Day 1

I woke up a vegetarian. I had a simple meal, it was some Kashi "strawberry fields" cereal. It was a good way to start the day off.

My big hurdle for today though was giving blood. It has been about 2 years since I have donated blood and I was worried about how my body was going to recover from this. I took in about a gallon of water over the course of the day to help the process. Something worth noting while I was giving blood, I witnessed a girl that passed out. She was talking to me just a few minutes before, and she finished giving blood, then I saw her face go pale and neck go limp. First time I had ever seen anything like that. She was ok a couple minutes later.

For lunch I had some cheese pizza, and an apple.

I had practice at 2pm that included a lot of running today, so I didn't really feel to great, I am sure that was because of donating blood. I made it through practice, had an hour off then had to go hit. Hitting went fine, once again I am pretty sure that my body was a little slower because of the missing pint of blood. I actually worked out as well, right after hitting. I felt just fine lifting, felt like I had all of the energy I needed.

Dinner was couscous with some peaches, and lightly sauced potatoes with some onions. It tasted very good. Made me full. I like to eat good food. I capped the night off with some cheesecake that my girlfriend so graciously gave me for valentine's day. Thank You Quinn.

I must say I did have trouble not eating pepperoni pizza today. it was offered to me and I almost slipped up because I was not thinking as a vegetarian. So I am going to have to work on keeping my mind involved in making these eating decisions.

Let's see how I feel on day 2.

I was elected to lead, not to read

There have been and will be a ton of people who will step into managing positions. I myself have done this recently, as the station manager of KFKX, but this has not been the only time that I have been considered the head honcho of a group of people. I mean in High School I was the football captain and was involved student government, I was an example, I would like to believe.

I have always been a leader by example. I am not saying that I have always been successful, just saying that is how I do it. Really when I think about the job that I am doing I always think of what I can do to make myself and the people around me better.

Over my Christmas break I was at home and got to enjoy being with my family and seeing friends, but and I know that this is going to sound so stereotypical little boy of me, but I really was glad to see my dad. So many things come to mind when I think about dad, but while at home we had a really good conversation that must have lasted about 5 hours. We had just played racquetball, he killed me. After racquetball however, he took me out to lunch, so we hit a Subway to get some grub. Once we had our meal we got to talking; you know father son time. Anyway, my dad has been a school superintendent in Center, Colorado for the better part of 14 years and there does not seem to be any signs of that changing anytime soon.

I asked him what he does to manage all of those people. Now, the words that he told me next I am going to remember forever. My old man told me that he surrounds himself with good managers, good people, then he leads them.

At first I thought well you manage all of those people. He kinda sounded like Jesus when he told me "I show them the way." I know my dad is not the reincarnated son of God, but damn is he noble. I got to ponder that for the whole break and still do, but this is my rendition of leadership now.

If I can show the people that work with me that working with me will lead them to new heights then that is what it is all about. Not just making sure that a person gets a project done, but inspire them to do more. This may very well be a chain reaction or domino effect; if I do things inspired then perhaps others will be inspired by me and others by them and so on. I am not claiming that I am going to change the world or every person that comes into contact with me like Captain Planet, or maybe that was a bad example. You get the gist though right?

It's not about managing, because that can just ensure that everything will be the same. You have to lead and inspire, because once someone has caught the inspiration bug there is no telling where or how far they will go.

I would like to

There are things that I would like to do. I would like to graduate from college. I would like to be happy. I would like to know how things work.

I have been thinking lately about what I will do with the college education that I will have in just a year and a half. What will I do? I certainly don't intend on wasting it, is there a way to waste an education other than choosing to do nothing with it? I don't think so.

How I want to use my education:
I want to hear stories. Not just campfire stories, but life stories. I am extremely interested in human beings and what makes them tick. This is not biological, and I am not looking to find drama queens. With my education, Media Production, Journalism, Design and so on, I want to be able to tell other people's story's. My great plan so far is to find a company or entrepreneur that is willing to spend a little money on me, and ask them to pay for my journey's. Remember, I want to tell people's story's. I will find people anywhere in the world. My intention is to spend a month with a single person, listen to them, ask them questions, see how they handle their lives. I want to show the world how it is to be Joe from Pennsylvania or Jenny the mill worker or Tim the first time home buyer. I want to tell stories.

I will bring all of this together by creating a website that has their stories, remember this will be one story a month roughly, and I will update it while I am with the person. I intend there to be audio as well as video and text and pictures, but the material things are not the focus.

From what I have learned here, I understand that the message is the focus, and my focus here will be their stories.