StoryBoard Life

I am going to give you a post of 3 Parts and then I’m going to sum up the point.

Part 1.

I don’t know about you but I don’t like to borrow books from the public library.  I always write in the them (paragraphs at times) because I like to keep my notes in a place I can remember where they are. What better place than the book in which the notes are about?  Well, I was looking through on of my books, “The Invisible Touch” by Harry Beckwith and came across a few sentences that I wrote a few years back. BTY the book is about selling within the service industry.

Sit down with people and focus on them. Ask what they want or would like to have. Ask them about there dreams. Ask about their past positive experiences and of those experiences which would they do all over again. Once you have that information….do something about it. You may not be able to give them everything but you can sure give them some experience that resembles it.

Part 2.

I bought the 5 Disk BBC series “Planet Earth” this past weekend so that I could watch something new while I edited photos. This morning was the DVD on Birds and their mating habits. Well, I don’t know about you but I think the birds in the amazon and penguins from Antarctica are quite silly when they try to find a mate. The male bird will work so hard and put on a grandiose show just for the opportunity to attract the female. He may spend weeks tidying up the nest so that no detail is not overlooked and everything has and is in its proper place. And when the day finally comes that

It’s been some time since I wrote anything about my mom (Stella Doyle). She is (hopefully) in the upcoming movie Powder Blue that is Directed by Timothy Linh Bui and includes actors such as  Forrest Whitaker and Jessica Biel. I use the word hopefully because you never know what they are going to cut out. Her scene with  Forrest Whitaker is in the trailer (although she is not shown in the trailer) and sometimes what goes into a trailer is not what comes out in the movie. We’ll see. Honestly, no matter if I go to opening night with her, I am still going to go to the movie theater and record my mom’s part and load it up on here for the world to see.

I am soo proud of my mom because she has worked soo hard going to acting school and then getting herself out to audition for commercials and movies.  What’s even cooler is that she goes to auditions that are not specifically looking for her “type.” This is how she got the part in a Northstar commercial. She thought she would like to do that……..and “WHAM” she got it. Now she’s not a mega star but she got to do what most people only wish they they did. What was that? Well, she had a speaking part with Forrest Whitaker in a movie that bunches of people are going to see. I think that is dang cool. She has worked extremely hard and it has made me one a proud son.

Here is a summary of the movie from IMDB:

Several Angelenos meet on Christmas Eve through chance, tragedy and divine intervention. Swayze will play the sleazy owner of the strip club where Biel’s character dances. Redmayne will portray a mortician who falls in love with her. Kristofferson will play the head of a corporate crime organization who tries to convince his former employee (Liotta) not to seek vengeance on his former co-workers. Whitaker, who also serves as a producer on the film, will play a suicidal ex-priest. Newcomer Alejandro Romero will play a transsexual prostitute who shares an unexpected bond with the priest.

This is definitly a movie that won’t be for everyone but I’m going to go see it because my mom is just that awesome AND to say that your mom is an actor……I know…….real cool!

LINKY FRIDAY’s is the place where I will list all the interesting and relavant blogs I find throughout the week. There is soo much information at our finger tips that it would be just plain wrong to horde it. Nothing gets me more mad than when someone knows information that another can benefit from and does nothing. Think customer service rep who has the permission and ability to make things right but does not! I was always taught, “Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I’ll give it tomorrow”— when you now have it with you.”

Since everyone I come in contact with and my readership is my neighbor , I will give you what I have learned. If you go by their sites let them know who sent you there. Have a great weekend

Talk to you soon,

Peter

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• Wedding Chick  You got to see what they have to offer here for brides
• A Holiday Must for Little Ones Amy Beth Cupp Drago of ABCD Designs Bespoke Stationary highlighted the cardboard works of art and play from www.cardboardesign.com.
• Cicely of  Life Design Events has a number of proposal ideas for guys This is a good list to get the guys thinking a little bit for that special day.
• Create your 101 things to get accomplished within 1001 days
• My Wedding Film: Take a look at some great wedding videography
• Project Happily Ever After: I really love Alisa’s honesty that she has about her marriage. What great insight for wives and husbands alike.
• Take a look at these cool “stach” gloves for the winter at Hi + Low

AH…the first day of 2009 and the sun hasn’t even come up yet. I have written a few posts on the topic of new year resolutions. So why am I writing another on on the first day? Well, I’m writing because it is not only on a different angle but this post is going to go deeper than just the perfunctory goal or two. The name of the website is, “Storyboardlife” and it came about because of how I envisioned my own life pertaining to wedding photography. A storyboard is created for a movie to visually map out a time line for an entire story through photographs and drawings. Each photograph on that time line has a history and a definite path to reach its denouement. Every specific  photograph exists because of the previous photographs. Remember looking at old family photographs or family albums? (If you haven’t go look at them after reading this post.) Each photograph speaks about the individuals and the family’s history at that particular moment. As you move through those photos you see that time line. You remember specific times and what your feelings were. You see those you don’t remember or haven’t spoken to for years and wish you had more time.

Before my father died he categorized all our family photos into albums and then dedicated one of the rooms in the house to store them. Man, what a site to see when I revisit them. I have three brothers so my dad created an album for the each of us. There are a few albums of my dad while he was a Navy Seal. There are even older photographs and albums of my grandmother and grandfather. Each of these photographs and albums serve as my family’s Storyboard. What’s your Storyboard. What’s your life story? Where is it that you want to be? I have written over and over again that I want to live a life that would make my grandchildren proud. If that is part of my Storyboard then there is going to be a visual time line of what that looks

Ok, OK..I didn’t take this photograph and this is not a photograph of me either (properly pronounced as I-ther).  However, what I did is going to become quite clear. I stole the blog title, intent, purpose, and over all meaning and feel of this post from (my soon to be friend, well hopefully) Alisa of Project Happily Ever. What’s great about this blog is her thought provoking ideas about keeping the marriage as it was intended to be. She is honest about where her relationship was and not being satisfied with it …. well she did something about it. 

Her most recent post got my attention because of the New Year Resolutions post i just put up a few days ago. 101 goals in 1001 days  New Year Resolutions exist because we know that we are lacking in areas in our life that we don’t want to lack anymore. We want to loose weight because we don’t want to nor do we think we should weigh as much as we do. We want to spend less because we don’t want to live a life that is bound to the purchases that we thought would set us free or at least make us feel better about where we were in life. In short, we create resolutions so that we become resolute in making healthy (mentally,