What happening everybody in cyberspace and outer space?  Well, Hello there, and Welcome to the home of the Silky Smoove blogcast broadcast. A place where you can go and you can always count of a dose of reality but also a re-charge of positive energy vibes. I sincerely hope life and the universe is treating you well as we come into a change in season. That was a long summer I thought it was never going to end. Sometime in early September we hit the temperature record out here of 116 degrees. I remember that day but I was home by 1 o’clock so it wasn’t really too bad for me. Then it was hot temperature in the nineties all the way through October. It didn’t seem like it got cool until right on November 1st. Now it’s so cold in the morning like 40 degrees makes you not want to get out of the bed. The perfect time to relax by a roaring fire in the fireplace a hot bowl of soup, maybe like some Thai coconut curry medium spice and be snuggled up with your favorite silky, oh yeah. I guess for now I’ll have to settle for just the soup ha-ha. No need to worry we know it gets greater later. I am glad it finally cooled off. It helps at work even the few days I got rained on pretty bad it was still a refreshing change of pace. Works been ok some days are better than others. San Francisco is the hardest city to work in for a few different reasons. I work there 3 days a month. While there is a lot I could say about San Francisco I won’t at this point. Perhaps that’s something I’ll save for a book later on. As you know I’m a truck driver and being as that I work in healthcare, I’m pretty limited about what I can say about my job legally. I feel fortunate to have the position that I do.  I believe it’s giving me some good karma points. It’s allowing me to work towards other opportunities. You can have lots of good ideas and motivation but, if you don’t have resources to finance your ideas and bring them to life you’re not doing much. Depending on your situation it can take time to free up the capitol needed to push your plans forward. “Regardless of the circumstances its mandatory to pay your bills and keep your credit straight, or it will be very difficult to maneuver and elevate. To the silkys in that great glass elevator I’d like to congratulate, Perhaps I’ll join you one day and we’ll celebrate”. But seriously over the last several months I feel as if I’ve developed a good routine that’s working for me. As this year comes to a close when I think about a year ago. I’m doing so much better than I was then and, in another year, I can’t see myself anywhere short of the stratosphere. As to why, while I can’t put everything in my life out there but I will discuss as much as it is reasonable to do so. 

Which brings us to this week’s topic in our current ongoing series “Acquire What You Desire”: Becoming the Best Version of yourself Intro. I feel that this is an appropriate topic of discussion because it progresses subject matters that we have previously visited. When we spoke about becoming healthy physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. What happens when you do achieve this in these various aspects of your life? Well, you will acquire a measure of completeness. You should be congratulated for accomplishing this very important first step. Still this is just the very beginning of our journey. It’s the necessary solid foundation for the figurative structure we are seeking to build. So every level upwards we ascend to is us becoming a better version of ourselves with the goal of ultimately becoming the absolute best version of ourselves. In this exercise we will refer to version of ourselves as our “True-Form”. So let’s think about it. No matter what it is that you are seeking to achieve or acquire in your life right now, how much more likely do you think it makes it that you will be able to reach this accomplishment if your are in your True-Form? You know the answer to that it goes without saying. This subject also really captures where at in life I am right now. Now not that I am in my true-form I’m nowhere close but I am in a phase of pre-enlightenment reaching for what is next on the higher levels.  Also true-form can be a relative term because when it comes to one’s health there’s always room for some improvement. I would make the point that having this basic amount of functional health can be considered more important than having a lot of scratch in certain circumstances. Due to the thought process that what good is the scrilla going to do you if you don’t have your health? Your financial resources can quickly be diminished if your mind isn’t on point. Or you can come into some measure financial success and most certainly still not be happy. You could come into millions and be in a position power. If you handle your business in a haphazard manner chances are your success will not be long lasting, or you even risk losing it all. As this year draw to a close I’ve been spending time pulling my business affairs in line. Even if you don’t have a mountain of resources on hand your business still has to be tight. This is good because when the time comes and you do a lot of resources at your disposal you’ll be more fiscally responsible. I started a business with the launch of my first product a couple years ago.  