Monday, February 24, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
"Dream Big and Dare to Fail"
"Why not go out on a limb, that is where the fruit is."
"Make each day your masterpiece."
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
"Don't count the days, make the days count."
"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."
I love these quotes and what they stand for. Life is a big risk. It is hard. It is a struggle and around every corner is something in your way, keeping you from success, happiness, and peace. You cannot live a passive life and expect to get what you want and have happiness. This life takes a lot of fight. Everything takes work and takes a fight. Happiness is not easy to obtain. You have to fight for that. Love, is probably the biggest fight and most effort you are ever going to put into something. Why do people do that? because it is absolutely worth it. Every last second and every bit of energy is worth it. The feeling of loving someone is amazing, but the feeling of being loved by someone is even more amazing than that. But it takes work.
The accomplishments and happiness in life that will be enjoyed all depends on the risk and effort put forth in life. The ability to keep working and keep fighting through adversity. Even when the world says no, you do not listen. You keep going, you keep striving for your goal and what makes you happy and brings you to life.
We all need to pursue something. We all need to fight for something. We need something in out lives that we get absolutely excited about and that brings us to life every morning. Something that we can pursue with every ounce of effort in us. You have to be able to accept losing a few battles on the way though. You have to be able to get past failure, and people telling you that its not going to happen or that you cannot do, because you can. Each and every time you fail at something, you are getting that much closer to success. you are getting better than all of those people that are standing around telling you not to and how you will not be able to do.
I love setting goals. I love discipline and setting a goal for myself or a change in my life that I want to make and then being able to do it. I love setting goals and doing things that I do not know the outcome to. Things that I could possibly fail at. As i have gotten older, I have found that assurances is boring. I do not want to know. I want to go into something and not know the outcome until it comes. There is no fun or growth in doing something that you know will be easy or that you know you will succeed at. That is where faith comes in. Having trust in the Lord. If that thing or person was meant to be, then it will work out. If not, then now you know that was not meant to be.
Growing up I have always thought that courage was not being afraid of anything. That is not courage though. People have fears, no matter who you are. We are all afraid of something different, but we all have fears. What makes a person courageous is working past their fears, no matter what they are. It is the fight and the ability to get past your fears that shows true courage. Doing something when you know that the odds are against you. Doing something that you do not want to do. Doing something that you know you will fail at. That shows true courage. Doing something you absolutely do not want to do, but doing it anyways because it is the right thing and because it will help someone else.
Life is a fight. Every aspect of it. When it comes down to it, your motivation and drive has to come from within. There are going to be a lot of times when people tell you that you cannot do something or discourage you and you are going to have to dig from within to motivate and push yourself. There are times in life when all you have is yourself, so learn to love yourself and become comfortable with who you are and where you are going.
"Make each day your masterpiece."
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
"Don't count the days, make the days count."
"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."
I love these quotes and what they stand for. Life is a big risk. It is hard. It is a struggle and around every corner is something in your way, keeping you from success, happiness, and peace. You cannot live a passive life and expect to get what you want and have happiness. This life takes a lot of fight. Everything takes work and takes a fight. Happiness is not easy to obtain. You have to fight for that. Love, is probably the biggest fight and most effort you are ever going to put into something. Why do people do that? because it is absolutely worth it. Every last second and every bit of energy is worth it. The feeling of loving someone is amazing, but the feeling of being loved by someone is even more amazing than that. But it takes work.
The accomplishments and happiness in life that will be enjoyed all depends on the risk and effort put forth in life. The ability to keep working and keep fighting through adversity. Even when the world says no, you do not listen. You keep going, you keep striving for your goal and what makes you happy and brings you to life.
We all need to pursue something. We all need to fight for something. We need something in out lives that we get absolutely excited about and that brings us to life every morning. Something that we can pursue with every ounce of effort in us. You have to be able to accept losing a few battles on the way though. You have to be able to get past failure, and people telling you that its not going to happen or that you cannot do, because you can. Each and every time you fail at something, you are getting that much closer to success. you are getting better than all of those people that are standing around telling you not to and how you will not be able to do.
