No Advice Please!

In my years I’ve given and received a lot of advice. Sometimes I’ve lucidly expressed and shared wisdom or my own or received brilliant tokens of wise suggestions from others. However, not until recently did I start to scrutinize the Value (or lack-thereof) of the advice I received from others. Upon this scrutiny, I quickly realized that some advice is not so valuable and is possibly dangerous!. We all are told to “listen to our elders” and heed advice carefully, but we’re rarely told to watch out for advice!

I have and express gratitude and massive appreciation for most advice from people. A portion of the advice I’ve accumulated in life has brought me to where I live and thrive today, coalescing together an exciting profession with web design, life-coaching, and acting-performance. Additionally a lot of my health and friendships thrived or endured because of great advice from others. However, you may discover, at times, that not listening to others’ advice, holding true to your inner voice, and galvanizing trust in your own actions, can an activate just as much (or more) clarity and confident initiative than following the advice of others!

Here’s my Two cents on why to not accept advice from others as a turn of the tables.

Whether you’re requesting advice on an essay to write, a problem to solve, how to approach it, putting your intention on someone else’s advice or your own has it’s place and time. Here’s 5 great reason why should occasionally avoid the advice of others and how such a practice could benefit you greatly. (I am aware that “not taking advice” is a form of advice!).

Not listening to advice can often increase your Intuitive voice, professionalism, listening and acoustic skills, inner alignment, and conversational selectivity!

--Intuitive. Receiving advice is counter-intuitive to a giving person’s mission and interest in life.  I've written 5 books and have done a tremendous amount of accomplishments that manufacture an uplifting and colorfully effective set of insights to give to people. While receiving insights from others is great, my entire personality, motive, and desire revolves around giving not receiving advice! Do you have a similar “giving first, receiving mindset”? If so, getting advice from others could be counter-intuitive and thus counter-productive to your core values. Not listening to your core values causes your relationships and career success to suffer. It’s best to listen to your own inner message!

--Professionalism. You'll feel more professional listening to your own advice.  Clear and simple.  If someone is constantly giving you advice, it's easy to feel belittled, depressed, or always the passive role of a watcher, learner, or receiver instead of an actor, teacher, or giver..  I'm interested in sharing and helping, not necessarily with "advice" which can be frequently unhelpful from certain people on certain topics, but by eliciting one’s own professionalism and core values.

--Acoustics. You'll listen more intently and comprehensively if you ease off and take a break from requesting advice from others!  I don’t know about your brain, but when I want to be giving advice instead of receiving it, my brain blocks out advice upon hearing it, when you aren’t thinking “I really want to hear what this guy has to say”.  Frequently our mind gets frustrated upon hearing someone else’s opinion being shoved at you. This is not ego, but just your own inner voice trying to have a presence. Led your inner wisdom speak and guide you to your career dreams! The less advice you hear, the more open you’ll be to listening to what non-advice things people have to say! You’ll pay attention more because you won’t be putting up “auditory walls” to what you hear, knowing that the messages others have to say are not advice, but a friendly discussion!

--Alignment. You run the risk of deviating from your own path when you listen to others’ advice.  Others' advice may be great but there's no guarantee that you'll stay true to your own path, maintain your moral and value integrity, and just continue towards what you're heading.  Others advice should acknowledged advice given with a "Thanks" and gratitude, but almost always quickly discard the external advice in one ear and out the other without a thought about it, to ensure you stay true to your path and goals.  Here’s a simple example: a bicyclist tells you to bike more to get in shape, but you're a surfer.  Listening to that advice would derail you from something that provides fulfillment in your life. Or another one: A professional counselor tells you to go to sleep earlier to get out of feeling down in the dumps, but your friend reminded you that when you stay up and talk with people, you frequently feel refreshed and energized the next day! In such a case, listening to the counselor would have derailed you from your life path, but your own inner voice, or your friends suggestion would have brought the most effective results! You risk eclipsing your idenity when you listen to advice given by those far removed from your path. Listen to your own advice and advice closely aligned with your own life path.

--Be selective. Are their any topics that you absolutely will not hear advice on? What are some topics that you absolutely are not open to hearing advice on? Maybe you consider yourself an expert on the topic, or maybe you simply have heard the bulk of the advice that people have to say and hearing “new advice” is just having old trite hackneyed utterances shoved back at you. This depends on the person, but what are some advice topics that definitely do not resonate with you? These could range from romantic relationships, to professional topics, to appearance topics, to scheduling advice topics, and more.

