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Hard Weeks

Everyone has hard weeks, everyone needs people to help lift them up, everyone is capable of so much more than just how they are in their hard weeks. I want to push people I know to get more out of their situations. I have been up and down a lot lately, but if you know me then you know that’s just kind of how I’ll be sometimes. I mean that everyone struggles and everyones struggle is valid. Push through that struggle.

I think everyone needs to acknowledge their emotions and see that although they might not be the best right now, they wont always be like this. Part of me writing this blog is to tell myself this and also to my, now I believe, 4 whole readers. You can do more. You can do so much more. Don’t settle for a job for too long in a field you’re unhappy with. You can look for something more career aligning and I hope that you’d be happier with that. It’ll be hard and scheduling things can get very difficult, but you can do it. Push yourself if you really do want to be one of the youngest people in your respective field, push for that. Don’t get caught up with people who aren’t ambitious if you have lofty goals. There are things to be achieved in this world and I know that you can reach your goals.

With that said, I just want to say that I’m always open to talk to people that want to talk to me. There’s so many people I want to talk with and check in with, but I might be getting busy or maybe I got lazy in communication. Reach out to me. Im here to talk and always open to listen to you. You never know what life has in store in a conversation.

Business check

I’m incredibly happy with this month for wood burnings. I’ve been able to make as much in sales this month as I did my whole first 8 months of selling my wood burnings. Practice is paying off and it’s great people are connecting with my work. Gotta really keep up with the paperwork now.

I think this might be my biggest business advice right now. Keep your records clean and neat. It helps so much in every business to have clean records and I’m learning that the hard way. Take the extra time to write down what you’re doing and you will thank yourself later.

Aside from wood burning things are fine. Still waiting to hear back from four of my applications to see if I have a job to move away for. If not that’s plenty okay with me. I think I could be a lot more proactive about my time spending as well. I told you to go for your dream and to not just take any job. I realize these smaller jobs may be necessary for a little bit to prepare yourself financially for your dream career. I am either looking to really push for film only jobs coming up, or taking part time jobs somewhere to help save up to move to LA with. I’ve booked my steadicam lessons as you know and am looking forward to hopefully pursuing steadicam jobs soon. I also have been writing more, somehow in my insanely busy schedule of wood burning.

For photography, I’m always open to new clients and Boise for the week of February 4th-13th I’m very open to getting some bookings.

Life, That ish is hard.

Life is throwing a lot at me. Well I kind of made all the decisions to make certain things a struggle, but as one of my friends say. It might not matter if the choices were right or wrong. Choices are choices and after their made you might only be able to make the most of the situation you put yourself in.

After Kobe, his daughter, and the other passenger’s passing I got thoughtful. He wasn’t a direct idol to me when I was first starting basketball, yet he was always somehow a part of my life. My older brother was a big fan and my family, playing basketball growing up, saw a lot of his passion for the game. I even wore his shoes playing basketball not because I was a Lakers fan, but because he was more than that. As I got a little older I saw him more as a positive influence outside just basketball. Even seeing him win an Oscar. He was ver passionate. I know why I’ve been down lately, but seeing how motivating it was to see Kobe live his life and his mentality, it really is making the best of life not just for yourself but for the people around you as well.

I think that lately I have been asking more of the people around me to support me than how much I’ve been giving of myself to the people I want to. I know this blog post is not as much business, but there’s more to life than that. There’s being the kind of person you want to be every second of the day. I haven’t been that all the time lately, and I’m looking to change that and be a positive presence much more often and be real with people. Thank you for your time reading this. I’m really just happy to be here.

Show some more kindness from now on, and try to achieve your goals while living your life to the best potential you have within yourself.