Dear Diary

"I do not interact with Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social networking platforms. My..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:45:14 -0600

“I do not interact with Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social networking platforms. My reasoning is simple. Why in the world would I want to share my private thoughts and feelings with the world at large? What good could possibly come from me having a convenient outlet to express myself to millions of people? The more likely outcome is that in a misguided attempt to be funny or cute, I’d say something stupid and wind up getting publicly raked over the proverbial coals. Which is why I think the wiser path is to keep my opinions to myself. For example, if I were to feel moral outrage over an organization riddled with pedophiles expressing their moral outrage over contraception, I certainly wouldn’t tweet about it. And the photographs I’ve taken of myself wearing nothing but oven mitts and a tiara will never be shared on a Facebook page.”

- CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #378

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:19:01 -0600

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:21:33 -0600

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

by Rosemarie Urquico

And so, Benji, while we have talked a great deal about your business and its relationship to you,...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:05:32 -0600

And so, Benji, while we have talked a great deal about your business and its relationship to you, while we have spoken about planning and systems and controls and management, about people development and organizational development and marketing development, and all those many parts of your business you must become not only aware of but attentive to, I would be remiss if I left you with the impression that any of those things will make any difference at all unless you remember one thing: keep the curtain up.

The curtain is your Comfort Zone. And your Comfort Zone has been the false mask you put on when you were a little boy, because it was safe when your spirit was not. Your Comfort Zone has been the curtain you have placed in front of your face and through which you view the world. Your Comfort Zone has been the tight little cozy planet on which you have lived, knowing all the places to hide because it’s so small. Your Comfort Zone has seized you before, Benji, and it can seize you again, when you’re least prepared for it, because it knows what it means to you. Because it knows how much you want to be comfortable. Because it knows what price you are willing to pay for the comfort of being in control. The ultimate price, your life.

So, Benji, if this new path, if living with your spirit, means anything to you at all, if you truly care about it, then guard it with your life. Because Comfort overtakes us all when we’re least prepared for it. Comfort makes cowards of us all.

"Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for..."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:00:05 -0600

“Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it. No balls, no babies.”

- Mark Cuban

"If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business - you have a job."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:18:21 -0600

“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business - you have a job.”

- Michael Gerber

How David Beats Goliath

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:42:55 -0600

How David Beats Goliath:

When underdogs break the rules.

"A good leader must have a strong vision and an inspiring direction for their team to follow. They..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:30:26 -0600

“A good leader must have a strong vision and an inspiring direction for their team to follow. They must also be direct and never take no for an answer.”

- Jade Raymond

Practical Pessimism

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:15:56 -0600

Practical Pessimism

"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:25:54 -0600

“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.”

- James Cameron

How to Date a Supermodel

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:40:07 -0600

How to Date a Supermodel :

I had this theory for a while and it’s best explained here and this of course it’s another reason to not have a 9-to-5 job and to move to California!

365: Project

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:07:58 -0600

365: Project

2012 Resolution(s)

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:40:18 -0600

One of my all time favorite Seinfeld episodes is the one where George decided to change his life by acting the opposite of how he would have typically behaved. Ironically, by doing everything the opposite, he gets a beautiful girlfriend and a job with the Yankees.

While doing everything the opposite may not be the answer for getting things done, doing some things different is.

2011: In Review

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:47:03 -0600

Book: Best Book

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

Food: Best Meal

Buffalo Burger

Food: Yummiest Dessert

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Music: Top Artist

M83
Ricardo Arjona
John Mayer
Ryan Adams
Keane

Music: Top Song

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – If I Had A Gun…

Birthday: Cake

Red Velvet

Birthday: Movie

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Birthday: Meal

Chinese

Sleep

7 Hours (average)

"Una alta capacidad mal usada discapacita."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:02:52 -0600

“Una alta capacidad mal usada discapacita.”

- Mi Psicoterapeuta

What would you do if money did not matter? What would you do if you were not afraid? What would...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:14:13 -0600

What would you do if money did not matter?

What would you do if you were not afraid?

What would you do today if you knew you would die tomorrow?

Now go and do it!

About Getting LASIK

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:45:57 -0600

Doctor: Are you religious?
Me: huh?
Doctor: This is a very common procedure and everything is very standard but if you have faith about God, this is your time to use it.
Me: See you tomorrow.

"There is no “I” in team but there is in win."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:51:00 -0600

“There is no “I” in team but there is in win.”

- Michael Jordan

Mixtape: Bittersweet (Summer 2011)

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:10:30 -0600

The Perishers - Going Out (03:40)
Incubus - Promises Promises (04:26)
Elliott Smith - Rose Parade (03:28)
The Daylights - I Hope This Gets To You (03:05)
Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane (03:59)
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adoledscent (02:57)
The xx - Shelter (04:30)
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (03:18)
Stereophonics - Maybe (04:34)
Eels - Numbered Days (03:44)
G. Love & Special Sauce - Still Hangin’ Around (07:10)
Carney - Think Of You (04:48)
M83 - We Own The Sky (05:02)

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