Hey guys!

Just wanted to share a couple books I’ve been LOVING lately.  If any of them resonate with you, I totally recommend them!

1. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl – This book is INCREDIBLE. It’s not a business book per say, but you can use the lessons from it in business.

It’s one of the most inspirational, life-changing books I’ve ever come across.

I plan on writing an entire blog post about this soon (I have PAGES full of notes)… but for now, a quick overview:

Viktor was a Holocaust survivor. He went through some of the most horrifying things known to mankind.

Some of the stories he shared shook me to the core.

But the way that he went through and survived through things…. how he used his mind to get past things… amazing.

For example, he talked about one day how he was having a particularly bad day. He let his mind go to a lot of “smaller” things he ordinarily wouldn’t have worried about – like what he was going to do with his daily bread ration, if he should exchange it for a cigarette, how to avoid a certain guard, etc… and he was just getting very cranky about everything.

Instead of continuing to stress about the small things he couldn’t control, he took a mental picture of his reality that day, and kind of put it into a “movie screen” in his mind. He looked at the big picture. He saw himself lecturing to a crowd of people one day… in a well-lit room, with people sitting on padded chairs. He saw himself sharing his stories and helping people.

All of a sudden, his mind shifted.

He was able to get through the day and he was in a much better mindset.

And maybe it sounds like a small thing, but this was incredibly powerful to me. It showed how a quick perspective change could shift everything.

To put it into business terms… maybe you’re getting frustrated by some annoying technical work or something. If you make a perspective change – look at how this is going to help you build an empire, or see it as the temporary frustration eventually helping you support the people you love… it totally erases the annoyance.

I FREAKING LOVE THIS BOOK.

2. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson – I love this book too. Dennis bought it for me a few months ago, and it’s just great. It basically talks about how a lot of us want instant gratification… but by making small progress every day, the compounding effect is huge.

I really learned this the other day with my 5 gallon water jugs.

Last time I tried to lift one of these things:

…I dropped it in the driveway and broke the container open. 5 gallons of water spilled everywhere.

But I’ve been doing a minute of planks every day now, and the other night, I was able to fill up 2 of them (50 pounds apiece)…. bring them into my house… AND turn them around and onto the stand, without spilling anything! In fact, I barely felt a thing.

The minute of planks hasn’t taken much from my day… but the gains in my strength have been HUGE.

So in business terms… this could look like writing a Facebook post every day, or a blog post a few times a week… maybe it doesn’t seem like a huge deal at the time, but the compounding effect is huge.

I’d definitely recommend this book too. The author lays things out really intelligently and definitely motivates you to make magic happen.

And there you have it!

What Do YOU Think?

Have you read either of these books? Or have any book recommendations of your own? I’d love to hear them!

Today started out great, then went downhill fast. I course corrected and am ending up with a superb night!

When I was at Landmark, one of the things they taught us was how to identify where our “strong suits” (the “best” parts of ourselves) came from.

You’d probably think that the best parts of yourself would be pure awesome – and to an extent they are – but it was really fascinating to learn that any of our strong suits are all compensating for something else.

The premise of strong suits is that when we come into this world we don’t yet have a personality. Our experiences make up our personality – and there are 3 distinct events that happen throughout our lifetime to form 3 huge parts of our personality.

Understanding your strong suits explains why you have the job you do, why you have certain hobbies, and a lot about what you do on a daily basis. As you read on you’ll see how the father of Tae Kwon Do got started – and it’s pretty funny.

I just got a Myers-Briggs profile, and interestingly enough, the strong suits that I learned at Landmark coincided very well with the Myers-Briggs learnings.

I am going to give some examples of peoples’ strong suits, including mine, so you can see how these strong suits show up for different people. To set the record straight before I begin, I am VERY HAPPY with how my life turned out. I am ecstatic that I had to endure so much when I was younger, because everything was a learning lesson. I’ve moved on. I understand I put my meaning on everything and have chosen to make my meanings that struggles make me more experienced, understanding, and better equipped to deal with the world.

Initially I was hesitant to give examples from my own life because I didn’t want my parents to start blaming themselves or feeling bad about certain things. I also didn’t want to feel judged from people who read this blog. The only reason I’m letting this go is because I think you could possibly benefit from learning about strong suits and so I don’t want to let selfishness stand in the way of what might be an empowering experience for some people.

