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Life In Fast Forward?
Welcome to the online home of me, some guy given the name John Cleveland Payne. In the grand scheme of life, I am just another guy with another blog. But to myself, and hopefully to all of you who actually read this, I am something a little more special. From a young age, I fell in love of the idea of ‘the message’ and medium in which you try to transmit.

Basically, everyone has a message to give to the world. Some are basic, some complex, some have the power to up lift and some are just out there to bring as many people down as possible. But everyone has a message, and most people have problems identifying their message. And the ones who get that far can seem to figure out how to get the world to listen.

Well, I have a message, and this is where I will get a chance to share it. Hopefully, you’ll get plenty of things to keep you motivated or inspired, provide knowledge and comfort, and just have a little fun. Apologies for the state of flux and state of seemingly confusing messages that you’ll get here for a while, as I am doing a lot of personal soul searching, and scrubbing of old ideas to take the best of the past to build a new beginning.

In 2007, I changed the name of blog from “The Mis-Adventures Of The Jazzy Cool One” to “Life In Fast Forward.” I began to tear down old blogs and newsletters and try to find places for them here. My goal is to take the focus off of me the person, and show the world the life I live and share with every human on the planet. I aspire to life at a very high standard, and instead of dealing with people who rather slow us down, I want to find ways to help people pick up there own pace. As you get to see an insight to the further adventures I hope to lead, hopefully you’ll enjoy the ride, and want to come along.

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Introducing...The Anti-Bio
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Inspired by Drea Knufken at BusinessPundit.com (and crossposted at Cool Corporate dot COM).

For those of you having trouble putting down your accomplishments in a CV, resume, or traditional biography, try a new exercise: The Anit-Bio.

This is my attempt here:

J Cleveland Payne hates his bio. While he is extremely proud of all his accomplishments, he hates having to take the time to write them down.

Payne has always been more comfortable being a little bit socially awkward, and spent the bulk of his life trying to prove to others that he was a slacker, and his master plan to accomplish this was by working hard at every day at making sure the job was always done to the best level possible (not one of his more well thought out plans, but he’s had worse). From this, Payne acquired a work ethic that is second to no one, and the ability to outperform in just about any task put in front of him. Payne has never let minor details like lack of talent, resources, or authority get in the way of getting the job done.

Payne has come up with a title to describe his work self: Reluctant Jack Of All Trades Looking To Become A Master In Something. Current goals are to survive the week without killing someone. Future goals include becoming a college business professor (small school, junior college, or vo-tech), a consultant for businesses and personal development, a certified fitness instructor, a certified life, life coach, and a radio talk host (a regular radio talk show host with a regular gig...and getting paid for it).

Payne created “10 Rules For Life” as a basis of his personal beliefs and motivation, but his simply life goal is to live a life by the Yiddish word chutzpa, to live without apologies.

Payne works best when he is in the capacity of being a catalyst, able to make things around him work better without changing, or at least overly taxing, himself. He also works fairly well as a filter or gatekeeper, keeping unwanteds of various kinds out and only allowing the wanted or not-necessarily-wanted-but-necessary in.

Payne believes you can't judge anything, especially life, on a scale of 1 to 10 unless you begin with something that is worth a one and something that's worth a 10, and a lot of things in between.

Payne likes to think of himself as being in the people business. His products are tools and systems used to help people get their business off the ground and keep them in gear.



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This Or That's For 8-17-08
Sunday, August 17, 2008
20 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Sunday (Marc and Angel Hack Life)
http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/07/24/20-questions-you-should-ask-yourself-every-sunday/
If you believe reflection is the key to progression, here are twenty question to ponder on to either end your week or plan your next one...

5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week (Dumb Little Man)
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/08/five-reasons-to-write-down-everything.html
And while you're at it, get a little notebook and begin a food diary. And be honest. You'll thank me latter...

"Who could it be...now?" Who do you need...on your team? (Your Best Just Got Better)
http://www.jasonwomackblog.com/working_outwhile_youre_ou/2008/08/who-could-it-be.html
You should also start talking to your friends and associates. They might have that little tidbit of knowledge you are looking for...

