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"What good can I do today?" - Benjamin Franklin
Who am I?
writer, teacher,
educator, speaker, reader, student of the world, advocate for
literacy, INFJ
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UPDATED : 11/7/05
A day of personal redefinition
For
almost two weeks I've been sulking about the fact that
"I've lost something." Because I act mostly upon
inspiration I become blue when I suddenly lose the move
to continue. When these times arrive, and I am
again re-inspired, I returned to this website with
updates as to where I have been and where I am going.
My last time of definition was in August, and before
then, in May. It seems to occur in 3 month
periods. Over the past three months I've claimed
myself an entrepreneur, started several blogs on pocket
PC, ebooks, and electronic text in my desire to create
a business around handheld technology, considered many
other types of businesses, and today, finally focused
my education business purporting individual
intellectual pursuits and have now claimed myself a
teacher/mentor to fit my INFJ profile and desires.
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Purpose of website
My goal with this website is personal
virtual organization.
It seems easier to me to
organize the many facets of my life virtually than
physically. This website is a way for me to
communicate with the world and inspire others to reach
their goals.
For long I've considered web logs to be rather worthless
ramblings of individuals. Reflecting on their uses, though, I've realized
they allow us to accurately display ourselves as who are: multi-faceted beings.
We are not defined solely by our jobs, the high school or college we attended, or
even friends that we keep. Our roles of mother, daughter, son, architect,
and friend all play parts in who we are. A web log is a true place for us
to express the complexities and wonders of ourselves.
The purpose of my blog is to show readers that the road to achieving one's
goal is not always without is limitations and setbacks. The road to one's
personal success can become lonely and seemingly unimportant when we are not
surrounded by what Barbara Sher calls "winners" in her book Wishcraft, a
book on how to accurately find, plan, and achieve one's goals. This blog,
and I hope others, can help us would-be winners stay connected and motivated on
our journeys to personal success. I am currently inspired greatly by Sher's
book, but also my hundreds of ambitions in my youth.
My Roles
Educator -
Lately my mindset has turned to teacher and educator
being the same thing to them being two different
things. A teacher teaches his subject well, but
an educator understands the individual student's goals
in life and helps them meet them through education.
Writer -
I've been a writer since I was a child. That's
one reason I decided to launch this website along with
my blog. I've written several unfinished stories
and novels, but my project now is a book on what I
believe constitutes as a complete education. My
focus is nonfiction - for now.
Entrepreneur
- After having read Jennifer Kushell's The Young
Entrepreneur's Edge as a teenager, I became by her
journey to business success. It was not only her
success solely that which led me to pursing a career as
en entrepreneur, but my internal yearnings for
independence, and self-starting which has manifested
itself throughout most of my life. Only this year
have I proclaimed myself an entrepreneur and am on a
journey to become a successful business owner.
My Inspiration
Benjamin Franklin - Having had many
interests in the past I've always been thought as as
strange character. Reading Benjamin Franklin:
An American Life by Walter Isaacson has allowed me
to believe that I can have many interests and pursue
them all. Franklin is a scholar of the English
language. I wish to some day be as well-written
and well-read as he is. Benjamin Franklin is an inspiration
because he has done so many things in his life .
In today's society Jack-of-all-trades are thought as
those who cannot get down to work. I think
that's a misconception we must overcome.
Personal
Mission Statement
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Stay true to myself
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Maintain my ideals
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Change the world
My Philosophy (12/22/05)
ENLIGHTENMENT: Learn from the basic forms of
knowledge (science, logic, philosophy, literature,
math, English, etc).
ACTION:
Create a goal around what interests you most from those
areas of knowledge. Do something with what you
know.
VIRTUE:
Be good to others. As Benjamin Franklin
asked every morning "What good shall I do today?", do
similarly because from others do we reap the benefits
of our labors.
Currently, I am studying to
obtain my CPA and creating a nonprofit to help my
community create a better educated society.
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www.grsites.com
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