so it turns out that the hula hoop is a lot more difficult than i remember. it is helpful for keeping sylvie running in a small space. take that, hamster!
so my mom told me she ran into michael "cool" rhodes at a farmer's market last weekend. at this point you may be asking yourself, 'who is this michael "cool" rhodes?' is he someone who sells shaved ice at farmer's markets? maybe an old friend from the glory days? a fictional character elaina created to blame her problems on? nope, nope and NOPE! he just happens to be the magician who rented a room in our house while i was in high school. note to self of the past: never tell people at high school that a magician lives in your house.
today i want to a workshop taught by Jim Roman. Jim Roman Jim Roman Jim Roman. he taught me how to 'run your business without it running you.' i also heard him speak last week. and i'm going to hear him speak tomorrow. i'm a Jim Roman groupie. he says that a person is the average of their friends. "so if you hang out with a bunch of losers, you're probably an average loser." i almost fell out my chair. i was by far the youngest person there by a good 20 years and he just called this room of grown ups losers. you don't get to see that every day. at chamber events. when i grow up i want to be Jim Roman.
when i was 5 i wanted to be a ballerina. one day i took my homework to kindergarten on ballerina paper. and the teacher said do you like ballerinas? and i said yes i want to be one when i grow up. and she said do you take ballet lessons? and i said no. and my dream of being a ballerina DIED. way to kill dreams kindergarten! kindergarten will not, however, stop me from becoming Jim Roman. another time in kindergarten my teacher said i worked too fast. no one complains about my fastness now! sucka!
yesterday i wore my glasses to work and was harassed endlessly. glasses apparently send the message 'say whatever you want to me b/c i'm too big of a nerd to do anything about it.' and it's true. ::sigh::
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You are an average of your friends? Like, you are about as successful as an average of your friends success? I think I need some clarification on this topic.
yeah pretty much. he's saying if you take all your friends and arrange them on a scale according to any characteristic you will usually fall in the middle. like say you have a core group of friends and they all are pretty negative. like say if you had 4 friends and on a scale of 1-10 (1 being extremely negative and 10 being extremely positive) and your friends were a 3, 3, 4 and 6 then you're probably about a 4. Or if they're postive and are like a 6, 7, 7, 8 then you're probably about a 6.5.
the point though that he was really trying to make is that you should surround yourself with the kind of people you want to be. if you're trying to be motivated, you should be around motivated people. if you're trying to be healthy, you should be around healthy people.
i think that is why it was so hilarious when he was like if you hang with losers then you're a loser. b/c really even if you do hang out with losers and you're a loser, i think you'd be too big of a loser to know you're all losers. i wouldn't know though b/c i hang out with non-losers like you!
he didn't really go into it very much, he just kind of threw it out there as a side note. also, i just explained how averaging works to you... that was dumb. ::hahaha:: i'm sure that's not exactly the clarification you were looking for. it's almost 1 am here. so i blame anything retarded i say on that. :)
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