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Post 21. Another good day, hopefully you guys had a good one. I got to hang out with some friends, play some tennis, and spent the evening going crazy on GTA V lol. Happy Halloween to all that celebrate it, I hope you had a safe and fun evening. Unfortunately I did not go out this year but I've already promised myself to have more fun with the holidays such as this starting next year. You only get to experience this life once so why not enjoy it. Days like today I realize even more just how important the small stuff is. Spending time with friends and just being social is a bit part of life and if you don't enjoy those in your circle just remember that you have control over who is a part of your day. No one wants to be alone. It's amazing to me how just a simple compliment could change someone's mood and day entirely. Days like today I'm even more motivated to reach my goals. I can't wait to have use my voice to help people and to be able to travel the wo...

Day 20. Go checkout, follow, and subscribe to these two guys: Greens Era & Boguards Anatomy They are both amazing people doing great things and show amazing support! If you guys read this, Thank you so much for the continued support, let's keep the family strong all the way! As I mentioned in a post a while ago, always remember family first. I also have a video on my channel where I talk a little on those that matter in your life which I'll link below. There are so many aspects to your life that shape your behavior and the people you surround yourself with play a major role. Link to the video is here For me I have found again my dreams to be a famous YouTuber and to be able to live a lifestyle where I don't have to trade so much of my time for money. Besides considering the social environment around me I already find it difficult as is to pursue these dreams as I struggle with my own issues that I'm dealing with. Honestly, rather than focusing on enjoying ...

Day 19. Stick to the schedule! Man, almost missed today's blog post. Today was a different kind of day. Spent more money on xbox live to play some video games with an old friend of mine, that was nice. It rained pretty much all day here but I didn't use the day as I had hoped. Scheduling is so important. Tomorrow will for sure be different as all the ideas I had planned to get done for the day will be written down for tomorrow. If you didn't know, just writing down your ideas plays such a big role, trust me. I'm so so happy to say I finally finished that video on my car I seem to have been working on for too long now, it's finally behind me. It's honestly not what I wanted it to be, I know I can do so much better, but it's done. It's all a process. The next will be better, and so will the one after that. But honestly that video I uploaded was not too bad, I chose the music way before I had the idea to make the video and I think it just flowed toget...

Day 18. Consistency is key. You can teach yourself to do anything, there's always room to grow. And on the contrary if you stop doing something or you weren't doing it to begin with, chances are you won't be able to do it. Although these blogs aren't necessarily a part of what I'm working on they help me to maintain consistency. Despite the ups and downs of the day when I come here to reflect, I get to reset. Everything is put back into perspective for me. Tomorrow is a new day. But for me tonight is not over, I'm gonna try to read a little from this book I'm borrowing, "How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling" by Frank Bettger. I also want to do more research on affiliate marketing tonight as I'm setting my plans into place as to how I plan to form my own business through affiliate marketing and direct selling both with e-commerce through Shopify and through my own platform. I'm so excited to get started with this stuff, ...

Day 17. Family first. Days like today I'm so thankful for, both to still be here to enjoy these moments with my friends and family as well as to be reawakened to the fact that tomorrow isn't guaranteed. What started off as another supposed free day for me quickly changed with plans set for me. I now look back and am so thankful for going out to spend time with my family, I needed it. If I ever reach my goals and successes I would literally and honestly have to be told that my family is okay and that I can focus on myself. I would and will give my family everything I have and will acquire, they deserve it and more. Family and friends will always be the first to doubt your dreams, but in the end they are the most important people for you to share your life with no matter what. Days like today I really hope and hope and hope I make it. This is the path I've chosen and no matter how hard things get I won't give up. Things are about to start changing. I make too many e...

Day 16. I don't know if we're truly getting better or worse as a society. With all else considered, are we really becoming more united here in the states? Are we really becoming great again? Here we are in 2017 and can you really say that the average quality of life is better than it was in the 70's? The 80's? Although the major influencers are saying that social media and screens are harming us as people are we really making strides towards correcting this? Or is everything just alright. Is this just the way it is, and with only more advancements in science and technology will this life become the normal? I am so glad to say that I've survived another ridiculous exam. I once again survived that 3 hour class, life goes on. But I'm so tired. Anyways I'm gonna get this post done, I'm gonna continue studying for tomorrow, and keep moving forward. Keep It Simple will serve as an educational based business where I hope to motivate, inspire, and educate...

