Every Day Truly IS a New Day (Day #11 January 20, 2013)

Every day Truly IS a new day!! For all of us! We take on the powers that be and we shape ourselves into the person we want to be. We can always change who this person is and wake up the following morning and decide to be another person, with different goals and objectives for our futures. It's YOUR choice what you want to do with what you are given and it's YOUR choice what not to do with them. Of course it may not be easy to change your ways and habits, but you MUST start somewhere and it is ALL in your mental state of being and becoming. With enough determination (as I spoke of yesterday) you can seriously accomplish ANYTHING!!! Procrastination always seems to get to me in the past. I usually will let it take over for a while, or most the year(s), but that is another thing on top of everything else that I am personally working on this year. The idea and fact of that is you just have to DO IT!!! Like Nike says "Just Do It!" There's so much truth to that. The discipline comes into affect when you apply this philosophy, but it definitely works too! What do you want to make of YOUR life?

My day kicked off yesterday with a great run in the morning and then work at 3 which was great as well. I love my job I have right now. I am a concierge at a condo establishment in downtown Denver, next to city park. The address I have at the bottom of my posts sometimes (yesterday). I have been working here for a couple years now and absolutely love it!! It's the PERFECT college job a person could hope for or dream of. I get paid $14 an hour to sit, conversant with the residents, talk to my girlfriend on Skype, read, do homework and surf the web!! I mean come on, how much more awesome could a college job be unless you were getting paid to go to your classes right? 
The other job I will be applying for tomorrow is in my field of student/kids with special needs and disabilities. I am currently in the middle of getting my masters degree in Special Education at Metro State University. I got my bachelors degree at the University of Colorado (Denver) in History. At first I wanted to teach History to high school students. I then asked myself WHY I wanted to become a teacher to begin with. Who were the people that made a big enough difference in my life to make me want to become a teacher? These were my special education teachers in middle school (mostly) and in high school. If it wasn't for these amazing human beings, I would definitely NOT be where I am today and I owe them my life! But this is where my life changed! 

I had just graduated high school (Cherry Creek 2004) and was looking for a job because I didn't want to do what EVERYONE does, which is keep going to school because they don't know what else they want to do in their lives and feel an obligation. NO! I wanted to see if school was even for me or what was happening in the real world. At the time I was staying most of my nights at my ex girlfriends house and her stepdad was a plumber. He said I could get a job with him on his work sight five days a week with great pay, for a kid straight out of high school anything above $7 an hour was great pay. No, this was me bringing home $1,500 paychecks a WEEK!! It was ridiculous!! But of course I was still partying away in and well after high school, so I would spend most of my money on partying. After the rent (with a roommate) of about $300-$400 a month on top of cable $30 and car insurance $150 I still had plenty of cash to go around and party with. Especially if I was bringing this much home each week. Well...one day I woke up and said "Its time for a change!" I definitely do NOT want to be doing this (Plumbing) for the rest of my life, I thought to myself. And then I wondered what I wanted to do and why? And it immediately hit me that I wanted to become a teacher, so I started the process and took a class at CCD (Community College of Denver). I failed my first class, proceeded to take more classes the following semester all while working and then it was either plumbing, or an academic education if I wanted to start a different career in a decent amount of years, so I quit the plumbing after 2 years, went to school full time and got a part time job at 24hour Fitness on the side. I moved to a single bedroom apartment where I could actually keep my place clean, account for all my OWN actions and take on the responsibility of an individual making his way up in the world. 

The rest of the story will be continued in another post because you can't spoil everything and give up all the goods at first!! You must ease into it. Talk about a bit of my life in portions, piece by piece you will begin to understand who I am as a person and individual and you will know where I come from and why I think the way I do about everything . 

I Hope everyone is had a GREAT weekend!! LyLy, Baby, I love you with ALL my heart and can't wait until I get to touch you, feel you and have your comfort again tomorrow. I hope everyone has a great week and remember that EVERYDAY IS A NEW DAY!!! Change your life if you feel the need, or want? It is yours....