Tribute to Steve Pavlina
This has taken me a bit longer than I’d like. For someone who’s unemployed, I seem to be pretty busy with things like Facebook, dancing at Robson Square, visiting my sister in LA, and taking care of a cat. It’s about time I get my priorities straight: get my blog up and running. After coming across Steve Pavlina when he first started out and seeing how he managed to grow his site, I have simply admired him from afar. I’d go and stalk him at his Toastmasters club if I happened to be in Las Vegas. Errr, I mean I’d go and watch him speak. Wouldn’t you want to meet the guy who:
- finished a computer science degree in three semesters
- lived on a polyphasic sleep cycle for an extended period of time
- has a wife that talks to dead people
Did I also mention that he’s pretty passionate about personal development? I too have read many books in this area but I don’t seem to be getting the same results. Why? I’ve been pretty comfortable where I was at. A nice comfortable 5, on a ten point scale. It sure would be nice to get up to a 7, 8 or 9 but nothing wrong with a comfortable 5.
The problem is that I am actually not true to myself by being a 5. When you are not living up to your fullest potential, you start to wonder why you’re even bothering. It is odd, but I am only recently able to really step outside of myself and see this. It’s a side effect of being unemployed – you start having time to think about life and things like that. When you’ve hit bottom, you can truly be honest with yourself. And honestly, I am desperate – I am not at my nice comfortable 5, but starting to drop to a 3. If I don’t land a job soon, I’d probably drop down to a 2 or 1 but I’d rather not have to go there.
Desperation is not the same as passion, but it is the source of motivation for me these days.
So I ask the question: if there is something that I’d like to show for, given all the free time I have these days, what would it be? Starting my own Web 2.0 startup would be nice (I’ll talk about this in a future post). However, that was not to be. So instead, I’m going for the lower-lying fruit – a blog. And if it is a blog that I want to start, I want to have one just like Steve’s. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, let this be my clumsy tribute. Perhaps my getting this blog up and running will be the spark that will lead to a change for the better.
Dear friends and curious passersby, I welcome you to “Desperate for Change”.
