— Preface —

On May 17th, 2017 I had reached my final breaking point. I was fed up with my reality and wanted change. On this day I set on a path to financial and creative freedom. At the base of this journey I didn't have much of a direction, but I've been figuring it out along the way ever since. Not all journeys have a finish line. For me there is only the ever-evolving growth and this website has been a weekly reminder to do just that — grow.

Awarding Myself Some Time Off

Taking a vacation for the first time in ages
August 31, 2020

Can you believe it's been almost a year since I placed an offer on my sporting business? Everyone keeps saying 2020 is the worst year ever and it's hard for me to disagree in a general sense, but I seem to notice only the good things that have happened to me this year. 

Last year in August I was living at my parents house feeling pretty depressed. In the past twelve months I've:

  • Moved out of my parents house
  • Purchased my dream business
  • Met an amazing woman
  • Bought my first house
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August 24, 2020 New Homeowner Struggles Everything That Could Go Wrong, Did
August 3, 2020 First Time Home Buyer This Week I Purchase My First Home
July 27, 2020 Real Estate License Is it worth it?
July 20, 2020 Fake Friends How to align yourself with the right people
July 13, 2020 Borrowing Money Using Other People's Money as a Source of Income
July 6, 2020 First Rental Property Under Contract To Buy My First Property
June 29, 2020 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back How the Resurgence of COVID-19 has affected my business
June 22, 2020 Creativity in Deals Understanding There Are Multiple Ways To Get What You Want
June 15, 2020 Real Estate Education Using Real Estate to Generate Passive Income
June 8, 2020 An Upwards Trend Seeing The End of The Pandemic Tunnel
June 1, 2020 A Lesson On Perspective How our upbringings make us conditioned for certain arguments
May 25, 2020 Quarantine Mental Breakdown What happens when I stop working out for 3 weeks
May 18, 2020 Why Elon Musk Reopened His Factory Are we finally seeing an end to the quarantine?
May 11, 2020 Cruiselines and Airlines Are these two ginormous industries a good investment?
May 4, 2020 Reality Distortion Field How Elon Musk and Steve Jobs find success
April 27, 2020 COVID-19 Progress Report What I've accomplished during this quarantine
April 20, 2020 Launching My New Blog Giving As Told By Waldo the restart it deserves
April 13, 2020 How To Win in A Lose-Lose Be better at the end of this then you were at the start of it
April 6, 2020 Day 26 of Quarantine Learned To Cut My Own Hair
March 28, 2020Downtown Savannah during COVID-19
March 23, 2020 Surviving The Storm When the storm passes, where will you be?
March 17, 2020 COVID-19 The start of the coronavirus, a moment in history for us all
March 9, 2020 Forgetting Things A checklist because your mind ain't s#!t
March 2, 2020 Turning 30 years old Why my birthday is the most important day of the year
February 24, 2020 Seeking Discomfort When's the last time you pushed outside of your comfort zone?
February 17, 2020 A Day In The Life of a Kickball Manager It's amazing how much "adults" can act like children
February 10, 2020 When Should I Admit Defeat? How many times do you need to fail before you move on?
February 3, 2020 People Respond To Consistency How To Train Your Puppy (Adult Child Edition)
January 27, 2020 A Minute of Reflection I'm starting to feel more and more in control of things lately
January 20, 2020 It's pouring outside Wishing Life Was More Balanced
January 15, 2020Charity Poker Tournament for SARC
January 13, 2020 Time To Ask For Help Hiring some assistance to help with my workload
January 6, 2020 New Decade of Growth This year I turn 30 years old, with it I hope to bring a new decade of growth.
December 23, 2019 My Unpopular Opinion Family is just people you've (potentially) known since birth
December 17, 2019Interviewed during my Charity Tournament
December 16, 2019 Gratitude this Holiday Season Started from the bottom, now I'm here
December 9, 2019 I Like Chaos With a busy schedule I have nothing to be anxious about
December 2, 2019 My Two Year Fork in the Road Why did I take this path and when does it end?
November 25, 2019 Landing My First Sponsor "I'm a great salesman."
November 18, 2019 Happiest Day of My Life I officially purchased my dream business
November 13, 2019Purchased SARC
November 11, 2019 New Business Dilemmas Telling rotten teams they can't play anymore
November 8, 2019Moved Back to Savannah
November 4, 2019 Tears of Joy Seeing a stranger be validated by 2,000 fans made me cry
October 28, 2019 Breaks Taking a break during a period of momentum
October 21, 2019 Back On Top Signed a lease for an apartment in Savannah
October 14, 2019 How I Avoid Doctor Visits 30 minutes of sweat every day, solves 99% or problems
October 7, 2019 Why I Write Each Week The purpose of writing in a weekly blog
September 30, 2019 Anger & Destruction A quick story about the effects of anger
September 23, 2019 Submitted The Loan Application The Calm Before The Storm
September 16, 2019 Offer Accepted For the first time ever, I am feeling lucky.
September 9, 2019 Buying A Business I have an opportunity to buy a sports business
September 2, 2019 Prepare for the Storm Checking in on mental health during Hurricane Dorian