Day 15. Today is another free day for me, I get to wake up late and choose how I want to spend my day. If you're new to these posts don't worry, no I am not financially free but rather than filling my schedule will useless things I only have college classes and a few hours of work on my schedule. Today was my free day, one of many for the week. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, even this simple awesome schedule I have is not ideal for me. I love the flexibility but I don't love what I'm doing. If you too don't love what you're doing you just have to remember that you have the a choice; the choice to do whatever it is that you want to do. I've referenced Tyrese Gibson several times now as I watch those motivational videos on YouTube almost daily now and I really enjoy those featuring my dude Tyrese. As he said in one of his videos, you do have a choice, you have a choice as to who you include, and what kinds of things you do with your day. We all hav...

Day 14. Another short post tonight, I need to get out of the habit of doing things that I don't want to. I need to know that I have a choice, we all do. As Tyrese Gibson said in that same video I've quoted several times now, just because they're your family, just because you've known them since middle school, you do not have to surround yourself with everybody. It's a choice. I sometimes find myself making choices considering everyone else's opinions but my own, but not anymore. Most people here in 2017 do not do for others as they would expect to be done to themselves. The world is cold. That does not mean that we must try to continue this trend, or act similar to others to fit in, rather you should strive to do better. People will hate you for being yourself but trust me that this hate is true, this hate involves jealously and envy. As the rich and famous seem to denounce, if you have haters you're doing something right. Today was a complete waste. Coll...

Day 13. Late nights, weird days, awesome people. I just hate the fact that I'm not doing anything. There's a phrase from Tyrese Gibson in a motivational video which I've referenced here in my blog before that goes something like, " just because you're doing a lot doesn't mean getting a lot done." That last part was terribly mis-phrased but I can't remember exactly how it went. Basically to me it means, just because you're sooo busy, you have so much going on/so many excuses, that doesn't mean you're actually getting stuff done. Day 13 into this and I've only really done 1 thing that has made me feel happy which was the product I sold on ebay which as of today was officially delivered! Anyways, just keep working and enjoy the process. Hard work and dedication will bring about positivity and results. Sorry guys it's late and I have an 8am tomorrow so I'm gonna finish the post here. Tomorrow's post will be much more ben...

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Day 12. Another good day. I am so relieved to announce that my E-bay product I sent out to a customer from Baltimore is indeed in transit and that I have not messed things up. If you haven't read my older posts, the item I sold was a small book and my final profit was about $2.50 but for me I am so happy. This was my first time selling anything online so this felt like a major milestone to hit. I dream to find work from home that can be made part time if not passive where I can create multiple streams of income for myself. I plan to do sales with Amazon's FBA program, sales on E-bay (arbitrage), as well as both affiliate and network marketing for sales. If you know nothing about me and what I do, I plan to motivate and educate others to chase their dreams and to strive for their bests. I personally have high financial goals and therefore if you too share these goals then you'll find my content beneficial as I plan to document and teach everything that I'm doing to ...

Day 11. Some days are just... needed. Today my friend/business partner and I went to our local Cars & Coffee meetup and my goodness. Expect to see some of what I captured while there in an upcoming video! If you're a car enthusiast then you'll be able to relate to my excitement but long story short, we never get anything exciting in Virginia honestly. I swear it seems like few people from VA go on to do big things in life, few celebrities come here, and everyone here is just old and most importantly old minded. This seems to be especially true when talking about the car community that at least comes to C&C RVA. But to get to the point, today was a day I'll never forget. I got to see a Ferrari 458, 2 more Nissan GT-R's (1 was a friend of mine, a regular), an R32 GT-R with the front end of a R-34 GT-R, and most importantly, 4 if not 5 or so BURNOUTS lol. I kid you not, watching those clips in my friend's video that's already live on YouTube of the burnout...

