Mindset
Driving with the Mad Hatter
May 18th
WISDOM and REVELATION can show up at any given time
EYE(dot)E(dot)…
Before going to a finance class with CashMoney SUPERSTAR Dave Ramsey, I took a ride to the bank, while Earl Nightingale and Napoleon Hill speaking WORD to me inside my car
(Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
one of the TOP THREE books any successful JUGGERNAUT should have in their library)
when I started to think about my COWBOY HAT sitting in the back seat
…and Transformers
(30-yrs young, and yeah, this is what I think about when I’m by myself)
Now, I’m part of a global mentorship mastermind, headed up with a a MAN-GIANT who consistently states:
Leaders wear hats
And I constantly think
W
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Heeeeeeeeeeeckdoesthathavetodowithanything!?
I mean….REALLY??
What in the WORLD does wearing a Cubs hat, or a Derby, or a Deer Hunting hat have to do with LEADERSHIP???
Ok, so…
- Winston Churchill wore a hat..Fine
- George Washington wore a hat…Super
- Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt both war hats…Great
But are you saying that some schmoe small-man is going to be a leader because he’s ROCKIN’ a CHEESEHEAD???
AND
I’m not wearing a hat, and that one dude (that I’m not too fond of at the moment) is
Soooooooooooooooooooooo
Does that mean he’s better than me?
No…no…100 x’s NO
Then what does it mean???
I then had a “wow…no kidding” moment
This is when Wisdom took me on a journey to earlier that month
I had wore my $10 Panama Jack, Wall-Mart cowboy man-hat all day
And got plenty of all the cowboy ribs
“Giddy up, y’all!!”
“What, are you rustlin’ cattle now?”
Of which, I thought were funny, and why should I care…
…I’m from South of I-80
**That’s CHICAGO TAWK for “Might as well live in Alabama, Jethro”**
When while going out, with a buddy of mine, they made the statement
“Glad you didn’t wear the hat”
“Yeah, I DIDN’T WANT TO EMBARRASS YOU”
“Thanks, Pauly. You’re the bestest!”
“Awwwwwwwww shucks, if you say so.”
Now…did you catch that?
Read it over again
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Did you get it now?
Lemme explain
Have you ever done something so out of the ordinary that YOU “CAUSED” another person to be EMBARRASSED?
Or
Have you wore anything soooooo out of the ordinary (but, hey, you liked it) that someone stated
“Take that off…YOU’RE EMBARRASSING ME”
“Don’t say that…YOU’RE EMBARRASSING ME”
Do you understand what that’s CODE for?
It’s code for:
I’m too self-conscious and too much of a conformist let another man dare to be different
It had ZERO do to with actually wearing a stupid hat
And had EVERYTHING to do with what happens to some people when someone dares to stand out in a crowd and be different from the MOB
It has JACK to do with wearing an ID10T hat
And all about the self-awareness of the one wearing it and the attitudes of those around them
We cry out
“Hey, I’m an original. I’m different!!”
But by our actions, we tell ourselves and others
“I HATE to be different, and don’t you DARE try to be either.”
By nature, ANYTHING that dares to pull us out of our comfort zones, we tend to fight against…
…until that very thing we fought against becomes COMFORTABLE to us
Then we think “Hmmm, it wasn’t that bad.”
All Big People Are Different, and Aren’t Afraid to FLAUNT it!!!
