This goal embraces all the individual goals that together when accomplished will hopefully lead to a fulfilling life, when all is said and done.

An ancient and wise text reads:

“For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him.”

There is only one in whom I find fulfilment, and He has indeed given me life to the full, lived for him, and in him. He is my fulness, my freedom and my forgiveness.

i want to have a life,one moment wont pass empty,doing somethings and being busy every time..

It would seem that I have everything someone would want: a great career, a nice house on a river, big yard, etc. But where’s the adventure? So I decided to sell my house, sell my business and leave the state, and everything is falling into place…rapidly. It is wonderful! Part of the fulfillment in life for me, is taking the adventure. To see what is around the next corner and over the next hill. Sometimes it is scary, but I can see the many ways that I (and many others) keep ourselves bound by the thoughts that “this is as good as it is going to get, better quit while you are ahead” when we know darn well that there is so much more.

My life is fullfilling becuase I choose + work for it to be :)

But, admittedly, that sounds much easier then it is :)

Tonight Comedy Central is planning to air comedian Dave Chappelle lost episodes. Now, the publc eye is on him again.
I admire him for doing what he wants and not being forced to take a job because of the money.

Would you take $50 million and take a job you didn’t want to do that would make you go crazy?

Is Dave Chappelle Crazy?
By Keith Boykin, in pop culture
Monday, May 16 2005, 11:02 AM

I have a burning question on my mind that needs to be answered. I’ve read the newspaper articles. I’ve heard the rumors. Now I want to know the truth. Is Dave Chappelle crazy?

No, I’m not talking about whether he checked himself into a mental institution in South Africa. (He denies that.) I’m not even referring to the rumors that he suffered a nervous breakdown during the taping of the third season of his popular eponymous Comedy Central show. That’s not what I’m talking about. I mean something a little different. Is Dave Chappelle crazy to walk away from a reported $50 million contract? Or are we crazy for judging him?

I love the Chappelle Show. I watched it religiously last year. I set my DVR to tape it. I even went to the studio at 106 and Park to be in the audience for a few episodes last season. Chappelle’s brand of comedy is absent almost everywhere else on television. Who else but Chappelle would show an R. Kelly video “let me piss on you,” or a witness pissing on a courtroom attorney, a black Ku Klux Klan member, a racial trade, or a black version of the Real World.

Dave Chappelle knows how to push the envelope, and he knows how to get attention. That’s why a little known show on a previously obscure comedy cable channel became such a hot property. The DVD version of the first season of his show is the highest selling television series DVD in history. Three million copies were sold, and Chappelle reportedly had signed a new two-year contract last year that gave him a significant percentage of future DVD sales.

With so much at stake, who would risk that success by walking off the set. Maybe the whole walkout was just a publicity stunt to raise attention to the show. In show business, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. If so, it may prove to be a brilliant maneuver. But what if it was not a publicity stunt? What if Dave Chappelle just wasn’t ready to do it again? Is that so bad?

Part of what seems to rub at us about the Dave Chappelle story is the idea that a man could walk away from so much money at the height of his fame and popularity. This is Dave Chappelle, after all, the man who popularized the phrase “I’m rich, bitch!” This is the man who bragged openly about what he would do if he had Oprah’s money.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank. Dave Chappelle couldn’t handle the pressure. It was too much, too quick. He was strung out on crack. At least that’s what people have been saying about Chappelle on the street lately. And of course, reporters made note of a 40-minute visit Chappelle paid to a psychiatrist recently.

But why? Why check out when all you have to do is repeat what you have done before? Maybe because he wanted to do something more than what he had done before. Maybe he felt the pressure (self-imposed or otherwise) to be better than he had been. Maybe he was a perfectionist. Maybe he let the stardom get to his head. I could speculate all day long, just as all the others in the rumor mill have speculated the past few weeks. But does it really mean he’s crazy?

Is it crazy to put your personal sanity and mental health above your obligation to your job? Suck it up, we say in our culture. Our attitude is simple. Money is king. So what’s a few months of personal grief compared to a $50 million payoff?

But maybe Dave Chappelle is right. Those of us who would sacrifice our personal sanity just to make a quick buck set no positive example for anyone else to follow. But that is our culture, once again. Young lawyers and doctors slave away for 14-hour work days in corporate law firms and hospital rooms all across America just so they can pay off their six-figure student loans with the huge sums of money they receive in compensation.

What kind of example do we set as a society when we value money over all else? If Dave Chappelle needed to take some time off for a break, he couldn’t have picked a worse time to do it, from our perspective. The marketing campaign has already been launched. The ads and billboards are posted all throughout the cities. And America is anxiously awaiting the third installment of its Chappelle fix.

Yes it was a horrible time for a personal break. But sometimes we have no control over when we need a break. And Dave Chappelle, crazy or not, is absolutely right to put his life over his career.

My life is becoming fulfilling each and every day. I not marking this completely closed but, will add to this goal throughout my life.

Thanks 43 Things

Love,

Geo :)

I was lucky enough to work on one of the greatest theatrical premieres of this century – Lord of the Rings musical for it’s world premier Toronto.

News has it today that due to (unnecessarily) poor reviews and (very expensive) lack of ticket sales, the show will be shutting down much sooner than expected, Labour Day weekend in September. The show will be moving to London, England.

For more information, visit http://lotr.com/

I’m just very honoured and lucky enough to have worked on such a fantastic production and to be part of something so epic.

This has lead to another chapter in the fulfillment of my life… :) Although, I’m sad to see the show shut down. Perhaps because I’m biased, I do not think that the show was fairly received by critics and the public. But that’s just me…

Today, a caterpillar was waltzing around the lobby of the fitness centre, so I took him back outside.

When I came home and looked up what he was. Turns out he’s a mourning cloak.

if things don’t go as planned, don’t stress about it. Just go with the flow.

like if you get all ready to go out, and then decide you really don’t feel like it… that’s ok!