I need to wait until I actually have a product to offer.

Quick poll, does a professional looking shopping cart make any difference to you or do paypal buttons get the job done and suffice?  Please give me some input either here in comments, or by email, or by pony express, or by signing up for my newsletter! (First issue on St Patricks Day!)

I may not be an authority on WordPress yet, but I refuse to let it dictate the way my blog will behave!  That is why I moved from WordPress.com to .org, so that I could have total control over my site.  It is kind of funny to think about that because I am not generally that controlling.  But I will rule this blog with an Iron fist and throw the interlopers overboard!

Have I ever mentioned, I really like pirates?  BTW Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19th.

So the long and short of it is this, no matter who you are, you need to own your blog, your site and your online experience.  The hardest part is to look inside yourself and find the drive and resolution to grab that blog by the throat and throttle it until it says “Uncle!”  And if you don’t, I will be by to pillage your site soon.

Let’s spread the word and the word is ARRRRRRR!!

Justin

Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 3- Kettlebell Conundrum

November 11, 2013 / / 0 Comments
Bison

Image by goldberg via Flickr

One of the funnest parts about having a ton of people help you move is that several people get to see what you have accumulated.  Luckily I don’t have a porn collection for anyone to find.  You should have seen some of the looks that I got when I was taking my guns out to the car.  Not to mention how uncomfortable one of the good church going guys was when he found the pistol under my mattress.

Among the fun things that people wondered over were the buffalo.  Wait, not the buffalo.  That is just a picture suggested by Zemanta with no discernible link to my article.  Actually the thing people wondered about were my Kettlebells.
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