With that out of the way…

a) You may not remember what happened during the timeline for each strong suit right away. That’s fine – several people at the forum needed to think hard about them.

b) It’s very possible to have multiple strong suits – but these are just the biggest 3.

c) You don’t need a horrible childhood to have strong suits. EVERYONE has strong suits – different people will make different things “traumatic” to them. I’ll go into more detail shortly.

With that said, let’s get started.

So for example, the father of Tae Kwon Do went to a Landmark Forum and realized that it was during this time period he got beat up by a 4 year old girl. He spent his entire life trying to compensate for it.

There was another person who went to Landmark whose brother switched out the apple juice in his bottle for urine. After the kid drank it, his brother told him what he did at the family dinner table, and everybody started laughing. The kid grew up to be one of the world’s foremost experts on water purification.

For me, mine was when my parents were having a huge fight. My dad said he was leaving for good, and stormed out to his car. I ran out after him, trying to make everything better. For some reason I told him he should just go on a vacation with my mom and everything would be better. (I have no idea where I got that). He seemed to calm down, so I felt on top of the world, thinking I singlehandedly saved my parents’ marriage. When I told my mom what I did though, she was very emotionally charged and upset with me. She said, “How could you do that? We don’t have the money to go on vacation!”. (I am not faulting either one of my parents for anything – what happened is what happened – but my father was prone to unbelievably crazy tirades/physical violence and my mom was afraid he’d get violent with her after realizing they didn’t have the money.)

From that situation, I learned to always look for win-win solutions and to be as objective as possible. I’ve learned how to word things wonderfully. It’s helped me a lot in identifying great marketing offers (I can really get in the head of prospects and go into their point of view) and copywriting. I very rarely get into arguments with people because I can see where the other person is coming from. There are a lot of AWESOME things that have come from it. There are ALWAYS awesome things that come from these situations.

This happens when you’re around 12 and a situation happens where you feel like you no longer belong.

Remember when I said that it doesn’t need to be that something traumatic has happened? A perfect example is how one guy at the Forum ended up having this happen because his father told him he loved him too much.

His father would say “I love you” all the time. One time, he said it in front of his friends at soccer practice. The kid asked his father to please not say it in front of his friends because it embarrassed him, but a few months later, the father did it again. From there, the boy decided that his father must NOT love him. He “learned” nobody loved him and to be very independent and get his love from himself.

Mine was looking around my classroom in 7th grade… I think it was when I weighed the most (around 250-265 pounds). I remember always just knowing that everyone in school was better than me. It wasn’t something I questioned – I just felt as if they all had a lot more value than I did. It was a fact in my mind that they were all worth more than I was. It’s hard to explain, but it wasn’t something I felt like I could decide – it just was.

Again, awesome things happened from feeling that way. Because I just “knew” that everyone was worth more than I was, I was super-nice and super-generous. I figured it was the least I could do to all these people that were so much better than I was. Because of that, I have always made friends very, very easily. And since generosity always comes back around, my generosity has landed me some phenomenal things. People are ALWAYS giving me incredible stuff – either experiential or tangible. And it’s helped with business, too. Tons of people tell me they buy my stuff because they like ME.

This happens when you’re around 18 and something happens where you realize you’re on your own.

For one lady in my Forum, she said her parents had taken care of her all her life. When she went to college though, they lost their money and had to claim bankruptcy. They told her they’d still pay for college, but she had to come up with her own spending money. This was crazy to her, and she started feeling very resentful when her friends asked her to go to the movies or do anything involving money. Because of that she ended up becoming extremely frugal. Now she’s a realtor and excellent at finding the best deals, scrutinizing contracts to make sure nobody’s taking advantage of her clients, and always getting the best possible bottom line.

Mine was after I had moved to Pennsylvania. My stepfather (who I get along with great now) had been hitting me. It wasn’t the first time, but I was more upset than usual about it. I think it was because I was super-resentful of moving to PA, and I felt like he was trying to be my father (my father used to be violent too, but with him, I figured it was OK because he was my dad and that’s what dads did). Anyway, my stepdad wasn’t stopping, in my mind nobody in my family was doing a thing about it (even though they were all in the room), and out of fear, I called the police. After I did, my stepdad stopped, so I calmed down and figured the police would solve everything. By the time the cops got there, because I had been so calm, I guess they didn’t believe me. They asked me, “Can you walk? Can you talk? Then don’t bother us.”

