Colorado: The Culture

 

For me, Colorado is one of those places I could go and one day later realize that I’ve been there for five years. Not sure if that’s a bad thing or a good thing. Keep in mind it’s not really a place for me, I’m more accustom to city living in California. Even Denver doesn’t have a complete city feel to me, it just seems like a pretty laid back.

When I think of Colorado I think of …

Recycling, changing my eating habits to get rid of glucose, getting a Subaru, riding a horse, eating cage free eggs, hiking, bike riding, more activities in general, drinking more beer than I already do, watching less TV, being outside more, yoga, and getting a dog – To name a few.

I was visiting my family in Colorado these last few days and lost track of time. I was consumed with relaxing with elements of drinking. I forgot that I write on my blog and actually have stuff to do. I was ultimately sucked into the culture and it scared me. There is always the possibility of never coming back.

I’m back in LA with clear eyes and a detox ahead of me. I feel like a stronger man after weathering the Colorado culture. I’m happy to be home, I was even happier to visit my family – It’s kind of a confusing scenario.

Whatever the case, I’m back to work and wondering if anyone else feels like I do in Colorado. Do you lose track of time? Am I just victim to visiting family and taking a vacation? I don’t know, and that’s just the thing. Colorado did this.

*Yes, well aware that I bunched a lot of cities and towns into “Colorado.”

Job Time 101.

Do you like your job? Do you like what you do every day? It’s so common day to make a joke to anyone about the week almost being over or “can’t wait to be off work.” Why are we all at fault for saying this? Are we tried? Do we just say it to relate to someone else?

How has this happened to the majority of all of us, how have we come to a point where when you look at someone you know it’s not necessarily what they want to be doing? This doesn’t apply to all but like I said earlier… the majority.

Is it the system? Is it us? Is it the commercials and advertisements depicting HOW we feel but not really asking? Are we positioned this way?

I think the common goal is to get to that point in life where we’re not saying anything negative about work, or our days IN work. Wouldn’t it be great to not really know you’re working but to get paid? To go through your life being passionate about what you’re doing and when a paycheck comes you say “I can’t believe I’m paid for this.”

I’ve never been so certain that life and our surroundings are how we create it. Every single day tests our ingenuity, resilience, change, and creativity and how we implement it in our day to day. Each day is for trusting what you know but being open and ready to learn something new.

Trust what you know and don’t let your surroundings dictate how you feel, if the surroundings make you unhappy – find something new to look at until you’re happy staring at it.

The Single Most useless thing In the World...

Worrying.

If you’ve mastered the art to avoid worrying consider yourself on the Path to Jedi. So many times I/we/people worry about things completely out of control and it leads nowhere, absolutely nowhere. Acceptance and Trust may be the ways to avoid worrying.

What I do know is that we are not here to worry about yesterday or tomorrow -  Embrace everything.

                                              Don’t Worry.

       If any two combined words are taken for granted…It’s these two.

Only you to thank...and Trust

When I rolled out of bed this morning the soothing feel of trusting every action of the day hit me. Sometimes I think we forget that everything that happens around us is created by the previous action that we just made, and once we can realize that, we can begin to walk in any direction that we please knowing everything is going to work out just the way we planned.

The key to this equation is trusting yourself and what you’re doing (or not doing). If you walk shaky footed then all and any decision will appear that way. It’s just something to keep in mind. I think we all know someone (maybe ourselves) who will always say things like “…oh of course this would happen.” That saying takes place right after something “happens” to them - we tend to forget we put ourselves in every position, I’d like to think we are ALL connected, no coincidences.

Enjoy the day!