Reading... It's amazing how much information we can process and how our brain works to link everything together to make sense of it all.
I started with a book on reading people and body language. Why? Because I felt I couldn't trust my girlfriend. In all honesty, things she said to me versus what my gut was telling me, simply felt off. This was a long while back. This helped me a great deal in reading everyone in general. Each social encounter allowed me a new chance to read another persons body language.
With that out of the way, I decided I needed to learn how to effectively communicate with others, given I had no idea how to really speak with people. I mean I can EASILY walk into a room and get people to like me. However that's only the top layer with no concrete conversation on something important or personal. I started reading a book on NLP to discover how to listen to people and truly hear what they have to say. By effectively listening, I can speak back to the listener in a way that they would effectively understand what I have to say.
From there, I started feeling better about myself. I started understanding people and not feeling as shy to talk to them. I started WANTING to talk to others to discover their world, and how they think. I met someone who told me to watch 2 videos: What the bleep do we know and The Secret. I watched both and it simply changed my mindset completely.
Those videos made me rethink god. It made me rethink god in the sense that, could god simply mean energy? Energy is all around us. it flows in and out of us. We ARE energy as is everything... Could it mean then that if I focused well enough, that I could affect the person next to me by channeling my energy? Do we have any limits aside from our own mental barrier? Maybe focused properly, could we see other peoples energy? The possibilities.........
It wasn't going to stop there though. I needed more information, so I started googling and came across 2 other books that I could read, and thus read those as well. These books helped me understand how to get what I want out of life. They helped me realize that (for example) simply looking at the positive in everything and NEVER focusing on the negative, that one can do and be anything they so desire.
I'm now at a point where I feel completely different about myself and about those around me. I know what I need to do to move forward and have already started planning my future.
It's interesting how I was once a tad bit shy and unsure about what my next move would be, and how I could get to where I need to go. While now, I feel confident in myself and no longer think of HOW I will get to my goal, but just know that I WILL get to my end goal.
Right now, that goal will be a mixture of Photography and Programming. However I WILL start a wedding photography company ideally by end of July or August. From there... New goals will surface. However as a wedding photographer, expect me to truly succeed!
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