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Main => Gospel Music Lounge => Topic started by: changedman on March 31, 2008, 04:08:58 PM
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TO THOSE WHO CARE TO HELP:
Mama just called from Texas. She and my stepfather have talked AGAIN about fronting the money for a graphic design business (boy have we been THERE at least six times that I can remember).
However, my stepfather's concern remains..."Herman is so multi-talented that if we invest this money into the graphic design thing, he won't stick to it. Tomorrow he'll be back into plays; next week he'll be trying to finish the CD again".
Unfortunately, HE WAS RIGHT!!! Not bragging, but having mutiple gifts is a curse as well as a blessing (in a sense) because it's hard to focus on JUST ONE!
I don't want to let him down (IF it's really going to happen this time), but this has been his concern since "five similar promises ago".
Do I let the other dreams DIE to achieve this one? Hmmmm....
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What exactly are you looking to achieve with this thread?
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What exactly are you looking to achieve with this thread?
Not an "answer", but a push towards one.
On the "scale of dreams", they go in this order....
1) REALIZING the songwriting dream full circle.
2) REALIZING the playwriting dream full circle.
3) REALIZING the graphic design dream full circle.
AND THEN
4) REALIZING the book writing dream whenever it comes.
Unfortunately, numbers 1-3 are equally as important (kinda like with your ADD thing) so it's hard to delve into one and stay put.
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What exactly are you looking to achieve with this thread?
I want to ask him that everytime he starts a thread :D
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What exactly are you looking to achieve with this thread?
Wow...i...well...what do i even say to this. No smiley, nothing. You KNOW the Rueminator is serious when she does the no smiley thing. Not even the " :-\" smiley.
Anyways ;D ;D ;D ;D
Why you gotta focus on just one? Man you sing, play the keys, act. All those are not separate gifts to me man, they are the manifestation of one gift...art. You are an artistic person who has a multitude of avenues to express his artistic nature. There is NOTHING that says you cannot be a major singer/ play director and musician at the same blessed time. Who knows, maybe you are even meant to write a musical play with you setting the music AND directing the play yourself.
Ah know ah'm preachin' gud up in heah!!!!!
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So are you saying that you can't do more than one thing at once, and you need someone to tell you that you can?
I mean, I know you're not expecting someone to tell you which dream to pursue... :-\I want to ask him that everytime he starts a thread :D
Me too. I finally found the right words to pose the question without coming off the wrong way. ;)
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Wow...i...well...what do i even say to this. No smiley, nothing. You KNOW the Rueminator is serious when she does the no smiley thing. Not even the " :-\" smiley.
Anyways ;D ;D ;D ;D
Why you gotta focus on just one? Man you sing, play the keys, act. All those are not separate gifts to me man, they are the manifestation of one gift...art. You are an artistic person who has a multitude of avenues to express his artistic nature. There is NOTHING that says you cannot be a major singer/ play director and musician at the same blessed time. Who knows, maybe you are even meant to write a musical play with you setting the music AND directing the play yourself.
Ah know ah'm preachin' gud up in heah!!!!!
Who knows? But the man behind the money wants to hear "I'm committed to doing graphic design only and if the other things don't happen...oh well...you will not have wasted your money". I feel him on dat too!!! LOL!
But that's a lie I can't tell.
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I want to ask him that everytime he starts a thread :D
Me too. I finally found the right words to pose the question without coming off the wrong way. ;)
Did ya'll notice how he tastefully ignored ya'lls comments, thereby mitigating the otherwise negative effects appended, affixed, attached, and ascribed to them? :D :D :D ;D ;D
A smooth operator indeed. 8)
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Did ya'll notice how he tastefully ignored ya'lls comments, thereby mitigating the otherwise negative effects appended, affixed, attached, and ascribed to them? :D :D :D ;D ;D
A smooth operator indeed. 8)
There was nothing negative in my comment, but it doesn't take but one person to make something big out of something small... don't be that one person. >:(
Now ummm, stop being messy!!! :D :D :D ;)
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There was nothing negative in my comment, but it doesn't take but one person to make something big out of something small... don't be that one person. >:(
Now ummm, stop being messy!!! :D :D :D ;)
Messy? MESSY?? >:( >:( >:( So on top of callin' me a TROUBLEMAKER, you call me a good-for-nothin', low-down pig? Ma'am, i think we need to take this outside, and don't think cuz you a woman imma take it easy on you. Oh no, today you and me is MAN in the generic sense.
OOOOOOOO-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ya'll be testing me up in this heah place.
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Messy? MESSY?? >:( >:( >:( So on top of callin' me a TROUBLEMAKER, you call me a good-for-nothin', low-down pig? Ma'am, i think we need to take this outside, and don't think cuz you a woman imma take it easy on you. Oh no, today you and me is MAN in the generic sense.
OOOOOOOO-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ya'll be testing me up in this heah place.
Dude, I eat fists like those for mid-day snack.... ::)
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Dude, I eat fists like those for mid-day snack.... ::)
Then i hope you left room for seconds ma'am cuz its about to get BIBLICAL up in heah!!!!!
***U13 restrains Fenix***
Hey U13, why you holding lemme go dawg, lemme...
***U13 lets go***
Hey, is you crazy, why you let me go, i...imma kill her. Hold on to me dawg, hold on to me.
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Then i hope you left room for seconds ma'am cuz its about to get BIBLICAL up in heah!!!!!
***U13 restrains Fenix***
Hey U13, why you holding lemme go dawg, lemme...
