Tuesday, February 5, 2013

I draw great inspiration from watching television autobiographical shows portraying the struggle to achieve.  Great success is achieved by the willingness to push through everyone and anything that is between you and your goal.  These stories are told in great detail on shows like 30 for 30, and Behind the Music.  I know, bad late night TV, you're asking what's the catch?  The common thread in all of these shows is that they profile people that are the best at what they do.  The common threads that are prevalent and intertwined in every story as it relates to others are as follows: heart, desire, effort, persistence, practice, repetition, defeat, struggle, passion, adversity, loss, strength and the list goes on...

Alicia Keys graduated the premiere performing arts college at the age of sixteen.  She is talented, but had been already been playing and singing for nine years prior.  How many thousands of hours?  

LeBron James moved five times in three years as a young kid for his mom to try and escape financial hardship.  This was a select period but they were never able to escape finances all the while he was growing up.  He played basketball for an escape and to have a place where there were no finances.  He practiced for sometimes up to eight hours a day, every day.  How many years?

Tiger Woods in his prime was similar after starting golf at age three.  When he was crushing the competition, he would play fifty four holes and then hit one thousand practice balls every day. How much practice?

Eminem entered talent shows in Detroit for nine and a half years in his baggy candy colored pants having a light and wacky rhyme style until he hit a tipping point from extended frustration and changed his entire style to finally win his first competition.  This style was new and edgy and angry.  He got picked up by Dr. Dre.  We know the rest. How much frustration?

Arian Foster was told his entire life that he is too small to play football.  He made a pact with himself after watching his mother sell her engagement ring for food that he would make something of himself.  He wasn't in a running back role until half way through his second year in college because nobody would give him a chance.  Now one of the NFL's best.  How much heart?

What's your story?

Friday, October 12, 2012

Hi there!  Thank you much for stopping by to see what's going on in my world.  I don't get to blog much, perhaps you could contact me through my website if you would like to discuss anything that's on your mind in the architectural world.