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The Prelude:  Winter is almost upon us…..

Max here with my first post to end out August and to break into September.

I’ve got a lot on my mind, from work at the club, to the real estate, to mental planning, to my new family abroad, to personal body work, and even the yearly trip that I will take to Homestead in November.

When it comes to the club, we are rounding near the end of the year and money at the club becomes quite a bit harder. In the sense that the mentality of the girls to stay positive isn’t easy and sadly no one here have I yet noticed makes a truly great effort to help the girls stay positive during these difficult months. So the overall energy at the club can be draining. And I’m not talking about the music, I’m talking about the internal spirit of each of the girls to withstand an influx of customers with limited finances. As the old saying goes, toward the end of the year everyone is hurting for money. But that saying isn’t really true, unless you don’t plan for what you want… And so for me, these next few months are critical, especially when I have goals to attain and I am completely dependent on the girls to help me reach my goals. Now what can I do about this? Good question…. For me I must find ways to internally move the needle to a positive feeling. This is not easy and probably not yet noticeable by others, but I must come to work with enough mental energy to have a positive conversation with any of the 70+ girls that come to my booth. It is one thing to be a sounding board for 70+ disappointed/unhappy girls, but it is a whole other thing to try and bring the positive out of a bleak day or feeling. Secondly I need to plan for the “Make Your Money Conference” (the name might change) but this will be my third year at attempting to throw a dinner for the girls who want to get together and talk about ways that they can use or redefine their mentalities and strategies about how to make more money for themselves in the coming year. The first year I offered this, not one girl came. But last year I had a whole whopping 3 girls attend. Mind you I also pay for the dinner. So to me it’s a win win for each of the girls. It’s just a matter of helping the girls see their potential and the ways to maximize their time at work. Then There is Xmas at work. For the last 2 years I have given Xmas gifts to all the night girls I work with. Needless to say this part of my giving is super expensive. We are talking about over 70 gifts, and over 70 stuffed stockings. Now why do I do this and not the people above me? Well let’s try the use of one word. “Family”. And currently in my head, the one who creates family is the one who guides the family. Plus if I can learn to help the girls make money thru a dinner conference and if I can do the Xmas for the girls, then just imagine what I can do when I build a company that is making my dreams come true.

But for now, it’s worrisome, because not only do I need money to continue my current lifestyle and pay people that work for me, but I also need money for the conference and Xmas. Then in November I want to take a trip to Homestead. I told myself last year that I need to go to Homestead once every year to get my mind wrapped around the city and to look for houses, a place to live, and overall get a feel for how to live there. And my trip there will cost over $1000.

Then there is the medical stuff. by the end of the year I want to have some medical work done. All of it is medical work to help my skin and facial structure look better. I currently still lack a total of about 5k. And somehow between now and November I gotta come up with the money. As I think of it, I want to say that the culmination of everything is very stressful, but the reality is that if I am going to be a multimillionaire then somehow I must not worry about the small stuff and instead I must look at things in a more macro type of attitude. In other words…. I must not tell myself that it is stressful, but instead I must realize that this is still just small stuff. And again, if I can learn to handle this “small stuff” then when the big stuff happens, I’ll be prepped and ready to come out swinging!

Now where am I right now…..

I’m here at the club and at the time of this writing, it was about 8 minutes from midnight. And tomorrow (eight minutes away) is Labor Day. What does labor day mean to me?  Currently it means nothing. It’s just another day of work. No vacation, or special times. But here at the club today is Sunday and usually on the cusp of any long holiday weekend, Sundays usually get busy and tonight is no exception. The club is starting to get busier than usual. But for me, it’s just another day of work.

So how have things been lately? Things have been good. And I’m not sure but let’s start with what I remember…. This week I saw my Professional Organizer, Joan. It’s been a couple of weeks since I have seen her and sitting with her brought a few revelations of how I need to tailor things in my life. And days later I was blown away by how I could feel myself trying to wrap my mind around how to manage all that I want and I could also feel myself in small ways connecting the dots to things. And when I say connecting the dots to different things, I mean about how I have the “general” idea of what I want. I have the “general” idea of what needs to be done. And I even have the “general” idea of how to proceed with things, but now I just need to learn how to bring it all together and then learn how to manage it, then learn how to stream line it.

But so what did Joan and I talk about. Well, we talked about several things. We talked about meditation. (Really odd add in at this moment, I read something about how midnight is when the body works best at being cerebral – for meditation and sleep purposes, And it’s midnight now, and I can feel myself really awake and ready to work…. Just really weird)

But so Joan and I talked about meditation, we talked about Eloy, we talked about my new brother and sister abroad, and we talked about what she is wants me to do for the next time that we meet up. Our meeting lasted about 2 hours and it was quite helpful. One of the weirdest things was the emotional state that I got when I told her about my family abroad and how I am now adding this to my priority list of things. You know, I didn’t expect to get so emotional when talking about my brother and sister, and I guess….. Well, maybe I found a family member or family members that I can actually connect with. Just a really nice thing. We also talked about Eloy and how last weekend while I was skydiving I planned for him to do work on my car and when I came back I found out that he fucked it all up. In the end, this past Monday I had to spend 8 hours with him fixing the problem and also I had to buy a new part for my car that he ruined. It was a total of $300.00 lost plus a 8 hour loss of my time. This was really up setting to me because my time is really important. It’s the reason that I hired a professional organizer. And in the end her thoughts of the situation is that I need to find a new Eloy. And in many regards I believe that she is correct, and that’s why I had a small talk with Eloy the next day. And then we talked about how I was doing with the plan that she laid out for me. It turns out that there was just a couple of tweaks to the plan. It seems that I find my Sundays to be better days to do planning and the Monday’s to be the days to implement my plans. She then gave me a 4 square of urgent/non urgent and important/non important. I’ve seen this in one of the books or videos from either Tony Robin’s or Robert Kyosaki or someone like that. And I remember giving it a try, but truth be told, I just wasn’t able to truly implement it into my life. I just didn’t understand how to properly use it and how one of the squares works. But this time, I think I will do a little better. And somewhere in the meeting we also talked about my desire to mentor at my old high school. I want that resolved before the end of the year.