- Harland Sanders was different
- Johnny Cash was different
- Johnny Depp is different
- Amelia Earhart was different
- Sam Walton was different>
- Martin Luther King was too
Don’t never…EVER EVER EVER be afraid to be separate from the MOB
You may just end up gathering your own
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get me a new John Deere hat
I think I lost my other one in Jersey…
Love Station United (The O’Jay Mix)
Apr 2nd
I was watching an episode of “The O’Reilly Factor” during a break in an exciting night of hard-work and coffee drinking
Which fits PERFECTLY into my non-partisan rant for this week
Ok, so Bill O’Reilly is coming out with a new book called “Pinheads and Patriots” due out in September
This week, he was auctioning off autographed books to 5 people
Matching the highest bid, with 100% of the proceeds going to CHARITY
(and, Bill, I’d like to request that all proceeds coming from the mass WAVE of pre-sales you’re about to get from this blog to go —–>HERE
Thanks. You’re a PATRIOT)
And every night, when the show is about to end, he fields e-mails
LOVE mail
HATE mail
Those From:
- Conservatives
- Liberals
- Democrats
- Republicans
- Libertarians
- Dogs
- Trees
- And from that dude wearing the hounds-tooth scarf in the 17th row of the last Ke$ha concert
Well, one of the comments came from a viewer, who was less than AFFLUENT
I was almost 104% sure of this because of what was said:
“There you go [Bill], catering to the AFFLUENT again. When are you going to something for the rest of us. I think you should have given the rest of us a chance, and raffled off the books.”
Beee….caaaaause this was more about getting a stupid book than it was helping those in need?
Ahhh, I get it…
(ever notice how people AGAINST prosperity try to sugar-coat selfishness to sound like charity? Go figure.)
Which brings me to the point of this blog, which is centered around this phrase used by the MOB to stay in their commonitityness
I’ve never understood this phrase I’m about to drop on your plate
Nor the utter NARROWMINDED thinking of those who seem to use it as a some sort badge of humility and meekness
It’s a phrase I’ve grown up on, and have heard family and friends say for at least twice a month, for 25+ years
And, without sounding like an ANGRY AMERICAN, it’s a phrase I’ve grown to detest in my short time on earth
The phrase of the day is:
“I’d rather be poor and happy, than rich and sad”
And…And…And as an EXTRA
I’d rather be poor and in LUUUUUUUUV…
What AWESOMELY humble and puppy-wuppy things to say!!
AWWWWWWWWW!!!
(is that corn I see in that B.Poop?)
This is one of the most abominable sayings ever spewed out of the mouth of those without an EXCELLENT spirit
Or at least a spirit of PURPOSE
It comes from the mental-minnow who aren’t MAN GIANT enough to think bigger and who’s idea of success is being able to plop down on a couch, after a 40 hour JOB-week, and watch “Fringe” with a Corona and a bag of Hot Fries, and vegetate
Once again both idolizing and cursing the men and women shining on the Bright-Box, who think of themselves to be more than just a name on a spreadsheet
Those of the few who live by the MANTRA:
“I’d rather be RICH and HAPPY, than poor and sad”
But the common don’t think of themselves GREAT enough to think in that manner
And, hey, it’s easy to think that way…
…but It’s HARD to bust out of the lack-mentality programming rut
(rut = a long grave)
Which is why there’s not more AFFLUENT & PROSPEROUS people
It’s the AFFLUENT that cause this great nation to keep going
It’s the RICH who cause this world to keep spinning
Don’t believe me? GREAT!!!!
Slam YOUR BOSS
AKA: “That guy that signs your checks”
(know of any POOR people employing workers?)
and ask him how much he makes a year
$200,000!!
WHAT!!!
Affluent jerk!
He should be making only $40,000 like me…
…and you’ll be looking for another J.O.B.
So love and happyness is REALLY all you need?
Tell that to the “happy” homeless and starving that the AFFLUENT are helping…
Yodeling H3O2 (???)
Mar 23rd
“Showcase the skills you were given at birth
Live your life here for what it’s worth
Show off the style you perfect in life
Show all the way to make it right
Make it…
To the top of Mt. Profession
Rule it…
Until you feel there’s nothing more for you to do
Or say…
‘None of you better get in my way!’
Coming down…
If ya do you’ll be back on level ground”
Those words were written by a PRO-WRESTLER named Jeff Hardy with his band Peroxwhy?gen back in…..ehhhhh, 2004
The words of this song are DEEP, and something that’s sorely missing in today’s world: men and women letting the opinions of others quash their God given skills.