Obviously I felt ridiculously powerless at that point, and knew that I was on my own.

Because of that experience, I became very, very independent. I got promoted with a quickness at work. I’d work multiple crazy 36 hour shifts when I was a salaried manager because I wanted my area to be in tip-top shape all the time and didn’t feel like I could depend on the overnight managers. I drove cross country several times, sleeping in my car when I had to. I walked on tightropes. Broke an arrow against my throat. Quit my job to go into business for myself full time. Lost 110 pounds. Won best speaker at Toastmaster’s. That’s just skimming the surface – I have a TON of fantastic accomplishments under my belt. I’m saying that to reiterate that these crappy situations enable us to do PHENOMENAL THINGS. I am grateful for them. I love both of my parents very, very much. I’m sure I’ve done stupid things that have unknowingly hurt people. When I have kids – man, I don’t even want to think about some of the things I might unknowingly do.

There are a few ways in which you can gain by knowing these.

First of all, this really helps you see that YOU put the meaning on things that happen.

For example, if a friend tells you, “I can’t hang out tonight”, you can make it mean “He doesn’t like me as much as he used to” or “He doesn’t want to spend time with me”… OR, you can take it at face value – your friend can’t hang out tonight.

Going through the strong suits is sometimes hilarious. The father of Tae Kwon Do created his entire life because a 4 year old girl made him feel not good enough. There was a woman who ended up becoming an insect doctor when she killed a bug at 5 years old, and her mom yelled at her because that was one of the “good bugs” that helped the garden. Some stories we talked about at the Forum were really, really interesting.

Once you identify WHY your strong suits are strong suits, you may be able to back away from them a bit and go into things more objectively.

I can say for me, identifying my strong suits helped me not live in such an automatic “tape” mentality. In most situations, my “tape” before I identified my strong suits was to say, “No, I’ll do it myself.” I didn’t need anyone else to help me with anything. Now that I understand WHY I chose to be that way, I can release it.

Since identifying this strong suit, I have hired an awesome coach who I can learn a lot from. I probably wouldn’t have done that before, figuring that I could read books on my own, go to seminars on my own, etc. I am now feeling more willing to accept help from others.

Strong suits also help you realize that the strongest parts of your personality are often compensating for something else (ie if you’re frugal, you’re afraid to spend money. If you’re the father of Tae Kwon Do, you’re really just scared you’ll get beat up again. If you’re always looking for win-wins, you’re afraid to be selfish. etc.) Identifying these things, and then working to release them can help you push out of your comfort zone bigtime, and get a much wider-view experience of the world.

All in all, I was pretty fascinated about this concept, learned a lot, and hope you’ve got some use out of it too.

Disclaimer up front: Because I now have almost 100 providers depending on me for work with Burn Your To Do List, it crossed my mind for a few seconds that maybe I shouldn’t post such opinionated stuff on my blog.

Like I said, the thought only lasted a few seconds. I’m not going to silence myself on things I feel strongly about – that’s just foolish. If, at the end of this post, you are a client or potential client and strongly oppose my thoughts, then feel free to either cancel service or not sign up. To put it bluntly: don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

I definitely want to make sure my providers have work, and I actively work on that, but I also don’t want them to deal with bigots.

They tend to make for crap clients anyway.

(Definition of bigot: a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.)

With that out of the way…

A big part of me is really excited to get married and have children. I really think I’d be a great mother, and it’s so easy to get lost in ideas on how I want to raise my children. I can’t wait to take them around the world so that they can actually SEE and EXPERIENCE in person what so many politically agenda’d textbooks teach them. I’m excited to help my future children stay heart-centered, empathetic, and understanding.

(Side note: I LOVE Mark Twain’s quote: “Travel is fatal to prejudice.”)

Up until recently it was easy to get lost in thoughts about marriage too. Jaime and I long fantasized about having a double-wedding, which would be so fun. I’ve also thought about doing fun things at my wedding – having cotton candy machines, maybe having a little carnival… just non-stuffy, fun stuff.

(I do realize this entire blog post is premature as I don’t even have a boyfriend right now – but based on a bunch of factors, I’m very confident I could get married pretty soon if I really wanted to. That’s not to sound arrogant – like I said, I base that on conversations, experiences, and other factors.)

