Keeping on Track. "Organized Life"

Good lord people, let me tell you all something.

Pretend your a awesome train operator. You work for the best company in the world. Your train is designed to keep all luggage in order and make stops at certain times to release some of the cargo and go on your way. Well the problem with this super duper train is that luggage you have to remember what you have, and what to do with the pertain luggage, because if that luggage doesn't get to where it needs to be, it gets everything off track..

The time you forgot about some certain luggage.. boom, crash, bang. You being the head of the train pull the brakes hard as you can. screeching noises like nails on chalk board all around, the smell of burnt brakes and the litter of luggage and everything is spilt everywhere!
What to do?

As anyone can see, this is a metaphor for life, life in a certain way. I consider myself a organized person. A person who wants to make sure where he puts something is where its always gonna be at. Now sometimes I don't well with cleaning.. but thats a whole new story of things..

Now this Train, Geeezz it just crashed and it felt like it was going good. This train to me represents what we need to do to keep a "organized life"
sometimes we have a bunch of stuff on this train of ours we sometimes need to double check ourselves and make sure that train doesn't crash. Wow when it crashes anything can happened. It can be small or it can be catastrophic. Just make sure when luggage is dropped or when dealing with luggage know the ends and out of it, know if this luggage is something you don't need to carry throw it off and watch it do that crazy jump up and down until its all in pieces, this luggage I would say would be stress, worry, hurt from someone in the past, certain things you cant control, that lost opportunity with a job/person/whatever.
That stuff doesn't need to be with you. It will just slow your train down and it wont be very productive.
Now back to the good luggage. Make sure everything is good with it. When you have it on the "train" or thinking about carrying that particular luggage. It keeps life easy and organized..
More onto luggage.. if your confused, (which I am comparing peoples life to a train, I must think Im a psychologist or something)
Luggage can be anything from job tasks, things you gotta do, job searching, just everyday or lifelong things we deal with..


Why is this called luggage? Well, because when we wake up we pretty much see what our day has to offer, like what do we need to do? Are we working? Do we have bills? Did this get done? do i need to finish it?

Its as if we don't worry about the luggage and forget about it, just toss it in the back, thats when things can start to crash because procrastination or simply forgetting it will bring more trouble then what you need.

So there you have it, Your train should be running fast and smooth! I know for a fact mine is making steady paces but thats good for me. Like one of my luggage is this blog. Will it be awesome that people will be like " hey this guy is pretty good!" or maybe the other "really? a train?"

The matter is, I don't care it is my luggage and I will deal with this consequence with whatever it brings.

Thank you listeners!!

The Clever Leaf signing out.

Keep your train going and live the happiest you can!

Perfectionism, a motivation killer?

Hey guys, I have been i hiatus from blogging. I got me a job, I am feeding my town pizza. yes, you guess it Dominos! Don't get me wrong I like working there. Got great friends, good tips, and just feels like a family there. It was just to me that since I was not making as much as I was before was a change that made me think I belonged in a mental hospital.

Lets play Back to the future and go back in time... its April 2012! I was sweating outside in a pipe yard with some of my crew moving pipe around, when my boss comes up and says " hey your interested in being in the office?" Me being the computer literate and always feel like if its something to do with the computer I am your man! I jumped on it faster then I could even get the word out.

Fast Forward. Its on my third day of training. I come home that night feeling great. I'm Learning what to do, and I get a good amount of time to do what I need to do. Then the hammer of unfairness came and hit like a brick and just turned my life upside down. My supervisor called and said "well one dude couldn't keep up with his shift, your now in charge of the shift!" She said come to work at 2, i said well what time do i get off? She replied just 1 in the morning. :0. That was my face. I was going to be alone for about 8 hours with little training. My perfectionism that I thought was keeping me in check and letting me do a good job was actually holding me back.
As time went on people expected a lot from me and I felt everyday was something new I learned. And this is oilfield work so supervisors and my boss, were not exactly "kind".

Well fast forward a few more month.. I was at home and I went and looked in the mirror... What happened to me? My face was a little sunken in, my stomach and ribs looked like I belong in a National Geographic magazine ( this is not meant to be funny). I was harassed a lot for being the only male in the office. I was called very offensive names. I had many doctors appointments. Headaches everything else you name it I probably experience it. It was to a point where they thought I had ulcers, because I was not eating much but I was bleeding for some reason. Well while looking in the mirror I just seemed so tired and sick looking, and not very happy. Every day of work I was nervous at what was going to happen that day. On my days off I was so stressed and worried when the days I come back. It was hard to deal with. Well anyways I don't have to say anything, it was a temp job and my contract ended. I just learned a lot from that job. I was just worrying about all the stuff I had to do during the night. I was worried about what people thought.. Even though they were pretty verbal with how they felt about me. I was stressed about the future. I wanted everything to go perfect. One little mistake can ruin my whole work day. And all the worry and stress I brought home and it was not fair to my wife.

