D Ford

4/29/18 we're going to own this, we won't let tomorrow or this challenge in general defeat us, we are going to prove it to everybody. this is not the end; this is only the beginning I want to give up, I say I'll never do this college thing again, I complain/complain/complain about my life's situation, and I simply don't want to move forward but we can't have this, we can't allow this. this is my life, we only get to do it once. your life's circumstances do not define you, what defines you comes from within. it's not about your degrees, money in your bank account, or other certificates and achievements. it's about what you do, it's about how much heart and courage you have to do the things that you get done tomorrow is the challenge, these past 5 years have been the challenge, life is a challenge. we will defeat this, together you don't need the motivational videos, you don't need mom or dad's help, you just have to get u...

4/27/18 less than 2 weeks. oh my god guys this is huge, life is about to change, change in a major way whether we want it, whether we're ready or not $31,000 in debt, but no more homework, no more projects I become a slave to america but no longer will I be a "student" it's time to start doing the real things that I have to be doing to be able to do the stuff that I actually want to be doing in life period no more wasting time; I struggle with prioritizing but now I have become a man on a mission I don't even desire to form any new relationships not for business or work, I don't even want to purchase or even think about cars or other material items, and I most certainly don't want to spend my time doing things with the inclusion of people that aren't getting me closer to my goals. this is my time I love to drive I love helping people I like a flexible schedule I like to be able to keep moving and not just sit behind a desk for 40 hours...

4/9/2018 Monday's are always long days, all we can do is make the best of them start the week off right finally gonna spend some time doing what I want to be doing tonight, I'm so excited if only I were done with my internship, it's the only thing keeping me busy right now short term goals launch the website by 4/16 (next Mon) filming IG intro video for YouTube channel YouTube videos starting new theme for the channel as student/entrepreneur/go for your goals for the website? NEED TO BE ALWAYS FILMING purchases maybe car decal maybe new pair of jeans creative stuff for YouTube channel RS logo for car new camera tripod stupid exam for school need to check on student loans also selling old textbooks graphene speed pro there's so much going on right now 😕 but we keep moving forward

3/26/2018 thank goodness, we didn't have nutrition today. that class honestly sucks, the professor is horrible honestly (asshole), and I really don't think more than half the class will retain at least 50% or more of the material post graduating from college. I'll never change my opinion on this it's been another one of those Mondays. unfortunately I witnessed an older woman crash into the side of a parked car as she tried to pull out from behind it. it's not even about age but I certainly have noticed that people who become more experienced with life if you will, or become less involved or caring/aware of their behavior, tend to lose perspective. these are the people that may be more vulnerable to ridiculous errors such as what I saw today. a test this week with a project due in the same class all on the same day, a test next Monday with a project due in my internship's parent class, so much work I managed to help a friend of mine, always makes me happy...

3/19/2018 It's Monday Let's go! Let's make today a great day, Let's own it I've cleaned up a little, working on the business now, about to get in a good workout before my LONG BORING nutrition class my plan is to get a video done today, idk if I want to bring my camera out so I may use my iPhone for this, we'll see I always hope to do multiple posts and say I'll make the posts better day by day but tbh it's tough. I can't give too much priority to this blog considering it's low value to what I'm doing but I have much appreciation for the few of you that do read my blog and keep up with what I'm doing. I'm really hoping to make the transition over to uploading very frequently on my YouTube channel and build my audience there. As much as I am not looking forward to my nutrition class I am motivated to get out. I'm going to own today. unfortunately thus far (I nearly forgot) I've already skipped my 12pm class but ho...

3/10/2018 it's Saturday already, and it's early. well early enough for my friends from other parts of the world to hopefully see this while the sun is still up. tomorrow's my last day of spring break in what hopefully and I know will be my last semester of college. I didn't have the experience I wanted to with this break but I will try my best to go into these last 8 weeks with more energy and focus to essentially finish strong. the first half was tough and we had some great highlights, this last half of the semester will be equally as difficult if not even more difficult but we can do it. I hate making bold statements such as "today starts," or "today marks the first day I..." so I will just say this, I am planning to take better care of my physical health. I need to stretch more, I want to get on a schedule for my strength training (just push-ups and small stuff), and I want to learn to back flip. Being able to do a back flip and have better bod...

3/7/2018 welp, another long day at the internship, but we made it. I managed to pull off 15 hours exactly for this week, 3 hours then 2 hours then 10 full hours today. thankfully this means I'm not only about 35 hours behind where I need to be but my plan is to essentially force myself into finishing this internship quickly. I thankfully was able to speak with the marketing director for the club today and that for sure benefited me on my journey. I feel so noobish and weak when speaking to people who are happy and successful in life, I feel as if I'm so far behind, which I am. as I always mention, I don't live with any regrets nor am I truly unhappy but I am unhappy with where I am and with my current situation, I want more in life. this unhappiness and desire for more only motivates me to keep working harder. I keep being reminded of my age and to remember to enjoy life but honestly I don't want to do anything other than work right now. and this feeling honestly ...

