Do Everyone a Service and DON’T Vote!

WordPress’ voting project reminded me of my thoughts of voting.  Do I believe Americans’ should vote?  Yes!  What I don’t agree with are the “get out and vote!” campaigns trying to get people to simply vote (what WordPress is doing).  What is the good in having a mass amount of voters if they’re uneducated on what the topic being voted upon is?

Would you allow someone who’s very uneducated about finances have control over your finances?  Would you allow someone who doesn’t know anything about pregnancy to be your obstetrician during your pregnancy?  Would you allow someone who has zero experience with cars and motors to work on your transmission?  My guess is the answer to all of these is no.  So why would you want someone to go out and vote on things that are going to affect YOUR life dramatically if they know nothing about what it is they’re voting on?!  It’s insane!

I would love to see more people voting, especially young voters so that us young people are heard more.  But, I don’t want Joe from down the street who doesn’t even know the candidates or what they’re stance is on things to be voting simply because someone told him to go out and vote!  We need to EDUCATE voters on what they’re about to vote for before getting them to the polls.

Stop leaving America up to the uneducated!  

I am not voting this November 4th.  Why?  Because I haven’t educated myself on this year’s election therefore I have no business voting!

EDUCATE AMERICANS BEFORE THEY GET TO THE POLLS!

This video says everything even better than I have:

You Will Be Famous

I was at work the other morning and there’s a group of older men who come in frequently.  They always have lots of coffee and stick around talking for quite a while.  I went to go refill their coffee and one of them had asked me earlier what I was studying in college, and I said I was leaning toward business.  When I went to refill their coffee he told the rest of the men how I was studying business and one of them replied “Stick to it!  You’ll be famous one day!”

All I could do was chuckle and say thank you!

Now, many people will take this comment as just some senile man making a probably not so true comment.

Me on the other hand, I take it as motivation, and a sign of something greater.

Someday, I will be famous.  Not maybe, and no if’s and’s or but’s about it.

and I have my readers to thank for it

PE

Promotion Time!

Have a specific post (or maybe a couple), that you’d like to get out there, or have me read?  Share below!

Go on now, SHARE SHARE SHARE! 🙂

I’ve been looking for some good reads and would really enjoy reading yours.

like I said, go on and share below!

PE

My Lack of Caring

I’m not sure if it’s actual lack of caring, or if I’m just too positive.  When something bad happens and someone starts flipping out my typical response is usually “It’ll be fine, relax for god sakes”.  Maybe it’s a lack of empathy.  Or maybe all of those personality tests are right and I am unable to connect with someone else’s emotions and understand why they’re feeling the way they are.  I don’t get overly emotional about things.  Even when family has died, I didn’t cry.  I simply thought it was a part of life and it would be fine.  Is that bad?  I feel like it’s bad.

Or when something bad happens to someone, or they’re in distress, it’s pretty much impossible for me to comfort them.  I’m not a touchy feely person and I even hate being touched when I’m upset.  I can’t just give someone a hug, that’s basically uncharted territory, even when it’s something happy or good.  That’s sad right?  The only person I hug on a regular basis, or really at all is my daughter.  She’s the only person I’m able to comfort.  But even then, it’s only to a certain extent.

So which is it, lack of caring, empathy, or inability to connect with others’ emotions?

I have a heart, I promise

PE

It’s a Short Life

So what are you going to do with it?

Are you going to live out your dreams, be a passenger in someone else’s, or simply pass by through life?  Do you want to be a dot on the map, or something that makes all the other dots a bit better or happier?  Are you selfless, or in it for your own gain?  Will you be alright taking a cut in pay if it meant living out your dreams?  Do you have a plan, or are you simply living day by day?  Do you want to get married, settle down, have a family?  Or be a nomad and simply observe everyone else’s lives?  Are you willing to pour your heart into something?  Do you have a ton of dreams, or just a few?

These are all important life questions that must be answered.  The question is, how long will you wait to answer them?

when are you going to answer the questions of life?

PE

Shy Entrepreneurs are Difficult

Being a shy entrepreneur can be difficult.  I’m one and sometimes I question my ability to be an entrepreneur.  I’ve made great strides in my level of outgoingness since my daughter was born, but I still have a long way to go.  Being shy doesn’t mean you can’t be an entrepreneur but some aspects of it may be more difficult than if you were outgoing.  Reaching out to people, for example, is one of my greatest disadvantages.  It took such great strength for me to reach out to my former principal and propose the idea of a public speaking opportunity.  Then when he put me into contact with one of the teachers (who I hadn’t ever talked to before) put me even more on edge.  Meeting with that teacher also put me on even more of an edge.  I was shaking and so nervous the entire time, but afterward I felt great!  Sometimes pushing yourself can reap great rewards because now I have been invited to be a keynote speaker at an event.  Maybe if I hadn’t gone through with that meeting, or responded to the e-mails I wouldn’t have gotten a good word in and wouldn’t have been able to kick start my career.

don’t let it get in your way

PE

Love This

This just proves that no matter where you are in your life, you can find your calling.  You can make a change in the world.  You can make your dreams come true.  Dreams have no life span, they never retire, or expire.  They’re there in your mind until you put your hands to work and make them a reality.

make your dreams a reality whether you’re 25 or 55

PE

Asking for Help

I was working on a project for one of my classes and a paper for another when I realized something.

Back in high school (oh yeah less than 6 months ago ya know…that’s such a long time) when a teacher would hand me back a paper, or assignment with comments on it, if they weren’t positive I ignored them.  I hated being critiqued and I didn’t like asking for or receiving help.  Plus I felt like if I corrected those mistakes on the next assignment I was giving in to them and admitting I was wrong, and I used to have really big issues with admitting that I was wrong (I still do, but not as severe).

This past week I got a paper back from a professor with some helpful comments on it.  Some of which included things like, would be nice to have an intro and conclusion, more details, more examples, etc.  Normally I would hate that and toss it!  Now I’m in college, and guess what?  I take it like a big girl and improve on those mistakes!  It was my first college paper, so of course I’m going to have some things that need improvement.  We had another paper we had to write this week and you bet I made sure there was an intro and a conclusion, plus lots of examples with details!

You know how people say if a professor says something multiple times YOU BETTER REMEMBER IT BECAUSE IT’S IMPORTANT?  Yeah, this week was the first time that happened to me.

My professor was speaking about our first upcoming project that’s due this Monday.  He kept saying how if we wanted to we could send in a draft, even if it’s partially completed, to him and he would give us feedback.  He also stressed that almost all of his past students who did this received an A.  What did I do?  I started working on the project and set him a VERY rough draft and it was less than halfway completed.  He said I was going in the right direction and to keep doing what I was doing.  So I did.

He also stressed how much he would rather a student choose one part of a broad subject and go into great depth on it, rather than try and cover the WHOLE subject.  So what did I do?  I chose a smaller sub-topic of the subject I was covering and went into great depth on it.  Then I sent him my final draft so he could look it over one last time before I finalized it.  If I don’t get a good grade on this I will SCREAM! haha.

it’s okay to ask for and receive help

good luck to my fellow college students as they’re probably entering their first projects this week

PE