Spit & Spat

Good quote: "I am what survives of me." - Eric Erikson

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Useful Time Mangement Video from Carnegie Mellon: http://ping.fm/dPwrc

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Useful Time Management video from Carnegie Mellon: http://ping.fm/0u6hG

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Benefits of Pissing People Off: http://ping.fm/3oDJi

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My new fave quote from Jeep ad: "seizing every moment instead of watching the minutes."

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Shifting Focus: Coming Down and Moving Up

Life is glorious change. And so it means growing, shifting and trying things. So I'm gonna try it with my website. Created for play and as a learning tool, my existing personal site, ChelseaRocks.info, has been my platform for practicing my multimedia development skills over the past 2 years. Now it's time to grow.

Why scrap and move on...but, mostly, why blog about it to everyone? Because who cares what one girl's doing in her life and her thoughts about it! Does it relate to you? How does it really matter to your life, other than being a tiny detail about where I am these days or what I'm doing? Really--who cares!

Why do you read magazines or books, visit websites and keep up with the news?

Because it matters to you and your life in some way.

You read and visit the sites because it keeps you in tune with society, updates you on something or helps you improve yourself. You learn tips for how to lose 10 pounds or have better sex, check the scores from last night's game, read opinions about news topics, and so on. Beyond helping you and your own goals, your interest probably fades pretty quickly.

But I want to matter to you! I want you to want to come to my blog, enjoy reading and even consider what I'm saying later in your day when you're somewhere else. My blog site needs to give you something: inspiration, information, guidance, camaraderie...something.

To aim to do that for you is very ambitious and almost ridiculous or pompous to think that I can do so. But I'm going to try. Chelsea-Rocks.info is going to come down and Rock-the-Journey.com will be born. Rock-the-Journey.com will have links to articles and blogs that inspire me, key points to stay motivated, and descriptions of experiences that I think will be useful to you as you go for your own goals. It will be aimed towards you who are trying to reach goals and not lose stamina. Starting from the beginning not really knowing what you're doing, or how to get what you want--but keeping with it anyway. Obviously I don't have those answers. But it's what I'm going through. I hope I can be comforting or inspiring by talking about it and sharing resources.

Thanks so much for those of you who have been reading my stuff so far. It's an honor to write something you take a moment to read. May I be able to give something back.

Labels: challenges, change, life, motivation

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Insightful Words About Creating Personal Change

From one of my favorite bloggers, Yaro Starak and his Blogging To Awareness posts: a discussion of creating personal change, pursuing your goals and taking charge of your life if you have the courage to do so. These words stuck with me this evening:

"Once you gain the power by becoming self aware of your own voice inside your head and how you perceive the world around you, half the battle is won. You are in control and that will always be the case no matter what happens to you or your environment.

Creating positive change in your life begins with how you interpret life itself. If you want things to change for the better, the first step is to make the choice to see the world in a way that is beneficial, on the inside. The outside world is always open to interpretation, and you will never know the real truth, so why not create perceptions that help you?

The key take away from this article is self awareness is the first step towards creating the change you want, in fact, it is all you ever need if you really drill down to it. You are the master of your own universe."

Labels: confidence, perception, personal excellence, self-awareness

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