I was taught the difference between an amateur & and a professional is simple and straight forward. An amateur does it for free, & a professional gets paid to do it. Being a professional & acting like one, however, is less well defined. Anyone can get paid for doing a task or job, but not …
Category: Action
Be Fearless Today
What’s on your agenda for today? Are you planning to accomplish great things? Are you planning to just get through the day? I always want to do great things with my day. I always want to be the rock star. I always want to chase perfection if only to catch excellence. I have amazing plans …
Challenge is Good for the Soul
Challenge is good for the soul. We need challenges in life. They make us better. They teach us about ourselves, and they teach us about others. Challenges hone our abilities & skills. If we don’t push ourselves we won’t find our true potential. It isn’t easy to challenge ourselves. It’s always easier to be comfortable …
Be Crazy – Be a Fanatic
Dragons, you know what people really, really love? When you love them. When you cheer them on in their endeavors. Think about it for a minute. Don’t you love it when someone appreciates you & your work? Not just simple lip service, but honest to goodness, I care about you, appreciation. Love. We all do. …
Pushing Through
You ever get to that point where you wonder why you are working on a project at all? You pour time, effort, energy & soul into something & it just doesn’t work the way you wanted or expected it to work. You have, in your perspective, a big steaming pile of mediocrity which was intended …
Everything Happens For A Reason
There is probably not a phrase in the English language I despise the use of more than “Everything happens for a reason”. The possibility exists there is one I hate more, but it has yet to come to my attention. It is probably so frustrating because it’s a true statement, but is almost never used …
The Hard Work
I don’t want to write today. I don’t feel particularly inspired. I would rather skip today’s work & look to tomorrow. But, that’s the easy stuff. That’s what we do when we give up. I remember Steve Earle saying that writing a song is the perspiration which comes after the inspiration. The first idea or …
The Guarantee
So Dragon, Are you a gambler? For a while, I tried to make a living playing poker. And, as almost anyone who watched me play would tell you, by the time I walked away from it, I was pretty good at the game itself. I learned a massive amount from the game of poker. It …
Action = Success
When I was not long out of college, I landed what I consider to be my first real job. I didn’t have much experience in anything other than tourism, really. I had bounced around from opportunity to opportunity without any real plan or focus in my life. I had been a cave guide seasonally for …
Short Term Long Term
In the early 1980s my family moved to Northwest Arkansas from the Gainesville Florida area. My father got a job working in a family business & off we went. A thousand miles away & twenty years back in time (based on fashion trends & some attitudes anyway). The move promised a better life for our …