Conclusively, be wary of those who dump their own opinions, views, and perspectives on you in the form of advice! The best advice someone could ever give you is to listen to your own advice! When someone utilizes advanced questioning and elicits your core values and enables you to provide yourself with the advice you need, that’s the best type of advice you could ever receive!

If you want to experience an increase your Intuitive voice, a new-found professionalism, enhanced capacity, inner alignment, greater choice in conversations, maybe should ease up on the advice of others!

I encourage you to look for friends or wise souls who offer this ability of creating your own “intrinsic advice library” through advanced neuro-linguistic questioning! If you can’t find anyone with that skill amongst your peers, feel free to call Validate Your Life coaching at 773.991.6391 or validatelife@gmail.com and set-up a free appointment to elicit the best advice for you -- your own wisdom! http://www.validatelife.com.

Los Angeles Facts

In the United States

#1 Largest County

#2 2nd Largest City

Zip codes in CA run from 90000-96199. If you're outside of that range, you're in the wrong place!!! Haha!

The Mastery of Prioritization

Use "Urgent" and "Important" to create the 5 classifications of tasks

Think about potential
Important tasks have MAJOR consequences if it is done or not done in the long run.

Urgent tasks have MAJOR immediate consequences if it is not done.

Highly productive people prioritize which is the most important.

A. Immediate drastic consequences if not Done

Cannot put these off without causing serious problems = important, urgent

"In your face";  important telephone calls; EMERGENCIES; almost always determined by other people.

B. Long term consequences = important, non-urgent ` (spending time with fam, exercising, upgradrading knowledge and skills, physical fitness and exercise  CAN be put off, but will have greatest LONG term impact on your life.  

C. Killer of careers = non-important, urgent (telephone calls with friends,  talking about what was on TV)
No consequences of not doing it.  Nice to do but have absolutely no consequences to your career or success.

D. Completely useless irrelevant with no consequences at all, = (reading teh newspaper, going shopping, calling home to see what's for dinner. "nice to do but no consequences"

*E. Eliminate = so unimportant that you can eliminate them completely.

The rule is never do C items when there's Bs to do and never do Bs when there are As to do and so on.

Simply append A,B,C, or D to your tasks. With numbers so 2nd most important task would be A2.

In a wierd way, for your health life down the road, Bs are most important but not doing As can get you into serious trouble which is why they must be done to ensure you can focus on Bs. As should be done before Bs because not doing them can have dire consequenes.

Tech Medley Post

DVI and VGA
DVI is newer technology than VGA.
DVI is Digital Visual Interface so connections to your monitor, tv screen, etc are not converted, but stay digital the whole way through.
VGA converts between analog and digital making it, somewhat inferior to DVI and typically means "analog computer display".
VGA is Video Graphics display and implies analog display.
Macbooks have DVI connectors, more specifically mini-DVI connectors.

21st Century Mythology: The Best Hero is Flawed, 2-Sided

Recently read this great article and it sparked some interesting ideas. Superheros are only identifiably heroic when they can connect to other humans! Otherwise, they're just alien. The most secure way of making that connection, honestly, is flaws. Batman's troubles over his dead parents, Ironman's drinking problems, Maxwell Smart's stupidity and bumbling, all those flaws make their great deeds identifiably humanly heroic. Cool stuff. Otherwise they're just mythological!

Yeah, that's awesome. Superheroes who are perfect without flawed are just myth. The stories of Neptune and Jupiter from Ancient Rome helped Romans understand their mysterious world and answer some of the questions that could only be answered with scientific breakthroughs millenias to come. Same goes for the Zeus, Posieden, Athena stories from greece. Those mythologies embodied flawless, "inhuman heros". A star contrast from the very human and flawed, but exceptionally heroic characters in many of todays films.

Maybe we have re-invented mythology into a global flawed mythological superhuman superhero. The kind that is a little bit closer to us than Zeus on Mount Olympia, or Neptune beneath the sea. Modern culture has crafted "gods" (superheros) that blends the myth into our reality because we recognize elements of each of us in the our 21st century heroes.

Liberating Mind and Body with Performance

After thoroughly researching the horrors of pschiatry and medicine, it's clear that the conventional doctor imprisons the mind, but not the body. The mind gets imprisoned in a web of disorders, diagnostic drabble, and drastic symptoms with medicine.

Law works the body, but not the mind. After hearing about 17 recent exonerations by DNA of innocents serving decades, it's clear that the legal system let's the mind run free (you can believe whatever you want in prison), but imprisons the mind.