These are the same people that don’t have the self-image to do anything but flip burgers, turn on the TV, after being at their J.O.B., and try to escape life by watching a magical box full of people who are BEING what they only DREAMED of being
Great people don’t give a rip what others think
Not what YOU think of them…and not what I think of them
This may PISS us off to think that The Great don’t care about our opinions…
…but they don’t lose a wink of sleep over it
Perish the thought
All these people climbed to the “top of Mt. Profession”:
- Martin Luther King
- Anthony Robbins
- Hulk Hogan
- Michael Jordan
- Joe Schroder
- Bill Gates
- Sarah Palin
- Warren Buffet
- Oprah Winrey
- Ronald Regan
- Barak Obama
- The Beatles
- Jay-Z
- Garth Brooks
- Benjamin Franklin
…and on and on and on
Did some of those names bring warmth to your heart? Good!
Did some of them cause you to start writing me hate letters? Good!
(it’s still TRUTH)
And it wasn’t because they had their high school/college/church buddies tell them what they could and could not be
…or in a ways that their peers didn’t TH!NK it should be done
“Come with us. Walk off the cliff, little lemming, just like the rest of us sheeple. No, don’t try to be different. Different is STUPID!”
It’s funny
(sad)
If you looked at the picture of Jeff Hardy, you may have saw some FREAK out of a teen slasher movie
“What nimrod would paint his face and dye his hair 50 different colors???”
The kind that breaks the status quo and in return, get’s about 20,000 people, who wished they were him, yelling his name, that’s who?
What was it that you were born to do; that you REALLY LOVE , that YOU let either friends or (even worse) money dictate why you could and couldn’t achieve?
Photographer…Do IT
(Male) Massage Therapist…Do IT
(Female) Race Car Driver…Do IT
Pastor/Rabbi/Priest…Do IT
Mayor/Governor/President…Go for IT!!
Just make sure that before you become You, Inc., give the others a forewarning…
“None of you better get in my way!”
FARMing for Bacon (…and other fairy tales)
Mar 19th
I was hanging out with a dear friend of mine last week
His wife was out of town celebrating a birthday, and since we hadn’t hung out in FOREVER, we decided to make it a date night full of Starbucks, classic Nintendo and Arcade video games
Ooooohhhh, the memories it brought back of spending hours and hours of mind-melting waste trying to beat Contra without THE KONAMI CODE
But in between rescuing Zelda and a chugging down a Cinnamon Toffee Nut Latte, we had a conversation of the ever popular and super-exciting topic of …
EVOLUTION vs. CREATION
When we get together, it seems like this subject always comes up, as I consider him as one of the few people that would take an Evolutionist to the woodshed
If there was anytime in my life where I got into a bar-fight over whether a Supreme Being plopped us on this great planet or whether we all went through the process of going from Fish, to Amphibian, to Reptile, to Mammal, he’d be the one I’d take
The udderly vast knowledge this dude has would make Big-Drunk-Bob’s head spin off his shoulders…
Anyway, back to the BLOG
Now, I’m a pretty simple guy. I don’t understand a lot of scientific jargon, and there’s a good chance if I got into a scientific or religious debate with someone who believes in the theory of evolution, if I tried to play to match intelligence, I’d be whooped
(but oh how the mind of a CHILD can throw off the “wise”)
So, fret not. I won’t go into religion or science on here
But here’s what’s been bothering me about the whole MONKEY ISSUE
It has to do with a belief that about 3% of the world population embraces
And out of that 3%, probably only another 25% truly ACTS out on, and takes steps to prove themselves right
That belief is that they were put on this Earth….with….Ahhhhhh…
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PURPOSE
Again, this isn’t up for debate
I understand there are scientists that have proof of both sides of the coin
Just like GLOBAL WARMING
And the health benefits of drinking wine and FOLGERS
But here’s my question to the spies of the BLOGASPHERE…
Do you really believe so heavily that there’s no purpose in your life to think that you came from NOTHING?