***U13 lets go***
Hey, is you crazy, why you let me go, i...imma kill her. Hold on to me dawg, hold on to me.
ROFL @ it's about to get BIBLICAL... :D :D :D :D
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Then i hope you left room for seconds ma'am cuz its about to get BIBLICAL up in heah!!!!!
***U13 restrains Fenix***
Hey U13, why you holding lemme go dawg, lemme...
***U13 lets go***
Hey, is you crazy, why you let me go, i...imma kill her. Hold on to me dawg, hold on to me.
I got my money on Rue-Rue! ;D ;D
But, L'il Hermie, I don't think you should let ANYONE restrict what you can do! Tell Mama'nem to "keep yo' money" if it has strings attached!
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I got my money on Rue-Rue! ;D ;D
But, L'il Hermie, I don't think you should let ANYONE restrict what you can do! Tell Mama'nem to "keep yo' money" if it has strings attached!
Finally, someone (other than Fenix) understands the dilemma herewith involved.
Thanks brother B3! I was contemplating that and at the same time thinking "but man...that could be throwing away a dream that may not come around again for ANOTHER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS"! LOL!
Hmmmm....
If the opportunity to travel with the CD or a play came about, business would be closed for some days...I'm just sorry...but still real.
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So Rue & Fenix are messing up your GOOD NAME man & street-fighting rite here! ;D
Oh I can't w8 to see the outcome of this 1 ;D
to U c4sho: Man, U'r in a very tough situation..
I'm also not the 1 to follow 1 thing..but in my ltd years of responsibility I'm still coming to terms with having to "postpone"..Wat do I mean..Focus on "1 thing" now..but in your mind, you know you will still do all that you wish to do in the future..You will find that as you try to focus on 1 thing, it will lead you to discover more (& U'll have even more things in your list!!!)
Right now I'm focussing on my studies...specifically the Accountancy major I'm doing now..but I'm also doing another programme concurrently (& I would start 2 others if it weren't 4 my parents threatening to strangle me >:()..
Even this music thing, I'm still holding back, but I have some plans on the pipeline--but I have many years ahead of me..
So I do urge you, for the sake of effecient progress, to work ultra hard..give 1 particular project as much as U can--in that way, you will still be able to do a little (for now) in all the other things that fascin8 U..
& Pray 4 God's direction man...When I'm in a situation like yours, I just sing : Where He leads Me I'll follow.. & He normally leads me to pastures I'd never once imagined...
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Sound advice my brother. Thanks!
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You know Herm, I think I'm the total opposite of you. It's hard for me to focus on more than one thing, I go crazy. Right now, my main focus is school, so everything (except God) takes a back burner.
Like musalio said, sometimes u gotta deal with what's most important to you first, while everything else lays in the background. It doesn't mean you will completely forget about all the other stuff, sounds like u need some order in your life.
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You know Herm, I think I'm the total opposite of you. It's hard for me to focus on more than one thing, I go crazy. Right now, my main focus is school, so everything (except God) takes a back burner.
Like musalio said, sometimes u gotta deal with what's most important to you first, while everything else lays in the background. It doesn't mean you will completely forget about all the other stuff, sounds like u need some order in your life.
Ah Mr T pops his head in eh? Not too much action going on in the Music Hangout i can tell. Well i'll stop by just to say hi and greet a few folks over there. Havent been there in a while anyways, not since the LAWD anointed me and i don't need your advice no mo' :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
But seriously, i am the same as you Mr T. I cannot do more than 2 things at the same time. Some people are so good at multi-tasking, its scary. I am a priority person; if it ain't priority, i ain't doin' it. Simple as that.
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You're right, T. I have always been a multi-tasker, with overlapping projects.
But these are not projects...they are interests (or, gifts).
My fear (on the music tip) is that after I've pursued the whole graphic thing....the season for plays and songs written by yours truly will be long gone (or I'll be too old to enjoy SEEING the realization thereof IF it is even meant to happen in my lifetime).
It's kinda like sleeping with BOTH eyes open so as not to miss any portion of reality with these dreams.
Yet...the Bible says to be ANXIOUS for nothing. WOW!
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TO THOSE WHO CARE TO HELP:
Mama just called from Texas. She and my stepfather have talked AGAIN about fronting the money for a graphic design business (boy have we been THERE at least six times that I can remember).
However, my stepfather's concern remains..."Herman is so multi-talented that if we invest this money into the graphic design thing, he won't stick to it. Tomorrow he'll be back into plays; next week he'll be trying to finish the CD again".
Unfortunately, HE WAS RIGHT!!! Not bragging, but having mutiple gifts is a curse as well as a blessing (in a sense) because it's hard to focus on JUST ONE!
I don't want to let him down (IF it's really going to happen this time), but this has been his concern since "five similar promises ago".
Do I let the other dreams DIE to achieve this one? Hmmmm....
well herman i have the same problem. You can write, you are a musician, blah blah blah... you enjoy doing all of them. The weird thing is it is also your down fall at times. If you focus on 1 project and stick to it and finish it you then could do the other later. Open up the graphics thing and when it is up and running well. Then work on the next thing as hobbies.... it is hard you will have to choose what you can live with as your main focus and what you can place on the back burner....
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well herman i have the same problem. You can write, you are a musician, blah blah blah... you enjoy doing all of them. The weird thing is it is also your down fall at times. If you focus on 1 project and stick to it and finish it you then could do the other later. Open up the graphics thing and when it is up and running well. Then work on the next thing as hobbies.... it is hard you will have to choose what you can live with as your main focus and what you can place on the back burner....
agreed...and thanks