So the combination of law and medicine collectively imprison your body and mind.

My goal in life is to free the both. That's why you have to know thy enemy a bit. But music, acting, stand-up, and performance entertains and inspires and creates belief. Those performance, inspirational, belief-inspiring professions liberate body and mind. To that I have devotion!

Misc. Trivia Postings Research

Expresso-Based Drinks

For the longest time I couldn't figure out the difference between all those awesome Italian European coffee drinks.  Here's the basic distinctions of the drinks similar to each other.

Cappuccino -- Uses equal part milk and expresso milk:expresso = 1:1.  But the milk is "microfoamed" so it's 2x it's volume.  Making the milk volume:expresso = 2:1 even though the original quantities are equal.   If the milk is poured over the expresso you get a cappuccino, if the expresso is poured over the milk, apparently you get a totally different drink, a macchiato (ridiculous but one could say sophisticated).

Latte -- Milk:expresso = 2:1.  Twice the amount of milk as cappuccino.  Milk is heated instead of microfoamed.

Expresso -- Can use similar beans as coffee, but instead of just using gravity to drip hot water through the grind, expresso uses a much more pressurized production.  Near-boiling water is pressurized and forced through a packed "puck" of finely ground coffee.  I guess you could think of expresso brewing as coffee-drip brewing but at a much more concentrated, finer grind, pressurized, warp speed.  Add milk to any of these expressos and you have a latte (more milk) or cappuccino (less milk)

This site sorted out the discrepancies.

Neptune

• Neptune is 17x earth
• Windiest planet in solar system
• Named after roman god of the sea, his brother’s are Jupiter and Pluto.
• Methane makes it blue.
• And it’s moon is Triton (1 of 13 moons).
• Undergoes apparent retrograde every 367 days

Janus

• Janus is the Roman god of new beginnings and doors. Pray to Janus to get a golden audition.

Lost (TV)

• Lost is so successful and draws 15 million viewers because it ties in mythology (the island develops it’s own myths, legends, and culture amongst the pod of survivors).

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Thunderstorms -- Meteorological Heat and Moisture
Thunderstorms, in short, need heat and moisture. Warm air can carry more molecules than colder air and the moisture condenses producing latent heat, also adding to the storm.

Storms usually occur with "high horizons" with those huge cumulus clouds.

Thunderstorms in winter DO occur but rare. They needs cloud air colder than surface air (difficult in winter b/c surface ground air is already pretty cold) and a lot of moisture (again hard. because winter is typically dry). But they do happen if the aloft air gets a lot colder than surface and some moisture is brought in from some source like gulf of mexico. If a huge cloud mass passes a body of water and picks up moisture, that could contribute to a winter storm.


iPhone
71% of all web browsing mobile is done from Safari (iPhone)

iPhone has 28% of all mobile market and it's only been out for a year. RIM has like 41% but it's been out for decades! haha! Apple rocks!

Apple has created two music phones. The ROKR, made with Motorola in 2005, respected the traditional relationships between manufacturers and carriers. The iphone, released last summer, completely overturned them.

ROKR

This was me at CC when obeying timb_ezra!

* Won't hold more than 100 songs, even if there's memory left.
* iTunes Music Store purchases must be synced from a PC.
* Clunky interface is sluggish and hard to navigate.
* Design screams, "A committee made me."

iPhone

This is me now
* Can hold about 1,500 songs — as much as its 8-GB drive allows.
* iTunes Music Store purchases download wirelessly, directly to the phone.
* Just tap and go; no user manual required.
* C'mon. Look at it. It's gorgeous.

A cozy relationship with the maker of the iPod would bring sex appeal to the company's brand. And some other carrier was sure to sign with Jobs if Cingular turned him down — Jobs made it clear that he would shop his idea to anyone who would listen. But no carrier had ever given anyone the flexibility and control that Jobs wanted, and Sigman knew he'd have trouble persuading his fellow executives and board members to approve a deal like the one Jobs proposed.

Apple engineers bought nearly a dozen server-sized radio-frequency simulators for millions of dollars apiece. Even Apple's experience designing screens for iPods didn't help the company design the iPhone screen, as Jobs discovered while toting a prototype in his pocket: To minimize scratching, the touchscreen needed to be made of glass, not hard plastic like on the iPod. One insider estimates that Apple spent roughly $150 million building the iPhone.

In February, Jobs will release a developer's kit so that anyone can write programs for the device.

The iPhone cracked open the carrier-centric structure of the wireless industry and unlocked a host of benefits for consumers, developers, manufacturers — and potentially the carriers themselves.

