To 2013 and Making New Mistakes...
I had intended this as a New Years post full of surviving the Mayan Apocolpyse jokes but couldn't get myself to sit down and write it. So here's the meat, a little belated...
The most important epiphany I ever had was that it is easier to learn from other people's mistakes so I didn't have to make them myself.
Yes, everyone makes mistakes, and it's better if we learn from them. But I'd like to challenge you for 2013 and the years beyond, to not make the same mistakes made over and over by society, your family, or yourself. Break a cycle and go make a new mistake.
I'm not suggesting you do anything knowing that it's a bad idea or likely to cause trouble. That's not independence or exploration; that's just dumb. But when we try new things and pursue new goals, we will undoubtedly make some mistakes along the way. Knowing this, go forward boldly and let them come. Be careful and wary but do not fearful of mistakes. They will happen, and some of the best discoveries come about through accident.
So at the end of 2012 and start of 2013 I had another epiphany, that it's time for me to go make some new mistakes. I have enjoyed writing this blog and may comeback to it when I have something worthwhile to say. But the whole point of a simplified budgeting approach is that it's simpler, and there's only so much to say about it.
I'm in a point in my life where it's more starving artist financials and family economics than proper single-focused minimum wage budgeting, so I don't feel like I have lots of great, real life examples to pull from like I did when I started.
I will leave the blog up and try to properly tag all the posts, so info on the various topics is easy to find. I would like to do some videos on this eventually, but I need to tighten up my video skills and get a better camera before I'm going to be happy with the quality of them.
I'm glad my co-author and I wrote the book. I think it's a good book and hope it will continue to help people. However my first love and where I want my career to focus is on novels. I've been working hard the past few months to get my novel Seventh Night fit for public eyes. It's getting there, and I'm excited about it.
I will come back and post here when I have something worth sharing. But I realized it's a struggle for me to write blog posts on regular basis because my heart is in my fiction and song writing.
Thank you for reading. Now, let's go out and make some new mistakes.
The most important epiphany I ever had was that it is easier to learn from other people's mistakes so I didn't have to make them myself.
Yes, everyone makes mistakes, and it's better if we learn from them. But I'd like to challenge you for 2013 and the years beyond, to not make the same mistakes made over and over by society, your family, or yourself. Break a cycle and go make a new mistake.
I'm not suggesting you do anything knowing that it's a bad idea or likely to cause trouble. That's not independence or exploration; that's just dumb. But when we try new things and pursue new goals, we will undoubtedly make some mistakes along the way. Knowing this, go forward boldly and let them come. Be careful and wary but do not fearful of mistakes. They will happen, and some of the best discoveries come about through accident.
So at the end of 2012 and start of 2013 I had another epiphany, that it's time for me to go make some new mistakes. I have enjoyed writing this blog and may comeback to it when I have something worthwhile to say. But the whole point of a simplified budgeting approach is that it's simpler, and there's only so much to say about it.
I'm in a point in my life where it's more starving artist financials and family economics than proper single-focused minimum wage budgeting, so I don't feel like I have lots of great, real life examples to pull from like I did when I started.
I will leave the blog up and try to properly tag all the posts, so info on the various topics is easy to find. I would like to do some videos on this eventually, but I need to tighten up my video skills and get a better camera before I'm going to be happy with the quality of them.
I'm glad my co-author and I wrote the book. I think it's a good book and hope it will continue to help people. However my first love and where I want my career to focus is on novels. I've been working hard the past few months to get my novel Seventh Night fit for public eyes. It's getting there, and I'm excited about it.
I will come back and post here when I have something worth sharing. But I realized it's a struggle for me to write blog posts on regular basis because my heart is in my fiction and song writing.
Thank you for reading. Now, let's go out and make some new mistakes.
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