While the product didn’t fail and I’m proud of that, because most don’t do even that well on their first go around. While other forces were at work that hindered that product from being an outright success. Regardless of the circumstances that particular product is not the one that is going to lead me to financial independence. Keep in mind you can have a good product that people do buy. Even so you still you may not have a business if the numbers don’t work. It could be that at one point the numbers did work but some factors changed which they often do and the business is no longer viable. Things that can change that you have to calculate in are manufacturing costs and the different fees involved for your storage, shipping and fulfilment. So I acquired some inventory of my product when I did have a good path forward. Then I kind of got the rug pulled up from underneath me and brought those plans to a grinding halt. The position I was in I had to put the product on ice and push it into the background. While the product is still out there and has some popularity and does sale. Which is fortunate because it should allow me to sale through my remaining amount of inventory. Some people get stuck with a bunch of merchandise they can’t sale. Recently international shipping prices have come down from there record pandemic highs, which gives me some hope. Still I’m looking to put this business out to pasture after my inventory sales through, but you never know I always have the option to bring it back. I’ll probably keep it around in some very small capacity, as I look towards my next ventures. I don’t feel demoralized or discouraged by the ordeal. Quite the contrary I feel motivated and excited about what I’m going to do next which I’m sure when will allow me to level up and get off the hamster wheel. So I can actually focus my energy on where it should be. I’m not 100 percent sure what comes next product wise. I talked a lot about my food product I created. Now when I talk about the level of difficultly involved with this product what I don’t mean is the marketing. Presenting it to the public in this day and age is going to be the easy part. It’s a food product it looks appetizing and taste delicious its very demonstrable. You utilize social media the right influencers, it’s not that difficult of an equation. You don’t have to be vegan or vegetarian to enjoy it, this product has broad application. All these positive attributes still don’t mean this product is going to be a company or a business. You have to see if the numbers work and then you have to make them scale upwards. What I think is going to hard about a food product is the legalities involved. There might be clinical testing that needs to be done. I might have to work with some food scientists to get the recipe ready for mass production. It’s probably going to be pretty involved, but when you catch lighting in bottle it’ll all be worth it. With that I’ll probably almost certainly have to take my knowledge and experience and start with a easier product first. The food product might just end up being something that I go on the internet and show people how to make themselves. That doesn’t mean I won’t be able to capitalize off it when it becomes popular. Just like any recipe its possible for you make yourself or even make your own version. It would just be time consuming. That why this product is designed for people who want to eat gourmet cuisine that is ultra nutritionally dense delicious but don’t have time. Also it would work well for restaurants of all kinds as a component for possibly hundreds of different dishes, It would cut down their prep time dramatically. Even so for the reasons stated before I’ll most likely will get the ball rolling with something easier like a specialty cleaning or shaving kit. I have a little bit of an inside trac in these industries. Or I may do something completely different. I’ll just have to do my research find where the opportunity resides. I feel confident in saying that within a short amount of time I will have a company that will replace me having to work a traditional job. Just to attain that next level of freedom in life is going to be amazing. Just to be able have the freedom to travel out of my region on regular basis and have more experiences. Also a big part of success is proximity to meet and interact with those who you can help elevate and they can help too. This is going to be part of any successful person’s migration. Also to be able to use what I feel is one of my better attributes in my creativity to earn a living would be such an ideal situation. While this may seem like a long winded over explanation into my business affairs. To those who know SEO wise the writing helps bolster the ranking of my website. Also believe it or not there is a lot of people out there who like to read, yes they actually enjoy it. Understand that as of right now I am laying the necessary ground work for my future projects. As I am working proactively towards in the near future transforming this blog into a primarily a music blog where I will publish Instrumentals and songs on a regular basis. I believe that it is important for me to state that In the short term while I enter into this transformational phase. There may be short periods of time where you won’t hear from me in this manner. Due to the fact that I am working on music and my mind is in a different mode.  In the long term once we get the entire system figured out I think it’ll produce some really great work. We’ll get in the zone and start pumping out the hits like a factory. Also I have a bunch of unreleased music I always tend to try stay busy creatively whenever possible. So a big piece of the puzzle is how to go about putting it out so that it is appreciated and garners the proper respect. Even though I don’t have that path completely figured out. We’ll have to talk to some people and try some stuff. I still feel a sense of urgency because I do feel it is important not keep the people that do follow me waiting for to much longer. Also for myself for a long time it was such a big part of who I am. As of recently even though I would describe my life as headed in the proper direction and actually going rather well. I still feel like a large part of me has been missing. Getting back in the saddle and publishing music again will help to fill that void if at least to a small degree. 