Well anyways I just wanted to talk about how perfectionism can really hurt someones career or just their daily lives. Nothing will go perfect, people like to hear about imperfections. Talk about how you have a irrational fear of kittens with top hats. It just goes to show that others are human too. Like the Alexander pope said in part of his quote "to err is human."

Don't dread over tomorrow if you made a small mistake just brush it off and move on. heck if it was funny laugh it off because it is also healthy to laugh at yourself. If you can't then thats a problem in itself.

In a interview say for a company that you have been dreaming of going for a while. If you say your a perfectionist you pretty much killed it. People now a days recognized it as a problem more then a asset. If your a constant worrier just take a breathe, look at all that your blessed with and just be thankful things are not as bad as they are. Shoot I am in a position of high stress and it was and sometimes is hard to deal with, but its a everyday thing. You wake up every morning and you either make it a good day or bad.
We are the masters of our emotions and actions. If we let the chains of perfectionism, anxiety, worry, and all those other bad monsters  break. Who knows what we can accomplished? I want to develop something for the iPhone. I have a great idea for a case and  also working on programming a app. Will both of these take time and hard work? Yes. If I keep my mind on it and work hard can it be accomplished? Yes.

Breaking free from all those Chains of Perfectionism, the world can be yours with hard work and determination and a willing not to give up.

Great luck for all who reads this and actually go and do what they want.

This has been The Clever Leaf Signing off.

Thanks Friends Please comment and Plus 1 if you enjoy!!

-Tyler Leaf

Kick back

I didn't make a post yesterday. Yikesss, but oh well I don't know what to talk about really.. my son is babbling funny random words and hanging out with me. Some Quality family time right? And all of us as a family is watching that disney cartoon "Phneas and Ferb" I really dont know if I spelled the first name right. This show is one of the few I can stand.

phew,  well after all this its just us as a family being together.. spending time. Family.. Topic for this!

Travis my son is a wild little dude. And can take a lot of energy. And when you finally feel you have enough energy to get him and want to do stuff with him. He likes to pull "I'm sleeping so innocently."

Then you use that energy to clean the house.. after some hard exhaustive work.. you want to rest.. Then  he wakes up and he acts like he took two red bulls, and wants to run around in circles... this vicious cycle repeats itself.

This can be so tiring but its worth it. And I really love that little dude!!

Well I gotta get tending to the little man!

Tyler Leaf signing out..

Sundays

Sunday's are the best, relaxation is the key. And what better to do that with then family? And if your a church goer like I am, its nice to see friends there. Theres nothing negative about Sundays, except if you have to work.. and also if you are a worry wart, work is going to be tomorrow! Its kinda sad to because the next day is that ever so hated Monday.. Gross.. Mondays (sad face), or :(

Well this entry is not going to be the greatest in length, Im focusing on what other stuff to bring to this blog, and maybe add some more stuff.

Well I'm going to watch Spongebob with my son, that show can be pretty funny.. I feel weird when I laugh more then my son does.. And he looks at me weird too.. like he is saying "dad you should feel bad."

Well you all enjoy time with family or whatever hobby you do.

Stay safe friends!
Donate if you want!

Tyler Leaf Signing out of 'The Clever Leaf"


P.S
Be excited for more content and maybe a different style of it too!
woohoo!!

Nostalgia, the younger years

Juggling bills, taking care of a little one and cleaning the house, getting income... know these things? I just want to talk that i bet everyone one minute of their life, they say "wow being young was awesome." I too had that thought.. thinking about horrid school grades and  also how much play time I was going to have before the sun went down. When that thought goes by though I think heck no their some stuff that I don't want to do again.

I loved the old video games and videos though..

So my audience of few and plenty I would like to show you some websites I loved it pokes fun at old games and shows. 

WARNING: The shows on these websites tend to curse a lot, and I have not visit these in a while just thought others would enjoy!!!

Angry Video Game Nerd (www.cinemassacre.com)

Most of the internet has heard of this funny man James Rolfe. His videos I watch all the time few years ago.

His videos first were just NES games and then it went to other games.

Nostalgia critic (thatguywiththeglasses.com)

Nostalgia critic is in a way simliar to AVGN but does videos and has totally different humor, mind you he still curses. Its cool to see some of the movies you watch as a kid being remembered. Its like your brain was just searching and said "hey remember this old movie you watch?"

