Coincidences

I've always had strangely perfect coincidences in my life. Once my
friend and I were seperated as children and I guessed the way fo find
him. I'd applied for student loans for college and I get a call that
there's a program I didn't know about that I qualify for that paid for
my entire education. I went to the people that hired me as a poker
dealer to chat not knowing they'd called me an hour earlier to ask if
I'd wanted a job. I picked the one company at a huge job fair that
hired me for my sales job. Today I had another. I went to the midnight
showing of "Inception" at a local casino. I get there at 11:45 pm, go
to the elevators and a nice young lady steps out thinking she was at
the ground level. She gets back in and we ride down. She and I step
off and we part ways. The movie ends and I go back to my car. The time
is 2:50 am. She gets on the elevator and rides up. While I'm driving
home I wonder about the meaning of what just happened, and curse
myself for not speaking to her. Then when I get home, I press play on
my iPod. I always select a song before I leave so when I get home I
don't have to. I selected "Good morning beautiful" by Brad Paisley. I
love this song, it always reminds me of my college crush. So there you
have it. What a day. The worst part was she was really pretty and IMHO
I blew it. Oh well. Que sera, sera. I just needed to share that. Happy
Friday. And despite these coincidences or because of them, I'm goin'
up! :) $$

What is your purpose

I created this blog to catalog the creation of my website business.
I've lost my focus my numbers reflect that. Therefore until I have
news about the site I'm not going to post any longer. Till then, I'm
goin' up! :) $$

Why I'm buying iPhone 4

Before I go in to the reasons I plan on buying an iPhone 4 let me
first cover why I bought my iPhone 3G. Last March I read a news story
that said that AT&T was spending more than $20Billion on it's network
and was creating thousands of new jobs. I'd been having trouble with
my old phone so I'd decided I wanted a new phone and I wanted that
phone to be serviced by AT&T. I looked at the phones AT&T had availabe
at the time and decided to get an iPhone because it was an amazing
device. I loved the virtual keyboard, the apps I could get, I loved
this phone. Fast forward to a few weeks ago: Apple releases the iPhone
4 and I go to a local apple store to test one out. I'd heard rumors
that the latest iPhone had more RAM so I tested this. I went to my
favorite website and loaded several news stories. My iPhone 3G crashes
once I close a news story. Always has. But I load the iPhone 4 full of
news stories, and later with commment threads and it never crashes.
The rumors of more RAM are true. Tonight, I was loading pics from a
site I frequent and every time I'd save a picture, the phone would
crash. Every. Single. Time. And frankly, I'm sick of it. Therefore,
I'm buying an iPhone 4 as soon as I can get one. Now it has it's
downsides, I've always held my phone with my left hand so I'll have to
change that. Also, I'm going to have to sign a new contract with AT&T
but so be it. They have ok service and it's frankly I can't afford the
phone otherwise. But tonight was the straw that broke my back. I'm
sick and tired of having a phone that doesn't have the RAM to do what
I want to do. So as soon as I can, I'm getting an iPhone 4. Until
then, goodnight and good luck. I'm goin' up! :) $$

A taste of things to come

Almost 3 months ago to the day, I wrote a post saying I knew that I
couldn't pay my rent for May. Because of this, I went back to work.
And since then I've been working to create the life I dream of. And
since then I've fallen flat on my face in the process. I've been at my
job for 13 weeks and in that time I've made a commission check 3
times. And of those none have been for more than $400. Last Saturday,
my boss told me the following: Have a minimum of $5,000 in setting
volume by next week or you're done. And lo and behold, it's Thursday
and I have NOTHING on the board. So barring a miracle, I'm going to be
fired on Saturday. Which is ok. I understand they aren't running a
charity. If I can't produce, they need to fill my desk with someone
who can produce. The fact is that although I can make sales, my heart
simply isn't in sales anymore. To see why I have to go back in time a
bit. Last March, I went to my local AT&T store to get an iPhone. This
was my first major step toward becoming a Nevada citezen. Not the
iPhone per se but a local number. Remember at this point I'd been at
my job for about 18 months. The fact is that for the first time I felt
that mabey I'd found a potential career. I didn't love sales but I
made ok money and I liked most of the people I worked with. After all,
two out of three ain't bad. For the first time I felt reasonably
secure in my job so I applied to get a house. And as I've covered
before that blew up in my face. This is without a doubt the most
important event in my life because I was enlightened. In order to live
the life I desire, I can't simply wait until I have a good week or
two, I can't try to save my way to financial security. If I'm to
create the life I want I have to go take it. Which brings me to the
here and now. I've been working since I quit my old job, a total of 10
months with one goal in mind. Financial freedom. It's become
abundantly clear to me that I can never achieve my goals in sales.
Therefore, I need a change. And starting next Monday everything will
change. I might even be leaving Las Vegas. Not drinking myself to
death, actually leaving the city. If the opportunity presents itself,
you never know. I'm actually excited for what's to come. Nervous yes,
but excited. It's a great time to be alive in America. So stay tuned.
Until next time, have a great July 4th weekend, be safe and remember,
I'm goin' up! :) $$