Settling Into Position

There's a moment when something you were called to do finally clicks. You realize why you were choosen and you fully embrace it and own it.

No One's Done it Enough To Say Your Wrong....

The Tribe looks out again as fellow member Ms K.D Isaacs sent me an invite to a media panel and screening of Lebron James new cartoon "The Lebrons" which is an animated spin off of his successful Nike commercials. After viewing some of the clips, two gentlemen from Believe Entertainment Mr. Dan Goodman and William Masterson spoke on how they made the connection with Lebron James to get this show rolling and on a larger scale how the media field is changing regarding the delivery of content. They said a lot to fuel what I'm pushing with the Omega Nexus.

One of the standout comments they made was "If you believe in what you have, don't let anyone tell you're wrong." 

Basically the industry is evolving so quickly that no one has been doing "it" long enough to tell you that your wrong. Signs keep pointing forward and I'm not stopping with this. Great info and networking indeed.

Mission Target: AnimeKon 2012

I could be planning an epic trip or joining the Tribe in Berlin but that has been put aside to go full speed ahead on this!!! AnimeKon 2012..........The Omega Nexus will be there!!

When Dreams Become Plans Then a Reality

It's been defined in the creative line of my mind years ago....expressed via the digital communications of these Internets...lived out in the actions and support giving to many for the past decade. Now I take something that has been an essential part of me and made it tangible and legitimate. It's deeper that business, taxes applications and write offs. Its the evolution of me.

Source of Motivation

In the past 5-6 months I've been blessed to socialize, network and befriend quite a few individuals who have become great sources of motivation to me. The up north homie Ms Jaz in particular has me on my mega grind to legitimize my business. This woman runs her own businesses fully. No 9-5job  to supplement things. She sustains herself off of her own ventures and the things she's told me shes experienced due to her work amaze me continuously. I need to get like that. I have problem being moved to action by a male or female figure of inspiration.

So this is just a quick shout and thank for the positive kick in the ass...

About To Go Down!!!!!

With Birthdays, Events, Meet Ups & More....March will not just be the "Month of Me" but also the Tribe "Takeover!!" I'm looking forward to this month more so then many prior. Even as I turn the big 31 I look to give birth to bigger business and many levels! Brushing off the delusional bullshit of the past week and toasting to growth and progression!!!!

Kickstarter Update and Mission for the Week!!!!!

Thank you everyone that has supported the Nomad•ness Travel Tribe Kickstarter Fund Raiser thus far. This week we're doing it a little different. The focus is NOT on the $ amount but rather on the number of backers we can get. To back the project only costs a dollar. Currently we're at 61 backers and by next Monday March 5th, my birthday, we want to be at 100 backers. I'm honored to be a part of positive progressive movement and appreciate all the help you can give.

You can look to the side for the Kickstarter widget and click that to go directly to the main page. And thank you to the person that pledged from the Blvd already! I see you and thank you again.

http://kck.st/zxbSbX

Back To Business

After a 2 1/2 down period from my last work assignment today is back to the grind to earn my $. After a very, tumultuous Jan I'm looking forward to getting back in the swing of things. I've been able to work on a lot of things but those plans need $ to get them off the ground. I will complete this winter season with  a renewal of energy and focus.

I'm so thankful.....

May view leaving work......

Historic Nerd Moment

This monstrous machine in 1956 put in tons of work to give you 5MB of memory...........

iSupport: Photos by Steph & Styling on 106

This was a good day for some of my talented steady grinding friends. On the photographic side we get a double dose of Ms Stephanie O'connor. She's no stranger to the blog and this time around just dropped an inside peek at a recent "holiday's gift" shoot she did. In this session she captures the beauty of the natural body with stunning skill.

In addition to that personal work, pick up the Dec/Jan issue of UPTOWN magazine to catch some of her international work as she covers the city of Barcelona.

Model/Actor and fellow Iona college alum Nelson Estevez took to the 106 and Park stage rocking new apparel from Champs.

Insanity Progress

So I'm 20 days into the Insanity program.It's not easy by any means but its not impossible. **Here is Day 1 and here's Day 20 Image Here**

Woman of the Week = Mz.J

Regular readers know how much I big up my partner in posting, my bloggington buddy, my Queen of the Drunken Chronicles, Jillz. Well clearly the greatness that I've seena dn known for years is being used by others. The brothers of JWORK LIMITED have seen fit to award Jillz their Woman of the Week title and I humbly ask all those that come across this post to drop by their blog and leave a little positive comment on this entry.



Thanks in Advance!!!

Congrats again Mz.J

I just got a Free Chinese Dinner or A small bottle of Alcohol

Today Obama's stimulus tax cut went into effect for me.And it got me a cool $8.72 added to my pay.

That can get me a nice Chinese Take out meal....a large one too.Or a nice little bottle of Alcohol.Lol,hey its progress right?

TGIF

1st Quarter Review

With the month practically over it is time for me to look at what I've done against the list of goals I've set for myself at the top of this year. Inspired my Jillian's New year New Attitude Plan, Operation Improve U was spawned to bring about personal growth and a number of key areas within our lives. I renewed and fine tuned my focus on personal growth, better fitness, financial responsibility, Professional advancement, Social growth and just working on becoming a better me overall.

This review will touch on everything except the book of the month as I will give that it's own entry.So let's begin....

1)Fitness.


