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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15 Things I've Learned In 2007
Monday, December 31, 2007
15 Things I've Learned In 2007
I may have been born middle-aged, but it only takes a short amount of hard times to feel really old.
Life is easier to live if you have your own set of standards in place to live by.
Life then gets harder to live if you have your own set of standards in place to live by, but then don't live by them.
Spending quality time with kids and puppies will always frustrate and amaze you.
If you're bored, then you're boring. Do something about it.
Even if everyone has there own tempo, you can still find a way to dance along side those around you.
Preaching to the choir can get pretty old.
When you hit your 30's, your musically taste hits a time warp, where all the songs from ten years earlier sound much better than today's crap.
You can never add enough hot sauce.
You are the books you read and own. You want to be the music you listen to and own.
You've got to have good friends to share joy, pain, and shifts digging holes to bury the bodies.
Never mind that Pacino played a Sicilan in The God Father and a Cuban in Scarface.
The biggest personal sin is knowing you're slowing down the bunch by being the weakest link, but not trying to pick up the pace.
The best years of your life are always ahead of you.
If you love to do it, find a way to do it.
That's it Here's to learning even more in 2008. Feel free to steal this stolen idea for yourselves and post your own.
A painful realization just came to me as I am sitting at the Barnes & Noble Cafe trying to catch up on some work as I am in chaotic limbo with Internet access at home (more on the moving process later. The short answer on internet access is I have no phone nor furniture at the old apartment but no heat at the news house). In order to live a life in fast forward, as the title of my newly rechristened blog would suggest, there ought to be a lot more forward thinking in my actually life, and a lot less worrying about things past and sulking about lack of things present.
I also realize I'd love to say I truly live in the moment, with full security of the things past and mostly optimistic focus on things about to come. Both realizations are not very new or mind-shattering to me, just kinda odd that that the process of moving and being forced with bodily harm for not told to take the day off for President's Day triggered the thought. Maybe my problem isn't that all of a sudden I can't juggle multiple thoughts. Maybe my problem is my fear to relinquish lack of relinquishing thoughts on what I can't or shouldn't need to control in hopes of making the future a little smoother.
In order for more innovation and adaptation from me, I'm going to have to drop some real dead weight, not just stuff that takes up my time that i could be working on that dead weight. The greater good and my personal sanity really do depend on me getting a good grasp of what's important and stimulates growth in my life, my 5 to 9 9 to 5, and my private business affairs.
As always, its easier said than done, but I might want to figure out how to make it done before I work myself into a stroke.
New Name...Hopefully Many More New Posts To Come...
Thursday, February 15, 2007
From this point on, the title of this blog will be "Life In Fast Forward," which is about the state my life is in right now (for good or ill), with the official subtitle, "The Further Mis-Adventures of the Jazzy Cool One."
I'm not sure how a quick title change (and hopefully a new domain name) is going to fix my working 20 hours a day problem and allow me both a actual life and actual time to post regularly to any blog. But it darn sure makes me feel better for the moment. My goal is to get more posts in as I wrangle with the struggle to get my life in back order after allowing things that were beyond my control get...well, beyond my control.
I made a pledge at the new year to accomplish an insane amount of goals, and then spent the month of January watching my world spiral out of control. I put up plenty of fight, but none of the battles in those 31 days where going to be won. However, the war is far from over, and even if I haven't exactly hit that turning point to the way back to being on heading to the top, I plan on getting there soon...or taking a whole lot of folks with me if I'm doing down...
