My heart goes out to Oklahoma. I’m sending love, hope, positivity, and everything else I can muster out to everyone over there.
If you’d like to help, here is a link from the Huffington Post on how you can donate:
How to Help Oklahoma After Tornado Devasates Area (Source: Huffington Post)
It’s been hectic and crazy for the past few months of my life, but now things are starting to finally start to look a bit more clear.
I’ll remain optimistic!
Ever since the epiphany of realizing my need to be intentional about monetizing my Panda Millionaire dream, I have been turning more of my attention lately towards the ideation of creating money. The main idea that I want to try is that of creating a niche site.
Continuing on the theme of lack of sleep for this week, today’s adventures featured an overtired toddler.
It was actually a pretty nice day. I dragged myself out of bed to hit my 9am kickboxing class, stopped at the grocery store to buy some fruits and snacks, and enjoyed a nice fruit smoothie with leftover pizza for lunch. In the afternoon, I visited a friend, met his lovely wife and four kids, and enjoyed a very nice BBQ lunch. My son Griffith got along fabulously with all of the kids, too, making it high potential for a repeat playdate.
This past week was kind of a big week! I collapsed as soon as I got home.
The body definitely has its own way of regulating you, whether you like it or not.
We had a network outage at my day job today, which was an interesting experience. As I’m in the eCommerce group, we’re used to being plugged in all the time, 24/7, and to not be able to connect was very unusual.
Many people went to lunch early, a few people decided to go home and work, a few others went to different buildings on our office campus that did have internet access.
One of the projects I’ve had the pleasure of working on lately was a volunteer event for Teach for America.
Teach for America is an organization dedicated to growing the movement of leaders who work to ensure that kids growing up in poverty get an excellent education. They do this by recruiting a diverse group of people with a record of achievement who work to expand educational opportunity, starting by teaching for two years in a low-income community. Just 8% of low-income students in America will graduate from college by age 24.
It feels like a crossroads is rapidly approaching, whether I’m ready for it or not.
Such is the interesting journey of life! I am thankful that it’s not boring, but I do wish it would ease off on the extremes.
It’s been a while since I have focused on a big part of my panda millionaire dream: creating money.
It’s not without having good reason. I have a great day job, working with a fabulous team. In fact, I’d have to say that the team I work with are the smartest and most talented people I have ever worked with. My day job is with a large, stable company that has recently had a change in leadership, and now we have a very inspiring CEO who is delivering hope and change. On occassion I do get to travel to amazing places that I normally would not be able to afford on my own. The things I get to do at my day job are becoming more and more meaningful and I’m always engaged.
To all the moms out there, enjoy your day. You have the most important job and we love you for it.
Happy Mother’s Day 
(And to the non-moms out there, friendly reminder to appreciate your mom on a more regular basis 
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