The very first Animal Jiu Jitsu student has arrived!!!
So I am PUMPED more then I could ever possibly write down on paper/Blog:) I was out tonight with my former student at Guy Mezger’s Combat Sport Club (www.guymezger.com) for some Amazing Denver Brew and chill time. He will be in and out of town for work until November 1st when he moves here for good…that’s when the training will beginning!!!!!! His name is Mitch and he has been training Jiu Jitsu/grappling for a few years here and there and has learned a lot from the time I was able to work with him. We’ve been talking about my move up here and him being the first Animal Jiu Jitsu student for several months now, almost a year actually, and it’s Finally Time:)!!! We downed some tasty Denver Brews and talked to some cool ass people at a local Denver bar where the bartender seriously almost got a F’ing beatdown from me for being a total dick! Either way, we had a Blast and talked about how we are going to build Animal Jiu Jitsu into a force to be reckoned with!!! I will have to find a place to start teaching 2 times a week and just build my business from the ground up, the old fashioned way;) I will also be competing around town and nationally as well as busting dumbasses up in the clubs so through all those avenues I should grow my business slowly but surely:) I am feeling the itch to fight in the cage again too and once I get my job situation settled that will most likely happen, which will be another avenue for me to build my business:) I just realized I do a LOT of smily faces! Who cares, the people that really know me know that’s my style and they dig it so there you go;)
I will be posting the very first “Official Animal Jiu Jitsu School” picture once Mitch makes the permanent move and we get on the mat for our very first AJJ teaching/training session…it’s gonna be an AWESOME DAY!!!! So if you are paying attention and you are supporting this Crazy Animal’s dream please get ready for some Awesome training pics:)
Hopefully this coming week I will start training with some local Black Belts and will have to fight hard to earn my nickname….looking sooooooooooo forward to that!!! so I will let you know how that goes, hopefully my arm or neck doesn’t get broken;) hahahaha
Thank You sooooooooo very much all of you out there that are reading this right now…YOU are what is keeping me going and driving towards my goals…THANK YOU and a Huge Animal Air Pound:)!!!
I’m still here…Kicking and F’ing Screaming but I’m still here…
So the good news first…I have 2 jobs!!! I’m bouncing again and walking door to door telling people about some random dude who is running for the Colorado legislature. The door to door job is extremely weird and different from what I’ve ever done in my entire life! It’s a job and I am beyond Thankful for both of them!!! That is the good news, the bad news is that I am barely making my bills and I have to find another job or jobs to supplement my bouncing gig and door to door gig in a few weeks, or asap! But I have work and for that I am sooooooooo Thankful:)!!!
I’ll tell ya what though I really can’t understand how people in this country can complain and whine about not being able to find work. I talked to one of my former roommates here about this a few weeks back and I told him that people absolutely HAVE TO work more then 40 hours a week in almost every career to get ahead and not spend money that don’t have. He looked at me like I told him he had cancer, utter and complete shock and a huge “are you serious” look. It was Amazing how easy it was to get work when I just put my mind to it and started Huslin’ by dropping off resumes at random places, answering job ads on http://www.craigslist.com, driving around and writing down places to call about a job, and telling EVERY SINGLE person I ran into up here that I am looking for work asap! People are inherently lazy and stupid, at least that is my view on people that are not working as hard as they possibly can but whining about how they are “behind on payments” or “they hate their job” or “I want to start my own business” but they never do a thing about it…these people are just plain Stupid and Lazy!
