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Hey there, my name is Gabriel Hummel and I am here to help you on the ever constant path to personal improvement, self help, love, fitness, happiness, and pretty much anything that strives to make your life more enriching, amazing, and kickass.
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Crazy times would be the easiest way for me to define how my life has currently unfolding. Between prepping to move out west and arranging my entire life into a handful of boxes in order to best begin my new minimalist and/or crazed hippie lifestyle change, lets just say that shit is changing, and its changing fast. In Lou of all this controlled insanity, one of the big areas of my life that has grown in interest (and importance) to myself is that of personal finance. I know that there are a million and one finance blogs on the Internet, and to be totally honest they all pretty much point to the exact same style of advice with only minor discrepancies. Since you are all more than capable of typing “personal finance blog” into google and walking into a cluster fuck of good resources, I will not bore you with the semantics of my financial endeavours. Instead I will offer the last route and direct you to some of my favorite quotes on finance by some of the most well respected gurus in the financial industry. Have fun counting your pennies If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential… it’s no different in the financial realm. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. If you’re not serving the customer, you’d better be serving someone who is. I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times. Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.
So I have been pondering something recently that I have seen time and time again, and it has been a reoccurring event in my recent trips to my new found fascination, restaurants. So as many of you know, I have been eating for health and vitality for over a year now, and my diet is constantly changing and evolving to better suit my needs of maintaining a sculpted physique while also not restricting my diet to nothing more than carrots and protein shakes. Currently I am what is known as an 80% raw foodist, or some other bullshit label that I really don’t care to associate with who I am as a person. Basically what it means is that I am a vegan (no meat, eggs, dairy, etc) and I eat lots of fresh, healthy, and uncooked foods such as fruits and vegetables. Now because I am eating to maintain this lifestyle that I have grown so accustomed to, this diet has become more than that, it has penetrated the very essence of who I am and has become a lifestyle choice. I no longer crave butter laden; deep fried, or sugar encroached food of any nature. As a once said to a friend of mine, “If you put a bowl of fruit and a bowl or Doritos with ice cream in front of me, I will push the junk aside and devour the fruit without even having to second guess myself” So I know you are thinking that this is all fine and good, but what the hell does it have to do with restaurants, and more importantly, why is this a factor in people being afraid to ask for what they want at all? Continue reading My Guide To Pissing People Off At Restaurants
Car packed Check House cleared out of all minimalistic posessions Check Moving back in with my rents Check? Another day in the life, but believe me when i tell you that this step is a very big one in the right direction, despite the fact that the last part of my checklist was entitled moving in with my parents, believe me when I say that I am not on the fast track to being a world of warcraft playing dungeon dweller living in my parents basement But alas I have been beyond the point of insanity and back these last couple fo days, and I am here to report that I have only lost a few limbs and maintained my sobriety throughout the whole process. So what the hell has been going on and why the hell should you even give a s$%^? In a nutshell here has been my unbelievable living situation for the last two and a half years. I have been living (see squatting) a semi pack rat household with a plethora of colorful roommates all while under the guise of a landlady who has refused to accept my rent checks. Yes you read that right, I have not been paying rent (and even some utilities) for over two years. Now before you stone me to death with stories of mortgage payments and woes of high rise apartment costs in downtown Manhattan, bear in mind that this living situation has been far from plush, and overall has been nothing short of a a hilarious adventure that my mother described as, “the most disgusting house” she had ever set foot in. So moving beyond how I arranged that amazing living situation, lets get into the meat of the post. As you can imagine, it would be fairly hard for anyone to pack up and get all of their shit out of a house where they had almost no obligations and no financial commitments and move to a city where their costs of living are literally going to triple what they were before, with no immediate change in discernible income. And that has been my dilemma ever since I returned from the USA tour of glory that I embarked on at the end of last summer. But a few months ago I realized something that I was right in front of my face the whole time. I needed to take some damn action I know, I know. The kid who never shuts up about taking action actually is sitting here writing about how he didn’t take action in something as serious as this in his life? Well that fact of the matter was, all the other areas of my life I found relatively easy to create action in. Whether it was chatting up every girl with dark hair and a mini skirt, to going to the gym and eating right, to even getting all over my finances and putting an ever constant grin on my stupid face 24/7. All of that came very easy to me, but the one thing that was most important to me (getting the f$%^ out of Michigan) seemed to be the hardest button to push. Maybe it was because I had lots of friends and lovers here, and close family to depend on. Maybe it was simply the security of knowing that I could always be that much more safe in my low levels of personal change here in the Midwest instead of taking the dangerous and exciting plunge into a new area of with people and experiences. Really it didn’t matter, and I’m not one to reminisce and come up with an answer to every every angle imaginable. It still came down to me taking action So I bit the bullet, made a move date and moved all the pieces together like a chess player on crack cocaine. Now as I sit here typing on my mothers laptop, writing another post for my website that I love so dearly, and admire my enormous white cat that looks as if she ate a tire, I know that all is right in my world. Will this big move work out like a giant rainbow of lollipops and gumdrops and where there indeed be a midget await me with a pot of gold? Probably not, but if there has been one thing that my life has taught me in all these years, its the tough moments as much as the fun moments that define who you are, and if life was one big uphill roller coaster, than shit, you would never have the fun of falling down. Cheers Gabriel So you went through my whole process of creating and developing your own brand to push out into the masses and decided to stand out for what you believe in. Now isn’t it true that most brands change their logos, slogans, and company principles from time to time? Of course, that is what we in the personal development industry like to call growth, the opposite being death. So maybe a few years, months, or even weeks from now you will decide that you are not happy with certain aspects of your personal avatar, and some changes need to be made. Where does one start? I have created a list of my top 10 company slogans and their accompanying logos to serve as a template for the creation or future alteration of your personal brand. Some of these companies adhere to poor business practices and ethics, but that doesn’t matter because we are not trying to emulate other brands. These companies offer at least a good logo design and general slogan that can serve as a platform for filling that empty space that is blindly accompanying part of your brand and its design. So remember to take a step back, open up the right side of your brain a bit, and be creative while you are busy furiously writing an email boycotting gabrielhummel.com for its promotion of Nike 10. What happens here, stays here.