You see, there’s not a thing on the face of God’s Green Round Ball that doesn’t have a purpose
- GRASS has a purpose…to cover the land
- FISH have a purpose…to provide food to humans, reproduce, and control other fin-swimmers
- TREES have a purpose…to provide beauty and O2
And best of all
HUMANS have a GIVEN purpose…
(purpose doesn’t just….HAPPEN…it’s GIVEN)
We are the most interesting of all the others, since it’s my personal opinion, that we were individually DESIGNED for GREAT purposes
And not just to “suck someone else’s Oxygen”
- Some for politics
- Some for business
- Some for religion
- Some for giving
- Some for missionary work
- Some for sports
But all human purpose is SIGNIFICANT and GREAT
And those who come into the awareness of that purpose, will prosper
So, if you were reading this with the notion of going to the zoo to visit your Uncle Bubbles and Aunt Tuna
Please TH!INK…TH!NK…TH!NK of what was said
And P.S.: if anyone has the skills to produce me a life-sized statue of Kevin Bacon out of bacon…I’ll give you a dollar!!
(I can’t believe no one else has thought of this…)
Lyle & Scott + Coming OUT of The Closet
Feb 11th
<———I WANT THIS CLOSET————<
Yesterday I was getting ready for work, as is my week-daily ritual.
While performing this feet, I started to examine all of the clothes in my closet
(when you get only about 3-4 hours of sleep, you tend to do things that are…well, less than “NORMAL“)
As I was looking into my closet I noticed that a lot of these shirts AREN’T my style
- I have shirts from OLD NAVY
- I have shirts from LYLE & SCOTT
- I have shirts from RESURGE
- I have shirts from IZOD I have shirts from 7 DIAMONDS
(thanks, A. Studer and J. Jacobs…you ROCK!!!)
All, I wear frequently, and most of them I received as gifts
(which I’m EXTREMELY grateful for)
But MOST of them aren’t me
They were bought by LOVED ONES who thought I would look good in them
And perhaps they’re right
Yet, if I saw most of these shirts on a rack at Kohl’s, or Carson’s, or Macy’s, or Wal-Mart
I’d walk right by them
It’s just not me
It’s NOT Pauly Schmitz
- I LOVE “MMA” t-shirts
- I LOVE regular, Kohl’s/Target/Wally-World brand jeans
- I MISS my JOHN DEERE hat!!!
- My dream MAN-TRUCK is a tricked out ORANGE & BLACK, ‘09 Ford F-150 RAPTOR SVT, with ORANGE & BLACK leather interior
- I want a DIXIE CHOPPER that TERMINATES a 9 acre plot of dirt in under an hour
That’s me!!!
And a lot of times our thoughts and actions are a lot like the clothes on our backs
We go by what others would deem to be beneficial for us & not what we were born to do
-Think this way
-Act that way
-Don’t cuss…God will be mad andI don’t like it
-That looks STOOPID on you
It’s go here, do this, say that
Because, at times, people want you to be them…though they have NO IDEA that’s what they’re doing
(JESUS bless them)
But the best thing YOU can do for HUMANITY is be just that
YOU!!!
The WORLD needs a YOU
A great man once said
“When two of the same is available, one is unnecessary”
…or something like that
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What do you love to eat? EAT IT!!!
What do you love to wear? WEAR IT!!
What do YOU love to do? DO IT!!!
Take that to heart
Pauly
P.S. Do yourself a favor, pass up a night out at SUBWAY, INVEST IN YOU, and go HERE
O.M.R.
Feb 4th
I Love Mixed Martial Arts
- UFC
- PRIDE
- Strikeforce
- WEC
All of it
[Check that, EliteXC SCUKED!]