Day 10. Today was the family day, my grandma just got back from her cruise so the family and I went out to dinner with her. On a side note, Jesus Christ lol, what is going on with our country's politics? I'm over here working on goals and trying to do better in life, and apparently we could be at war anyday now. And on a more local note, more young people are dying by the day and younger kids are doing things older minded people like myself could never even imagine doing. Apparently a few kids at a school near my area here in RVA decided to post something to snapchat or some other social media app that now has them in the hot seat facing allegations of a hate crime, with pending FEDERAL charges. Lol, I don't mean to laugh but what in the world, what has our world come to. I'm trying so hard to make a name for myself and good lord if I ever achieve some status in this life I'm gonna give my all towards finding a solution to all this craziness. But back to the im...

Day 9. Yo today I sold my first ever product online. I've had one other sale before but I had to cancel it as I was already in the physical store (Best Buy) returning that product (Nikon D3400) as I saw the email from Amazon regarding the sale. Today I sold 1 of the many college textbooks I have sitting here in my room, about $2.50 profit lol. So much money, so much to be excited about. But seriously, this sale has motivated and excited me far more than anything I've done thus far. I felt so accomplished to see that I had make income while at home and honestly didn't have to do much. I took a few photos, made a good listing, began writing yesterdays post, and about 5 minutes later I received an email from E-bay and Paypal confirming the sale and the fact that money had been added to my account. =O I now want to keep selling, I honestly see myself selling everything I own for the thrill of it lol. But no, after sharing the news with my business partner (if you watch my Yo...

Day 8. I almost forgot to make today's post. I "did so much" today and even logged into my blog earlier but didn't start my entry. Today has been another one of those days. Today, well technically yesterday, was the start to my fall break from school. VCU doesn't give us a fall break, they give us Reading Days where we're allowed to stay home from class to read all day. Obviously no one gets to the reading part. Every other college in America is on fall break or at least has one around this time, so we use this break as ours. Thankfully I don't have classes on Mondays or Wednesdays so I really have been on break since last Friday considering the fact that I skipped one of two classes yesterday. The other class was cancelled anyways, instead we have this stupid mock interview to do via webcam. Today I played a bit of tennis then came home with the intent to get some work done on my computer. I have many old textbooks to sell, some other stuff to sell, I ne...

Hey what's up guys, just a continuation from earlier, I'm not starting a new post here but this entry will stay on the blog. I just wanted to come and reflect, I'm trying to stay positive, trying to maintain productivity. It just all sank in for me and I needed to let it out. It definitely sucks to be poor man, obviously. But as I look through potential cars for me to upgrade to it really sinks in. I want so badly to make my next purchase a good one but honestly I don't even want a new car. I'm looking through my options, options I can't even afford honestly, and it just sucks. I've gotten into cars so heavily over the past 12 months or so and have made so many friends and found so much motivation by them, but moments like now I simply don't care anymore. I can't afford a GT-R so why even look at them or talk about them. I realize at the end of the day that a car is just a material item and that I should be appreciative for what I have but sometimes ...

Day 7. It's getting cold here in RVA. Goodness this weather here is crazy, 85 degrees on Sunday and now 60 degrees on Tuesday as the high. Having to get up for that internship at 4 am was certainly not easy. I wanted so bad to film a bit, I even have some ideas for a video or two that involve me waking up that early for my internship. As my supervisor said in her evaluation of my performance, I need to be more proactive. Obviously I don't care about being more proactive in terms of helping the facility so I take that feedback and will begin taking more initiative on bettering myself when I can while in situations such as this internship where I don't want to be. To make the best of it. Days like today though I am able to reflect so much more. The only good part of my internship, getting to meet new people, has provided so much for me which matters more today than it ever has before. I've always valued the potential that meeting new people has to offer but when meeting ...

Day 6. Days like today are where I face the most challenge. I'm working so hard to make this my life, where I can just do what I want to. I often face the challenge of being unable to answer what it is that I want to do with my life but I know exactly what it is that I wanna do with my life. I don't want to live for someone else. I don't want to do the things that you want me to (college, internships working in crappy gyms), I don't wanna do any of that bs. I want to do what I want to do and it doesn't matter if I can't directly describe that to you in words at any given moment. I'm tired of being unhappy. Days like today where I have things that I should be doing (studying, spending hours at my internship location), but I don't have any plans for the day. No homework due in the upcoming days, no assignments to intern this week, all the "friends" are busy. So today marks the start of "No More." I won't allow myself to waste tim...

