Let’s keep this short and simple. Next year I’m taking over the world. Feel free to stay tuned and witness my evil genius at work as I attempt to conquer, create, and collaborate the most massive launching of McZizzle the world has ever seen!
Your thinking:
“he’s got an ego!!”
“This guy is cocky”
or “I want to takeover too!!!”
Before you judge please allow me to make a quote that may help things to be a little more clearer so you see what I mean:
“The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world!” – Master Chief Urgayle
Confused yet? Here’s the point: world domination, huge influence, epic hero stories to tell my daughter when I’m old and grey…they all begin with dominating one thing…….ME!
yep, that’s the simple truth I deal in. 1. I, Erik, am weak, broken, degenerate-if left alone to myself- and yet 2. I can do all things! (insert mad tyrant genius laugh here, here, and here-pick one!)
So in a few words allow me to give just a few points in my action plan to rule and not be ruled!
- Give an autopsy to 2010!
Bottom line: I failed in some areas. The good news: this year is dead. i can move on!
I don’t mean failed like failed to put the toilet seat down or the macaroni burned on the stove. I mean big financial no no’s, costly relationships, and failure to respond to opportunities.
To be honest with you, I worried too much, prayed too little, spoke too often, and acted too late.
Therefore, as I have begun my annual review, I realize I can’t look forward til I understand what went wrong.
- Get the mind and skills of a CEO with the lifestyle of a fisherman
Business is my craft. I want to be skilled and bring value to every project I touch. That doesn’t mean that I want money or popularity or a spot on The Apprentice. I want to count. I enjoy building up companies from the ground, I love systems, and let’s face it, EVERYBODY needs to lead better and that’s what business is really about…charting a course and LEADING people there!
I’m committing to working my way thru the personal MBA Reading list. I’ve already begun and it hasn’t costed me a dime! Thank God for the free library. Say it with me…..FREE!
I’ve also gained some great links to free education from Marc and Angel’s 12 dozen places to educate yourself. A big thank you to those Carnegie Melon Professors who will be teaching me for free next year. BRAVO!
- De-clutter my life
“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity”
-Bruce Lee
That doesn’t sound epic but it is! Simplicity, living on less, being less dependent on stuff frees me up to live the life I’ve always wanted.
I have a goal to do all my work independent of location. That means I want to be able to work from Starbucks at 12pm everyday if I so choose.
- Parent a revolutionary
My biggest priority and mission is to effectively and lovingly parent my daughter Chloe. Be assured, my Princess is not being raised to go to college, get a good job, marry a boy who wears loafers and has a nice degree. No, far be it from me! I pray that Chloe learn to love, sacrifice, fight, cry, and do something bold with her life.
I’m going to be proactive with time that I spend in growing as a dad. Reading, listening to seminars, and being purposeful to spend time with my baby while she’s still my baby! 15 minutes a week reading parenting materials, nightly devotionals, weekly date-night, and an increased bating average (my bating average is the time I spend in one on one conversation with my daughter. No music, movies, TV, or distractions.)
What’s your bating average?
- The Ripple Effect
I want this site to be the address of cool. Come here for encouragement, a laugh, and a wake up call!
This blog is a business that I am devoted to and passionate about. I want to find at least 5 blogging buddies to network with and help each other grow. One of my best influences on blogging and building influence is Mars Dorian. I’ve learned how to build my presence and, my favorite advice yet, develop an awesome business card!
If you are interesting in building a presence together and learning to build a business online inbox me on facebook or twitter.
- Give anonymously and overwhelmingly
about a year ago I made a promise to myself to using the Global Prayer digest to guide my prayers for international missions but now I feel led to go a step further. In 2011 I will select one country to support financially and prayerfully with intensity. Not to say I have abandoned the world, but i want to zoom in and help and learn about one specific region. I’m starting at World Vision’s catalog for giving.
I will be creating a new category to chronicle some of our other exploits such as traveling, pimp-slapping debt, and creating everything else i can’t find. Subscribe and comment often but most of all…develop your own vision for 2011. Don’t read about it on my blog, do something that you love! If you don’t know what to do then schedule some time for thinking and do it! You have been blessed with one life and only a few moments to live it. Live it on purpose!
If you want to do an annual review I invite you to visit Chris Guillebeau’s site to read How to Conduct Your Own Annual Review Let’s give feedback and hopefully help each other out in our preparation for next year!
(for all you self employed wannabe guru’s check out Chris’ e-book The Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself while you’re there!)
In closing, let’s get going with everything we’ve got. No excuses, no fear, no hesitation……
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.-“Self-Pity” by D.H. Lawrence (see the context here)
Welcome to my world!!
Single-Dad Superhero 
Well Mr. McEntyre you have done it again. I always leave your blog wondering am I doing enough? What is it that I can contribute to this world? Today I leave thinking what have I done to keep me from not taking over this world (Me)? Well, my list is too long to finish and even when I tried to narrow it down to 2010, I ran out of paper. I have decided that it will be easier for me to start with the things that I am doing and doing well (if I may toot my own horn) and become a master in those things (motherhood, friend, counselor, woman). Thank you for the challenge and see you on the next ripple.
Keep rockin Shirley! I’m encouraged by your persistence! We gon make it!