9. Reach out and touch someone
8. Because I’m worth it
7. Share moments. Share life.
6. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
5. We try harder.
4. There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else there’s MasterCard.
3. Have it your way.
2. Think different
1. Just do it
So you have decided to be your own original brand and even create an awesome pseudo logo in order to commemorate your general awesomeness. Awesome, now comes the hard part. This is the final, and most important, part of this whole ridiculous exercise that I have had you do. Anyone can decide who they ought to be like, and agree that being original and not another Heineken toting, football watching, and shopaholic redux version of Apple or Pepsi. But when it comes time to step up and stand up for what you and your brand are all about, many people reside to putting their tail between their legs and watching the box set of Friends like a good little boy or girl. I am here to tell you that your whole life is going to be a total cookie cutter joke if you do not stick to what you believe in and stand behind your personal brand 110%. Continue reading Creating A Personal Brand (Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is)
Okay now that you have realized that you need to create your own logo for your brand of your life, and not try to be like mike or calorie count until you have a logo as lean as Jillian Micheals, but what now? Its simple really, you just need to break out a bit of your right side of your brain and create a logo with your own two hands. Are you f&*^@ing serious? Continue reading Creating A Personal Brand (Arts and Crafts Day)
In all my years of personal development, the one question that everyone tries to tackle for everyone else is the notion of, “Who am I?” Everyone who dares venture into the self improvement category of your local borders and begins to read the book synopsis is bound to lose their mind, literally. You could walk into a personal development aisle knowing that you loved being a firefighter and walk out not knowing left from right and questioning why the borders security team is asking you to step away from your fetal position at the base of the frappuccino machine. Finding out who you are or define who you are trying to be by some fancy nouns or goals is a recipe for failure. Worrying about every single goal that you have and tyring to tackle them all in an effort to change your, “image” is like committing suicide. All of these personal development authors place way to much emphasis on find out out who you are and what your calling is. While it would be easier for someone to come down from he heavens and throw a dart at a board for you and determine the outcome of your life, it doesn’t quite happen that way. Instead a shift needs to happen in people where they stop looking and start creating your own brand for life (in a series of course). But how exactly does one look at their life like a Nike swoop or Ronald Mcdonald?  Hilarious phone on many levels I know that New Years is old news for many people, and that many of you guys are already knee deep in your new resolutions for 2010. And besides me and every other website on the Internet beating to the same drum and trying to get everyone on the bandwagon for improving the quality of their lives from a 92 Pinto to something more reminiscent of a brand new Murcielago, it is imperative that us people in personal development capitalize on everyone and their new found motivation for getting shit done (however long it lasts So here are some tidbits from some articles I found online that outline some great steps for sticking to your New Year’s resolutions (a great supplement to my previous post) and a picture of a chart that showcases the New Year’s resolutions of many people across the US, and showcases where everyone’s motivation is at for 2010 (maybe you’ll get some new goals for yourself, I know I got some ideas of out it). Continue reading Great Resources For Following Through In 2010
Maybe its just me, but this year seems to be the biggest year yet when it comes to motivation for getting shit done in my life that is important to who i am and what I want to become. As a result, I have been working on and constantly developing a list of goals for this year and beyond (because having only short term goals is seriously a waste of time). As a result i have been developing a plethora of lists that will serve as launching pads for ideas and major action that I have been and will continue to take in my life. In a moment of triumph at the gym yesterday, I deiced that it would be epically awesome if I not only posted my latest revisions to my personal goals for this year, but to ask you guys what your big plans are for 2010+. So just in case you are slacking and have not begun to work on your New Year’s resolutions or haven’t even made a list of goals for yourself, fear not, I will not be chasing you down the street with a pitchfork and torch in hand. I simply want you to read through my current list of goals for this year and see if maybe you can kick your brain out of its coma and figure out some of the things that you really want to do for yourself. |
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