It may appear that the carriers' nightmares have been realized, that the iPhone has given all the power to consumers, developers, and manufacturers, while turning wireless networks into dumb pipes.But by fostering more innovation, carriers' networks could get more valuable, not less. Consumers will spend more time on devices, and thus on networks, racking up bigger bills and generating more revenue for everyone. According to Paul Roth, AT&T's president of marketing, the carrier is exploring new products and services — like mobile banking — that take advantage of the iPhone's capabilities. "We're thinking about the market differently," Roth says. In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that.
(Source NYT iPhone Article)

Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps was offered $1 million by speedo if he got seven golds in the 2004, tying Spitz's 10972 record.  He fell one short, but he, at 15, was the youngest male swimmer at the olympics in over 60 years, and he was 2nd person ever to win 8 medals in one olympics.  8 medals in one olympics?!! That's a lot of hardware!  Phelps may not have beaten Spitz's 7-gold record (which is ridiculously off the charts) but his name just sets records of all kinds across the board.

Alcohol Spirits

I Never Knew the Difference Between all these so here's the skinny on the spirits of the world.

Wine and beer are fermented, but All Hard Alcohol == Liquor == Spirits is DISTILLED, not fermented. Therefore, all the hard alcohol listed below are made through a distillation process. What is being distilled (potatoes, grains, corn, sugarcane, or plants) is what determines the hard alcohol.

Vodka comes from potatoes, grains, or sugar beets.

Whiskey is distilled from grain mash and aged in wooden casks (Irish and Scottish).

Brandy is like the distilled form of wine (but it has hard alcohol content of 40-60%). It comes from grapes, pomace, or fermented fruit.

Rum is distilled from sugarcane or sugarcane juice. Cool! Plays a large part in the west Indies and naval life and Buccaneers, Piarates . Horatio Nelson's body was preserved in a cask of rum, but drunken by sailors, and Stevenson's Treasure Island introduced rum to naval literature. In australia, Captain William Bligh (Mutiny on the Bounty) started a Rum Revolution as Governor of South Wales by banning it which caused a revolt. Spiced Rum.

Eau de Vie is a colorless French fruit brandy, fermented and then double-distilled; served cold. Sounds cool!.

Tequila is distilled from the Blue Agave plant.

Gin is distilled from a white grain and always flavored with Juniper Berries. Well used in london and if it's distilled very well, it will be "dry" meaning lacking a sweet taste.

Exciting Smogasbord of Random Trivia

I've had an ongoing list of various research trivia projects from Eucalyptus leaves to Cinco De Mayo.

I finally got around to research them, but some of the excerpts are almost too small for their own article, so I pooled the trivia research findings all here.

Here's the results.

Eucalyptus

Cinco De Mayo
"5th of May" || US version of "Yorkton Day" "October 17, 1781" ||. Surprisingly this doesn't celebrate Mexican Independence, So what famous event does the 5th of May recognize? Well, Mexican Indepndence was close, except it wasn't the Declaration independence day, which was September 15, 1810. Instead, May 5, 1862 marks the key military conquest where Mexico smashed the French army and traitor mexican soldiers at Puebla, 100 miles east of Mexico City! I made, if I do say so myself, I VERY clever analogy with the American independence. In 1781, Cornwallis officially surrended in Yorktown to George Washington. Our official declaration of independence occurred back in 1776 and the key military battle that clinched our independence, not unlike May 5, 1862 for Mexico, was October 17, 1781. Conclusively, Cinco de May is not Mexican Independence day, but rather the day Mexico "clinched" its independence, like a "17th of October Yorktown" day for the U.S.!

Neptune

• Neptune is 17x earth
• Windiest planet in solar system
• Named after roman god of the sea, his brother’s are Jupiter and Pluto.
• Methane makes it blue.
• And it’s moon is Triton (1 of 13 moons).
• Undergoes apparent retrograde every 367 days

Janus

• Janus is the Roman god of new beginnings and doors. Pray to Janus to get a golden audition.

Lost

• Lost is so successful and draws 15 million viewers because it ties in mythology (the island develops it’s own myths, legends, and culture amongst the pod of survivors).

Thunderstorms -- Meteorological Heat and Moisture
Thunderstorms, in short, need heat and moisture. Warm air can carry more molecules than colder air and the moisture condenses producing latent heat, also adding to the storm.

Storms usually occur with "high horizons" with those huge cumulus clouds.