Day 5 It's okay to lose, you have to play to win, and to learn. If you can't handle a loss you'll never truly be ready for a win. I was undefeated with this local combo league of mixed double until today, I played with a racket that I found just yesterday and was not prepared at all for today. My partner and I fought hard, we had fun, and we went out swinging. Checkout my YouTube channel here I have so many small things to work on, so many things to get done so tonight's post may be shorter. And it was at that moment, I messed up. I went off track. Here we are at day 5 and I just about ended the night without even making this post. Today has just been that day, another day to learn from. We all make mistakes, nobody is perfect. It's about how you react, whether you choose to get back up after you fall as to whether it matters or not and believe me, I will get back up. Tomorrow, day 6, a day with no scheduled "plans" or places to be on my schedule. I...

Day 4 "Everyday we get stronger, everyday you get farther, everyday get better. Work hard, be consistent, dedicate yourself, take action today, keep going and you will find the way. You have to be able to see what doesn't exist. You will not out work me." Just a little motivation for you guys if you need it, I certainly do. Everyday we get better, and today is day 4 on the mission. Day 4 out of an eternity on the road to success and fame. I'm working to better myself, not to be better than others. I don't work for the approval, the acceptance, I don't work for other people; I'm doing what makes me happy. I'm trying so hard to keep this going, to get to the next level, and to be the best me that I can be and if you wanted to know this journey thus far has been hard. Being a guy who weighs around 150 pounds at just under 6 feet I find it hard to comprehend what people mean when they say that it's hard to lose weight. I hear it and see it all th...

Day 3 Another good day... The last words of a clip from today's upload on my channel here I went to my 8 am class today expecting a long and dreadful day. My supervisor asked if I could come in for my internship from 2 to 7 pm which I think I told you guys yesterday that I didn't want to do. Thankfully I didn't have to go in for the internship, rather I spent the day doing what I wanted to do. The professor of my 8 am class let us out early which helped a ton. I went home and after sitting for an hour maybe I decided to go back out to enjoy the day. I played a little tennis and then skated for a bit before finally coming home. Thankfully I did what I mainly intended on doing. My one and only goal when going out is to film more, I am so excited to build my YouTube channel and thankfully I filmed the last clip for today's upload. Anyways it's currently midnight, going on 1 am and tomorrow will certainly be a longer day. It's day 3, technically day 4 and we...

Day 2 I was supposed to have a new upload for my YouTube channel but I wasted the day. I spent nearly 2 hours chatting with a buddy of mine during the time I was supposed to be filming. Not only did I not go out to film, I'm also rushing my ideas into play. I want to get things rolling on my channel so badly it hurts. I have an 8am class in the morning which I don't want to go to. I told my supervisor I'd come in for my internship tomorrow from 2-7pm and I really don't want to do this. So much stuff negative, so much stuff I'm doing that I'm not happy with. On to the good stuff... I will go out and film some clips in the morning before my class. I'm hoping to have a new video ready for my channel by tomorrow night. The video will feature my car and some updates as to my ownership of it. I've recently hit a major milestone that to me seems pretty cool. I have so many ideas, both for the now and to be done once I've made some progress with my c...

Hey guys thanks for checking out this post. I'm gonna try to make this a daily thing where I'll reflect on my life, provide motivation, educate you on topics, share experiences, and talk on other cool stuff so make sure you keep coming back! This blog were serve as my personal platform to communicate with you guys aside from the vlogs on my YouTube channel . I have said something similar to this, made a similar promise to myself to speak with you guys on a daily basis and have since not held true to it. This time will be different. Through my social media and this blog I plan to document my journey through this last year of college and into the work force. I was a Scholar student all throughout middle school, attended Thomas Jefferson High School where I completed the International Baccalaureate program, and am now working towards my goals as a current 5th year senior. My plan is to help those that need it in any way that I can. I too understand the struggles of getting t...