Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged balance, discipline, house of dreams, metaphor, procrastination, writing on November 12, 2014| 4 Comments »
Let’s say… you’re a writer. You’ve done a lot of reading, but you’ve never come across the book you want to write. There’s a unique emptiness out there that needs to be filled. You know you have the talent, the intellect, the creativity to fill this emptiness. You also secretly fear that if you don’t fill it, eventually someone else will. And yet, you idle.
Posted in Step Up, tagged house of dreams, traveler on May 10, 2013| 2 Comments »
He spins around and walks back toward his room. I hear his laughter echoing from down the hallway, “Haha-haa!”
I turn back, but I can’t resummon the mental image I had created. There’s nothing but a vast emptiness to my small room.
“Bui, get ready!” Goethe yells from inside his room.
“For what?” I yell back.
“We’re going out!”
Posted in Step Up, tagged goethe, house of dreams, light on May 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Nearly 2 years had gone by and all of the guys had moved out, all except me and George. Ever the people-connector, he recruited a new member into our fraternity. He embodied the dynamism of Jake, the carefree presence of Brady, the conviction of George, and the passion of Manny. He was big, larger than life, and his name was Goethe.
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Posted in Step Up, tagged fire, house of dreams, manny on April 29, 2013| 2 Comments »
Manny and I had been friends for years, going out about once a month whenever we both found ourselves single at the same time. When he had told me about his friend George and his idea to bring together the 6 of us under one roof, I instantly knew I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. I always knew Manny to be a bit more impulsive than me, but it wasn’t until I lived with him that I discovered that he was a veritable fire in human form.
Posted in Step Up, tagged earth, george, house of dreams on April 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Several months had passed when George called together our third house meeting. The 5 of us had moved in together because of an ideal, a concept called the “Master Mind.” It was an idea proposed in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. The basic gist was that if you surrounded yourself with motivated team players, you could form an interdependent group in which each member would be driven to greater heights of success than had he gone it alone. People outside our little motivational fraternity were inclined to making fun of us, calling us “weird,” “try-hards,” or the ubiquitous “nerds.” But through the strength of George’s conviction, we grounded ourselves amidst a storm of criticism.
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