Stop being stressed, start getting clever!
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 9:55AMToday is my first official day being homeless - and dude, look where I am ...
Yeah, PENTHOUSE suite at the Hotel Shangri - La sitting in corporate sponsored clothing, wrapped nice and tightly under a corporate sponsored blanket. Thanks David and Goliath!
I was just SO focused on having my rent every month, that the stress was a total creative killer. I was focused on one set amount, while 100,000 times that was zooming by. Stress is entirely man made, it is a reaction to a stressor - that's it!!! Stop being stressed, start getting clever!
I created this site, I marketed and promoted the content - I did this. That has sent my confidence THROUGHHH THE ROOOFFFF!! When I meet with CEOs and various investors, you will never. EVER. see me pimping out my analytics, or catch me with a business plan ... you're not buying the traffic on this site, you are leasing my passion. I eat. sleep. and breathe the content on this site. My home is on the interwebz and my heart is in promoting the passion and sharing it with others. I celebrate unapologetic awesomeness, this isn't curing cancer - but it started a revolution. I have found what makes me tick, what makes me want a second, third, fourth, and fifth, helping of this crazy little thing called life. Isn't that what we are supposed to be doing anyway in life? CELEBRATING IT?! I mean have we all gone mad?! Every. Single. Day. you are alive is a blessing. Every. SINGLE. Day. is another day that could change it all for you. You just have to want it!! On November 3rd of 2009, I wanted it SOOO badly. I had just come out of a gnarly relationship, was going through the quarter life crisis, I was watching my family hold a candle light vigil for my dying grandmother - and was met with NOTHING but resentment over the fact that I refused to mourn her death. I only cried because I questioned if she ever knew how to live ...
This started as the SIMPLEST idea ... unite the nerdy folk. Create really funny, cool content taking all the workable elements of social media and use them as wheels to promote the vision. DUHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Go - do something YOU see today. Don't be a Monday morning quarterback. I associated the ACTION to all of this. It hasn't been easy, but it certainly has been rewarding.
You have 86,400 seconds to the day today. How are you going to spend them?? #NerdsUnite
Reader Comments (5)
Thanks for posting! I was feeling a little stressed this morning about the goals I have set for myself, people putting me down and all. Makes it harder to push through, but reading your posts and seeing your energy, gives me the confidence boost I need sometimes.
Have a great first day being "homeless"! :)
~Bec
aww thanks sweet pea sugarplum!!
remember these 3 words: Just. Do. It.
Focus only on today and the actions you can take to execute your goal TODAY. Baby steps chica, baby steps!! =)
Jen,
I fuckin look at your lifestyle now and go crazy, you're doing what I long to do in a way and it makes me hurt, and you're successful at it thus far where I am not. I long in my heart for adventure but keep on not going on it because I say I want to do something greater, want to be more purposeful, but when life doesn't work the way I expect it too (which it never does) I despair and ask what the F am I doing in this life of mine? I want to help people and live adventure, but here I am going into debt and waiting/hoping for something to happen. I know from experience that the only way to get up and moving is to Go and not question what's going to happen or what I should do....
Yet I seldom do it, I listen to the world, I listen to people who's lives I do not want to have, and I sit sad and alone, with only spurts of happiness running into my day. ~ My greatest joy is when I go for an adventure, live risk, trust God fully and watch him provide. The most amazing stuff always happens....
Since I met you, I'm addicted to your site and challenged by social media trying to figure out what it takes and how i can use it to live out my dreams....
I am a complete mad man, but need to start living that out, not being the person who holds back and wastes his life.
I'm gonna go run now and sing....
bye
LOVE when you post these kinds of things. They're like little fluorescent post-its slapped on my forehead reminding me that it IS okay to be a dork and do what you passionately love and the rest will fall into place! We're so afraid of doing what you've done and can't break free from the feeling that we must clock in and clock out in order to be okay. Okay's not good enough and it's people like you that help 'sheeple' like myself really question just what the hell we're doing and start asking ourselves what the hell SHOULD we be doing?
Thanks again, Jen for being unapologetically awesome and showing us how we might be able to as well!
You friggin' rock, girl!
Well now that u ask Jen I was thinking of spending like 5 of those seconds to tell u how much u Rule but hey whateva, pssst...JEN RULES!!! ;) Ur commentary always puts a smile on my face and my friends too ur the best. I think ur doing what others are just afraid to and that is Unapologetically Awesome in itself. How u do u do it? Like u said u put ur heart and soul into what u do. No wonder ur going to rule the world soon, most others are too lazy to care about anything let alone share there souls with the world, keep it up were learning and listening with open heartz, minds and souls, we <3 Jen and Talk Nerdy To Me Lover and don't forget guys #nerdsunite keep up the fight!!! ;) Ok, I lied that was like 45 seconds damb...Almost forgot keep the squatting up it's so much fun!!!