Sorry to rant there but I have had the WORST 2 weeks since Feb. 17th of yesteryears and all I did to get out of it was Pray my soul out and wake up and start moving/Huslin’. The job part search sucked and it still sucks Hard b/c I have a college degree and have owned my own business before (which made a lot of money for a little while) and I also worked in some of the biggest companies in the US (and had extremely well paying jobs at them) BUT here I am going door to door bugging strangers about something I don’t care about as well as throwing dudes out of bars/clubs (btw got to very Intensely throw a guy out on my first night at the club=Happy Animal:) So here I am just doing WHATEVER it takes to pay my bills and Praying like crazy that Jesus will change my Extremely Proud & Haughty Heart so I can be humble enough to walk door to door and bother people, and have doors slammed in my face, etc… And you know what I am a living example that His Grace is enough in all of these situations b/c I was literally laughing out loud today while I was jamming to the Bee Gees and texting with my Lil Sis (whom I Love very very much) about how miserable it was talking to random people at their doors when it is pouring down rain and I have my jacket and umbrella barely keeping me and my work papers dry…HAHAHAHA…I was Totally Miserable!!!!!! and I couldn’t stop having fun with it!!! God is Good in our most miserable times…at least that’s what I’ve been experiencing for the last few days after I went through my 2 week desert…I just Pray all day that He keeps showing up during this journey like he has in the last few days…Thanks Homie:)!!!
Worst week I’ve had since Feb. 17 two years ago…
So whoever says the “American Dream” is easy is full of shi!!! First of all Entrepreneurship is not exclusively an american thing which is something our culture teaches us from birth (or at least in my era!) Point is, there are people ALL over the world struggling trying to build something from nothing like me:) But either way this shiznits is HARD/PAINFUL/IT HURTS:(
So this week has been so bad there are things going on in my head that I can’t say on paper/internet:( Let’s just say it’s been a struggle in a major major way!!!!!!, more then words can say…how’s that for explanation? Basically I was promised a job/something I could pay my bills with (something to give me the ability to buy/purchase food) and I was lied to, yes lied to….that’s the Horrible thing about working for a large corporation/gym, they ultimately don’t care about the individual!
Some extremely BAD and Painful things have been going through my head:( this week:( BUT I am a Fighter in my Heart and I will NEVER quit (even if I lose, or think no one cares!)…I will pick up my F’ing sword and strike my blow!!! You think you are tougher then me…then let’s see! “It’s the Heart that hurts more then the sword” though and that is the hard part for me this week:( My Spirit has been beaten down by job/money/pay my bill prospects and that is hard. Before you build something you Love and Dream about, you first have to pay your rent/food/electricity…and car/insurance BUT I realized that when things are very hard and times are tough, food and shelter are pretty much the only thing you pay for! I am learning how to live on the lean:) I am a man of my word so I called my car peps and told them I would pay them and pay interest/early payments b/c of my late late payments and they are cool with that:) I WILL pay them no matter what it takes!!!
For all of ya’ll thinking I’m not trying to work…well let’s just say I am not going to say anything online about ya;) I am trying and working and struggling to make something happen….doing interview after interview after F’ing interview BUT it’s just not happening!!! It’s not the times and the economy!!! It’s just a work thing, it’s hard to find work and it’s even harder to find work in a field you know, no matter what time/century/culture it is!
I’ve been reading a LOT except when the depression hits HARD and then I “check out” and can’t do anything. BUT when I’m here and awake, and not looking/working for a job, I’m reading/nerding out:) Finished 2 books this week thus far:)
I’m past rambling and I only have 400 views on this damn thing so it really doesn’t matter what I say, except for the 24 AWESOME people I have supporting me in this crazy endeavour and for those 24 our there I say THANK YOU and your support means more then I can put in words or ever express in person!!!! Seriously Thank You!!!!