Thunderstorms in winter DO occur but rare. They needs cloud air colder than surface air (difficult in winter b/c surface ground air is already pretty cold) and a lot of moisture (again hard. because winter is typically dry). But they do happen if the aloft air gets a lot colder than surface and some moisture is brought in from some source like gulf of mexico. If a huge cloud mass passes a body of water and picks up moisture, that could contribute to a winter storm.


Eucalyptus
Picked this up and ate it while hiking Hotsprings

Key Facts (Trigger Words)

• Australia!!
• Gum
• Leaf Oil =
• Natural Disinfectant!! (But toxic in high doses),
• Flammable!,
• Blue Haze -- Creates characteristic Blue Haze of australian landascape!
• Digeridoo
• Originated from CA Gold Rush
• Eucalyptus flora dominates Australia!
• 35 to 50 million years old!

Research
Australia!! also India, SoCal, Africa, Portugal, Spain, China
Gum trees, odd insect makes squiggle marks in the bark sap.
COOL! They're Evergreen!! (not decidious, but they look like that. such a COOL plant. Eucalyptus is my favorite plant by FAR nowadays!!) and Myrtle. leaves covered with oil glands (like a person's subcutaneous skin)!

Oil rises above the canopy to create the awesome horizon of the australian landscape!! Flammable oils brought about trees that were known to explode! Huge controeverys over their saftey because of flammabilyt, But the aroma makes it hte best flora for me!! Music branches digeridoo. COOL Introduced to CA by Aussies during CA Gold rush!! far out!! australians panned for gold and brought Eucalyptus! Awesome!! So useful, they're often economically imported!! (am I like an imported australian eucalyptus tree)? Frequently has stringy bark.


iPhone
71% of all web browsing mobile is done from Safari (iPhone)

iPhone has 28% of all mobile market and it's only been out for a year. RIM has like 41% but it's been out for decades! haha! Apple rocks!

Apple has created two music phones. The ROKR, made with Motorola in 2005, respected the traditional relationships between manufacturers and carriers. The iphone, released last summer, completely overturned them.

ROKR

This was me at CC when obeying timb_ezra!

* Won't hold more than 100 songs, even if there's memory left.
* iTunes Music Store purchases must be synced from a PC.
* Clunky interface is sluggish and hard to navigate.
* Design screams, "A committee made me."

iPhone

This is me now
* Can hold about 1,500 songs — as much as its 8-GB drive allows.
* iTunes Music Store purchases download wirelessly, directly to the phone.
* Just tap and go; no user manual required.
* C'mon. Look at it. It's gorgeous.

A cozy relationship with the maker of the iPod would bring sex appeal to the company's brand. And some other carrier was sure to sign with Jobs if Cingular turned him down — Jobs made it clear that he would shop his idea to anyone who would listen. But no carrier had ever given anyone the flexibility and control that Jobs wanted, and Sigman knew he'd have trouble persuading his fellow executives and board members to approve a deal like the one Jobs proposed.

Apple engineers bought nearly a dozen server-sized radio-frequency simulators for millions of dollars apiece. Even Apple's experience designing screens for iPods didn't help the company design the iPhone screen, as Jobs discovered while toting a prototype in his pocket: To minimize scratching, the touchscreen needed to be made of glass, not hard plastic like on the iPod. One insider estimates that Apple spent roughly $150 million building the iPhone.

In February, Jobs will release a developer's kit so that anyone can write programs for the device.

The iPhone cracked open the carrier-centric structure of the wireless industry and unlocked a host of benefits for consumers, developers, manufacturers — and potentially the carriers themselves.

It may appear that the carriers' nightmares have been realized, that the iPhone has given all the power to consumers, developers, and manufacturers, while turning wireless networks into dumb pipes.But by fostering more innovation, carriers' networks could get more valuable, not less. Consumers will spend more time on devices, and thus on networks, racking up bigger bills and generating more revenue for everyone. According to Paul Roth, AT&T's president of marketing, the carrier is exploring new products and services — like mobile banking — that take advantage of the iPhone's capabilities. "We're thinking about the market differently," Roth says. In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that.
(Source NYT iPhone Article)

Teaching Myself Italian

I love this language. I love the way it sounds. The way it flows. Most vitally, I love the body language and gestures used with Italian. It's the perfect "animated language" for an actor!

That said, I don't care about spelling. I'm going all phonetic with phrases I learn

• Pee a cherrrray de • Conocherrr tee ( Piacere di conoscerti ) -- Pleased to Meet You.
• Mee keee ammmo John = My Name is John.