Encounter: Bridgeport Brewery, Portland, OR
Home: Portland, Or
Story: I’ve been shaving my head since high school, and there’s just less and less to shave all the time. Which is actually a good thing because I save on razors. I kind of like the baldness. My wife likes it. I can’t even imagine myself with hair. I like the baldness, I down with the baldness.
Baldness tool: razor
Encounter: Winco, Highway 99 and 99th Street, Vancouver, WA
Home: Vancouver, WA
Story: I was loosing my hair and decided to shave it off and take control of it. I could grow it back at any time, but it’s good.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
In this post I will followup on MJ’s quote on success from last week. Now, let’s take a look at a couple things first.
Perception: (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the process by which an organism attains awareness or understanding of its environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs. Wikipedia
Many people in the world see failure as a bad thing and don’t set goals for themselves. I love the statement about New Years resolutions. “I don’t set resolutions because I know that I will break them.” If I am being really honest, I said that crap myself! This wasn’t all that long ago either. What I have discovered in my own life is that the steps of: goal, steps and start are the beginning to changing the way I look at things, and things have begun to change.
One thing that has changed is the way I feel. I was a real “go with the flow” type of person and just reacted to what came down the proverbial river and now more often, I respond to life. The difference is that the reaction is an emotional reaction where the best decisions are not made in a highly emotional state, whereas responding describes a more mental analysis of the situation and deciding on how you want to feel and moving forward from there. They are completely different experiences.
What’s the color of the sky in your world? Can you change yours just by the way you thing about it? Love to hear your thoughts.
Limoncello is traditionally served chilled as an after-dinner digestivo. Along the Amalfi Coast, it is usually served in small ceramic glasses themselves often of both ceramic and limoncello production. This tradition has been carried into other parts of Italy.
I love this stuff, and will have this enjoying our backyard this summer. Yum. It is made with 4 simple ingredients, lemons, vodka, sugar and water.
Encounter: Island Cafe, 250 N. Tomahawk Island Drive, Slip 22 on the water, Portland, Oregon, 97217
Home: Portland, OR
Story: I started out with long hair as a soccer player. After I got yarded down by my hair I decided to take the razor to it. I took a #3 razor, cut it down. Then I decided to go to a #2 then to a #1 and then after the widow’s peak took over I decided that bald was beautiful. So, now I shave with a razor once a week.
Encounter: Island Cafe, 250 N. Tomahawk Island Drive, Slip 22 on the water, Portland, Oregon, 97217
Home: Portland, OR
Story: It’s a long story. First of all I blame it all on my grandfather. I had rock star hair into the 80′s, and a receding hairline and kind of got tired of waking up in strange peoples bed with bed head, I’m kidding. As my hairline was receding, I shortened my hair, I shortened my hair, I did the get thing, but I never did the flop over. I ruffled it up until there was nothing to go up anymore. It was suggested to me to get it shorter and shorter. I started out with a number 2 at the barber at one point. I go into a place called The Barbers frequently. Not because I can’t do it myself. I like the personal attention, the massage, the hot chicks, sports, the neck shave and then the rub down. It’s pretty nice.
So recently I found myself, I pretty go much get that Presidential haircut, because one thing that bothers me, I’m kind of neurotic and I can’t do the back, and I’m not comfortable with that. So they provide all that for the extra dollars or two. I’m down now to a zero and I go in about every week and a half or two weeks, and I’m comfort paying for that. Because chicks rub by head, and I like that.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Let’s take a quick look at several things about MJ.
His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.”Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
So to put it mildly, MJ was successful based on the viewpoint of success. To understand what MJ is talkin’ bout let’s define success. Thanks Wikipedia.
Success defined:
OK, I got that. Now that leads us to define failure.
Failure defined:
OK, OK, I know that was a lot of set up, but I think, at least for me, I need to put a frame around the picture of my thoughts so I can see things clearly.
Failure Equals Success? NO, but to have a fighting chance to be successful there needs to be ground work done first to be able to call yourself a failure.
First, you have to have an object/goal. Once you have a desirable or intended objective, now you have something to shoot for. Secondly, you need to break that larger goal into smaller goals or steps. Thirdly, you start working your plan and now you can see progress. Until theses three things are done you can beat your head against a wall all day long, but don’t have the map to get to your success.
If these three steps are not done you can’t really fail because that doesn’t meet one part of the definition. It’s more of that objective/ goal that’s the needed part of the definition for success. If you don’t have a goal you can’t really fail. . . can you? I heard this quote a long time ago and it really has stuck. If you don’t have a goal you’re already there.
There are so many people that are drifting in the currents of life because they simply have no goals to measure their happiness. If you are in business, sports or jobs that can be very easily measured in sales or a score, you know, if your winning or loosing. What about success in your relationships, family, personal satisfaction and other areas in “life”. How do you measure this?
I only know my experience, but for me I never even thought about goals in my family. With outrageous divorce and climbing suicide rates in the last 30 to 50 years obviously something has changed. I think that we are now above just subsistence and survival and life is pretty easy. We go after all the ‘things’ that our society has to offer and when we get them that whole still isn’t filled, so we continue to look. I know I have really started to see the where the real value lies and am focusing on these things. What do you think? I would love to know.
Encounter: Va Piano Vineyards, 1793 J.B. George Rd., Walla Walla, WA 99362
Home: Lake Oswego, OR
Story: I started getting too many empty spots and no hair, so I was in Lahaina in Maui, sitting at the theater, right behind a guy that was shaving his head and I thought that looks a lot better than mine does with all these holes. So, I went back to the hotel and shaved it off and left it that way ever since. It’s been 10 years now.
This is not a fashion blog, but I had to showcase these boots. Torre bought them from a shop in Vegas, but I forgot the name.
Encounter: Rulo Winery, 3525 Pranger Road
Walla Walla, WA 99362
Home: Milton-Freewater, Oregon
Story: I started shaving it in the summer, it’s just easier to take care of. And then, as I got a little older with having teenagers and what not, I started going gray. I just became easier to shave it and stay looking a little bit younger is what I was told. So that’s what I do year round now. And girls just love to rub it when your nice and smooth.
Things are only impossible until they’re not. Jean-Luc PicardNO DUH, Jean-Luc!!! As Clean and Simple is that sounds there is a huge, bell ringing clean as a cool, star-filled night. The impossible and the attainable can be no different, other than you don’t see the daily actions that will get you there. The possible things, the things you can believe you can accomplish or acquire, are things you can break down into the actions you believe you can do.
Possible vs. Impossible
Just like the 5 A’s of the Bald Philosophy! Attitude, Awareness, Action Plan, Actions and Assessment! Now that is the bald guy’s view of Clean and Simple!
Just like shaving your head, for you own version of hair loss. Lather it up and shave it away.