In late Jan/Early Feb I started my 2nd round of P90X and things were going relatively smooth. In all honesty I was not on top of the diet aspect as much as I was the first time around, so due the time the recent birthday weekend and TX celebration came I had basically maintained my weight and strength levels. It wasn't bad but it wasn't my goal of adding 10-12 lbs of muscle. Going into the 2nd quarter I will be shaking up my regiment a bit. I'll be using the 100 push up challenge and the 200 sit up challenge. In addition to that I'll start incorporating more running into my routines. My job has a fitness challenge starting the first week of May so I'll use that as extra motivation. My biggest issue will be my diet. I know among other things I need about 1g of protein per pound to facilitate proper muscle growth, I'll most likely aim for 1.25g per pound just to accommodate the extra cardio I'll be doing. There's still 3 months until summer so I feel good that I'll pull it off. Plus I just got my physical, blood work, STD testing.Everything 100%. :)

2)Financial


Finances are much more straight forward and I'm happy at doing what I aimed for but still a lil pissed that I waited until now to do it but hey that's life. Anyway the goals were to reduce expenses, get a new credit card(at the time I only had one) and start a new savings account. Mission accomplished on all 3. I wanted to expand my credit and improve my rating so after some sound advice and I started on that and got a new credit card. I still have to finish getting some old accounts off my report but that's coming along too. The savings account is up and running well and I've been steadily cutting expenses too. In a month I'll be canceling one of my phone lines too. I'm not running around as much as before so my Curve is more then enough. With my plan to move next year, my top financial missions will be get a efficient moving list of needed items, expenses, etc created so I have a more definitive number to aim for savings wise. Also I think once I reach a certain point I'll open another savings account in a different bank.

3)Professional


This has been quite an interesting 3 months. I enrolled in a Human Resources certification class which I finished not to long ago and the 1/2 have of the certification will take place this summer. In the mean time I'll keep reviewing what I just learned and look for more bits of information online. My 9-5 has thrown a whole gang of new duties and responsibilities at me which actually makes the day move faster and helps build up the resume. Once the HR certification is done I'll see what the job market is looking like.

Now in terms of my REAL business. The Omega Nexus is still growing. After much bullshit the shopping agreement with Jamie Fox's FoxxKing Entertainment company was signed not too long ago and we're in the initial stages of directing this new partnership. We're going at this hard from a few media fronts so god willing the forward motion will continue in a very lucrative direction. I still have a book to write for the main series and new side series to create.

4)Social


Right now the focus is me. Not in a selfish way but I can't do what I want to do for me, a female or a family until my position in life has improved. This means that hell I socialize easy but there's a cap on whats going to happen. That's just the way it is right now. I'll step out for a few drinks but that's it. Bruce Wayne mode right now. I will say this though, that I do see an a part of my social behavior that does in to change. I write about it in TX and I may or my not post about it here. It's a touchy subject but conversation made me realize how immature and down right dangerous some social actions were. God didn't bring through so much just for me to act out. So yeah, have to grow up.LOL, I'm almost 30.

Overall I feel very good. I like the control I'm taking over my environment and look forward to what the year has in store for me. Hope you all are doing what you can to improve your personal lives as well. I'll drop the monthly book review a lil later.

P.S BLOGWAGON COMING SOON......

Book 2 Review, thoughts........

This is the full follow up to my Book 2 done entry and Jillz Month 2 book review. Russell Simmons' Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success, is really in my opinion, a great book for one reason, honesty. For those that don't know Russell's history, you get a taste of who he was how and why he changed and what that evolution has done for him personally and professionally. He doesn't beat you in the head with "You have to do this MY WAY!!!" rules or orders but rather honest suggestions on paths that have proven themselves to be successful for him and others. He doesn't attempt to be perfect and candidly admits to not always staying on course himself which I find very refreshing.

Russell is Hip Hop and as such he's someone that A LOT of people speak on, speak about, judge and critique, unfairly so at times. But this whole book this whole story goes right in line with a tip from last months book. Reading the story's and words of other successful people puts you in an improved mindset to better bring out your own personal success, so to that end I finish this personal review with my favorite quote, law, rule, whatever from this excellent book.

"Empower yourself through empowering others"

This is a good read that I'd recommend to others.

Month Ending Agenda.......

Final week of Feb and I'm feeling pretty good. Not amazing but blessed to see another sun rise and ready to continuing progressing in my personal productivity. I have a few goals for this week submit my paperwork to funnel money directly into my new savings account, start laying out my march budget to make sure I don't go crazy during bday celebration time. DON'T USE THE NEW CREDIT CARD!!! I know my credit is improving as I got approved for my first new credit card is yrs. I'm keeping it as an emergency credit line. I allow $50 of monthly spending on it just to keep it active. Hmmmmm what else, finish up this last class for the HR certificate. I wanted to jump right into the next course but apparently I have to wait until June to do so. No problem I'll just use that as review time. Um I have a few books to get my hands on Steve Harvey's recent release and possibly Hill Harper's letters to a Young Brother as next months reading, pending Jillz approval.

We'll see what else I come up with today.

Book 2 done.........

Got up early this Sunday morning and finished my book for the month. I liked it and will say I few things on it when Jillz finishes reading it.I will say that the final quote of the quote was a great closer and really parallels the way I try to live.

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." -Gandhi

The month just Speeds by......

3rd week of Feb is here.Before you know it it'll be March.Birthday Time, Texas time, Spring time, etc...but first things first. I need to step up my time management. I multitask pretty well but I'm looking for little areas of non productive time during my day when I can get stuff done. I plan on finishing Russell Simmons "Do You" this week and then selecting the book of the month for March.Open to suggestions on that one.I spent a good part of the weekend reviewing and evaluating my financial habits and my budget going forward. I located a billing/payment loophole that once addressed will greatly free up my ability to save.

Other then that the taxes were done and sent in last Monday, smh @ me already getting my state refund in 4 days and my federal before this business week is over. And the only other area of business is the brain storming, plotting and formation of the seasonal episode charts I need to make for the Omega Nexus animated. Keeping busy. Hope everyone is being progressive and productive.