Let’s have fun and Amp It Up!

1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again.

13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this – ever.

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?

16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.

21. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.

22. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

25. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?

26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

27. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

28. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is. Maybe multitasking’s not so good for me?

Have a fun day! Remember, no matter how you approach it, the next 24 hours will pass, anyway!

Huh! …you may say.  Well.  Better get busy there.

If you’re scratching your head as to why the Possibility Chick is posting about broadband, then you might want to read this latest report from the OECD regarding the connection between investments in communucation infrastructure and economic recovery: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/43/42799709.pdf.

Plus!  Imagine what it will be like when $80M appears in Miami-Dade to connect public institutions at very high speeds so that they can do new and amazing things that they haven’t even yet imagined.

I am.  I can see the Miami-Dade of the future, and I can’t wait to share this vision of what we can become.

If we can envision it, we can become it.  We can turn our possibilities into reality.

First step: submit application tomorrow.  Second step: move into the “due diligence” phase.  Stay tuned!

Are you trying to balance bringing a dream to life with the demands of your current life?  Does it seem as if you constantly prioritize that which you “should” do over that which you wish to do, that your focus and activities continue to be centered on the way the things are instead of the way you’d like them to be?

I know that I struggle with this, and a conversation I had yesterday made me realize why that is.  I was wondering how to further my own creative process when I happen to be involved in a pretty intense client project that is not only taking up much of my time but also a lot of my creative brain power.  Now this has been a choice, of course.  I want to provide excellent value to my clients, so my brain naturally mulls the best ways to deliver that value, even when I’m not billing my time.  I’ve found it very hard to compartmentalize that. 

I’ve come to realize that the nature of my work for my clients creates pull.  That is, because I am responsible to someone else for delivering results, my client projects have a certain gravity that draws me to them.  My dreams, meanwhile, are only important to me.  If I do something about them today or I don’t, only I (and maybe a few close people) know that.  The threads of my dream that I have already drawn out of the ether lay fallow, humming and vibrating, but getting quieter and more still the longer I let them lie.  Eventually, if I don’t go back and pluck at them again, they will melt back into nothingness as if I had never raised them up in the first place.  Only I will remember that they ever existed.  This is the inescapable truth about being the master creator of your life:  You’re not done until the dream is real. 

My dreams, therefore, require push.  I have to focus on them and expend energy on them and cajole them along if they are to come true.  If I don’t apply push, they don’t happen.  So I thought, how can I get my dreams to pull, rather than require push?  Some great ideas came to mind.

First, invest.  I have to take a risk.  I have to take a big step, the taking of which will require me to expend energy toward my dream.  For me, some risks might include borrowing money, or renting a bigger office, or hiring more people.  Or all of those.  I have to get the world’s hooks tangibly into me and my dream so that I am obligated to move forward.

Second, share.  Tell everyone that I’m going to take the big risk, take it, and then tell everyone that I took it.  Send out an announcement. Have a party in my new office.  Introduce my new hires. 

In retrospect, I realize this worked with the writing of my book.  I purposely kept telling everyone that I was writing it, and then every time I ran into anyone, I was asked, “How’s the book coming?”  “What’s up with the book?”  The whole world, it seemed, was invested in my dream. 

But for the world to get invested, I need to get invested first.  So off I go, because I have a lot to do!  Stay tuned for what happens next!

So we shall start all over again.  

Today I feel compelled to mention the economy. Okay, so I have. That’s about as much attention as you should spend on it, too.  Envision a perfectly healthy economy, for sure, but focus even more so on your vision.  

Focus on what you want to create instead of on what you don’t want to create.  That focus will keep you moving in the right direction.

Wishing you every possibility! –Kim