I have been watching this series of videos by RSD Motivation on YouTube.com and I would like to share them with the ZapSmass.com audience.
Stay strong my friends.
Author: Justin
Zap Some A$$
If you find yourself wondering about the name Zap Smass, ponder no more. It means Zap Some A$$.
I completely forgot how I came up with it though. It was probably an online gaming mage name.
I found that it was fitting for a motivation website because once you zap some A$$ then you can get motivated, get moving and creating the world that you want to live in.
Thank you again for coming to my site and reading what I have to write. It gives me great pleasure to be able to master the English language and to be able to share it with all of you.
FILDI – ZeFrank!
So I found another individual of inspiration online. It is with great joy that I share him and his ideas with anyone who has not heard of him or his work.
The individual in question is known online as ZeFrank. He is absolutely hilarious as well as being inspirational. Some of you might be familiar with his true facts series. If not, check it out, follow the links, find something that puts a smile on your face.
I spent last night watching a marathon of his vlog posts and was so overwhelmed with feelings, that I figured, the very least that I could do to help him is to share with you, some of his work.
This is one of the most motivational speeches out there. Enjoy.
Forget Weight, Think About Shape
A recent change has happened in my life; I have not lost any weight. I know that you are all yawning in utter amazement right now, but the odd thing about my lack of weight loss is that I am down by three belt notches.
To me, that is a bit of a miracle. I have always been husky and comfortable with it. It is only within the past few years that I have become miserable with my flabby, out of shape body.
I have tried some of the fitness programs out there like the penine T X program (as my sister calls it) and pretty much failed. There were results, but they very quickly disappeared.
It was only after I completely stopped eating fast food and drinking soda, I noticed any change in my physique. I do spend a lot of time walking at work so that has probably had a bit of help in my transformation, but mostly I attribute it to my dietary choices.
I have recently watched a video with Dr. Lustig that carefully explains why soda and fructose is responsible for the obesity epidemic.
I know that it is a long one, but it is definitely worth watching.
P.S. I will show before and after pictures to anyone who asks.
P.P.S. I save $7 per day multiplied by 24 working days in a month for a grand total of $168 per month. That is half of my new car payments.
Why Should I Set Goals?
It is said that a life without purpose is wasted.
Think of a ship setting out on a trip. Does it just wander aimlessly until it finds something worthwhile, or does it have a definite destination?
Without a goal in life, you are like a ship that is just heading out of port with no destination. You are going to spend too much time wandering in the ocean of life before you reach your destination. If you even get there at all.
Clearly defined goals will give your life a purpose and direction that most people will never see in life. It is only about 10% of people who make it to retirement age and have a comfortable life that is suitable for a pleasant retirement. Most people have to take a part time job if they want to live comfortably. Some people even have to work until they die if they want too keep a roof over their head.
Goals should also be very clearly defined. Making a million dollars is a nice goal, lots of people share this with you, but how are you going to make that million? What exactly is your plan of action?
Are you going to keep working the same lame job and not spend any money until you have a million in the bank by retirement age? Or are you going to improve your skill set, go back to school, and find a job that will pay you a million within a few years and spend the rest of your life in comfort?
Goals are the best thing that you can acquire in life. Make them soon and start out on a life that will be fulfilled and a lot better than you will ever believe.
S.M.A.R.T GOALS
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Realistic
- Timely
Remember these things when you are setting your goals. Also, goals can always be broken down into smaller steps if your main goal is a big one.
Always dream big and always keep moving toward your goals.
Time to Promote Another Site – MarcandAngel.com
Every now and then I come across a site is just deserving of all of the recognition that it can get.
The current site that I found is called http://www.marcandangel.com and it covers all of the topics and ideas that I have been trying to cover in this website.
I have actually written down a few of their lists and added then to my own goals book.
I want to give a mention to the idea that I will be putting on the cover of my goals book.
“Based on your daily routines, where will you be in 5 years from now?”
That little idea is so profound and hard hitting that I am not just putting in on the cover of my goals book, i’ll probably getting it tattooed on my forearm. It will be my first tattoo by the way.