So like I said, I had been excited about marriage… until recently. I’m not so sure I want to get married any more. I’m happy to accept a proposal, commit to someone, etc… but I don’t really think, in good conscience, that I can get married.

I recently saw an interview with Sarah Silverman on same-sex marriages that really challenged my thinking. In the interview, she said that a straight couple getting married in our current state of affairs is like being part of an exclusive country club where blacks and Jews aren’t allowed. I’ve got to say, I totally agree with her.

I think the fact that same sex marriages are STILL outlawed is truly vile. It’s just… archaic. How, in this day and age, can so many people (in fact the MAJORITY of people, if voting statistics are not politically manipulated) perpetuate themselves to be better than others? How can we, as a country, say that some people deserve to be married and others don’t? That one type of person is more “right” at existence than another? It’s absolutely disgusting.

Outlawing same sex marriage is judging other people and saying “We’re better than you.” It doesn’t matter what the rationale is – religious beliefs, upbringing, bad experiences, whatever… at the end of the day, being homophobic or not tolerant of other people is not having an empathetic and open-hearted view of your fellow human being.

There are many people that I really love in this world that are gay. I think I would feel crappy and guilty about perpetuating such shit rules if I were to get married. I can only imagine the hurt/sadness/shame/guilt that so many gay people probably feel when people get married. I bet for many, it stings every time they hear about marriage – even if it’s unconscious.

Thinking about this makes me think about a whole bunch of different things, too:

First off, why do I want to get married, anyway? Is it based on a scarcity mindset? Do I feel like I need someone to commit to me in order to feel truly loved? And if that’s the case, why would that be?

If I say I believe the world is abundant enough that I could attract several stellar people to marry if I wanted to, then it shouldn’t matter if one guy I love wants to commit to me or not. I could find someone else.

Then I think, is it because of tradition? Look how far tradition has gotten us – filling our gullets with crap food, Americans watching an average of 28 hours of TV per week, blindly following what the media says, etc…

Of course there are fantastic traditions too – ones I really adore, like the whole “Christmas spirit” where everyone in the world seems so happy… so it’s not to say all traditions are negative… but my point is, I want to evaluate things on an individual basis and not just welcome anything that comes into my life because it’s just what people “do”.

When I think about gay marriage, I also think about something my friend made a point about once.

(Note to friend: I’m pretty sure you didn’t want your name attached to this – if I’m wrong or you’ve changed your mind, I’m happy to give you credit.)

He mentioned that he doesn’t like to support those marathons for cancer because from a universal standpoint, focusing on cancer can only bring about more of it. (I personally think it’s a moot point since it has been proven time and time again that a healthful diet can fix a slew of health problems, including cancer).

I digress though. By focusing on the idiocy of outlawing gay marriage – even for a short while – I wonder what, if any, universal implications there are.

I really dislike what has become identified with the phrase “Law of Attraction”, but I absolutely believe that each individual, as well as everyone in a collective consciousness, shape our destinies. I know we bring into our lives what we focus on.

On the same note though, blindly accepting this injustice seems stupid too. If we followed that mindset, there would still be slavery.

I’m not sure on that point, but welcome any thoughts/comments.

The one thing I’m positive of is that at the end of the day, people just want to be loved. To tell some people they’re not as worthy of that is appalling, idiotic, stupid, intolerant, unfair, and ridiculous.

I need to get back into work, so I’ll end here… maybe edit and add more later… but those are my thoughts for the time being.

The more I grow, the more I really understand that there is no “right” or “wrong” (outside of obvious things like murder, stealing, etc).

Not only do I feel like there’s no right or wrong, but I feel it’s WEAK to use those labels. I think it’s more about your own personal journey versus anything else.

Take making money for example. Most of my friends are really great at ASKING for money. They have no problem telling people how much they think they’re worth, what they feel they deserve, etc… and it works out very well for them. I, on the other hand, have never been that great at it. Good things (including money) always seem to just float my way.

Many of my friends have mentioned to me that I should have more confidence, I should speak up more, assert my value… and I agreed with them for a long time, thinking something was wrong with me that I needed to “fix”.

Then, I realized that’s just stupid.

Insert adage here: “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.”

