Mental Shots

Mental Shots: Respect Deserves No Applause : Respect Deserves No Applause I wonder what happened to the days where you treat people how you want to be treated. In all fairness I’m...

Respect Deserves No Applause I wonder what happened to the days where you treat people how you want to be treated. In all fairness I’m a little young to have experience that age being a child of the 70’s. I didn’t see a lot of it growing up but there was some left. However, I’m still old enough to know what respect is, what it should look like and feel like and to be honest I’m not seeing a lot of it lately. For instance, I contacted an upwardly mobile person of business and of some celebrity for potential business opportunity via the internet of course and was given the viral cold shoulder. Now, in all fairness I know they have people coming to them all the time with ideas and it could be hard to vet who’s serious. I didn’t think I came off aloof but you never know what someone is thinking or the opinion they formed about you based on what little information they had. I’m no outsider to the film industry; however I am clearly not an insider in this person’s mind so the p...

I've always been on the fence, no pun intended about whether Americans should be enraged about Mexicans coming into the United State legal or not. I've heard all the key notes, they take up all the jobs, they increase the crime rate, they are benefiting from living in the US but are not paying any taxes and to make matters worse the population is growing faster than any other ethic group. But wait a second, are we judging them a little too harshly. I mean do we really, I mean Americans really want jobs picking fruit, working in hotels and kitchens, doing all sort of construction jobs haven't we become too good for that. Let's face it, the average American wants to be rich, that's what he/she dreams of while working their 30 plus  9 to 5. I mean we even look at working at Walmart as a job for the lower class. I think America just hasn't found a place for the Mexican Americans. There's clearly not enough jobs that pay a living wage for them...

The new year is a new beginning for us all. Many people have new year resolutions, but what we really need is a re-charge of the ole' motivational battery to keep us going. It's really motivation that gets us going and after years of upsets and setbacks, quite frankly we need re-charge. Just wonder, what if there was a motivational charging station. How much would you pay for that? So for the new year of 2012. Make your self a new. Keep those promises to yourself. Try to better yourself. Don't just say it in your mind, but mean it. I know it's hard, but hell life is no walk in the park. Give your new life a chance to be realized. Often times, right around the end of January we even forget we had a check list of things we want to change about ourselves, because life keeps us busy. But not this year, right! Like you, I want to be a new person by 2013. I want to be that one person who actually has their checklist out in October still checking off personal goals that ...