I love setting goals. I love discipline and setting a goal for myself or a change in my life that I want to make and then being able to do it. I love setting goals and doing things that I do not know the outcome to. Things that I could possibly fail at. As i have gotten older, I have found that assurances is boring. I do not want to know. I want to go into something and not know the outcome until it comes. There is no fun or growth in doing something that you know will be easy or that you know you will succeed at. That is where faith comes in. Having trust in the Lord. If that thing or person was meant to be, then it will work out. If not, then now you know that was not meant to be.
Growing up I have always thought that courage was not being afraid of anything. That is not courage though. People have fears, no matter who you are. We are all afraid of something different, but we all have fears. What makes a person courageous is working past their fears, no matter what they are. It is the fight and the ability to get past your fears that shows true courage. Doing something when you know that the odds are against you. Doing something that you do not want to do. Doing something that you know you will fail at. That shows true courage. Doing something you absolutely do not want to do, but doing it anyways because it is the right thing and because it will help someone else.
Life is a fight. Every aspect of it. When it comes down to it, your motivation and drive has to come from within. There are going to be a lot of times when people tell you that you cannot do something or discourage you and you are going to have to dig from within to motivate and push yourself. There are times in life when all you have is yourself, so learn to love yourself and become comfortable with who you are and where you are going.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Words to live by
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Ghandi
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston Churchill
Monday, January 20, 2014
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Do all you can, when all you can is do.
Getting the most out of my time down here in SoCal. Although I am not a huge fan of this particular area of California, there are a lot of dope things to see and do. I won't be young forever, so it's time to be youthful and take advantage of my age before it takes advantage of me. Haha
Thursday, January 16, 2014
How it all started
Growing up I had the high ambitions of becoming a professional football player. That was was my thing. Football was going to get me through school and pave the way for my future. I came from a family where no one had been to college and there was no real talk about college or push for me to attend college one day, but I knew that if I wanted to go pro in football that I had to go to college, and so that was the plan.
My senior year I decided to end my dream of playing and focus on school. After having a real difficult and sketch childhood that left my sisters and I raising ourselves, I knew that I wanted better for my family and kids one day. I knew that college was my way of bettering my life and setting up future for success. And that would also be the standard and norm that I would set for my kids. I could not pick the family I was born into and raised from, but I could pick the kind of home and environment that I would bring my kids into, and they are going to have a better one that I did. So there you go kids, I went through school with you in mind and for you and your futures.
Growing up without a focus or push for academics, I never found a joy or ease in school. It was hard for me and I had to work really hard just to get by. Coming home from school each day since sixth grade to hammered mother did not necessarily set up the most studious or focused environment. Not to mention she never cared or asked about school or made sure that I was doing my homework and doing well on tests, she just wanted to keep her drunk going and blame the world for all of her issues. That is why I am so self driven today. I never had anyone to push me or to motivate me. It all came from the inside. In all honesty, it came from God. I cannot take any credit. There is no way that I would be here or would have been able to endure and take the hits from life it was not for the big Man watching over me.
It was the struggles and adversity that I faced when I was younger that prepared me for today. It is why I am successful. It is why I understand life and love everything about it and can be so genuine and honest in everything I do. The same reasons and struggles that should have kept me from being where I am today are the exact reasons that I am having the success that I am.
I love the idea that statistically speaking or socially speaking or whatever, that I should not be in college. The idea that a kid from a broken home who's dad committed suicide and mom became an alcoholic at when he was twelve is about to graduate college just sounds so crazy. That is inspirational though. It plays into what I think is part of God's plan for me. None of this was ever about me or how great or incredible it was that I have turned my life into something special from a childhood that should have absolutely wrecked me. It is all about the people that will be touched. The inspiration and the hope it will give those out there in similar situations. It has allowed me and will allow me to connect and reach out to so many different people.
Graduating college is so much more than an education or a diploma to me. It is a sign of hope. It is glory to God. It is a statement that no matter what cards life dealt you, you have a choice to make things better and to better yourself. The opportunity is there and there is no one or nothing that can stop you. All you need is confidence in yourself, faith in God and some fight.