This is not all I wanted to talk about, is it weird how when we were younger everything we perceived was so much different then something changes. You dont get fascinated by toys doing cool sword swinging moves, or when the next episode of "Bunny McAstronaunt, The Next Hare" is going to come up on your small television.

It seems to me a switch just gets turned. I sucked and still suck at drawing.. but 8 year old me thought I was going to be a cartoonist and it was just going to land in my pocket.. I thought stick figures with way to big pants and carrying baseball bats defeating aliens was a "original" idea, shoot if you thought I was wrong I would turn into a mini hulk and throw a little man fit, maybe some tears.. I was 8 I felt like I could do anything!

I wonder sometimes what happened to it. What if we can get back some of the thoughts of just being happy and wondrous about little things.. would we be happier? Could anything you really wanted to be could happen?

Also with those thoughts we could also be very imaginative, more inventions?? Tell a young kid to tell a story, it could be something that can just make you scratch your head, but hey it was just on the top of their little brains. We did we lose this imagination?

Maybe i'm digging to far into this. It just something awesome about being young and having a little one, I love my son to death and seeing him happy and laugh could not make me any more happier. His laughter can bring a smile on a bad day. I am going to try and be more like a little kid enjoy little things and just not worry about things that don't need to be worried about for the day, I had a problem with this and I know some others probably do too. I challenge whoever is reading this to maybe do the same if stress and worry or something else that can burden you.. just stop take a look around smile at the sun.. breathe in the good air, or dirty air if your city is polluted.

Well this wasnt funny right??? Am I turning into a internet Dr.Phil? Who knows???

More content and other stuff. (Funny, Serious, Everything in between)

Also if you enjoyed this please share! I would be most grateful

This is The Clever Leaf, thinking outside the tree branch.

Much Love Friends

Tyler Leaf

P.S If my grammar is not efficient please point it out. Also would love feedback and comments!

Money! (i'm back!)

WOW!

I took a long time to post again, but anyways I'm back! With my skewed sentence structures and random thoughts.

Random thought of the day is... Money

Seriously, the stuff that runs nations, persuades people to do things not like that would want to do before. Money can be some powerful stuff, some people have a lot and some people don't. I made a list on why its not so easy making them dollar bills.
Oh ya theres gonna be a list of 5 things! Pictures included!


5. Experience.

 Ok people love other people with experience in a area they don't understand. Employers love people that know what their company is about. They are not gonna hire just some random young man with no experience in the field, why you ask? MONEY is at stake!

4. Social Status.

You got to know certain people to go far in life. Like if you knew Obama, the world is your oyster! Want a oval office job? No problem!
But, if you know homeless Joe, you might just know when Sizzler drops their trash, or when homeless Pete leaves his U-haul box. This can be useful information, but for landing a job? I would rather not take a resume from pete's "office u-haul box"but one from a professional resume maker guy, Sign me up!


3. No work History

 This kinda ties in with the others. I mean if your fresh out of high school or even college with that fresh degree in "psychology in domestic animals." Its still going to be a pain trying to get some job with a good pay to be living on your own. So thats why Mcdonalds is there, it will take you in and give you a dose of work history even though along with headaches, mean customers, and a feeling of being less of a human.  (Mcdonalds peeps if your reading im kidding, I love your service and stomach destorying goodness.


2.Got to have money to make money

If you were just on your own, and you left the nest of your parents because your idea to start a rock band, but the piano player ran away because of some reason unknown to you. Now that idea is shot, and your broke and the idea "hey i need that stuff people use to get stuff with..money, ill get a job it will be easy!" WRONG. How are you gonna go back and fourth? The money you took from your parents wont pay for a hotel that much longer.. Poor guy, you lost your dream and now you still cant fly, nothing to start with. might as well hang with homeless Joe and get some of that dumped sizzler food.



1. Have the right mindset/attitude

This list does not have any order. I just list them as I had them. This by far is really important though. When you do have a job where you have a boss. You are not going to want that boss mad. Boss is also another way to say "person that is higher then me and pays me, and I don't want to upset him." A lot of people do not like their boss. I wonder why? They are just so nice! right? someone?


Well here was a healthy small piece of internet words that hopefully entertained you, made you think about hiring little poor Timmy and give him a chance a making some money? Money does make the world go around, and if you just think you have to much money and want to donate to a man with a small amount of that money and has bills, or if you wanna email me on how lame or what I need for this blog.


Email/Donate mail.ty.at@gmail.com

Much Love Tyler Leaf

Also special thanks for google images for my pictures and the websites of their respective owners!