"The Give UP"

Things I've given up for my success: Ready?

No phone bill, I use wifi this way I'll be able to be more productive while on the go. Yes, you might see me on the phone out and about but guess what? I don't walk around with wifi so what am I doing really?

In 2007-2008 I stop watching TV because I noticed that's all people talk about. The average a mercian will sit all day in front of the TV if they don't have to go to work, clean or cook.

I use to be in an environment of individuals that, all they did was smoke, talk about people, lie behind each others backs, judge people, hate people, just a bunch of pessimistic stuff. None of them really believed that, I wanted to go to school, learn and, really make movies. They laughed at the fact, that, I said it when I did, well not all of them.

I gave up going out to parties, clubs, events, etc. Why cause, while those individuals that, have the greater or as equal potential as me were there I was at home working, or socializing about my future in school. Which, resulted in my being able to have more ample productive and research time to myself.

I gave up on those individuals who were more concerned with being popular instead of building connections in higher places for better reasons. What I was really doing was giving up on people that, beguiled and didn't believe in me.

I gave up chances of actually having a girlfriend because I knew that, will slow my time down if she's not already steady minded and, as focused as I was.

I gave up time that I can never get back and, wish I could have back.

I gave myself to God most important.

I gave up being around people that, used, manipulated, and discouraged me or others.

I gave up hearing those around me as I went on through my day, not wanting to hear all of the multiple things, that, can clog and, help slowly mush one's mind. I replaced them with headphones.

I gave up on those that, discreetly gave up on themselves.

I gave up smoking weed cause it could have been me dead too.

I gave up things that, didn't matter to my spirit for things that, meant everything to my spirit, mind, soul and, body.

Why?

Because these were choices that, I made that, were holding me back from reaching and, gaining success. I'm on my way to top! Know That!

Ask yourself: What's holding you back from success? Yeah I know you think you've reached success but have you really? Ask yourself that, and comment. Bless bismillah.

Five Minutes Outside

I have not had my five minutes of outside to speak why I am grateful yet. That, video just humbled me even more. I always see individuals acting ridiculous with money on social media. I also see them speak about the positive things or negative things they have going on in their lives.

I always say "How do they want this positive life they keep deliberately saying they want this peaceful life etc. but in their pictures and statuses it's totally different?"

"Where are their minds at?" It's not even me judging it's me personally thinking that, they have no idea what they are personally doing to themselves. They still have a lot of growing to do. Mentally they are not fully stable, they may be financially or gloating in a way that, they are but yet still they're not realizing how blessed they truly are.

They have the opportunities, items and things I want not out of jealousy because jealousy is not anywhere in my spirit or body or heart or mind, it doesn't belong here inside of Paris White. But for myself, my growth, my progress, my drive, my ambition, my quest. But the one thing I always tell myself is "What is it that, I am not doing yet or have yet to do to finish this final step to get this door open for me?"

So I continue on, creating thoughts, doing what's needed, using my blessings as they come. Because I know that, there is something that, God wants me to figure out. There is something that, he has planned for me that, he is going to show through only me to others. But, I have to do it first. Right? In reality we are the same, because we both have no idea which, move of mines will be my big move. We have no idea, which direction it is that, God is going to say "Paris you have finally received what I wanted to give you."

So I can't wait, sit back, and, always depend on people. Let me repeat that, for me and you in context for both of us. I CAN NOT WAIT, SIT BACK, AND ALWAYS DEPEND ON PEOPLE. I must use the time I have on every blessing I GOT! Why? Cause I have another set of blessings to get after I use these ones.

I want you to be grateful for everything that, you have in your life. It's really a blessing. I want you to look where you are sitting right now and through both of your eyes scan your surroundings and see, everything you have to be grateful for and tell yourself why. Tell yourself why you are grateful for it. Tell yourself how it is a blessing to you. I washed clothes in a bucket ok because the washer is messed up and, I don't have quarters for washers to pay for right? But I have radiators here in my moms house, so guess what I am blessed and grateful to have a radiator that, my child's clothes are clean and dried in time for him to go to school tomorrow. Does he know that I did that? Nope, cause he was sleep 4-5 hours ago from the time I've done it.

I want you to know I am going somewhere that, will have me very successful. Those that, I begin to be blessed with along with that, success I am going to be thankful for that. Here's why. Because those are going to be the people that, God wants me around because they have that, same rich inner feeling as me in their spirit, heart and mind. They're optimistic, positive, persistent, ambitious, achievers, thrifters, lifters, grinders, dedicated, committed, solid aspirational people. Who they will become to me, friends, family, associates, mentors, mentee's I shall know when that, time comes and, as I feel that, glow above my crown area of my head, I know it shall be soon.