So if the topics of self improvement are of interest to you, check out the site at http://www.marcandangel.com
Caring for Insignificant Problems – Stop it.
There is a mass problem with people today. It is caring too much.
I know that it sounds like a nice thing, but when it comes down to it, caring is not all that great.
Actually, let me rephrase that, caring about the wrong things is the problem.
There are so many huge issues out there that are serious problems with the world and unless they are fixed, the human race is doomed, but all that people seem to care about these days, is their own petty, insignificant problems.
These are also known as first world problems.
“Oh no! My wi-fi can’t reach my bedroom because my house is too big.”
You know what I say to these idiots? Try drinking from the same water that your neighbors shit in.
Now that, is a real problem.
It is time to start caring about each other. STOP the selfish greed that is not just consuming society but generally making people hate urban environments and start giving.
Become a giver.
Make the world a better place.
Now I know that most of you will not make much of an impact on this world, but at least there will be nice things written on your tombstone when you kick the bucket.
Also I just want to say to any religious reader that happens across this little piece of ranting literature, your god probably doesn’t care how much you pray, your god cares about actions, not words. Be nice and paradise will be your reward.
That sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
To my agnostice amigos, be nice and MAYBE you will get into paradise.
Ha! See what I did there. Some times I really crack me up.
But on a more serious note, look out for each other and stop caring about problems that you cant fix.
If your job sucks and life in general is making you miserable, I guarantee that by simply finding a new job or changing your diet (healthier), you will notice an improvement.
This is not caring and complaining, this is action.
Action is what has made the world what it is today. Where would we be if everyone was happy and comfortable with what they had?
We would be cave men. Perfectly happy with dieing at the old age of 30 and occasionally being picked of by a creature higher up on the food chain than we were.
I somehow have to steer this little tirade back to the topic of caring for insignificant problesms.
SEGWAY
That should do it.
Now I know that this little article is not a work of art. It is just my brain trying to think slowly enough for my fingers to keep up but I have encountered this issue at my current employer.
The people who care about the wrong stuff and generally make their complaints heard on a regular basis are the one that are treated like crap and ignored by the company and the supervisors.
Meanwhile, there is quiet little me, working away, barely saying anything to anyone about how much that tedious piece of crap that they call a job sucks and do you know what I get in return?
All of the hours that I could possibly want ( I had to tell them to tone it down ), unasked for raises, leaving early on Fridays, and verbal praise on an almost daily basis.
What more could a wage slave ask for?
Those are the kind of situations that I find myself in and it got me thinking about wring something about it. So now this is written and here you are.
I hope you enjoyed it and remember, stop caring about insignificant problems.
Haters Gonna Hate
The title of this little article is “Haters Gonna Hate”. It is a street term that simply means that some people are just going to be jealous and resentful assholes no matter what you do so just keep on doing what you want to do.
This should not just be a lesson from the streets and the “Game” but a lesson for all of humanity to ignore the overwhelming negativity that some people naturally emit.
There are always going to be those among us that want to bring you down in order to make them selves feel better. These people are insignificant and no attention should be paid to them at all.
Keep on doing what you do to the best of your abilities and life is going to unfold before you and reveal that it is not as bad as you think it is.
You should not just ignore the criticisms that are in front of you, your should also ignore the people that ruin your day with out even thinking about it. I constantly refer to traffic problem and road rage because that was a problem of mine for several years.
I spent many years driving for a few different rental car companies and also delivering parts before I realized that the main part of my day that I hated the most was driving.
The actual driving part was fun but eventually I learned that what I hated about it was the fact that there were so many other people on the roads and it seemed like most of them were just trying to cut me off.
Those people who are terribly selfish in traffic and have no regards for others are another form of hater. They needed to be ignored, so the plan that I came up with was to change my driving habits.
Before I changed my habits I would see someone coming up behind me quickly and I would try to not let them past me. This created hostility on both fronts of this situation and led to me being hateful every time that I got into a car.