So yep, we had a lot of things to discuss, or more of I had a lot of talking to do. And oddly enough a few days later as I pondered back on my meeting with her,  I realized that one of the biggest things that her job to do is to help hold me accountable for what I want, you know, the things in my experience list.  And do it in a way that helps me learn how to structure my life to attain those goals. That’s uber cool. The next time that I see her I need to inform her that I can now see a deeper meaning to her helping me.

Then there is that Eloy thing. Man I swear….This past Thursday I gave him the job of fixing the A/C on my car. And instead of him fixing it, he fixed it and broke it at the same time. Sadly because he was high, he unknowingly didn’t properly pay attention on how to install parts and or liquids. Part of his job was to watch YouTube videos. But because he got high and probably extra high on Wednesday night he lost his phone. and so  he couldn’t watch any videos and just did things by whatever he thought would work. In the end he ruined a part that ultimately cost me almost $300 to replace. And not only that I also had to walk him thru a process that I myself had not really ever done before. That was about 8 hours of my time on Monday, which took precious time away from other things that I had wanted to get done. Then later on Tuesday, I noticed that he did not put my car bumper back on properly. UGGGGGHHHHH. Stressful. This is exactly what Joan was talking about. Needless to say I talked to Eloy not only once but twice or more. And it took me a whole day in a half to completely let it go. And the fact that I was awake on Monday for 30 hours didn’t help. (8 of those hours fixing something that should have been fixed days prior)

So yea, Eloy…. I must figure something out. In the end, I can’t help but to think that I just need to network. And learn to do great networking. And with great networking skills, I will be able to find people that can help me to my dreams, including a new and better Eloy. And yes, I do secretly hope that Eloy comes to his senses about wanting more in his life than just doing drugs, but for now I have to also work on a contingency plan. Now Wednesday was spent trying to catch up on things that didn’t get done on Monday. Also I had the AC problem at School St. And Brandon came out on Tuesday to fix it and I made sure to go out and meet him personally about the situation. Turns out that Brandon has about 7 houses aside from his A/C business. I found this to be very interesting. So I asked if I could buy him lunch. I want to learn how his mind thinks and what structure if any that I could learn from him being able to run an Air Conditioning business and also rent 7 houses. Plus, you never know when he could be a partner or investor or vice versa.

Then there is Mike the plumber that is doing the upstairs bathrooms at my house. I swear that guy cannot drill holes or lay piping in a professional looking way. He is leaving many burn marks on the wood and it looks like he chipped away at the wood with a butter knife. But as I have said in some capacity. As long as he gets the job done with no leaks and the exterior of his work looks good then I can hide the bad piping job. I was hoping that he would be done with the job weeks ago, but now hopefully it will be done this week. The upside is that each week something, even if it is small is getting done. But dang, it is taking long.

Then Thursday, well…. I didn’t go skydiving. Turns out the airplane needed some type of maintenance. So I stayed home and sadly for most of the day still worked on my car. (the bumper that Eloy couldn’t properly put back together) then at night I worked on putting my 3D printer together. And I almost….. just almost got it up and running, not only was there no instructions to putting the thing together, but a few of the parts weren’t properly assembled and one of the parts was bent. But after watching a couple of videos on YouTube of others who went thru the same issue I was able to assemble everything until….. until I got to the power cord. Turns out that they gave me a European power cord. So I found a power cord at home that had the same connectors for the power box, the only difference was that the power cord was not rated for 240W. I used it anyway hoping that it would work, but sadly the power box didn’t work. Hopefully the power box is not bad. And even sadder, I won’t know until I get an adapter for the power cord that they sent me.

Then came Friday. luckily I went to the gym on Friday. The gym (or exercise) is something that I have really been wanting to get on a scheduled regimen. Preferably 3 days a week but I have yet to know how to not just motivate, but to tell myself that a particular day can have that 2 hours of time. Sadly I may be at the gym for 30 minutes to an hour, but to get to and from and any preparation needed also takes at least an hour or more. Thus a 30 minute work out really takes about 2 hours. Some how I must find a way to mentally justify it and also work on ways to mentally put myself into a position to get it on a solid schedule.

Now I have been able to re count things during my week, and I am sure that I have also forgotten a few things but I find it important to try and give an overall sense of my attitude. for the week. And overall my attitude has been overall positive. Don’t get me wrong. Eloy….Uuugggghhh I was upset for way longer than I wanted. I was really upset that whole Monday. and part of Tuesday, but by the end of Tuesday I was able to let the majority of it go. I mean I was still working on my car’s bumper on Wednesday, that’s pretty upsetting, but I didn’t let it take away from who I am internally. Now I will say this, on Saturday night after work (Sunday morning) I listened to Dan Sullivan from Strategic Coach for the first time, and that was definitely helpful, plus I have also been listening to Wayne Dyer as I go to sleep. Lately it has just been the meditation music, but now I’m going to switch to him speaking on his principles for success. And I can’t remember if it was this week or mostly last week but I also have been listening to some Eric Thomas. And as always, whenever possible I try to catch an episode of Impact Theory.

Well, I’m running out of time here at work and I still gotta get a few things planned out before I head home and continue my Sunday-Monday work day.

Wishing everyone the best,

Love,

Max