So I want you to remember something very important. Money is nothing but a tool. Money is nothing but a tool. Money is nothing but a tool. Money is nothing but a tool. Money is nothing but a tool. Money is nothing but a tool. Money is nothing but a tool. Please repeat that, to yourself out loud, the sentence I kindly and genuinely wrote 7 times. The tool bag we have is under the kitchen sink, when we need to fix something we go to the bag and, get a tool for the job. Use your tools wisely. Think richly. Think you have money for everything you need to fix. Think your rich enough spiritually, mentally, emotionally and, psychically to get the prosperous wants you want in your life.

Most important out of all this remember for those that, have kids you are doing it for your kids and their future, and their friends future. You're a image of who your kids may become. Do you want your kids to grow up like you? Please let that, deep thought sink into your brain right now.

Now think about everything about you that, you want your child or children to grow up and have of you or from you or know of you? Bottom line you want them to know that, you've done so much for them it's too specific to explain. For those that, were raised in a single home, love your mom or father. I love my mom. For those that, were raised in a both parent home, love both of your parents for showing you what you are to do in life. If things were the best growing up in your home, think right now at this moment is your life relating to it at the age your parents were at? That's right ask yourself how much time do you have and, what else more do I need to do for my life to be opposite to make things turn for the better?

Visualize it in your mind and, most important once you have the thought, think on the thought by believing in the thought and, finally FEEL THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE WHAT YOU THOUGHT! Yes, feel it accomplished successfully. Now what's next?

Have a great start on your next minute after reading this applying everything you just thought about changing about yourself, taking action and, discipling your behavior. #Bless...

#LoveSuccess ~ #ParisDWhite ~ #SevenStarGV

My Future Career

My Future Career

By Paris White

English Composition I

October 28, 2012

Is it to sudden of a choice? Have I injured all opportunities of my future without unknowingly knowing what’s in store for me? “I want to be a Digital Cinematographer”. That’s when my thoughts started becoming envisioned as movies. Is this going to be a waste of time? No, not at all because it’s something that I’m truly passionate to learn, can create with, love, have fun with, learn from, make money, balance my time with and approach on a free minded level of thinking. I even find it to be scary and quite controlling, the way I think at times. But they are my thoughts. Being a courageous thinker has always pointed my thoughts & actions into many directions that were needed or unneeded, and regardless they managed to help me. You never really know what you’re going to think next! Being a very positive person and at times having negative thoughts, I learned to overcome those negative thoughts with fear, vigorously and using them creatively.

In this field in the entertainment industry you must have competent skills of every aspect; from being a creative thinker, learning how to brainstorm, understanding the fundamentals of being a writer, mastering the composition skills needed to be a cameraman or a photographer, psychology, patience, communication skills, math which reflects in timing and then you got the business side, the most important. These were my initial thoughts about the industry before gaining experience in, the entertainment industry. It takes a lot to be in this industry and you really have to be good, straight forward, continuously productive, direct with your words, and creatively logical with your craft. Nobody wants to view anything boring or that has no purpose. These are the things I thought about before signing up with Full Sail that I’d needed to know.

With every job or career there are positive’s and negatives. Which leads me to say you, have to really work very hard and make sure your over top of you’re “A” game. Everything isn’t promised on this path, unless you’re promising to succeed and prosper, maintain a good attitude, building rapport with others in the industry, and most importantly professionalism. Number one is working hard and following the guidelines to success, never giving up. Once you never give up and can take rejections keeping the same attitude you’ve already achieved success for the better. That is what this industry looks for strong minded and strong character and positive individuals who are high energy & consistently creative. Those that can, take a no and walk away with a smile and possibly get that yes later down the road because they handled themselves professionally.

After doing a little research of my field before entering Full Sail I checked out the major description on the school’s official site. There were a few things that really stood out to me and made me decide my choice to do it. Digital video is a powerful communication tool that reaches millions of people who turn to electronic media for their news and entertainment every day. That popularity has created a growing demand for artists with the visual and technical skills to produce material for a variety of different outlets, including broadcast television, websites, mobile devices, and independent feature films. And what that tells me is that multi-tasking in this field with my skills will be fun and hard working. From a article on Film School Rejects, article Culture Warrior by Landon Palmer he quotes, But the most interesting aspect of Hollywood’s use of digital camerawork is not in its use with special effects or its invisible imitation of film, but in those rare major studio productions that use digital in a way that is totally unique and particular to the technology—films that acknowledge the fact that the digital is not “like” film nor should it strive to be so, and that it doesn’t necessarily have to exist in tandem with digital imaging for its use to be justified.