August 26, 2019 We've Reached Revenue A landmark day of when YouTube approved us for adsense
August 19, 2019 One Shot, One Opportunity Proving I'm Worth of a Shoutout
August 12, 2019 Living With My Parents A progress update after 2 months of moving back in with family
August 5, 2019 Unplugged Going Camping With My Brother
July 29, 2019 Five Stages of Grief Making a video game based off my journey
July 26, 2019Dad & Me while living with my parents for the summer
July 22, 2019 My Ah-Ha Moment Two Year After Making My First Game
July 15, 2019 Success is Incremental Do you ever feel like you're not progressing?
July 8, 2019 Controlling Momentum Momentum is the driving force behind everything
July 1, 2019 "Death Cruise" I created a game in only 72 hours
June 24, 2019 My Most Productive Week This Year Living with acceptance of my situation and striving for better
June 13, 2019Last Week in Savannah
June 10, 2019 Living Below Your Means Reflecting on my last week in Savannah
June 3, 2019 Moving Back To Florida (Again) Preparing for the next chapter in my life
May 27, 2019 Social Media Clout Is Clout the new form of currency?
May 20, 2019 Remaining Consistent After Success What about success changes people?
May 13, 2019 2nd Year Anniversary Checking in on my two years of progress
May 6, 2019 A Dark Day A Tough Day To Write
April 29, 2019 Being Better Than Second Place Visiting Some Friends in Louisville, KY
April 22, 2019 Learn Through Teaching The Most Effective Way To Learn
April 15, 2019 Diary of a Wannabe Starting a podcast
April 8, 2019 Ripping the Bandaid OFF! I'm being forced out of my home and my business is failing
April 1, 2019 Moving Back In With My Parents So, about last week...
March 18, 2019 Jumping Into Freezing Water Why engaging in daily discomfort will change your life
March 11, 2019 Eliminate Finish Lines Finding my groove through these entries
March 4, 2019 Turning 29 years old Can you learn business tactics from a drug dealer?
February 25, 2019 Wim Hof Method Controlling illness with only your mind
February 18, 2019 Launching A Patreon Account Activating my revenue sources for Press Start
February 11, 2019 Launching Press Start Why I haven't published a lot of content lately
February 4, 2019 A Change in Mainstream Media A boring Super Bowl taught me two things
January 28, 2019 Diversifying Income Sources Making $59,750 a month from six different income sources
January 21, 2019 Quitting Your Job If someone gave you $10,000 would you quit your job today?
January 14, 2019 New Year, New Me Progressing with all my goals
January 7, 2019 How to Stick to Your Resolutions 4 Easy Steps
December 31, 2018 End of 2018 Today is New Year's Eve...
December 24, 2018 Merry Christmas from Waldo Trying to VLOG from my parents house
December 17, 2018 Feeling Good About 2019 2018 has been a very eventful year for me
December 10, 2018 What I Really Want for Christmas What A Week
December 3, 2018 December is Here Ugh man it feels good
November 26, 2018 The Calm Before The Storm One week before my December Daily Vlog Challenge
November 19, 2018 Running to Stay Happy Running a 10K everyday to combat depression
November 12, 2018 Daily (Sort Of) Vlog Challenge Let's Talk About This December Vlog Challenge
November 5, 2018 Waking Up Early How to Be Way More Productive
October 29, 2018 Daily Vlog Challenge Making & Uploading A Daily Vlog For 31 Days
October 8, 2018 The Importance of Mental Health You Can't Succeed Without Balance
October 1, 2018 Time I Need More Of It
September 24, 2018 Don't Live In A Big City Why you don't need to live in a big city to do big things with your life
September 17, 2018 My First VLOG The Struggles of Film Making
September 10, 2018 Two YouTube Channels Making Changes to my Channel
September 9, 2018Nashville International Airport
September 3, 2018 First Game Jam I Discuss my First Game Jam Experience
August 27, 2018 My First Game I Talk About The First Game I Ever Made
August 20, 2018 Why Freemium is bad for us all Support Game Developers
August 13, 2018 Live Streaming Pros & Cons of Live Streaming
August 6, 2018 Thinking About Live Streaming Officially Live Streaming 3-5 Days a Week
July 25, 2018Road Trip Day 6: Boulder, CO
July 24, 2018Road Trip Day 5: Kansas City, KS
July 23, 2018Road Trip Day 4: St. Louis, MO
July 22, 2018Road Trip Day 3: Louisville, KY
July 21, 2018Road Trip Day 2: Nashville, TN
July 20, 2018Road Trip Day 1: Asheville, NC
July 16, 2018 26 Weeks Strong Half Year Anniversary Check-In
May 9, 2018 One Year Anniversary A Look At My Path Traveled
April 18, 2018 Five Stages of Grief A Personal Story
April 3, 2018First Championship
February 21, 2018 Starting a Tutorial Video Series An update on my goals for 2018
January 1, 2018 Building An Audience How I plan to do what I love for the rest of my life
November 24, 2017Hosting my first family thanksgiving
November 4, 2017Apple Picking at Pennings Orchard - Upstate NY
September 27, 2017 Taking the last bite Why can't we just finish our projects?
September 14, 2017Escaping to Franklin, NC during Hurricane Irma
June 6, 2017Packing for Ginnie Springs
May 18, 2017Rough day
May 17, 2017 The Beginning of My Journey Trading cash and comfort for creative freedom and happiness
November 28, 2016602 E 55th St
December 21, 2015Adopted Porkchop
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