Just On the Grind
Its been a while. I've been keeping occupied, mainly with my business plan. Its coming along well, and it really takes writing one to understand the business inside and out... otherwise its just a good idea. Making it a plan makes you work out the logistics and you come across the little problems you wouldn't have thought about otherwise. Its also surprisingly long, in my eyes, but I honestly haven't looked at what a business plan is supposed to look like, I've just been putting in everything I think should go into it... what I would want to see if someone gave it to me.
Where did the extra motivation come from? My business plan was dead for a good month... most of the progress happened since last Thursday. I had an idea. I decided as much as I wanted to get it done, I wouldn't unless I had a deadline that existed outside of my world, because in my world I can just keep pushing the deadline back. So I sent a friend an instant message, and said I would have the biz plan to them by 7PM on Wednesday. Its a reasonable deadline, but I set it knowing that I'd have to be pretty dedicated in order to meet it... and so far so good. So now, just like in school, it isn't about me, its about producing something to meet a deadline for someone else. Effective, but I shouldn't have to do that in order to get stuff done.
Another plug for my cousin - http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/ . Apparently my uncle (not her dad) that lives in her home town couldn't get tickets to her show before it sold out. Its getting that serious over in the UK.
One of my favorite movies growing up was Back to the Future... because I was glad I knew how to use the VCR and it was the only movie I could find around... so I watched it over and over. Only recently did I watch it again and actually understand what was going on, even though I remembered everything about it. I always wondered about time travel. The rest of this entry delves into science, but it is something to think about... I won't go too in depth... but time travel is possible, just not the way we'd like to think it is.
Everything you perceive has already happened. If a train is a mile away, and you hear the whistle... the whistle actually blew 5 seconds earlier. Or, even better example, and my reason for writing this. The light from a star takes years to reach Earth, and as such, when the star dies, to stop receiving the light also takes years. We could be looking at a star in the sky that actually no longer exists. They say time travel isn't possible, when in reality, everytime you look into the sky, you are looking into the past.
Interesting comment on human progress - the nearest star (besides the sun) is 26 light years away. (1 light year = distance light travels in 1 year)
The furthest man has been, the moon, is only a little over 1 light second away. We have a long way to go.
I wanted to be an astronaut a long time ago. This sort of thing stays on my mind.
Turns out Virgin Atlantic recently announced that once you acquire enough frequent flyer miles (2 million I think) they will let you turn them in for a trip into space. Better get flying.
~JL
Where did the extra motivation come from? My business plan was dead for a good month... most of the progress happened since last Thursday. I had an idea. I decided as much as I wanted to get it done, I wouldn't unless I had a deadline that existed outside of my world, because in my world I can just keep pushing the deadline back. So I sent a friend an instant message, and said I would have the biz plan to them by 7PM on Wednesday. Its a reasonable deadline, but I set it knowing that I'd have to be pretty dedicated in order to meet it... and so far so good. So now, just like in school, it isn't about me, its about producing something to meet a deadline for someone else. Effective, but I shouldn't have to do that in order to get stuff done.
Another plug for my cousin - http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/ . Apparently my uncle (not her dad) that lives in her home town couldn't get tickets to her show before it sold out. Its getting that serious over in the UK.
One of my favorite movies growing up was Back to the Future... because I was glad I knew how to use the VCR and it was the only movie I could find around... so I watched it over and over. Only recently did I watch it again and actually understand what was going on, even though I remembered everything about it. I always wondered about time travel. The rest of this entry delves into science, but it is something to think about... I won't go too in depth... but time travel is possible, just not the way we'd like to think it is.
Everything you perceive has already happened. If a train is a mile away, and you hear the whistle... the whistle actually blew 5 seconds earlier. Or, even better example, and my reason for writing this. The light from a star takes years to reach Earth, and as such, when the star dies, to stop receiving the light also takes years. We could be looking at a star in the sky that actually no longer exists. They say time travel isn't possible, when in reality, everytime you look into the sky, you are looking into the past.
Interesting comment on human progress - the nearest star (besides the sun) is 26 light years away. (1 light year = distance light travels in 1 year)
The furthest man has been, the moon, is only a little over 1 light second away. We have a long way to go.
I wanted to be an astronaut a long time ago. This sort of thing stays on my mind.
Turns out Virgin Atlantic recently announced that once you acquire enough frequent flyer miles (2 million I think) they will let you turn them in for a trip into space. Better get flying.
~JL
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