Changes Galore! Vlogness!

I will soon be moving to my own URL!  Hooray for me!! 1&1 has giving me a deal to try out my own URL and no more having to put blogspot in the middle.

Thecleverleaf.com  I will update with more information about the new URL but for now enjoy the first installment of

The Clever Leaf Vlog Episode 1!

I will be introducing videos into my Website for more of another way to intake the media. Also this is more of a test, next one will actually have maybe background music, more subtitles and just more pleasing to the eye. I just wanted to give my first vlog a try, and as you probably can tell I didnt edit to much of it. And I am crashing from a red bull so I hope its been edited correctly, If not well please make fun of me and tell me how much I need to do things correctly.

So Enjoy my fellow friends!

Instagram, potential employers, and dangerous waters

Instagram! Now who has not heard about the lovely Instagram? Angry Birds, Doodle Jump, Facebook, Twitter (insert some other famous application people love to use) What do these brilliant ideas have in common? They either A) give some fast entertainment; B) Links you with people of the past thus giving you some fast entertainment if they are know not as cool as they were back when you were a wee little one. Its fascinating how much people love instagram and I too used to use it, and maybe will.. And all you need to do is say go about your day and you see something or your thinking "man im bored, I wanna do a funny pose and make a weird face.. wait i need to filter this to oblivion! Lets throw in Sepia, ya Sepia.. I need tags!!!  #bored #what #blahh #beerisfun. And there you have it! grade A instagram content waiting for the masses to examine.

Its amazing and fun because now a bunch of people get to see you in a funny pose in a sepia filter, and they know you are bored and you enjoy beer more then the average person. The Social connection is so amazing you do not need to leave your house! I mean who would want to? When you can just Facebook your best friend and read his latest status.. I mean getting in a car, or riding a bike and meeting them in person all the time is so 1990! Now I am not putting down anyone, heck I do this on more then one occasion I just wonder if this is making us more secluded into our on homes and computers? Are we just now going to be hands talking through keyboards and the sun and daily activities are a chore?
To me a lot of social interaction has changed for me. It seems like it was normal to go over to someones house that you wanted to hangout with and things will be cool. Now its going on the computer, go to facebook or whatever way of communication and just start talking there. instead of real laughter, your fingers are doing the lol-ing. And that word, lol when use tells the person "hey I'm laughing right now, you need to know this bro" but in reality your reaction can be anywhere from  hyperventilating from laughing or just a crooked smile. I means there varities of lol's like the regular lol, the LOL which is like  your screaming at the person that your laughing, I can go on about more but my book "The book of Lol's" is not done yet.

Also this lack of real social interaction make it harder for people to get jobs from employers looking for some people to do their bidding for a hourly wage. I don't think a employer wants a facebook message from a person wanting to apply for a job saying " hi lol, are you still hiring lol? It wood be kewl if we can be friends and you pay me lol (Smiley face)"
I think that the employer would give up on humanity.. And for some reason I thought it was a good idea to just go to monster.com or indeed.com those job sites find a few jobs I like and just send over my resume.. I don't know why I was thinking I was going to be getting paid good so soon from this "hard" work. Its pretty much me just going to random places of business and whispering my name once and running out the place thinking that I done justice in the world.

Me being the blogger/father/husband/wanting to do something awesome in life. I feel like I owe it to myself to get my name out there. To say "Hey world, Tyler Leaf is here and I want to earn some of this money here that will give my family and I a good and comfortable way of life!" So here is some entertainment in many ways!!

Facebook- We can be friends
Instagram- I will add funny pictures, and you will have no choice but to L O L
Angry Birds/ Doodle Jump - I will give some entertainment for the few mins to spare.
Twitter - I have a book full of useless information in my place they call the brain
YouTube - I know i promised this about 3 times its coming!

The Clever Leaf is Expanding and I hope you enjoyed this article and how I show you how I will take "The Clever Leaf" to new highs!

The Clever Leaf Signing off!!

P.S Sorry for the horrible grammar I will definitely learn more as the times go by

Business man? Is it risky business?

Hello my readers! I now have a more mobile way to deliver content straight to your Internet door!

Have any of you ever once in your life thought "hey I wish I could be my own boss!" Then your mind goes berserk with awesome images of you swimming in money and not having a care in the world, and also the power to have people work for you and do your bidding, even though they probably mock you behind your back. It's sad but it's true, the employer to employee is a relationship straight out of a Jerry Springer show. And it's ugly then the crackhead 15 year olds... Well anyway entrepreneurship is a road I would like to travel down.