I have a few friends and family members that are teach/learn mixed martial arts
And because as men it’d be in OUR best interest (and those of our loved ones) to learn how to DEFEND, I’ll learn the craft myself
…soon…
Well, one day I was watching a UFC event with a bunch of buddies
And on came Illinois’ own resident HILLJACK Lightweight Champ
MATT HUGHES———————–>
Wearing a different line of clothing called ONE MORE ROUND
I never saw this brand before, but it caught my eye…
All this happend around the time where things seemed to fall apart
- Lost my job
- Lost my girlfriend
- The house that was falling apart
- “Friends” told me to hit the bricks
- I was pressing my “biz op” onto anyone that would come within 3-feet from me
[ever heard that one before, MLM'ers? Just keepin' it REEL.]
THEN tack on all the thoughts of defeat
- “You’re a loser!”
- “You suck!”
- “End it!”
- “You’re a fake…fraud…phony…”
- “Just quit!!”
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Everything you could think of flooded my mind
~But then I received a revelation~
Something that I’ll never forget
That’s this:
Life is a series of ONE MORE ROUNDS
Just one more to go
One LAST one
Marriage is bliss?
Awesome!! Work on it…you have ONE MORE ROUND
Business is booming?
Wonderful! Don’t slack…you have ONE MORE ROUND
<OR>
You have $50,000 in debt, the unemployment office knows you by first name, your car broke down, & your dog won’t even look at you?
Don’t give up! Keep FIGHTING…you have ONE MORE ROUND
You’ll ALWAYS have one more round to go
ALWAYS!!!
The game is only over when:
1) GOD decides He likes you so much that He takes you HOME
OR
2) YOU throw in the towel
It’s is said by one of the WISEST man to ever roam the earth
“A righteous man gets beat up, dragged over coals, and knocked down over and over, and comes back for more, but when the going gets tough, an evil coward trips and stays on the ground”
~Proverbs 24:16~
Don’t give up
Don’t quit
Keep going
You’re almost there
You have just ONE MORE ROUND
Strength and Honor,
Pauly
Pay Up…SUCKER!!!
Jan 30th
I was at a financial conference in the south suburbs of Chicago on Friday, who’s main speakers that day were ROBB D. THOMPSON and PAT MESITI
If you don’t know who they are, it’d be in your best interest to Google them
Both speakers brought WORD like I’ve never heard before. Partially because I’ve been understanding how important more it is EVERYDAY to change the way you think.
This change in my THINKING has caused me to look at GREAT men and women of PROSPERITY in a different light.
(PS and BTW, don’t do that? Don’t EVER believe the lie that you’ll be rich…and keep it. LOTTO anyone???)
Anyway, after the conference, I decided to get just about everything on the table, which cost a significant amount of money. Before even purchasing the products, I was experiencing (pre)-buyers remorse.
“Can I really afford this?”
“How far will this set me back?”
“Geesh, another conference where I have to shell out big cash for products!”
All these thoughts went through my head
THEN, While sitting in the auditorium, a change of thought happen
::THOUGHT SAID THIS TO ME::
“Stop complaining about the hundreds of dollars its going to cost if you buy this “stuff”, and start thinking of the MILLIONS you’ll lose out on you if you pass up on this KNOWLEDGE!”
That was a check in my spirit
Oh PRAISE GOD!!!
I got to watch a life changing video with “Famous” Dave Anderson [owner of "Famous Dave's Ribs and BBQ" which can be seen >>HERE<<] I continued to grasp the understanding that all GREAT people NEVER stop being students
That guy’s SERIOUS and you should see his garage/make-shift 
LIBRARY…HUGE!!!
And ALL GREAT people NEVER turn their noses at the opportunity or think negatively of PURCHASING PROVEN knowledge & wisdom
- Not Oprah
- Not MLK
- Not Famous Dave
- Not Joe Schroeder
- Not Robb Thompson and Pat Mesiti
- Not Ray Tamayo
- Not Benjamin Franklin
and if you take this to heart…YOU WON’T EITHER
So, now I ask you:
>>Do you go to seminars just because they’re free?
>>Would you go if you had to pay for it?
>>Do you snicker at the thought of buying even ONE item from the speakers’ tables?
OR OR OR
>>Do you do something uber-MONKEY-stoopid (and uncommon), and BUY out the whole lot?