In conclusion Digital Cinematography has come from a long way of series of various different technological experiments. Now that it is making it’s mark it will only get better as the time comes and goes along day by day. My reactions to this field were very much approved fore I knew there were some things I wanted to do and now have proof that it can be done.

References

Multiple Page Website: Full Sail University. (2012). Digital Cinematography Overview. http://online.fullsail.edu/degrees/digital-cinematography-bachelors. October 28th 2012.

Landon Palmer. July 6^th 2009. Culture Warrior. http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-digital-cinematography-in-hollywood.php. October 28, 2012

The College Network Genius- Paris White

Here is a essay that is a 2nd rough copy draft for my English Class

The College Network Proposal

           

Ok, so let’s face the facts, college students have several opportunities to make money while attending college. I mean what student wouldn’t love to pay off their loans while attending college? No need to answer just pay attention. To me college is all about the course being studied, networking, meeting potential business partners/friends, expanding & expressing on your ideas, seeking opportunities and seizing them for your own professional advantage. Maybe that’s just my ideal or delay gratification outlook on college, but anything is possible in my eyes. When I was attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh I had this idea and the school remained nonchalant to my ideas, for they felt I wanted particular special privileges. When really in my eyes, every student deserves to have particular special privileges; to get them to the level that they need and want to be at. Mainly because it’s an entertainment school and has everything there that’s in entertainment, needed is what gave me the idea. And this was what I thought of doing before enrolling into the school. My idea upon attending this higher education university was, (Art Institute of Pittsburgh) “why not have networks that a student can work in, and make money from”? My focus is on the art of learning how to make money while in college. I’m still creating this factor for myself.

Along with being apart of this network you brand yourself, and your own ideas. Get assigned to a section of the network where you are teamed with individuals that have the same mentalities, talents, and skills; or they can even be different which tends to work with graceful cooperation. In these teams it’s mandatory to use your talents, skills, and time organization to meet and complete a task everyday. You have to make ideas that are commercial. Which will expand the team’s knowledge on proper debates of criticism, giving students the outlook that they need for the professional world and helping them build confidence.  The reason for this network is to profit, to pay off tuition, become a professional and have a secure business/income after graduation. And of course, have money while you’re an undergrad. This helps with your path of enlightenment. I mean I can’t remember the countless times I ran out of cash for things I needed and had to wait for, depend on someone for, or just hope to God my friend will help me out, even family. It could be from food, to clothes, needed house accessories, school items, bus fair, something I wanted or even equipment/software to get myself more in depth with my studies on my personal time. And this is something that I’m sure other college students can say is relevant to them. To get you back on track here.

The purpose of this is to get students to become professionals, period. Many college students go into college and just party their educations away, come out and can’t get a job or just are in debt forever. Why not make your own job and, be able to be an entrepreneur? Why not work with individuals you attended college with and already know on a personal level? Why not obtain the option that you want in life and make it reality? Remember these two words “ why not “ just in that exact order. These two words changed my life and outlook on it. It can get you through any challenge in life; it has worked for me several times and made a much stronger person, personal & business wise. It fights fear off the first second that it appears in your mind and makes you conquer it. Little story, I had an entrepreneur break down those two words to me of what they really meant. And I mean he was in a suit and tie etc. I was in regular urban clothes. He looked at me when I told him that someone told me I couldn’t do something and replied “why not”?  What had shocked me was that I knew the idea could work and I’m sure this guy was a millionaire or had big bucks and he was agreeing with me. Sure he could have been just making me feel better about myself. Although he was letting me discretely know that, yes your going to fail at things and your also going to succeed, do both! My point is that even if he believed it could work, I knew it could work, that person that discouraged the fact it could work, their opinion didn’t matter. I was just an average kid to him at the time possibly that just wasn’t scared to meet strangers, which probably gave him the reason he said what he said. Since then I been using it to over-come, my professional fears. And it’s been slowly blessing me because I’m patiently blessing myself with the help of God, family, friends and society.