3/4/2018 another good Sunday, boy oh boy am I getting old lol well I'm officially on my "break" and to be honest this week needs to be worse than normal. I really need to just spend my entire life over at my internship to catch up on my hours especially considering my goal of finishing my hours before it gets too close to the end of the semester. I also need to catch up and make progress with my other classes while I have time. I have a major project in my nutrition class that I plan to make progress with and honestly finish before going back to classes next week. Thankfully it's still Sunday, in fact... coffee time (I'll be back) about an hour later.. I've got my coffee, finished my dinner and am ready to roll 😎 it's about 7pm right now, haven't heard from my supervisor in spite of the fact that I have already planned to and no matter what will be spending some time with him tomorrow. but it's about 7pm right now on my last day of the weeke...

2/25/2018 guys I messed up. yesterday's post was always gonna be shorter than normal but I forgot to mention that today was/is a special birthday. my dad's birthday is today and I'm hoping that this gets to you guys soon enough to wish him a Happy Birthday. unfortunately I now have less than 24 hours, much less actually, to prepare for the 2 exams I have tomorrow. an exam in h374, the class I'm repeating and nutrition, the class I'm beyond annoyed with. it's safe to say that I cannot wait to get tomorrow behind me although I truly am obviously not rushing time. I for sure am not rushing Tuesday as I recently realized that I am quite a ways behind on my hours for my internship so starting this week I really have to begin staying at my intern site longer no matter if I have something to do or not. it's unfortunate and I really am hoping that my supervisor will allow me to do some hours either off site or make-up hours. anyways guys I've finally assig...

2/20/2018 my friend and business partner is turning 21 tomorrow, 21 on the 21st of the month 😏 time just moves so quickly and there just isn't enough of it in a day. i can hardly get all of the things done that I wanna do, I'm having to prioritize way too much in a single day. the most difficult things to include in the day seem to be resting, eating, and hydrating honestly which is so bad. I have to become better about taking care of myself. tomorrow's schedule: internship for a bit, class with a test possibly - I would know if I hadn't skipped the last class, then possibly my internship again and/or tennis with a lesson including. I definitely want the lesson to happen of course as I both care for my student's progress and it's just nice to get paid lol I just found out today some very relieving news, hopefully it's accurate, more details to come. basically and long story short my situation might not be as bad as I claim it to be or have been clai...

2/14/2018 Thursday ehh I still have to work to become more confident in myself. my tennis lesson with my new student went well but I have to become more comfortable around people. my student had a great time and the parents seemed content with our progress but inside I felt the pressure. I did everything well, had a great plan that represents me. It was unique. I got someone, my student, who has never played a sport requiring hand eye coordination to be able to rally back and forth over the next within an hour. the parents were happy enough to ask me to quickly exchange prices and "details" for continuing on. I did everything right, a good job. but inside I definitely felt awkward upon starting, I lost focus continually throughout the lesson; in part because my student advanced far faster than expected but also because my mind kept wandering. I thought about what else I needed to do today, I thought about how the mom thought of my way of teaching her child, I just wasn...

2/7/2018 ugh... guys I'm frustated...very much so...and honestly I have been for a while now I think it's been obvious from my postings, life is just tough I had yet another great day today but still overall I'm just not happy yet at the same time I'm extremely motivated and "happy" with what I'm doing I basically am gonna start spending more time on my business, even more than I already have been, I have to believe in my business more so than anyone else in order for anyone else to believe in it I'm tired, I'm beyond done with college and my internship I just want to be working on my goals I'm tired of doing things that I don't wanna do but I'm working unfortunately I'm gonna be giving less priority to the blog, I will try my best to give more value but I really wanna focus more on my business Thanks for reading :L

2/4/2018 things are about to change, today is a new day, this is a new week. a fresh start my overall priority is getting ahead in life. it's not about school, it's not about my business, it's not about any one thing specifically. collectively it's about getting ahead. wealth, health, social relationships - friends & family. I'm about to become more organized and focused on these aspects of my life. to make the best of everyday. 2018 will be my year, keep moving forward Superbowl Day

2/3/2018 Day 128 of the daily blog We're now approaching half a year of daily blogging with around 1,600 views and a lot of progress having been made. I keep thinking in my head how badly I wish this routine were taken to YouTube where instead of having a daily blog, there was a daily vlog. I keep on thinking this. But when I think about it, my intent on gaining traction with YouTube deals a lot with the financial benefit that comes with success on that platform when honestly that shouldn't be my intent. As much as I love creating videos I don't think I'd be as motivated to pursue YouTube if there were no financial benefit, meaning pay from the ads. I value the platform as a means of gaining an audience but I really need to better appreciate the work I've put in here. It's been half a year and I for sure have grow by some degree within the small time frame of the 128 consecutive days of daily blogging with this blog. I just wish I had an audience to commun...

