The CONCLUSION of Short Circuits ONE

A new blog has been born at www.jamescartee.com thanks to Nate Johnson with Level2Design.

This will officially serve as the last entry of this blog….the blog will be archived for book purposes of some type in the future.

I look back over the last two years since I graduated from Auburn University with my Masters, and to say the least, I have had a rude awakening to the real world. I thought for some reason the world would automatically accept me as the new young professionals’ leader of America. Perhaps they still should :)

Sometimes you have to make a speed bump for others to stop and notice what it is that they ran over.

In my own naivety, I have learned that you must work almost twice or three times as hard to make a real dream come true, such as becoming a locally known photographer, a nationally known author, and an inspirational speaker. You must realize that a step today in a job, task, or class you do not like serves as a step towards the dream you have wanted to chase the last two years of your life, even if ten years from now you reach where you want to be. Perhaps it was worth that ten years of work often doing things you did not enjoy.

I have also learned recently that the stress of quitting something you that do not like, not having the fruits of that labor, may create more stress in life than simply dealing with the stress you have every day simply by staying with where you are. For those of you I have not spoken to in a long time, I have not made any stupid decisions, at least not just yet : )

I have almost completed my first full manuscript of my BIG book. There have been some ups and downs in the last two years of whether this is something I should continue to pursue, but if the task and endeavor have been on my heart so long, it probably is a sign to follow through on the task.  

I am not sure if adversity in life ever ends, even if in small amounts. There is always a daily something we must deal with. It is easy to become discouraged. It is extremely hard to stay motivated when so much in this world seems to expose different levels of negativity. I am trying to keep my head up even though I often feel down because I am not exactly where I would like to be.

You may not want to be where you want to be right now, but the important thing is that you not lose sight of the vision you often revisit in the rare silence you experience at different moments, for instance driving by yourself with the radio off or lying awake at night staring at the ceiling.

Since the beginning of this blog, I have traveled and cataloged memories from all over the world. I hope you have enjoyed my own self-titled memoir in the thoughts shared in this blog.

My thanks goes out to the thousands who have read this blog – Thank you for clicking. And over the last several years, thank you for reading!

With more to come at www.jamescartee.com, this is James Louie Cartee the Third!