miketuttle

I have several blogs now and I am pretty much satisfied with all of them. Some things I was just ignorant about. I now know how to find answers and to make improvements as I wish. Done.

I now know that my dream work is probably in writing. However that does not mean that writing is all I will work in. It may just be my “day job”. Still in progress. More to come.

I bought a nice Rolodex setup and have been gathering all my floating post-its and business cards into that. It’s kind of an ongoing thing. I would love for it to be digital somehow, but have not found a format that I trust to take care of it now and in the future. (I rean in to the same concern with organizing my music. itunes was not around when I set that goal years ago. I had to wait for a better tool.)

I also have a MySpace page, which I infrequently use. But it does help me stay connected with more people than before. I am not taking this off my list, but I do feel there is progress.

I have a (step)son that I adore and my wife is pregnant with our #2!

I finally settled in my heart that I was going to go ahead and use iTunes to organize all my music. I also grabbed Tag&Rename (an awesome program!) and first organized all my mp3s. I then ripped in all my CDs (did my wife’s too, for her computer) and took care of the album art as well. I then boxed up all the CDs for archive. I have a collection of 13,000 songs now!

I bought an external hard drive to back all this stuff up to (as well as other important computer files )

When I was a kid I had this fantasy of being able to put my hands on any song I wanted to here within seconds. I can almost do that now!

I have an Orkut account and a Friendster account. The Friendster account feels pretty useless right now. I blog elsewhere and most of the people I am connected to there I either do not know or never see anymore (college connections).

The Orkut sounds very interesting. I would like to find a sogtware solution that lets me enter my own stuff and maintain my own connections, importing from online communities, perhaps. I want to weed out the crap and see my own network with the ability to add additional information about people as I gather it personally (birthdays, anniversaries, favorite music, etc).

I want to play sand-pit volleyball in the summer as a doubles team. Just pick-up games or local tournaments. I’ve never been too sports-minded, but I am actually very good at this.

I’ve downloaded a program called Eye-Q. I’ve only gotten to do the first session, but I really dig it and my speed almost doubled in that session. You have to keep working on it for several sessions, but it has already changed how I read, and I was fast before.

I make my friends sick talking about this. Rule Number One, before anything else… Get yourself straight first. Know who you are and what you want in life. If you don’t know this, any relationship is doomed to trouble, if not failure.

A very smart friend of mine once said, “You have to get yourself out of the way first before you can be selfless with someone else.” And, you MUST be selfless, in the sense of not being selfish. It is only natural as we are growing to be “selfish” until we know who we are and what we are here to do.

If you have places to go, things to see, goals to reach, etc… DO NOT wait on someone else to “complete” you before beginning them. If you do , you are short-changing your future soul-mate (and, yes, I do believe in that, too). That is not to say that you can’t do things together, but do not wait.

There is a Zen saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Go about your life. Concentrate on you. Get happy. We are our happiest when we are true to ourselves and secure in our self-worth. That breeds confidence and that, in turn, attracts the perfect person for us… effortlessly.

I know everyone wants a “magic bullet” for this. I know this advice seems so passive, but it really isn’t. Be yourself, your real, authentic self. If you don’t know what that is yet, get that settled first.

You don’t “find” love. Love finds you.