So after spending a little time discussing my own business ventures and struggles. I think this is a good time to segway into discussing some other entrepreneurs and business icons. That way we can learn and also draw colorations and comparisons to on our own path. This will help us draw inspiration from these real world situations. So I’ve wrote about before about how much I love the movie “the Founder” I still fall asleep to it almost every night. As much as I enjoy that movie I can’t for the life of me figure out why there hasn’t been at least two sequels to this movie. Because as incredible as the Ray Croc story is, in my opinion the stories of Glenn Bell and even more so Dave Thomas are even more remarkable. I’m just going to give you some of the highlights but I would definitely go watch their episodes because their stories are amazing. Glen Bell this guy this true-form entrepreneur had to start over from nothing zero three different times. He started out as a cook in the marine corps after that he opened a hamburger stand in San Bernadino. His wife divorced him because he was a workaholic and took the hamburger stand. When he had the idea to make Latin inspired food initially he couldn’t get financing because the banks didn’t want to take a chance on something that was considered exotic at the time. He altered the traditional recipe for the taco and reworked it for the American palette. He created what is known in the US as the modern day crunchy taco. He knew there was a large market for an alternative to the hamburger. Its common sense people don’t want to eat the same thing every time they go out. Since he couldn’t get start up capitol he had to he had take on financial backing and get a partner. They were able to create a successful company called taco tia with several locations. When this partnership fell apart because he saw the larger potential but his partner didn’t want to take on any more risk he had to leave that business and start over again. For a while he had a consultation business in where he was instrumental in the success of several different restaurants. When he opened his first taco bell it was an instant success. One of his managers later when to found del taco. Still at the time Mexican food was still consider risky so he couldn’t convince people to franchise. He had to open his own second location where he did all the work and had another guy pretend to be his franchisee. All he asked the guy to do was spend the profits as lavishly as he could. He had him go out and buy cadillacs and boats so that other people could see that owning a taco bell would make them rich. His plan worked and his company grew rapidly. The business really began to turn a corner when he had the idea to start staying open late nights. He knew had lighting in a bottle. He seized on the opportunity fast forward his company is one of the largest and most successful in the world.  I’m going stop there because Dave Thomas is just on a whole another level. I have such respect for him I need to do his story justice and really focus on it in the next entry. 

As an update on my own fitness journey and me trying to become the best version of myself. I’m still involved in the running experiment. I haven’t missed a day in going on 12 weeks now. Since about a month ago when I ran for an hour and half. I haven’t run for anytime less than an hour straight. An hour is not that difficult for me anymore. I’m not running over an hours’ time because you know life. Instead, I’ve been trying focusing pushing the pace higher so I’m running a bit faster. Where I could use some improvement is I haven’t been making into the actual gym for resistance as much as I would like to. While I can workout at home so I’m not missing days. I would still rather make it in the office and get a better workout in, and still come home and run for an hour. Due to the fact that those days seem to be the most transformational physically. So I’ve been pretty consistent. I’ve been making into the gym like 1 – 2 times a week, workout at home the other days and run everyday 7 days a week. I would like to also state that my work is very physical. In the near future it’s my goal to make in the gym more often I think 2 - 3 days a week would be good. When I do miss a day going to the gym it’s not for a lack of motivation. It’s just due to having a full schedule to keep up with. I usually I’m doing something like writing a blog trying to stay in communication with my audience or working on some new music or something music related. The change in weather helps with the workouts its easier to run when its cooler. Also running helps when it’s freezing when you get on that treadmill after about 20 minutes your body temperature is warm no matter how cold it is in the house or outside.  Although running for does take a chunk out of your day, In this phase I’m getting my body adjusted so I can do everything that I need to do and not be deficient in any area. As far as the running goes I’m continuing the experiment because the results have been dramatic. My body composition compared to three months ago is drastically leaner. One hour seems like the magic number. Everyday when I wake up and look in the mirror I feel like I see change. So as long as I’m seeing these kinds of results I’m going to keep it up and try to progress the program until I reach my true-form physically. Even though were talking about self-improvements of a physical nature. The mind and the body are one and one can pull the other up or one can drag the other down. It makes you feel really good and that makes good things start happening to you. The days when you work lower body like with squats, lunges and bridges then come home and run those are the best days. It makes the muscles in your legs feel great. It makes you feel strong, dominate and stable. What I said before about it causing you to collect all this positive cosmic energy it still seems to be true, so I’m going to try figure out what I’m tapping into hanging by the moment here with you. Alright y’all I’m going to getty up on out of here. I hope you had a great weekend and I hope you have an awesome upcoming week. I will always remain in touch as much as my schedule allows. Remember Strength is in the Force not the flesh. I'm about to go heat up some SOUP! ttys