Discipline

Discipline makes me feel good.  Strict discipline increases productivity by an insane amount.  Today I realized that.  I made a list of things I needed to do today.  I did them and had time left over before I had to go to work.  I could have slept in and piddled around until work today but I didn't and it feels great.  I've done that sort of thing so many times before.  Another thing that helped was that I organized my goals, made them concise and clear, made a plan to efficiently complete them and went and did them.  One of my biggest struggles to productivity is just getting around to doing something because I don't plan it out and see where it will fit into the day.  Productivity must be prepared for so that means I need to go to bed in the next 20 minutes.  Good sleep helps but today the most important part was taking 30 minutes this morning and having quiet time getting my thoughts, focus, and mental state right.  I've got a goal in this life and I'm competing with a lot of other people for success so I must accomplish my goals.  My life purpose has to do with rejecting fear and pursuing my purpose.  I don't know if that is the key to success but we shall see, and I'm feeling pretty confident.  Read this in 5 or 10 years and see where I am then.  Keep in mind there are spiritual practices along with the morning routine that I believe are very important.  You can ask me more about that if you want.  I'm going to sleep right now :)

I Must be Trippin'

Bear with me as I seek to explain why life seems to go by exponentially faster.  When we first grasp the concept of time and we measure it without any set time we base lengths of time compared to our own life span so far.  When I was 6 and I had to wait another year for Christmas to come again that was an added sixth of my life I had to wait.  Now that I'm 24 that's only another 24th of my life, which 1/24 is considerably less than 1/6.  As we get older we base a year's length relative to our lifetime so as we get older a year starts to approach zero so it gets smaller and smaller.  I hope that makes sense.  It's something my dad told me once and I think there is some merit to it.

That all is relative to me "trippin'" because pretty soon I'm gonna be old and I have to do awesome things now.  I've been working hard and saving my money like a miser for something for several years now.  I save for things that I haven't thought up yet so when I think of them I have the funding to do them at that moment.

Anyway, I've decided to go on the most ridiculous trip of my life (hopefully not).  I will of course be starting in Florida and I will roughly head north, then west, then at some point come back to Florida.  That has to do with how far I've gotten and how much money I have left.  Thus far I'm planning on leaving in Late April.  That will get me lined up good for the Tennessee Classic and a Turkey hunt that I was invited on.  I'm making a map of friends in North America and this is what I have so far.  I guess I'm a little thin out west but I'm sure I'll make plenty of new friends out there!

So the plan is to do this in the 86 Toyota van that I got for $800.  That's the main reason that I say this trip is ridiculous.  It's only got about 82k miles on it so I have high hopes. 

The purpose of this trip is to see friends, see nature from all over this beautiful country.  It's amazing to be able to travel such long distances in relative safety and I'm blessed to be in a place and time where that is possible.  Along the way I want to hit huge expanses of wilderness and just head out into them for a couple days and see what's out there.  I'm interested in finding animals, natural materials, and anything beautiful in nature.  I want to capture what is so amazing about nature on my camera and put out videos during my trip.  So here's what's bouncing around my head at the moment:  Film and edit as I go and release videos, these wilderness trips will be for AnimalBytesTV, I'll also film other shenanigans which will go on my personal channel, like the Turkey hunt, and go on adventures with old friends and new.

Videoing and documenting everything that happens is really important to me so I have already started with documenting the process of transforming my van into a camper van.  The first two videos are below.  Be sure to subscribe to my channel and join me on my adventure!