I changed the situation completely. What I did was to just let them pass. The tailgaters got ignored and I would also leave a very large gap in front of me so that when I got cut off in traffic it would be as close as it was before and provided a much longer reaction time in case of an emergency stop.
There are still a lot of times out there that I wish I had lasers to point in their eyes, but those feelings are lesser and lesser everyday.
My example is just one way that anyone can ignore the haters. I sincerely would love to hear some more.
So remember to just be nice to each other and the world will be a much nicer place for everyone to live in.
Self Improvement – Beyond the Comfort Zone
The one true reason that all of humanity is being held back is the comfort zone. By this I mean that people are doing exactly what they want to be doing because it is the path of least resistance. Lets face it, people are designed to consume as much energy as possible and spend as little energy as possible. That is simple survival right there. But with the advances in modern times, that kind of lifestyle has lead to terrible things like morbid obesity, heart disease and even early death.
You comfort zone is what you are probably doing right now, just cruising around the internet looking at random websites and generally taking it easy. You might have a niggling thought in the back of your head that you really should be taking the dog for a walk of getting some kind of exercise but you are just planning on taking it easy.
This leads to a sedentary lifestyle that eventually leads nowhere. My previous example only talks about exercise as something that sticking to your comfort zone can prevent, but there are so many different opportunities that you are missing out on if you don’t take some time to experience discomfort and live life to the fullest.
Discomfort comes in all shapes and sizes. One common one is the fear of rejection. This irrational fear leads to you no asking your boss for a raise or promotion, not asking that girl or boy that you like out on a date and it can also prevent you from doing as well as you should in school because the fear of failing a test prevent you from even attempting it.
The comfort zone is not a modern idea. It has been around forever and it would seem that all of the great leaders of the world are completely at ease doing astounding things that would seem like too much for the normal everyday individual.
The more time that you spend doing things tat make you uncomfortable, the more comfortable you will be with them. This is true of almost any activity. It is said that practice makes perfect and that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, if you put both of those together, you are just starting to get outside of your comfort zone and try something new. Eventually you are going to be awesome at this new activity and there will still be people everywhere that are being saddled with the fears that you have overcame to achieve success.
So with all of that in mind, why don’t you just go out and do something that makes you uncomfortable. (Something healthy, drugs make me uncomfortable but I would never so them to achieve success.)
P.S. My personal fear was of having the entire neighborhood notice my jiggly man boobs while jogging. I got over it and I am on the path to an extremely healthy lifestyle.
Irresponsibility and Easy Credit are a Dangerous Team.
For a long time there has been a problem. This particular problem is worse than a gambling addiction, worse than a shopping cart hitting your brand new car in a shopping mall and much worse than my fantasy football picks could ever be. I am talking about irresponsibility. This is a problem that affects everyone. Irresponsibility takes many forms and faces but in this case, I am talking about financial responsibly.
There are hundreds of different ways to get loans and credit and this means that there are hundreds of ways to get yourself into a lot of trouble with all of this easily attained credit.
Where I live, a law was recently passed that forced credit card companies to show how long it would take to pay off a credit card if you were only making the minimum payments. I actually have one beside me right now, lets take a look shall we?
$723.56 + $14.00 min payment = 18 years and three months to pay for the principal. At 19.5% interest per year, that would mean that I would be paying the bank $855.98 in interest charges. All of this information leads me to conclude that, if I was not able to make a $500.00 payment right away, I would be being robbed. This is the worst kind of robbery as well, the legal kind.
I keep on talking about my own situation, but what about yours? How can you avoid getting swindled by banks slinging easy credit like it was free candy at christmas?
It all comes down to you. You have to make the decisions to not buy things that you can not afford. Do you really need that faster processor? That is what I put on my credit card. I knew I could pay it off over two months, so paying a bit of interest on it wan’t a big deal to me, but what about your own situation? You are going to have to get creative with your accounting and frugal with your cash if you want to pay off the credit cards and gain financial freedom.
Remember that even though credit cards are easy to get, it is up to you to be responsible with them and not pay the banks money that they don’t deserve.