My journey to complete college is almost to an end. What has made it so amazing is the struggle and the fight I had to put up just to get here. The day I walk that stage there are going to be some tears running down my face. I am appreciative and blessed to have had this opportunity. I am going to make the most of these next couple months until I walk that stage.
My senior year I decided to end my dream of playing and focus on school. After having a real difficult and sketch childhood that left my sisters and I raising ourselves, I knew that I wanted better for my family and kids one day. I knew that college was my way of bettering my life and setting up future for success. And that would also be the standard and norm that I would set for my kids. I could not pick the family I was born into and raised from, but I could pick the kind of home and environment that I would bring my kids into, and they are going to have a better one that I did. So there you go kids, I went through school with you in mind and for you and your futures.
Growing up without a focus or push for academics, I never found a joy or ease in school. It was hard for me and I had to work really hard just to get by. Coming home from school each day since sixth grade to hammered mother did not necessarily set up the most studious or focused environment. Not to mention she never cared or asked about school or made sure that I was doing my homework and doing well on tests, she just wanted to keep her drunk going and blame the world for all of her issues. That is why I am so self driven today. I never had anyone to push me or to motivate me. It all came from the inside. In all honesty, it came from God. I cannot take any credit. There is no way that I would be here or would have been able to endure and take the hits from life it was not for the big Man watching over me.
It was the struggles and adversity that I faced when I was younger that prepared me for today. It is why I am successful. It is why I understand life and love everything about it and can be so genuine and honest in everything I do. The same reasons and struggles that should have kept me from being where I am today are the exact reasons that I am having the success that I am.
I love the idea that statistically speaking or socially speaking or whatever, that I should not be in college. The idea that a kid from a broken home who's dad committed suicide and mom became an alcoholic at when he was twelve is about to graduate college just sounds so crazy. That is inspirational though. It plays into what I think is part of God's plan for me. None of this was ever about me or how great or incredible it was that I have turned my life into something special from a childhood that should have absolutely wrecked me. It is all about the people that will be touched. The inspiration and the hope it will give those out there in similar situations. It has allowed me and will allow me to connect and reach out to so many different people.
Graduating college is so much more than an education or a diploma to me. It is a sign of hope. It is glory to God. It is a statement that no matter what cards life dealt you, you have a choice to make things better and to better yourself. The opportunity is there and there is no one or nothing that can stop you. All you need is confidence in yourself, faith in God and some fight.
My journey to complete college is almost to an end. What has made it so amazing is the struggle and the fight I had to put up just to get here. The day I walk that stage there are going to be some tears running down my face. I am appreciative and blessed to have had this opportunity. I am going to make the most of these next couple months until I walk that stage.
Last Semester of College 1/16/14
Sooooo... Here it is. The last semester of my college career. A career that should not have even started. I legit should not be here. But I am. And do not think for one second that I am second guessing myself or do not have confidence in myself because I do. I have too much actually and it is something that I am working on. Humility is a good thing and it is a thing that I am not particularly good at. But guess what, no one is perfect and we all have our flaws and there is one of my many flaws, I am too confident. But that is alright, because without my overconfidence, I would not be sitting on a college campus writing this right now haha.
This blog is going to be about my final stretch of college and my last semester here at Azusa Pacific University. These past four years have been some of my favorite years of my life and I am extremely blessed to have had this opportunity and I made the most of it, I mean after all, I should not have even been here in the first place.
I am going to share all of my adventures of my last semester and some pics as well. and also my memories from my college years. This is more so a journal for me to read back on and remember the times I had, but I find it easier to write when I am writing to an audience. So I am just going to stick with this approach.
This blog is going to be about my final stretch of college and my last semester here at Azusa Pacific University. These past four years have been some of my favorite years of my life and I am extremely blessed to have had this opportunity and I made the most of it, I mean after all, I should not have even been here in the first place.
I am going to share all of my adventures of my last semester and some pics as well. and also my memories from my college years. This is more so a journal for me to read back on and remember the times I had, but I find it easier to write when I am writing to an audience. So I am just going to stick with this approach.
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