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Meet Dereck a guy that has decided to pack his bags and tour around the southeast this winter by bike, gather sponsors for the trip and donate money to charity. This he calls C.U.B.E.

Like most goal seekers (like me) he has had to modify his goal slightly to make this work.

He also needs your help to make this happen.

Please view his website and if you feel like I do, please give consideration.

Is there a time when you are so content with your life that you stop challenging yourself?

I hope there is never a time in my life that this question gets a yes answer.

Of course you want to stop and smell the roses. You want to take in the beauty around you and develop a peace within yourself that makes you content with life at the moment. Never do you want to relax so much that you dwell on previous accomplishments that you have no ambition to plant new seeds to smell the roses in the next spring.

My life has been a series of events that have led me from one path to another. Each new adventure has it’s own story and amazing moments that define who I am today. Without the lost loves, broken hearts, and curiously incredible mistakes. I would never had the ability to experience the beautiful sunsets,  wonderful people, and <insert special secret moment here>

I believe, for the most part, that I strive for happiness everyday. Realistically actually achieving happiness every single day is improbable. Life should have it’s up and downs. Some of the downs just suck. There is nothing you can do about it.

I am going to end this here with this note: If you cannot accomplish nothing else, breath. live. Now. and repeat as often as possible.

I am moving to Los Angeles in the begining of November.

In the last year, I have much happen to me. Some good; some bad. I am not the kind of person that takes my days lightly. I wake up get my breakfast, get a shower, go to work. But I also look for new ways to expand or achieve my goals. When I arrived in Lexington I told myself I will stay here for a few months and then go to California.

Well something happened, ok many things but the biggest one was putting off that goal to get to California. I would want to settle here, then I wanted to leave. Back and forth like a lazy swing in the summer breeze that has enough perpetual motion to keep going for months on end. Last month was my last procrastinating that I was going to do. I challenged myself to get contacts in the LA area that could help mentor me on my way to become the filmmaker that I wanted to be.

I received a response.

Then I thought, well I can get a place of my own, live here for another year and then …..wait, what? Why am not packing my bags and leaving - oh yeah I have decent job, of course it is not what I want to do, but it pays, not so much. I have so many reasons not to make this leap to that I could keep myself here forever.

List of reasons to not leap:

1. Probably fail (this one is easily dismissed by me - I will fail if I don’t go)
2. Probably won’t follow through (This is a biggie for me)
3. Not enough money to leap
4. I am 42 (not a spring chicken)

Following Through: This is a toughie, see if I follow through I reap the rewards of being accomplished. I am not going to expound on the opposite of this for my own reasons - I cannot and will not let this be the only thing to stop me and I hope through this blog I can follow through.

Not Enough Money to Leap: Yeah I don’t know what to do about this except save the money from my job for the next two months and I will place ads at the bottom of my posts, I hope it does not become intrusive and I know that it won’t make enough for me to live, but maybe, just maybe it will buy me a bagel in Los Angels.

I am 42: For me being 42 does not mean anything except for a number of years that I have existed on this material plane. I am grateful for the years so this does not translate into any fear except those placed upon me through the outside world.

I was told when I was very very young, that I could do anything that I wanted to do, sell anything that I believed in to anyone. Wow, those are some powerful attributes to place on someone so young. I feel that I was given this boost in ego by this person because of several reasons, but the biggest thing that came of it, is that I STILL BELIEVE IT.

So follow me, if you will, on my journey to California and beyond. Maybe we will learn something.