Nov
18th
I have alot of friends and family members ask me why I’m willing to take so many risks in life… I usually just shrug my shoulders and ignore the question. But I’ve noticed they act like I’m doing something wrong?
Nov
6th
So the PHPFox Dev team released 1.5 Beta last night and the forums were PACKED full of people waiting for the announcement.
I figured this release would easily top all of the past versions but I didn’t know what to expect!
Oct
12th
Here’s a great Article on Cross Site Request Forgery being used for Browser Hijacking. If you’re a PHP Developer worried about Security issues - it’s always a great site to keep bookmarked! Mr. Shiflett definately knows his stuff!
Oct
7th
Everything posted in this post is my own Personal Opinion.
So, some of you might be here after seeing me argue with some moron (in my opinion) about how crappy his Business ethics (from what I’ve dealt with) are. Now I decided to make another post and keep it out of the forums.
I find it funny that the owner of this “certain script” claims I stole the script I purchased. Without proof of me not buying - he chose to say there was no proof of me buying… uhhhh, how did he come to this conclusion? I told him right from the start “me and my Business partner purchased the script” and yet he continues to accuse me of theft? Interesting Business Tactics!
Oct
6th
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Sep
15th
I’ve been pretty busy lately with a new Product I’m working on. I’ve been hitting the old books, taking notes, purchasing other similar products for comparison, looking them over, watching my bank account slowly go down (lol!), etc, etc. I can’t even talk about the Product as too many crooks will try to jump on… you know how that goes… but…
Aug
31st
Category: Advertising, My Life, PHP, business, comedy, google, hacking, news, programming, reviews, seo, web 2.0 |
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I won’t lie… I wanted to purchase one of those GREAT SOUNDING Packages for “AdSense Ready” Websites with 30,000 Articles, ready to go for anybody for only $99.00! Sound too good to be true?
If you thought it did - you are dead on. Made For AdSense website companies who sell these packages are overselling these products like crazy, but lying to you in their sales pitch. Each company stresses that they “DO NOT” Oversell their packages, yet they OBVIOUSLY DO! Everywhere I go I see the same trashy websites with the same overly used garbage articles. And the poor saps who purchase these packages might make $10 back, if they’re lucky enough not to get banned by Google… who is coming down on these MFA Sites.
Aug
28th
Everywhere I look lately it seems that Google, Microsoft or another gargantuan Corporation is throwing hundreds of Millions of Dollars into sites such as Facebook.com, MySpace.com, etc. while sites such as YouTube are being reported to be making huge ad impacts lately as well. It’s a huge Social Networking market out there… just not for Adult Social Networking sites apparently lol
Aug
15th
Cal Evans recently interviewed George Schlossnagle and you can read the interview at Zend.com: http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/799
It’s a great read. I’m still amazed at how OmniIT has all those guys working at the same place!
Aug
15th
It still amazes me how many people seem to use addslashes() in their PHP projects rather than using mysql_real_escape_string(). Now, don’t get me wrong - I know that I have used addslashes in the past - but that was when I was a pure n00b in PHP! I’ve been using mysql_real_escape_string for quite a while now for many reasons. For one, when using MySQL you should be using the Native functions, if possible, to add slashes … it just makes sense. I feel that there’s too many books out there teaching n00bs, along with too many n00bs teaching n00bs how to program like this.
These people are usually the same people using $_REQUEST rather than $_GET or $_POST. It’s pure laziness and it erks me to see it.
Aug
15th
I’ve been big on Security over the past 6 months or so and I’ve pretty much adopted the Chris Shiflett method of securing User Passwords. It just seems to work for me mentally and physically - meaning I don’t feel stressed out about Passwords being stolen as easily.
Example:
$clean = array();
$clean['username'] = $_POST['username'];
$clean['password'] = $_POST['password'];
$salt = ‘CLENARD’;
$password = $salt . md5($clean['password'] . $salt);
?>
Of course that’s a simple example and one that Chris Shiflett explains in several examples but it’s pretty similar to what I’ve been using.
How do you secure your passwords? How do you filter your Data? I’m no PHP Expert and never claimed to be… but I love hearing how others secure their passwords. I used to use SHA1 because people claimed md5 reverse engineering was easy to do, which I no longer believe. I’ve tried many “engines” to test MD5 hashes and only one password actually worked out of hundreds I’ve tried. 