Alcohol is another example. I have a friend that parties a lot. She loves it. Some of my other friends have made negative comments about it, as if she’s doing something “wrong”.

Maybe it’s “wrong” for THEM, but this particular friend happens to be in amazing flow when she drinks. She handles her alcohol extremely well (so if you were thinking this “friend” was actually me, that part disproves it ), is more intuitive than usual when drinking, and can get her work done better than ever.

The vegan lifestyle is another thing. Some people NEED MEAT. NEED it. I remember reading one story about a devout raw foodist who helped hundreds of people cure tons and tons of diseases by eating all raw. Throughout the process, his wife got very sick. He went to cure her with raw food, and it wasn’t working. For YEARS he tried, and she was getting worse and worse, with very little predicted time left to live. People kept telling him to give her meat but he didn’t want to. The thought disgusted him. However, he eventually gave in when it was literally “do or die” – AND IT WORKED. The wife ended up getting better.

I don’t think ALL people need meat, not at all. I think everybody’s body is different. But I think renouncing people who eat meat, judging them, etc… is a sign of weakness and laziness.

(And for the record, I’m not referring to super-huge amounts of it.)

Sure, it would be easier to make general labels – such as “Drinking excessively is wrong” – because label making helps tidy things up. It helps give us a nice, clean view of the world so that no extra thinking is necessary.

It helps so that we don’t need to go through the work of journeying ourselves and figuring out what’s right or wrong for us.

I think that’s why everyone thinks they’re better than everyone else, too. It makes things easier.

Internet Marketers think they’re luckier/smarter/more willing to “think out of the box” than 9-5 folk because they don’t work for the man. Many of us try to “help” people we know in jobs.

Vegetarians think they’re healthier/more compassionate than non-vegetarians.

Some religions go so far as to say all non-believers are “sinners”.

Schools have rivalries, each thinking they’re the better one. It goes on, and on, and on… when the end reality is that different people have different truths, and nobody is “right” or “wrong”.

Obviously this post encompasses things I’ve done/said in the past and things I will probably do again, but I’m going to continue to do my best to remember when I come up in situations where I try to judge “right” or “wrong”, “bad” or “good”.

Things have been really busy on my end. I should be posting more…

But thank you to everybody who left comments. I do read them and really appreciate them.

So… the last time I posted was back in May. Since then, lots of stuff has happened.

First, I launched a site called 5PositiveThings. It’s looking a little sparse now as we had to delete all the old posts in our upgrade, but I’m psyched about it and how many it has the potential to benefit.

Second, Otto and I were supposed to move to a place in La Jolla on August 1st. I wasn’t 100% on San Diego but LOVED the apartment. Anyway, the owner asked if we could hold out a week, so we got an extension on our current place. Yesterday (the 28th), after I called her, she decided she needed another month.

After driving around for a bit, we still couldn’t find anywhere we really loved…

And then this morning, we mutually decided that this was one sign on top of a few that we should probably just end our relationship and stay good friends. We both have a deep love for each other and a deep respect, but we’re not “in love”.

We’re both eerily calm about this, and will continue to do our offline business stuff together.

I’m back at the drawing board now – can grab a place here in San Diego, move in with Jaime for a month, move to Miami with Brian for a while, or get a place with Joanna (I’ve only talked to 3 people so far and all 3 had incredible options for me ).

I’m thinking about staying in SoCal just so Otto has a support system too… but have also thought about Australia, Hawaii, and NYC. I’ll probably take the next month to think.

In other news, after going back and forth about being in the Internet Marketing industry, I’ve decided that I *AM* okay with it… as long as I’m promoting things I really believe in and nothing too hype-y sounding. I started re-building my list and things have been awesome so far.

I guess I’ll end here for now… am sure there’s more to talk about, but I’m happy to just make a post and update the site a bit!!

Don’t forget to post at 5PositiveThings , and thanks for reading.

HOLY CRAP!

I went to start this post out one way, but now that I’m really thinking about it, I’m going to take it to a completely different direction.

Here’s how I started it out before:

“One thing I’ve heard a lot of people say is that you’re the average of your 5 closest friends – income wise, personalitywise, etc…

I’ve always been pretty cognizant of that because it’s always run pretty true to me.”

