I know, it’s been awhile, but, life can get in the way of your hobbies. Anyways, I hop you enjoy this read.

At the beginning of the year I had said that 2018 is the year of improvements. For me, this has come true so many times. I have gotten on track with my freelance work, started to get regular payments from my clients, and now am about to embark on a journey so big is excites me. A friend of mine and myself are starting a business together, one that will grow very fast and quite honestly do something that other companies haven’t done yet.

I won’t get into too many details yet, because we don’t have everything ready, but we will be making commercials for social media for small businesses. We will be affordable for them, and offer them a service that will manage their advertising on social media. Taking the guess work away and apply strength to their brand.

While talking with my business partner, I came up with a saying. Nothing is out of reach for us, because I do not set dreams, I set goals. So to turn that into a saying you will remember for your self, remember it this way.

“Set goals, not dreams. Nothing is out of reach when you set a goal.”

For awhile, I think I was setting dreams and getting nowhere. I for the most part forgot where I was and wasn’t using any of my knowledge. Not good. Well, 2018 has brought me out of the crappy thought process I was stuck in, and back into the captains chair. The idea that everything is reachable with a solid achievable goal is powerful. You know you will get there, because its a goal you set and are working towards. Think of it this way. A bird see that tree branch, sets a goal to fly to it, and just does it. If it were a dream, the bird would be like a leave in the wind, ending up where ever the wind blows it. It would miss that tree branch all together. We want tree branches, not a chain linked fence. Or, we want goals, not dreams.

Dreams are nice though, don’t get me wrong. Dreams can help us create achievable goals, so always dream a little, just don’t follow a dream thinking you will reach it with out turning it into a goal first.

Anyways, these were my thoughts for the moment that I thought you would like.

I hope you enjoyed them.

– Mark Thomas

It’s been quite a long time since my last entry, several months actually, but thats all because I have been in the process of reorganizing my thoughts and improving my body. So this gets me to the topic for todays entry. There’s two parts to a better you.

In order to really improve yourself, you have to improve your thoughts and your vessel. Your Mind should come first, as it is what controls everything. It controls what you can and can not do, so what you focus on should be what you can do. (Thing is, most focus on what they can’t) I am guilty as charged for focusing on the can’t lately. For months my thoughts were all negative, and it’s one reason I haven’t posted anything lately. Things started to improve for me in May, when I realized just what I was doing and took action. How did I do this?

I decided it was time to get back into the gym and get healthy and fit again, this alone can help your mind too. I also had my wife go back to doing her Yoga classes, which helps her and me at the same time. The next thing for me was to start visualizing what it was I wanted. I had to see myself with that, and within a couple of weeks, I got it. For me that was a job that I could do at home. In this case, I now edit videos for TechSnips.io and enjoy it, most of the time. The schedule is great because I can create it. I can work any time of day as long as I get a number of videos done. Can’t beat that.

So that part is fixing my mind, but what about my vessel?

Obviously going to the gym helps both my mind and my vessel, but what else might there be? Over the past several months I have been a teeter totter of dieting. I would go on, off, on, off again. I recently started back up again on my low carb high fiber lifestyle. I have to do this and be aggressive for 45 days to set the habit. Once set, it will be a lifestyle that doesn’t require any thought.

My weight has gone up and down but mostly up over the past several months, and I decided since I am improving my mind, the vessel needs improvement too. So, it all plays a roll in improving myself.

Todays entry isn’t really meant for anything other than for me to say I am still here. I would like to post more often now that my mind is back in order, and I may post updates on my journey to improve my vessel.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

– Mark Thomas