Howdy,
When the Lermz began this blog, he asked me if I would like to be a guest writer. I was excited and couldn't wait to write. However, I felt that I needed to make an entrance that counted, so that I would not detract from the work that he put into his motivating entries.
Here I am a few months later, finally starting...
I work in a shop on The Strand, the historic district of Galveston. The old buildings are now homes to shops and cafes tailored to tourists and cruisers. Business...
Everybody knows the well-known saying "Nice guys finish last"...but nobody really knows why. Why is the nice guy, who is probably the nicest, sweetest, most caring and generous person that you know, always the one that finishes last? Philip Wang, Wesley Chan, and Ted Fu of Wong Fu Productions know, and they give good advice to help the nice guy/girl in everybody.
A few years ago, under the name of Sketchbook Media, they made a 3-part series called "Just a Nice Guy" and posted it on YouTube. Philip...
I don't mean a necessarily officially canonized woman or man. I mean a genuine role model. Not in the "My dad is my hero" or "my role model is Derron Williams" sense, but in the sense of something deeper. I suggest look into whatever it is that truly inspires you, whether it is social justice, art, philosophy, or whatever, and just look up influential people in that field. If you like music, perhaps Beethoven is your guy. If you like business, perhaps Warren Buffet is your saint. If women's rights...