I was going to reflect and think about what I wanted my 5 to look like now as I grow – do I still want to surround myself with marketers, or do I want to go with people who are more into “spirituality” (for lack of a better word), or do I want to find healthy people, do I want to find people who encompass all three…

Then I was going to talk about “health” and what that meant…

But then I went through and looked at my 5 thoroughly, and now I’m sitting here shaking my head.

The averages aren’t looking so stellar for me.

The things that are important to me:

Successful businesswise – 1 is doing a lot better than me, 3 are doing the same as me, 1 is doing less than me.

Spiritual (this is a super-broad term… let’s just classify it as people who would really enjoy a Sonia Choquette book) – I’d say 1 would find it and enjoy it, 1 might find the book on their own and enjoy it if they were in the mood, 1 would have to be talked into it but would get value from it, and the other 2 would read it out of curiosity (if I told them to) and probably dismiss it.

Healthy – 1 out of 5 is very into his health. 1 is somewhat moderately into it, the other 3 I would consider conscious but not actively healthy (2 go into spurts).

Strong relationships with significant others – I’d like to say my boyfriend – but it probably hasn’t been long enough to say that. The others either don’t have relationships or I don’t consider them strong.

Strong relationships with other people – All 5 are great people who make solid relationships.

I think part of this is because I’ve been traveling so much. When I stayed in L.A., I went to Toastmaster’s and found successful, awesome people… I went to meetup groups, etc…

But with all this traveling, I’ve been focused more on exploring than making new relationships.

I think my 5 may have been more solid before – maybe a few months ago when I actively worked on it and my income, health, and spiritual goals were different…

But I definitely need to re-evaluate, pronto.

This was a wake-up call for sure.

What about you? What’s important to you? How does your top 5 fit in with that?

I’m thinking about taking my copywriting price per letter DOWN from $5k per letter to five letters a month at $997 or $1997 per letter.

I have a few reasons for this:

1. It only takes me 4-5 hours to write a 13+ page letter (and I get damn good conversions if I do say so myself. ).

2. I’m cutting out all Internet Marketing letters. They don’t feel right to me. I’m completely set in this position, but I know it’ll dwindle my customer base.

3. I really don’t NEED to do copy… but I recently realized I love it. I love the psychology behind it, I love learning about new things, and I love getting into forums and really digging deep into people’s thoughts. Making the price more affordable allows me to write for more people.

(And I know I could make my own products, but I already have 30 or so spread out in different niches and if I’m going to seriously work on traffic gen, marketing, etc… I’d rather it be on yayFOOD.

And honestly, business development has gotten boring for me. It’s weird but I have no doubt I could easily run a multi-million dollar business if I cared enough… but I don’t.)

I guess I’m just not sure for a few reasons:

1. I wonder if the lower price makes me seem like a less stellar copywriter?

2. People in my masterminds have said that I’d be devaluing myself if I were to slash my prices when my conversion rates could/should justify even more?

I’d love to hear YOUR thoughts!

It’s been a while since I made a video post.

Not sure why my arms look obese, but here you have it:

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I was just going over my goals again, and realized I knocked out a lot of the things I wanted to achieve by September 25 – my 26th birthday.

(Lots of amazing Internet Marketers with my birthday actually – Gregg Gillies,  Bill Glazer, Feldo Nartapura (He isn’t known yet, but he will be! Met him at my Toastmaster’s, he asked me for a few tips, and he’s going full-speed-ahead! VERY impressive!), Yanik Silver, and Chris Vendilli.

And when I was at Laguna Beach last year on that random trip… that entrepreneur dude had my birthday, too.)Anyway, I digress – the goals – I’m ECSTATIC that they’re coming to fruition. I’m also really looking forward to everything else I’m going to make happen this year (not by my birthday, but this year):

I’ve decided (after 2.5 years!) that I’m finally ready for a serious relationship. I’m actually really looking forward to it. I’m also looking forward to doing a lot of huge things with my favorite charity – more on that soon. =)

My book is going to be a NY Times bestseller this year… I’ll be getting my NLP practitioner’s license (not for mind control – just because I think psychology is fascinating)…  and I can’t wait to just travel, travel, travel.Materially, I want an Aston Martin made into a convertible, a “green” mansion in California – something like this one (this is the only “dream house” I’ve found, and I’ve looked a LOT), and an American Express Centurion card.

Hrmm… I think when I get home, I’m going to type up all my goals for my blog. Seems like the right thing to do. =)