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There a lot of qualities and qualifications must haves

in order to get ahead in this world that we seem to prioritize as youngster and forget about as we get older.

We need to focus on wisdom.

Wisdom bears the scars both physical and mental.

When you can extrapolate acknowledged harm healed from your knowledge and survival experiences, you find wisdom.

If you preach and nobody is listening, you aren’t a preacher.

If a qualification is your priority, with your education along with life experience you are setting the foundation or planting the roots for your lifelong dreams that can become realities. You are beginning the journey of gaining wisdom. Don’t TELL OTHERS about it. They won’t listen, especially if they consider the source. In particular, the mother. Formerly: Mom, Momma, Mommy or simply “Hey” from our Millennial hipster.

Yes, who you hung around with in your late tweens until you get married and have kids, was critical to Yuppies in the late 70s to 80s. As in cool factor. Which evolved to being hip now.

If you spoke to my older brother, he’s concluded that I hung around with the best crowd. I guess I finally agree. They weren’t dreamers, they were doers.

They liked being involved. Getting involved with a school newspaper or yearbook, now reflected backwards to represent our time growing up.

I am very thankful for so much I’ve been able to do. Live in Europe and travelling extensively was better than any social studies, history and geography grades could teach better.

Granted, that makes the US a bit more of a challenge, while I’ve traveled a fair bit there on vacation or business training for my job.

I’m glad both my parents set the example that whatever you did, you should do well. Never the minimum, more often exceeding 100%.

I left home when I was 18 and 4.5 months old. I never looked back. I had goals. Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Who said that? Now, Layla could go take a look so we can adapt link and fact check.

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You can teach an old cow new tricks.

I don’t know the stats nor can I quantify them.

But I’d stand firmly in the opinion that if you stop moving forward, you will die.

Continual learning is only one way to get ahead.

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I own them.

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Nobody owns my mind, but me.

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Music is good for the soul

The following was originally posted on www.optioneerjm.com from hosted Wordpress blogging site.  I use IFFTTT to automate some of my own posting, eliminating the need to cut and paste.

By reposting, I also incorporated some images I've had saved to my desktop for some time, apologies if I can't credit image.

I discovered a bunch of old music that I’d gotten off of iTunes and spent hour making playlists.
Call it melancholy, I think of it as gratitude.
I played my “GrowingUP” playlist, and this song was in there!
So reminiscent of growing up as a kid in the 60s …. talk about romanticism in the 60s.
O-M-G [social media speak for “Oh my gosh”]!
Talk about Petulia Clarke – how come we never hear her music on the radio any more?
Petulia Clark is to me what the young kids heard their parents listening to Patsy Cline or Chubby Checker’s “Let’s do the twist”
I felt like Tweeting to Simon Cowell that he should create a new avenue of his known brand: picking talent in music.

How about: “America’s GOT Music” Simon Cowell?

I think up of so many ideas when I’m suppose to be shutting my brain down.
I will go to the moon and back to watch Simon’s opinions. Why? Because basically he’s spot on 85% of the time. Would have to analyze or fact check on this < praying for Layla.
I think I should reach out to another gal to snap up as a graphic designer in training.
She’s multi talented too.
I can’t promise a full time paid salary gig, but I’m open to sweat equity: slicing up a piece of the pie. Get the engines rev’ing for a new zine. Why not under the brand I started with when I ventured outside LinkedIn in 2010. Somewhere in the same year I began @optioneerjm on Twitter, soon to follow by Facebook, Pinterest all in a ball, then a blog on Blogspot by the big engine of mothership GOOGLE.

When I was a high performing sales whiz (I do have the stats aka numbers to prove it), I sat in a monthly sales call with colleagues across the United States, I may have been the only Canadian on the call.
There I go into brag mode. Typical female, imposter syndrome woman.
We have to continually feel the driving need to prove that we’re as smart as we think we are.

So bury myself with warm and fuzzy memories that shine brightly from my past.
I struggle to be optimistic but at the same time and filled with gratitude.
For the chance and ability to keep up writing. And creating whimsical characters to sprinkle amidst the words, appearing out of sketches then livened with paint.