It’s a waiting game but I got speed reading to work on…
been a pretty crappy week thus far…I’ve just sitting around waiting for a large commercial gym to finish their paperwork on me so I can start working and making money…uuuuugggghhhhhh!!! This is EXACTLY why I live for entrepreneurship. I do NOT like relying on other companies or other people for my financial certainty! And the “keep things simple” concept in business is harder to keep alive when you are the size of a commercial gym like 24 hour fitness. I was told by my fitness manger that I would be starting 10 days ago, and this crap has drug on and on and on….it’s not really his fault, per se, b/c he doesn’t have control of the “onboarding process” once he decides to bring a trainer on BUT I am not sure he truly understands how bad of a financial situation I am in right now and it seems like he could be doing more? I haven’t worked/made money for 6 weeks now…it’s getting extremely scary right now…
On a very positive note I have been reading like crazy this week and been reading some Awesome books!!! I finished 2 so far and have been working on my speed reading ability as well:) There is a speed reading software product I am using for free this month that I’ve been doing the speed reading exercises on. I will buy the full version once I start making money b/c it is limited in it’s ability to do stuff b/c I am using the “free” version. For example it gave me a score of 320 words a minute BUT I wasn’t told I was being tested so I read very slow and I can’t redo the test or any of the test b/c it’s the “intro/free version.” I would say I’m at 400 words a minute, but honestly I’m not sure? I’m looking forward to working at it so I can be at the 800-1,000 words a minute level:) The basic exercises I’ve been doing thus far have helped soooooooooo much!!! I am running through pages in my books and totally comprehending the information thanks to the speed reading exercises I am doing:)
My first job out of college was writing for a living, at a small community paper. I am getting the writing bug BIG time again. Writing this Blog has helped stoke that fire as well:) I am thinking about offering my writing services for free (at first) to some local community papers in the area:) Wanna start off doing small articles or “features” about Health and Fitness stuff and maybe some local Entrepreneurs, stuff I’m deeply interested in…I’m just spit balling ideas right now though. I absolutely have to start working and paying me bills ASAP though!!! I will update this bad boy with more info as I find out more about my personal training job…I do have a couple interviews set up this week and the beginning of next week already, so we’ll see. Thanks again for reading this puppy and please Pray for my financial/job situation:) Talk soon…
Here’s a Nugget of Wisdom for all you aspiring Entrepreneurs out there….
Hello there! I am so muito muito happy that I made the move!!! It will be extremely difficult to build up my business and grow something from nothing and I honestly couldn’t do it if I was not in my personal geographic utopia! I LOVE living in Colorado!!! I am a Texan in my soul…I was raised there my whole life and my mannerisms and my views are extremely Texan and that is something I am very proud of:) But more importantly then that I do have the mountains in my blood! There is a magical feeling I get when I think about and am around the most majestic things ever created by my Lord & Saviour!!!
Here’s how my day went down yesterday…I took off to the mountains yesterday with my new pup, Sid. We literally just took off with no particular destination in mind other then to just “climb” something:) We found our way to the Amazing city of Boulder, Colorado:) Unfortunately it started pouring rain the second we got into town so our trail blazing was going to have to wait another day….that worked out just fine b/c I found a local Microbrewery that was extremely dog friend and extremely people friendly as well! I spent the day and the evening having Awesome Brew with Awesome people, and even ended the night with some BBQ rabbit and elk at a house party with people I had just met that evening…straight Amazing!!!
Here’s my Nugget of Wisdom for all you soon-to-be or wanna-be Entrepreneurs out there…DO IT!!! Create something, putting your mind and Heart behind something you Love to do and just DO IT!!! The one thing I Highly suggest when you decide to take that leap is make sure you absolutely LOVE the environment that you are in so that when you do sacrifice everything to live your dream, you are content in the process:) I tried to open up my own Jiu Jitsu school in Dallas, Texas 3 years ago but it never came to fruition….I just couldn’t bring myself to spend my days toiling at something I loved in a place I didn’t want to stay in for the rest of my life:( I Love Texas for a lot of reasons but I also was dying there emotionally and creatively b/c it is just a blah place for me to live. Everyday I struggle here in Colorado financially, socially, emotionally, etc…I know one thing…I can always go to the mountains and “touch the sky”:) If you are a beach person, which I am not, or you are a downtown large city person, which I “kinda” am…my suggestion is go where your Heart is content and happy and just DO IT!!! Start living and realizing your dream of creating something out of nothing today!!! Just make sure you Love where you are when you do it and the path of struggle will seem like an Adventure and not a sloggingly painful trek. I Pray that helps b/c this move for me has been extremely difficult in a LOT of ways and I have had to step out of my “comfort zone” and “personal happy shell” almost everyday since I decided to make this thing happen, but it has been more Rewarding and Beautiful then I can put into words…so now it’s your turn….DREAM, CREATE, and LIVE your Dream TODAY!!!
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