2/1/2018 it's officially been 4 full months of daily blogging. About 1,600 views later and I'd say we have come a long way. I'm still tired though lol, even while writing this post. 3 more months starts now, classes end on the first week of May and man oh man I cannot wait for those times. I look forward to being able to travel, get out, and enjoy life. I only hope that I can build the future for myself and my family that I aspire to have. I really cannot wait to just be surrounded by people who aspire for more in life. good spiritual people who do more others than for themselves. those that believe that there is more to life than just what we see everyday. Yeah I like to get out and have fun too but man, when you're broke you're broke. you have to work hard for the things you want while being happy with what you have. there's a balance. I have another video coming tonight hopefully, I'm trying to change gears for the channel here so I hope you guys ...

1/26/2018 oh my god. if this week was an example of how the next 14/15 weeks will be then my goodness we are in for it. my head is hurting yet again, i truly may need to go see a doctor at some point as all this stress is no good for sure. as it turns out, my semester is only maybe 16 weeks long and next week will be week 3 in which I will enter with about 25 hours completed at my internship. we're actually on track here and everything is going "okay" thus far. I for sure need to spend more time studying next week and maybe just maybe resting also, but we're doing well, we're surviving. financially, my goodness. that's another whole story but thankfully we're still in the green. I managed to not spend more than my income for the month and hopefully this check will reflect a little more money than normal as I "clocked in" for the training this week. that's maybe an extra 5 hours to the 10 I usually get paid for every two weeks. emotional...

1/21/2018 ugh another headache, I made the mistake of going out in the cold with no hat on while my hair was wet. That typically will do it for me, if I am correctly diagnosing these as sinus headaches then yep, it's my fault. another crazy Sunday of rushing around getting things done and making money. got to spend some time with family and even got to see my dream car yet again. My business partner and I went to check out a beautifully spec'd out GT-R track edition. I need it it looked very similar to this spec But today will be my first day of experiencing both time divided for both my business and my school work. i need to study for my classes despite this only being the 2nd week and I have to keep working. I feel as if my business concept is the best for me in the right industry, I just have to spend time building it. I for sure will spend the most time building my brand before adding any options for monetization to establish trust within my community. I want to pro...

1/16/2018 I hope you guys enjoyed the post from earlier, I certainly did. It always helps to write down your goals and to set plans for what you hope to accomplish. That GT-R I included is definitely my ideal spec and when the time is appropriate, I'll have one similar to it. It snowed this morning despite not being in the forecast and we apparently will be getting more snow tonight into tomorrow which I'm kinda excited for honestly. It actually has become dull looking and cloudy out as I've started this post which leads me to believe that the snow is on the way. Although I am scheduled to play tennis again tomorrow morning I would be more than happy to miss out on my class as well as my meeting at work. I really want to continue working on my business as I'm becoming more and more focused on one central platform (the new website) and am ready to get to work. I am eager to put in the 8 months and beyond of hard focused work on building my brand and community. For th...

1/16/2018 I somehow managed to not write a post yesterday. It was quite an odd day though to be honest, my first "long" day at my new internship site. The day started with me rushing to get things done for the internship followed by rushing to get there only to then not have to do much. Thankfully my supervisor is pretty relaxed and relatable, he's even offered to allow me to do some work from home for the internship and he'll sign off on those hours. That would've never had happened with my previous internship. Anyways, I don't recall sleeping at all last night, as usual I struggle to sleep when I have to be up early the next day. It was quite an odd Monday, but life in general is about to become more uncomfortable for the next 4 months at least and I'm ready, I hope. So this post will serve as the make-up from yesterday and the actual post for today will be posted later this evening. I am so exciting to be building my online business. Here in this ...

1/13/2018 As optimistic as I want to be I can't believe how quickly time moves. I'll be going into yet another semester of college in a few days and I honestly am just over it. I really could care less about completing my coursework and getting my degree. I love to learn and will always have a thirst for knowledge but some things I value more over others. Things that are more relevant for example, or things that quite frankly are more important to know. Something I've picked up from the most successful people that I believe most people will never truly understand and/or acknowledge as important to know involves the idea of not simply following the crowd. You shouldn't do it just because "everyone's doing it," and honestly you should do in life what you want to do. Everyone is on their own path and there has never been nor will there ever be a right way to do life. And quite honestly I believe that this formal education in college is just not for everyone...