The love of a dog & a penguin.

Hey Stellar Fans,

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Recently I listened to Robert Greene’s speech he gave at Yale University. I was fascinated by his current study of Machiavellian Intelligence. While listening, I learned that humans and primates are the only two species on earth that have this “large” brain that has evolved to cope with the complex social environments that both species have. It is also a brain that exceeds our capacity to use it.

This got me thinking because I love dogs. So a dog does not have the “large” brain that a human or primate has. Yet, you can train a dog to protect and obey you. Further, a dog can love you unconditionally. It has a laser like focus, and for the most part, it is focused on its owner. A dog’s sole function is to be with you, love you, and follow you. My beagle, Jake, will wait all day just to see me, and when he does see me, he runs, jumps, barks, licks, and wags his tail uncontrollably.

When a penguin finds its mate they stay together forever. A penguin main (parent) will sacrifice its own body for food, to continue the penguin offspring’s life if there is a short food supply. Yet this species also is without the “large” brain of humans and primates.

We live and will continue to live in complex social environments, our brains our going to evolve and adapt. These environments seem to only become more complex with each generation. This is however, how evolution works, it will happen no matter what.

But what if, the best way for us to evolve is to investigate and learn from a species that doesn’t have this “large” brain, because they seem to know how to love someone pretty damn well. Isn’t love the most powerful emotion in existence?

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Destry Brink
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Lights, Camera, Action!

This is the familiar phrase of a director getting ready to shoot a scene. It does provide a great correlation into self-improvement. For a scene to be filmed correctly you will need the lights to provide an environment for the scene. Poor lighting or no lighting will affect the end result. This scene is also going to need a camera. The camera is the focal point for the audience to see visually what the director is directing. Lastly, for this scene to take place there needs to be some acting.

Lights = The environment you choose to surround yourself with, must be conducive to the life you want to live. What do you need to change about your environment right now, to begin properly setting up the correct strategies and action plans?

Camera = Your focus will determine your actions. If you begin race car driving school, one lesson they teach is how to recover from spinning out of control. They do this by rigging the car to spin out. Do you know a piece of advice they give you prior to putting you in the car? Don’t look at the wall! Where you look is where you go. Where is your focus? What are the little things you are doing or failing to do day in and day out? In those little things you are doing, what do they lead to? What is their focus?

Action = The X factor. I have learned that most people have grand plans, ideas, and good intentions. It is the person that can get themselves to take action. Now just taking action is not enough, you must do it day by day.

When all is said and done, you are in the director’s chair of your own life. You set the stage, you direct the focus of the camera, and you have to inspire action.

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

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AMERICAN GANGSTER

Hey Stellar Fans,

Have you seen the movie: American Gangster? The movie is based on the life of Frank Lucas, a drug dealer in New York, during the 60’s or 70’s. I am sure there were actual events added / omitted by the film makers. However the sum and substance is not that far off from the true story of Frank Lucas. I am not attempting to glorify a correlation between success and Frank Lucas, but there are a few things you can pick up from him.

In a bonus disc I have from the collectors’ addition, Denzel Washington (plays Frank Lucas) describes a particular conversation he had with Frank Lucas. Frank had told Denzel that there were times when he would clear everything out of a room, and confine himself to that room for months at a time. Frank said that he had only one purpose when he would do this (which was frequent). His purpose was to think about everything that happened in his life up to that point. He would analyze his past from most recent to as far back as he could remember. Frank Lucas then comes on the screen and summarizes that “there is not anything you can’t accomplish if you just think about it.”

That brings me to a close for now with a quote from a successful man that was not a criminal.

“Thinking is the hardest work there is which is the probable reason why so few engage in it”

Destry Brink

(currently holed up in an empty room thinking about my life) (with a computer).

 destry@stellarremix.com

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TIME INFILTRATION

Hey Stellar Fans,

Since the dawn of sales management and personal effectiveness, you have no doubt heard of managing your time to increase productivity. For me, it started with reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. In it, he details a system he devised to rid himself of undesirable habits.

My spin is not to manage time, but to infiltrate it. You must tear time apart and sew it back together to fit your priorities and availability. I comprised a simple system that is not unique in any way but requires the one thing that every time system does, doing it.

