Define Yourself. It will change your life.

--The GiRL

I have a friend who works in customer service. She told me about how one day a customer called angry, livid, and downright rude -- the customer was dropping the F bomb and threatening my friend over the phone. This person who called also happened to be a business owner in the area. Later that evening my friend recounted to me and all my friends at a dinner party how she never wanted to buy something again from that caller’s business. After hearing her story, I did not want to buy anything from that business. In fact, every-time I drive by that company I think of this same story.

All the business owners reading this blog may be groaning in agony right about now. After-all you cannot have a perfect face for everyone, right? We all get frustrated sometimes. Regardless, good business owners know that the face you make to the public reflects how good of a business you have. A business is only as strong as the weakest link. Sometimes you have to take action to fix your weakest link. This way the business can prosper at a different level than before.

This goes the same for the life you make for yourself. Yes, if you guessed it I am suggesting that defining your life like a business defines their mission could very well be one key element for finding happiness. 

Have you ever written up a “mission statement for your life?” What could you possibly write? Goals? Dreams? Attitudes? Behaviors? What about character? Friends? Influences?

If you knew someone that constantly sabotaged themselves would you let them know. What about if you were sabotaging your own life?  If you owned a business would you want to do the same actions over and over again that produce poor customer service or would you fix them. Why are we then any different with our own lives?

I have a friend who finds a way to make a really big deal out of everything. Sometimes this friend will yell and scream at anyone that does not help them get what they want. 

Sometimes I wonder, does this person want to be like this? Does this friend really want to remain the same forever? I think my friend will remain the same if he never makes the choice to do something different. 

Acting different sometimes requires you to act like a business. Check and see what “bad report” you may be getting at other people’s dinner parties. Then apologize and change your policies to fix it.

I encourage you to do this. Post your life’s mission statement to a wall and change the habits and behaviors in your life that keep you from reaching your dreams. Think of how much of a better person you could become. 

Define yourself. Keep bad habits from making your life what it is. Know who you are and where you are going -- after-all, you may even reach your dreams.

Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs

-- The GiRL


What if I get shot through the wall...by the neighbor...while I’m sleeping?

Your brain needs another outlet for creativity when this is the thought you have at 2:00 am. Yes, I asked my husband that question while sleeping three weeks ago. Then I wondered, well why?

Is it monotony that got the better part of me? The routine eat, sleep, and work? Or is it the fact that life and people are predictable? 

For example, I know every Sunday night my neighbor is going to have his drinking buddies over and blast the bed-shaking music until my “time-to-go-to-work-alarm” goes off the next morning. My neighbor may have a different routine, but his is as predictable as mine.

Maybe we have all gone Coo-Coo for Cocoa puffs. We have this sweet, sugary cereal of life that we know will taste good every-time we indulge a bowl. We are afraid to lose it because we do not know what else out there we will find. After all, if something  tastes that good we wanna hold onto it, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyfE4VZiUY&feature=related

If I wake in the middle of the night afraid I’ll get shot, my mind must be subconsciously saying: “The world is against you! Run away in fear! Hold onto that bowl of cereal because you may not find another one.” 

Living life on hold -- grasping on what I have now -- may cause me to lose the life I want to create. We cannot have the life of our dreams sitting on our butts waiting for it to happen. We have to go after it.

There are a lot ideologies in this world, and like in the above commercial (the link you may or may not have clicked on) the cocoa puffs song will try to take you away from something you love -- like dancing -- to move how it wants you to move. We may have our bowl of cocoa puffs and leave full but never satisfied. 

We do not want this for our lives. We need some outlet for our creativity. We need some real sustenance in this society. Our blog is our commentary and chance to make sustenance and play a new song. Sometimes we’ll look at our life and wonder why we chose to eat what we did that day, but after some time we’ll probably realize everyone needs balance and what they put in their meal is up to them. 

Apples, Oranges, Bananas, and Fudge Bars may make my balanced life. Don’t just eat someone else's cocoa puffs.

Wow, another blog to read

 --Cosmo

You know what I hate about blogs?  Ninety-nine percent of people who start them think that the rest of the world cares about what they write about.  Almost like twitter except in a novel-format:

"Hello World!  I started my new job as a dairy farmer's assistant today!  Boy, do I have a different perspective on milk now!  Maybe I'll go the whole week without drinking any!  Or maybe I'll tell Ginnie that all that milk she drinks makes her sweat smell read bad...but not as bad as some of the cows I met today HYUK HYUK HYUK *snort* HYUK.  In other news, I had some peanuts for lunch, and..."

Boring.

<Also, have you noticed that people who post stuff online think that now, magically, they're born-again comedians.  Shoot me now.>

So what's going to make this blog better?  Probably nothing.  It'll be a place where my wife and I can rant about stuff probably nobody else cares about.  If we recorded some of our conversations that we thought were interesting, the average person would label them "stupid" or not worthy of thinking/being critical about.  Do we care if people like it?  If it makes us money, sure!  Because all blogs make a ton of money, right?  I'm thinking of those scenes in Ducktales, where Scrooge McDuck is diving around in all that money.  That's gonna be me and my wife after this blog goes to Hollywood and a movie's made about it.

Actually, noone that we know will read this first post, and if you are, that means you looked back in the archives to read this.  Good for you.  We appreciate the support.  Send $$$s immediately.

We'll try to fill this blog up with meaningless/pointless rants.  One or two might be good.  Probably not though.

Also, how much do you want to bet that this will be our last article ever written?  You might just win, too, if you bet against us.

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We're setting up our new blog that we'll hopefully (because we think we're different than all those "other people") keep updating.  Should be an interesting read because, well, we're awesome.