#HowTo: Prep for the Biggest Meeting of Your Life
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 6:30PM
I have the biggest meeting of my life tomorrow. I've literally been trying to write for about the last hour how I feel and I keep typing, deleting. Typing. Deleting. Typing. Deleting.
That's not like me - at all. I pretty much just post random shit just so I can get it out of my head. I don't really think about people reading it. Actually, come to think of it, I don't even think I'm deleting it because I'm thinking about people reading it, I am just so fucking excited.
I think one of the hardest things anyone can ever do in life is learn how to step up to their own plate. When we're growing up, we are told to be here ... to be there ... do this ... to do that ... need permission for this ... you'll get in trouble for that ... it's a hard thing to be so conditioned like that as a wee one, and learn how to just break free from it as an adult. Ever wonder why we give permission slips to be Unapologetically Awesome? Cause otherwise, I know you guys won't do it! We always look for that little psychological cue. Get it?? Eh? Eh?! There's always a reason. Jiggggaaaaaaaaaaa
I'm really excited. We just got off a call with one of the duderinos, aka the hollywood god. I just like want to pinch that dudes cheeks. When we had lunch last year, I emailed him right back saying I wanted to work with him. Who knew what one year would bring - ahmazing. But for reals, he told me to just let loose on all my ideas for marketing and emerging media ... which to me, just makes me wanna cry. It's like finally! Finally!! I feel like I've been SCREAMING at the top of my lungs for the last year telling people, please, please, listen! This is a HUGE area of opportunity!! I literally just want to cry. I'm so thankful. I know these people are smart, and I know they're going to do something with it - which is just this huge relief to me. It's like FINALLY. THANK YOU!!!! We're already talking about your project, why the FUCK aren't you setting up the platform for us to do so!?! They just don't know! No one really knows what they can do with social media, the education on all of this is CRUCIALLLLLLL!!!
I just can't believe tomorrow I am fully stepping up to the plate, and I know it's going to be a homerun. There's nothing they can't ask me about this space that I don't know. I've been eating, sleeping, and breathing it in an extremely unhealthy way for the last year. OMG I can't believe I am turning into such a chick and tearing up as I write this ... I just, have worked so hard. So hard. And I didn't know what the "right" opportunity was - but I knew I wasn't going to ever give up. NOONNNNEEEE of this has been easy. I assure you, if I wasn't such a sick and twisted individual, I would have given up a long time ago. Not having any money is not easy - but it's certainly motivating. If I had sold a piece of the brand, or dude, even just ad space ... it wouldn't have kept me as hungry. I knew what I was doing, I just didn't know how to articulate that. This didn't start off as something that I wanted to do for money. I thought it was a cute idea, and by studying trends I was incredibly confident that it would work ... but no one knows for sure.
I love this video by Unkie Steve Jobs ... I've posted it a million times, and it deserves it a million more ...
Best advice ever: stay hungry - stay foolish.
Being hungry will keep you motivated, and being foolish allows you to think outside the box, and in certain cases even reinvent it. When it comes to anything worth doing in life, you can't chase the dollar. Money is just an illusion. It's all bullshit. It comes, it goes - and the adventures you have in between are really all that will EVER count. I cannot stress that enough.
I heard no less than 100 times that I was crazy. I heard no less than 100 times that what I was doing was foolish. I heard no less than 100 times, we're not interested. I heard no less than 100 times, get a job. I heard no less than 100 times you could just sell and this would all be over. My friends didn't know what to do with me, my family even stopped speaking to me for a bit ... this UNSHAKABLE belief that I was onto something, and your support was very literally the only thing that kept me going. Omg STOPP BEEINNGG A CHICKKK!! Here come the water works.
You guys mean the fucking world to me, man. Do you know how hard it is to wake up in a car, but hear heyyy! You've changed my life!! It's bat shit. But I knew it was part of something greater, I just couldn't see the whole path yet. Even now, I still don't know what tomorrow is truly going to bring, but I know I am more prepared than ever, and ready for ANYTHING ANYONE has for me.
#bringit
"You can do anything you set your mind to."