Remember **Throw your seed to where you want to go**
Remember **”Stuff” was put on that table, in front of you, at that time, at that price, for a reason**
Poverty mentality = “It’s not FREE? Scam! FORGET IT!”
PROSPERITY mentality = “Pay a $1000 for wisdom that’ll make me MILLIONS? Merry Christmas! I’m ripping these guys off!!”
Can Do + Action + I AM – B.S. = BIG HOUSE
Be WILLING to PAY UP for your FUTURE
After all, you gave $100,000 to a PROF that barely makes 80K, may as well give a grand to a guy/gal who swims in BUFFALO
SledgeHammer Amnesia
Jan 27th
Yup!
That’s me and my little brother when we were younger. Do you remember those days when things were a WHOLE LOT SIMPLER?
I sure do!
I use pictures like these to remember where I’m from and how long of a journey I’ve had from flipping burgers at Burger King, or cutting gears and barely being able to make the car payment, to the place I’m at right now
I’m in AWE and ever so grateful for all the things I’ve been blessed with
When you’re working your business, marriage, or life in general, NEVER forget where you came from, and what you went through to get here
Remember the pain, the trials, all the days that kids use to tease you in school, that boy that hurt you in the park, or whatever…but don’t let your past control you 
May you use that as fuel for your success, and be aware of the smile that it puts on your face as you remember the good times and bad
Remember FORGETFUL JONES——————>
REmember how you enjoyed life as a child, now take a little bit of that childhood and insert it in the life you currently have
You’re inner child shouldn’t CONTROL you’re life, but at times it’s good to let him come out to play
Pauly
The Iceman VS. Chicken Little
Jan 25th
I was watching “The Best of PRIDE Fighting Championships” (aka Fist to Face Combat) on Spike TV the other day, when I came across this commercial for a new TV show of theirs
It started out with a total man-trap: 5 bikini cladded women doing the car wash thing, with the rock music, suds, slow motion camera, and guy staring out the van window to admire “the view”
I think this is pretty much 90% of the scenes in any National Lampoons’ movie
Well, they’re doing their charity work for Lambda Lambda Lambda, when all of the sudden, a power line falls on their water hose. Electricity quickly runs up to the unknowingly vulnerable women, they get electrocuted, and fall in a heap
With the guy peering out the window wondering where all his beautiful car soapers went
I’ve never watched the show, I’m sure it’s suppose to be hilarious, and it probably pokes fun at people who look at the world through black painted glasses, but being a recovering Drama King, and an analytical green, I started to do some thinking
[PS and By The Way, ALL great (Benjamin Franklin anyone??) people examine themselves before they even attempt to examine another. This is why we don't judge. I just got that myself. YEAY!!!!]
I thought “How much fear and negativity can the media (and more importantly, ourselves) bring into our lives.”
->Boo hoo, it’s snowing
->Whaaa, I have to wear glasses. Why can’t I get Lasik
->Why can’t I drive a BMW like that guy over there…instead I have this jalopy
->Don’t walk alone in Chicago. You’re bound to get cut.
->No Starkbucks today? Oh for shame!!!
The sky is always falling on some people, and if you examine them closely, you will see that their lives never outrun their lips. Now, if not their faults that they were taught this way. Their parents called it “protecting” them. They didn’t know that they were sowing fear into their lives.
And that’s OK, but in order to succeed in this life, things have got to change
In order to START to be a success, ALWAYS find something to be thankful for
->I’m THANKFUL for my eyes that I get to peer out of these glasses
->I’m THANKFUL that I can smell that sewage
->I’m THANKFUL that I life in a country where I can go to Starbucks whenever I want to
->I may not like snow, but this is the day that the Lord has made, and I’m THANKFUL to drive to work (which 10% of the people DON’T have these days).
Always give thanks in all things, especially in the midst of a storm. This is a key that opens up the treasure chest of life that contains the excellent marriage, the financial prosperity, the perfect health, and whatever else you could imagine in your life.
Peace,
Pauly