Aug
15th
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I’ve just hopped on 3 new projects… I’m not sure why I’ve done this as my Health problems may slow me down later, if the doctors find anything. All three projects are pretty damn big too! One is an Automobile Website…actually a Portal full of Auto Info. Another site is for ..I can’t say….but this one will be the biggest of the three. I’m actually excited about this one as I know it will turn out pretty successful on a nationwide level. Then there’s another one that’s like an entertainment type portal. It might come out pretty successful but not huge, if you ask me. It will be kind of different from the others though. I have alot of ideas for this one to make it a little different from other sites that I’ve looked at over the past few days.
All will incorporate PHP, MySQL (I may try oracle for ONE!), AJAX and more web 2.0 designs for them.
Who owns these? Oh, that would be me. 
I’m just trying to get more sites under my belt now… right now I have about 100 Domains but only about 20 that are built out now. I may start selling some of the other domains later, I guess I’ll see what happens.
Aug
10th
I found an interesting article on BusinessWeek.com talking about Microsoft at the BHC in Las Vegas. Looks like they’re finally getting real with themselves and asking Hackers to crack their new Operating System : Vista. Unfortunately I will never trust Microsoft Vista in the first year of its life, no matter what vulnerabilities they fix. Here’s the full article below from BusinessWeek.com’s Article titled “Heading off the Hackers”
File it under the category of “be careful what you wish for.” In early August at the Black Hat Conference, an annual meeting of computer security experts in Las Vegas, Microsoft (MSFT) handed out 3,000 test copies of its new operating system, Windows Vista, and challenged attendees to help spot security glitches. A short time later, Joanna Rutkowska obliged. In a packed ballroom at Caesar’s Palace (HET), the 25-year-old Polish programming whiz delivered a devastating presentation in how to hack an earlier but similar test version of Vista. Before a crowd of fellow researchers and hackers, she bypassed security measures and implanted a potentially undetectable piece of malicious code called “Blue Pill.” The presentation, titled “Subverting Vista Kernel for Fun and Profit,” was rewarded with a hearty round of applause.
The exercise wasn’t much fun for Microsoft security mavens. They put on a brave face: “We’ll take a look and see if there are ways we can mitigate it,” says Stephen Toulouse, program manager for Microsoft’s 650-member Security Response Center. But Rutkowska’s demo was the latest reminder of how difficult it will be for Microsoft to make the new version of its flagship product truly secure.
Microsoft went to full battle stations over PC security four and a half years ago, when Chairman William H. Gates III acknowledged in a memo to his staff that the plague of viruses and worms afflicting Windows and other products had gotten out of hand and something drastic had to be done. Henceforth, Gates decreed, security would be the top priority. All programming was temporarily halted as Microsoft embarked on an effort to make its products safe.
FEAR OF A BLACK HAT. Soon we’ll know if the delay was worth it. The business version of Windows Vista will arrive late this year, with a consumer version due in early 2007. Vista is Microsoft’s first new PC operating system in five years and the first version of its flagship product to get a full security makeover. Hackers are expected to probe Vista relentlessly for vulnerabilities after final versions come out. But already there are signs that Microsoft may fall short of Gates’s goal—at a time when it’s facing pressure from a resurgent Apple Computer (AAPL), which suffers few security problems.
For Rutkowska, the Black Hat Conference was just another day at the office. She works for Singapore-based COSEINC, specializing in technologies used by hackers to cloak their activities. Her job is to anticipate the moves of criminals. “I see this as a continuous process, an endless game of chess, where nobody can really ultimately win. It’s essential, then, to enjoy the game itself,” says Rutkowska. She says she has always been a “white hat” programmer and never created malicious code like “black hat” hackers do.
Toulouse points out that revelations such as Rutkowska’s are exactly why Microsoft engages in a running conversation with security folks: “We realize we don’t know everything. These people hold the keys to making our products more secure.”
SPOTTING FLAWS. Indeed, independent security researchers are fast becoming the tech industry’s first line of defense against viruses and other hacks. They typically get paid for staging test attacks on company computing systems and gain bragging rights by spotting flaws and showing how to exploit them. “You’d rather have the vaccine from researchers than a malicious attacker giving you the real disease,” says Phil Zimmermann, a security pioneer.
