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So today's post is going to be somewhat serious, something that I've been feeling really passionate about lately and I feel like the best way to express it is writing (or typing) it out.
We've all had those moments when we sit there and we plan our dream vacation or we talk with our friends and say how we wish we could travel here or do this or that someday. But with all that planning and dreaming, nothing gets done. Those plans and dreams remain plans and dreams and no one makes the move to go forward with anything.
In the past few years my friends and I have always been saying "Oh I wish I could just go to California, or London, or anywhere BUT Wisconsin." But we never sat down and really said, okay lets plan this out and start saving up. There has always been excuses. "I have bills to pay" or "i have to focus on school" or other lame excuses. And I'm sick of it.
I'm absolutely sick of the excuses and the plans that never leave the ground. You cannot live your life on dreams. You cannot just sit in your house saying that you're going to do this or do that but then never make any initiative to actually get that plan going and do it. If you want to achieve anything in life you can't just sit around and wait for it to fall in your lap, you have to work for it and make it happen. So why should your travel plans be that way?
In the recent months my family has experienced some medical hardships. My uncle was just diagnosed with cancer and thinking about his life and all that he has accomplished inspired me to write this post. I have been saying for the past year that I've been wanting to travel to all of these different places and just really experience life, but I never made an effort to save up my money and work hard to make these plans reality. Until now.
I made a deal with myself. The deal is, whenever I think of an idea, or create a dream in my mind I am going to write it down and start working towards it. If I think of a place to travel to, I'm going to write it down, start planning it out financially, and then start working and saving up my money to go to that place. If I think of a life goal or career goal that I want for my future, I will write it down and start working towards it. I do not want my life to be a list of unfinished plans and unachieved goals. I want it to be a list of accomplished goals and finished plans.
So no more "I wish I could go here" or "I wish I was doing this right now" and more of "I'm working and saving to go here." In fact, as I'm typing this I am currently planning a trip out of state with a few friends. We wanted to go on a vacation and I sat down and said, why don't we just go. So we planned it all out and in a few weeks we are leaving for vacation. And you know what? It feels good. It feels great to just plan a trip somewhere random and actually make it turn into a reality.
This one trip is simply the beginning of many more to come. Which is another reason why I started this blog. I want to be able to document my goals and travels as they happen and it all starts with this first trip.
Its the start of something new and I'm ready for you to join me in this experience. So you can either live in envy of other people's adventures, or you can start your own. Its your choice.
Until next time my misfits,
Stefanie
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Life is weird and awkward for everyone but as time goes on and people get older, the awkward wears off and they blossom into beautiful butterflies. Not for me. It seems like I started my awkward stage at the age of 2 and I have not grown out of it.
I'm 21 and ready to blossom!
(wow that sounded weird already..heyyyooo)
Everyday I live and breathe embarrassment, and that is not an exaggeration. There will be at least one point in my day were I physically do something that is weird and awkward or I will say something that leaves everyone around me feeling uncomfortable. Its inevitable.
I am deeply sorry if you have fallen victim to my disorder.
When you are a pro misfit like myself, you learn to cover up your embarrassing moments to make them socially entertaining for those around you. Basically, I've become the class clown, the funny one, the entertainer with no real talent, the one who can make us laugh. That is the secret to how I gained friends.
"You know its going to be a fun time if Stefanie is around!" said no one ever, but I like to pretend. ;)
So I walk through this socially weird journey with friends who are just as socially awkward as myself and those who are freakishly talented they make me cry tears of shame at night because I was not blessed with magical talents like them.
(Maybe if I was talented I would be less awkward...wow thanks parents, you should have let me take all those music lessons and sports practices when I was younger instead of letting me fall off trackers)
Yes, that is right, the source of my disorder came from the isolation that is growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. When you have a child who is young and weird, in more ways than one, it is literally social homicide to let them grow up on a farm, outside of a rural town full of elderly folk, where there is no chance of them becoming social and getting involved in activities that could give them talent. (thanks again parents.)
Since I was not blessed with these talents, choosing a career path for college and the future dun dun dun was difficult. I tried communications...but since I have difficulty talking like a normal person, that was not tickling my fancy, not floating my boat, not my cup of tea, not....you get it.
I was lost and awkward.
Until one day my grandpa (you'll probably hear more from those crazy grandparents in the future) said to me "if you don't got the talent, might as well manage it." That was probably the best insult that I've ever received. So I made the executive decision to become an artist manager for my musically gifted friends.
And that is where the next journey begins and why this blog was birthed into the internet. I welcome you on my socially painful journey in Music Business. So if you are a social misfit like me, I welcome you to live vicariously through my human encounters (although I'm sure that you would want to) and know that you are not alone. We are in this together.
Until next time my misfits,
Stefanie.
I'm 21 and ready to blossom!
(wow that sounded weird already..heyyyooo)
Everyday I live and breathe embarrassment, and that is not an exaggeration. There will be at least one point in my day were I physically do something that is weird and awkward or I will say something that leaves everyone around me feeling uncomfortable. Its inevitable.
I am deeply sorry if you have fallen victim to my disorder.
When you are a pro misfit like myself, you learn to cover up your embarrassing moments to make them socially entertaining for those around you. Basically, I've become the class clown, the funny one, the entertainer with no real talent, the one who can make us laugh. That is the secret to how I gained friends.
"You know its going to be a fun time if Stefanie is around!" said no one ever, but I like to pretend. ;)
So I walk through this socially weird journey with friends who are just as socially awkward as myself and those who are freakishly talented they make me cry tears of shame at night because I was not blessed with magical talents like them.
(Maybe if I was talented I would be less awkward...wow thanks parents, you should have let me take all those music lessons and sports practices when I was younger instead of letting me fall off trackers)
Yes, that is right, the source of my disorder came from the isolation that is growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. When you have a child who is young and weird, in more ways than one, it is literally social homicide to let them grow up on a farm, outside of a rural town full of elderly folk, where there is no chance of them becoming social and getting involved in activities that could give them talent. (thanks again parents.)
Since I was not blessed with these talents, choosing a career path for college and the future dun dun dun was difficult. I tried communications...but since I have difficulty talking like a normal person, that was not tickling my fancy, not floating my boat, not my cup of tea, not....you get it.
I was lost and awkward.
Until one day my grandpa (you'll probably hear more from those crazy grandparents in the future) said to me "if you don't got the talent, might as well manage it." That was probably the best insult that I've ever received. So I made the executive decision to become an artist manager for my musically gifted friends.
And that is where the next journey begins and why this blog was birthed into the internet. I welcome you on my socially painful journey in Music Business. So if you are a social misfit like me, I welcome you to live vicariously through my human encounters (although I'm sure that you would want to) and know that you are not alone. We are in this together.
Until next time my misfits,
Stefanie.
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