1.       Start off by buying a journal at the store. The ones I use are the composition notebooks that are fairly inexpensive. I choose to use the paper and pen method because it is always with me. Using a desktop or a phone presented limitations with how much I revise and scribble.

2.       Go to the last page of the journal. Typically your journal should last you from a few months to a year. Write out a master list. This master list is a form of goal setting. Your objective is to write out the tasks that you know must get done and in what time frame.

3.       Now go to the front of the journal. Write tomorrows date at the top of the first page. Repeat this action on the top of the next seven pages with the corresponding date following the first date you started with.

4.       Plan out tomorrow. Write down everything you can think of that you must get done.

5.       Prioritize the list. Whether you use numbers (1,2,3,) to prioritize or letters (a,b,c,d,) is a matter of preference. As long as you know what needs to be done and in what order.

6.       Keep the journal with you throughout the day. As you complete one of your tasks, highlight it. I prefer this to checking it off. I highlight green for done, pink for moved to the next day, yellow for delegated. You can expand on this method as you see fit.     

7.       From here, you can plan the next day and so on. Typically you want to map out a 90 day schedule at all times. As things come up, add them to the appropriate day.

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

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Go homeless

Hey Stellar fans,

In light of the latest Charlie Sheen drama, I offer this suggestion. Go homeless. Some may  recognize that subconciously we tend to drag ourselves down. Nobody stands in the way of your dreams as big as yourself.

Mr. Sheen only had to keep quiet regarding the custody agreement. What did he do? Tweeted about it, smart guy. He placed his needs of belonging ahead of safety. According to Maslow, that is ass backwards (my verbal twist of course).

Maslow's theory suggested that human beings are motivated by unfullfilled needs (condensed). In the following order: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

Do you constantly sabatoge yourself? Start taking away needs you already have met, you will have an immediate shift in motivation. It could be your turning point!

**I accept no responsibility for the actions of my readers, unless these actions lead to unimaginable success, fame, and fortune. Life is choices, start authoring your own.

Destry Brink
Address: unkown (currently taking my own advice).
destry@stellarremix.com
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Blue Magic

It seems as though we are all after some sort of result. An action precedes a result. The following examples show work and paycheck as my subjects.

***Disclaimer, I am just providing an example. So don’t confuse the message to mean that because you go to work, the result you are after is only a paycheck. Geez.

Example:

WORK = PAYCHECK.

What if you desire to increase said result?

Example:

WORK = PAYCHECK.

Most people suffer from this problem,

Example:

WORK = PAYCHECK

 

Just for fun, some guy wrote a book called the 4 hour work week. It looks like this according to my current brain waves.

Example:

Wrk = PAYCHECK.

Far too many individuals look only at the actions that produce their results. How this result is produced is predictable prior to the actual action. Let me explain. Robert Greene has written some awesome books (48 Laws of Power). In a speech given at Yale University, he describes certain successful people, sharing a mindset/attitude about life. He gave classical examples and a contemporary one (50 Cent). Here is what it looks like.

Example:

ATTITUDE = ACTIONS = RESULTS.

To obtain best results start with your mindset. Start cultivating an attitude of a positive nature. A better attitude can lead to purposeful actions, as opposed to half-hearted attempts. Better actions lead to better results. Better results lead to better attitudes. Circle of life. It's like fishing with dynamite, it's not even fair.

Example:

ATTITUDE = ACTIONS = RESULTS = ATTITUDE = ECT.

May the wind always be in your competitor’s faces?

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

http://www.stellarremix.com/

DO YOU REALY HAVE TO?

Recently I find myself pleasantly disgruntled at people telling me “they have to”. I cannot work on Saturday because I have to (insert plausible reason here). I was under the impression that life is a choice. Isn’t prison a place where you have to? I’m free, living in a “free” country. What do you really have to do?

Let’s imagine that you are pointing a gun at me, and demanding my wallet. Do I have to give it to you, or am I presented with a choice? I would challenge you to start eliminating this from your communication habits. Make it a choice and you seem so much more confident, self-directed, and responsible.

“I will not be at work on Saturday because I choose to be with my children.”

Much better,

Destry Brink

destry@stellarremix.com

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