I always had a part of me say that I should just try to do my own business thing. That part of me never wanted to own a restaurant or some other mediocre thing.. I have to think of a great idea and just start making money.. And it always seed so simple, well that part of me thought.

Recently down at my pizza pit doing my civil duties throwing dough in the air, throwing toppings on a pizza while singing a creed song.. I mean that's normal right? Arms wide open while a pizza in the oven makes it taste 10x better. Well anyways back to the point, my fellow co-worker and great friend is in the teeshirt/sweatshirts making business and when he asked if I wanted to buy one a little wheel in my head started to churn "hey I got a idea!" No it wasn't making shirts with lame puns on them. Or ones with excellent designs like my bud.
This is totally different!! This is my goup de graz. (If that is the correct spelling) I just needed a way to start it. And what is wonderful is that I can start it all by myself.

Okay probably now your thinking "okay this is about you thinking you got the best idea ever, and your just gonna share it?"
No ladies and gentlemen that is just the tip of the glorious iceberg.

This iceberg is called taking a risk. I want to risk maybe failing at it hard, I want to risk getting laughed at, and also I want to risk it to become successful and add a little cash to my pocket.

Lately in this game of life I feel I have not taken as many risks as I should be doing. I only live once!! I'm only 23 once too. I took a risk with love and married the best woman in the world.
Have you ever taken a risk and when everything turned out the way you wanted your brain goes nuts and sends endorphins to your whole body like its going out of style.

Every person that reads this.. I DARE you to do something that is out of the normal routine. Start a new project and show people.. Or do you have great drawings? Go find a art studio and see what they think of it.. Are you gifted in music? Find a sound and share with the world..
Let the world know you exist. I sure do want that. I am taking a risk with this blog. I mean are people going to read this? Will it be successful? Do people really wanna hear what is inside my crazy mind. I sure do hope/believe so!

Starting with my little business. I will start taking risks daily, they can even be very small. Like if someone says that want me to do something. Instead of jumping on the wish. I will just say "ya hold on let me want to do that for you." I'm such a people pleaser that it would take me out of my comfort zone.. I'm not saying to go be rude! You might end up with a broken jaw. But maybe if your not a people pleaser jump on a task that someone asked of you.

I hope you all are pumped with the ideas of taking risks. They can be very rewarding... But also be advised and be smart, doing something stupid to either harm yourself or others is not taking a risk it's called jerkititus. And it will make you look like a idiot.

Please make comments on any risks you take!
Please donate to the Clever Leaf if you feel the need too! It will go towards my son. They greatest gift a man can have.

The Clever Leaf signing off!!

Again stay risky and enjoy of moment of life. If your bored you are doing it wrong and need another risk to fullfill that empty time.

Much love!
-Tyler L

P.S sorry for the grammar :) I am taking a risk not proof reading it.

Pizza, life, and limited Wifi

Its fun living back in the 90's without internet, you can play games like, stare at the wall, go take a shower, and my favorite, how long can my son not do anything to try and destroy something.. classic.
Im back at a pizza pit. Delivering food to customers, who pretty much treat me and my fellow co-workers as sub-humans and should be classified as such for having a job like this. For now though I dig it, I work with great people, I make good tips. The life of a minimum wage baller is not a hard life for this guy.
It is always nice to get a tip. It makes things better.. but some people think it has to be expected

Example..

Pull up to a lightly lit house. And i knock.. knock like a crackhead needs his fix. Alas someone answers the door. " oh great pizzas here!" some little kid is freaking out having a heart attack saying
Pizza! over and over until maybe he faints of to much excitement and joy of pizza.
Then all of a sudden, a sadness covered her face. "I dont have any money for a tip, im sorry, its hard times"
And that hits me like a pillow for a feathers.. it didn't phase me, I say " its okay ma'am." With the biggest fake smile I ever pulled off. And drive away into the winds..

Its funny that their is always a reason for the no tip, my favorite is the economy.. I wish I could be like " well it seems you have nice things." Just give me one of your items in your house that would be great!" hey is that a x-box with the new halo game? always wanted that!"

But that is life...

Thank you for the read it was small but it will get better!

Tyler signing off

The Clever Leaf  strikes again!

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..