Hump Day Wisdom: Out of the Mouth of Teens… (Entelechy Partners)
http://www.entelechypartners.com/blog/?p=66
And finally, a list of wise lessons learned by a 13-year-old on a long summer camping trip. Maybe you should try to pick up a little from his experience too...





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A Real Change A'Coming
Doing some work on reorganizing and simplifying my online presence. A big step was re-renaming this blog back to serve its original purpose, to highlight all this I want to about me. I am in turn creating a blog specifically for Fast Forward: Media - Marketing - Life Management, to be completed in a few days. Look for the switch in a few days...

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A Quick Eval Can Help You Keep Your Performance Edge
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
A little note to the people actually in the media on what to do to make sure that you are giving your audience a great performance pretty much every time.

At the end of your performance, show, set, whatever, take a moment to revisit what you just did. Just take a moment for a mental review, and maybe scribble down a few quick notes.

Then, ask yourself two questions: “What did I just do that makes me glad I'm famous/the big fish in the pond/the name on the door?” and “What did I just do that makes me glad I'm not that famous/that big of a fish/the name on the door?” Ask the same questions of all involved with your show.

Compare the answers to the two questions. Contrast what's good and what's bad, and with enough of these quick evaluations in succession, you get a pretty good picture of how well you actually perform on a consistent basis. With this little evaluation exercise, you may be able to truthfully evaluate yourself and know if your performance are going in the right direction.




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Life Lesson: Don't Stop Growing
Sunday, August 10, 2008
If you’re not growing you’re dying.

If you’re not growing, you’re getting behind.

Anything that is not helping you grow, advance, or get bigger and better is just slowing you down, taking you down, and wasting your time.

And it doesn’t take much.

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The Power Of Physical Photographs
As I spent a few hours this afternoon procrastinating cleaning out my office, I got to go through three entire shoe boxes worth of pictures which I had stashed in the closet. In the quest to declutter my world and life, I had every intention to get rid of as many of them as possible.

While I was able to whittle down my collection to just one over stuffed shoebox, the enjoyment I got from going through the years of memories was immense.

Even thought I only take digital picture these days, and rarely print my pictures, I get much more enjoyment from showing off a photo one at a time in my hand as opposed to the only way I do it now a days, on a slide show in my Palm TX.

Technology has made digital photography the norm. Once you get over the expense of the camera, you’re all set for limitless use of it. Unlike with my old expensive 35mm SLR, I don’t have to buy film, decide whether to pay money for processing or time for my own development (what am I saying? I’ve never processed my own film…), and hope for the best. I can take as many pictures on my expensive digital SLR, with the only limit being the space available on my memory card, erase the bad ones in the camera, and publish the photos instantly with just a few clicks of a mouse to an infinite amount of people and platforms.

And while I am a pack rack in the physical world (three boxes of old photos) and on my computer (I’ve been living on 4% disk space for 8 months), it’s not to same when I stumble on a folder of long forgotten digital pics on my laptop. It’s the same distraction I get from the box of photos in the closet, just not the same experience.

Blame the pictures partially. Chances are, unless your kids are under 10, you’re not going to find many silly playtime pictures on your computer. And you’re not going to find any of your old summer camp pictures, or your parents wedding pictures or pictures of your granddad playing catch with your dad, or anything similar on some old thumb drive in the back of your desk drawer. Unless you’ve made a very deliberate effort to get all those pictures scanned for sharing or safe keeping. Which is another task or procrastination consolidation that I am taking on.

So it’s taken me close to a decade to throw away some of the pictures today. I zapped digital pictures I don’t like without much of a thought. That also comes from the physical nature of the photo, mostly, “This is an awful shot, but I paid cash money…”

If you still keep those old photos in shoe boxes, cherish them as the treasures that they are. But now may be the time to bring them closer to your life, getting them digitized, and shared with a new generation that isn’t as fond for a stack of Polaroids as you were as a kid.




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