Email forwards just get better and better!

So this one gets me thinking about urban-black-ghetto-”special”-creative-ethnic-cultural names. Now let me first state, that I do not believe that a person should be discriminated against or judged based on their name. I believe parents can name their kids whatever they’d like but me – myself , I like to keep things SIMPLE!! (in case you haven’t gotten that point on this blog yet)

But in the spirit of uniqueness and in this instance not-so uniqueness (i think I made that word up) here’s today’s best e-mail forward!

In general, I don’t formally make resolutions.  I may say I want to lose weight, workout more, make more money, travel more, more time, more and more (you know the story of american abundance and materialism) but what I actually need is LESS! 

So this year I have two major priorities (in the spirit of simplicity).

1. Eliminate any and everything that is counter productive to my life purpose, passion and priorities. i.e. if its not about my family, growing my businesses or my being (spiritual, physical and creative) I am not doing it! 

And sorry folks this includes idle hours spent on the web that aren’t productive for any of these purposes!

2. Be consistent. I have tons of notes on business ideas, concepts, hobbies, activities, contacts, etc…that see 3 minutes of fame from me.  I will continue to take note of these (one of them has to be a goldmine and I am welcome to share them for a small fee) but I will only bite off as much as I can chew – including my approach to blogging.

I have started to journal (again) because not all people close to me are comfortable with their own -ish so I can’t share everything with you but i will share the highlights.  I also am committing to sharing something – however simple – at least once per week on this site. It is pitiful that I have notes of random thoughts and topics listed in my crackberry notes but they have never found their way to this medium… i have got to get them here!

So that’s it!  Two things that in reality aren’t so simple to achieve, but instead of saying I am going to use 30 lbs that I might not, that I am going to make $30k/month that I probably won’t, I’d rather focus on those two things which will have a profound affect on my life and the lives of those closest to me!

What are your priorities for 2009???

So on my quest to define and reflect on the happenings of my life in a simple way – things started to get complicated.  I am thankful to be back on track!  In celebration of the comeback, the remainder of this week I am celebrating those who had something profound, interesting or just plain fun to say about simplicity!

One of the first quotes that I found was from Charles Mingus!  I was actually listening to his music just yesterday. You can here one of his most famous pieces, Haitian Fight Song here for free: http://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Mingus/_/Haitian+Fight+Song

This is what he had to say about the simple things in life:

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
-  Charles Mingus

MAKES SENSE TO ME – Thanks Charles