Archive for April, 2009

Stop lying to yourself!

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I am not always open emotionally, but I do have one simple rule.

Be honest with yourself and then you can be happy in life and have a healthy and strong relationship with others.

Honesty
The first experience in any relationship is honesty. Many people are honest with those in their life, yet they are not honest…

What I mean by this is that many people are not honest with themselves, and therefore are incapable of being honest with those around them. It may be some small items, like fears or problems that have long been “forgotten”, but every bit of information that we are not open with our self about is something that will prevent any and every relationship from being healthy.

My philosophy is pretty simple. My life is an open book. If I tell you anything about myself, you are free to tell others. Frankly, there is nothing I can tell you that I have not told others, so talk away. Not that any of it is that interesting or anything, but I am open about it. Don’t get me wrong, there are many things about my past that I am not proud of. I have made many mistakes and have surely hurt too many people through my life, but everything that I have been through in my life has made me the person I am today.

So, be honest with yourself and only then can you be honest in a relationship.

When I grow up I want people to smile.

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Fun guy with attitude and innovation!

Do you remember when looking at a picture of yourself captivated your attention and made you smile? I am amazed every time I watch someone pick up a print of their action on the slopes or on the water and they smile as if in disbelief of their abilities and the action that is evidenced forever in the photograph.

My goal as a photographer is to capture those moments every time I am on an assignment, and deliver the thrill of personal accomplishment in a large format print of the best athletes ever! To give everyone unlimited access to my sailing photos, I have developed http://www.OPTIsailing.com, a site that gives everyone free access to every Optimist picture I take of them on the water and around the best Opti regattas in North America and beyond.

I hope you can smile as you look at pictures of yourself at a recent event.

Stuck in an elevator with Myself

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Myself
Many times when people are confined in a small space they begin to panic. I don’t mean freak-out panic but they do begin to panic and the stress gradually begins to build. And this is just when they are in any confined space.

Add the pressure of being trapped in an elevator and the stress increases dramatically. Think about this for just a minute; an elevator is a metal box (itself weighing thousands of pounds) hanging hundreds of feet above a thick cement slab and it is hanging by a tiny steel cable.

Have you seen how frequently they inspect the cables on elevators? I mean every time you are at an airport, they have one of those flat electronic walkways closed for maintenance but you almost never see an elevator closed for routine maintenance. What is that all about? Is it really more difficult to keep something safe when it is flat on the ground, just moving across the same surface everyone else is walking on compared to an elevator that is lifting you at high speeds through the air?

So, put the unsafe cable with the thick cement “crash” pad and the small confined space all together and you have a formula for a highly stressful situation when the elevator gets trapped between floors for any period of time. People can hyperventilate, they can scream, they can wet themselves and ever pass out or have a stress induced stroke.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that I want to be alone so that you wouldn’t see me going through the process of a stress attack, I am simply suggesting that it could happen to someone out there.

You believe me, right?

Stuck in an elevator with Myself

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Myself
Many times when people are confined in a small space they begin to panic. I don’t mean freak-out panic but they do begin to panic and the stress gradually begins to build. And this is just when they are in any confined space.

Add the pressure of being trapped in an elevator and the stress increases dramatically. Think about this for just a minute; an elevator is a metal box (itself weighing thousands of pounds) hanging hundreds of feet above a thick cement slab and it is hanging by a tiny steel cable.

Have you seen how frequently they inspect the cables on elevators? I mean every time you are at an airport, they have one of those flat electronic walkways closed for maintenance but you almost never see an elevator closed for routine maintenance. What is that all about? Is it really more difficult to keep something safe when it is flat on the ground, just moving across the same surface everyone else is walking on compared to an elevator that is lifting you at high speeds through the air?

So, put the unsafe cable with the thick cement “crash” pad and the small confined space all together and you have a formula for a highly stressful situation when the elevator gets trapped between floors for any period of time. People can hyperventilate, they can scream, they can wet themselves and ever pass out or have a stress induced stroke.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that I want to be alone so that you wouldn’t see me going through the process of a stress attack, I am simply suggesting that it could happen to someone out there.

You believe me, right?


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