Microsoft had received only a smattering of feedback from other Black Hat attendees as of press time. But reviews are trickling in from established security companies, with mixed appraisals. Symantec (SYMC) recently issued two white papers analyzing Vista’s strengths and weaknesses. “Overall, it’s very solid,” says Vincent Weafer, senior director at Symantec Security Response. Still, he warns that the need to make Vista compatible with applications written for earlier versions of Windows “creates some holes.” Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer for consultancy Counterpane Internet Security, is less charitable: “It’s more complex than the last one, and complexity is the worst enemy of security. If you want security, buy a boat, not a cruise ship.”
Even Microsoft admits that Vista won’t be perfectly safe. “You can’t get the code 100% right,” says Toulouse. He points out, however, that Windows Server 2003 was more secure than Windows Server 2000, thanks to an extra year of security work tacked onto the end of the development process. Toulouse believes Vista will do even better.
We’ll see. A few days after the Black Hat Conference wrapped up, Rutkowska was back at her desk in Warsaw coming up with new ways to bedevil Microsoft. And you can bet that others will work just as hard, with less noble intentions.
Aug
10th
I’ve been thinking about Black Hat Hackers (crackers) and the things they’re capable of and even my own experiences with “crackers”. In California alot of cities have adopted a law called “Street Terrorism” which usually means “there may not be two or more members of a certain Gang that can walk the streets together”. This law was passed in Los Angeles and Long Beach during the 1990’s for 18th Street and seemed to work, for the most part. Atleast in those cities eyes… they ended up arresting a ton of 18th Street Members, whether they were up to no good or not.
So, why wouldn’t there be some sort of Online Terrorist law? A Law that could be enforced in any country at any time if known crackers communicate with each other? Wouldn’t this help enforce other laws a little easier? I’m sure some countries wouldn’t adopt the law but I’m sure adding to broken laws could push an “anti-crackers” movement throughout the Webmaster Community.
Sure, there’s some “good crackers” but I’m still not sure what’s good about them? I think everybody that can develop on the web has pushed the envelope at one time or another - but those who constantly push the law should get more than what they are currently getting.
Don’t get me wrong… there’s a ton of great “Hackers” out there along with great stories (Kevin Mitnick for example) but there are some who are just a little too close to the borderline of “bad”. Bad being: Those who “let you know a certain directory has its Permissions set too high” or even letting you know that “Hey, check out your site…you weren’t filtering SQL data good enough”, bad.
I think Governments should push “Online Terrorism” as a law and see how it goes. Maybe I’m missing something - maybe there already is such a law I’ve yet to hear about? Either way - they should make it more obvious if there is such a law and more Governments should enforce this law. I’m tired of seeing Companies, especially SMALL companies, invest all that time and energy into their Business only to have to worry about the “online thugs” come in and destroy their hard work.
Aug
9th
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So I’ve been ripping my hair out over the past few weeks working on all my sites. My main site has been a problem since having to move back to the other server but DAMN it’s finally getting fun again!
We’ve got the NEW artist accounts coming where Artists can create albums (even enter the SKU!), upload songs to those Albums and SELL each song at a price they choose. After they recieve $25.00+ in their account - they get a check in the mail within a week! We’ll even be promoting bands in the new Music section which will be completely rebuilt.
Ahhhhhhhhhh I can’t wait! I’m sure Artists will love the end result!
So next I will have to figure out “what’s next”. I know what I want to do but will I get the time to do it? Let’s hope so!
I have a new project on the horizon too… so hopefully things go well with WUB!
Aug
9th
It’s funny… I’ve used some of these as my own arguments, prior to even seeing this list. I love this list because it makes those close-minded people who used to talk their crap about getting a job seem so contradictive. Life isn’t about worrying about someone elses money… Steve Pavlina says it perfectly in his blog post.
You can read his post below:
Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me, and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
Here are some free resources to help you get started:
- The Courage To Live Consciously (article on how to transition to more meaningful work)
- Podcast #006 - How to Make Money Without a Job (audio)
- Podcast #009 - Kick-start Your Own Business (audio)
- Podcast #014 - Embracing Your Passion (audio)
- 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed (article)
- How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) (article)
- How to Make Money From Your Blog (article)
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
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