Now you do have your percentage of individuals that come into college & want to start with their career immediately, only problem is that they feel they need confidence. Why? Because they haven’t learned everything of course and when they do start to learn they are unsure of how well they can do what they can do. They are in fear of messing up and not having the proper skills. I’ve heard from countless students that just didn’t feel like they were learning anything at AIP while I attended, even I felt the same way. My thing was once you already signed up to a commitment to something you obviously have a passion for and are dedicating your life, and future money to it as well. I believe that’s all the confidence you need. You got confidence! Most people don’t even take the chance to go to college! They rather do nothing with their life or just don’t have the confidence, to go to college! I’m not putting them down because the ones that do not have the confidence to go to college or university usually work a job they like for their rest of their lives, which is better than doing nothing!  I had a fellow student that attended AIP and also stays close by to me express his confidence level to me and it made me wonder. Why did he feel as though he wasn’t confident enough to perform his actions of studies? Was he not ready, because he wasn’t learning or not getting what was being taught? Or would he have felt more comfortable with more hands on projects that consumed his time to make him know he is ready? Thoughts like this popped into my head and helped build on my idea. It also made me think and want to investigate more about this.

Investigating did start to get conducted by me and two other individuals. They were over thirty students that I daily condoned time with! We were starting our own business, because I knew we had something special about all three of us that together, it could be a major success. We argued about several things. Well I stayed humble and silent most of the time being the overseer. I refrain from debating about matters that were nonchalant until an interest came to mind about the whole situation. From personal matters to business matters it was always something, something that helped me build as awesome businessperson. These two were getting me ready for something huge that I could do because they seen the potential in my drive and me were unstoppable. I was pure passion. Together it was a force that we galaxy created. Plus they knew eventually I would just make a movie from it all and they could be my two main characters. Point is that I gained to love these two people because they stayed golden to themselves unlike others I seen at the school. They didn’t care, they were older and wanted what they deserved. So we were getting tired of getting treated wrong at this school and wanted to see how other students felt. Yes, we started conducting interviews on footage to later project. Unfortunately this is when the school started working against us. I got the cops called on me about a cell phone in class, which made me withdraw. Yes the actual city police officers. A week or so later the guy that was in the film program with me got removed by technology! Like come on seriously? Who get’s removed by technology? Well it just so happens he was editing the footage, technology seen it and worked to stop him at it. Which resulted in him getting banned from the school. And it left the third partner in their by herself to finish her studies. Little to say God works in mysterious ways. The month after I left, an $11 Billion dollar fraud case was brought up against the school for embezzling money for their own personal uses. At least give back to your students in a much better way. Apparently two staff members had been investigating them since 2008. Now and I don’t know but we might have set the bomb off there for those two to say hey, enough is enough.

Now this proposal will need a lot of strategic attention and must be taken seriously if able to be conducted to create a change in the growth of students enrolling into higher education schools and becoming entrepreneurs. It may even motivate those individuals that choose not to go to college because they feel they won’t be able to complete the courses, to come attend. This is something you want to compare to the military. One because it’s for your needs and benefits, two you never know where it can take you professionally in life, three it can reform a lot of ways that people think, four the service for it comes first. I really am proposing this type of operation to get students that start to lose their drive of creativity, for whatever purposes to keep them going. Students that feel they need more confidence. Give students a way for income. Form more cooperation in being business savvy amongst your peers. And get entry-level students to understand what it truly means to be a professional! I’ve encountered several students that want the same exact thing, somebody or a team to work with while in college so that they can make money. I always get the same responses: that individuals seemed serious at first then they fade off, or there a few members or one member that doesn’t put their infinite percent into the group as needed, things of that nature. I’ve actually experienced this numerous times so I know how it is. Which is terribly sad, I mean if your going to quit at going for your goals that you want with a team, which makes things easier, you might just quit at everything in you’re life.

In conclusion to this proposal thus far here are a few things I suggest that are needed. There has to be a schedule to be first conducted that way everyday, everybody, on the team, knows his or her priorities for the week, every week. Now, this takes much needed time to conduct and organize. Time will make it easier day by day.  Make business contracts, assign a leader, set schedule times, motivate each other by doing personal creativity, push yourself, workout and talk with your team members, really become a family between learning each other, make sure that brainstorming is done first to get everybody’s ideas on the table. I believe this will also bring the world’s economy up for the same reason that everyone has an idea or talent that they want to present and make money from. Some don’t expect anything from it and are just naturally gifted to do those talents. It can even go as far as getting a world list of people that want help with their ideas, showing them how they can get their idea off the ground. I guess it would be similar to that show “Shark Tank” with the difference; we are investing time into their idea and knowledge that we gained to get their business running, not funding money. I want to as currently planning to start a website for ideas and team collaborating. Last but not least enforce professional classes and things to do on your spare time to keep productive. Nonchalant classes that is purposely boring to give students the knowledge on how to keep interesting. In this class you just write down ideas that interest you while in the class and then later share them with the class and instructor. In order to keep their minds flowing with interesting things to do. This is a project that can start in colleges and eventually expand to lower education schools, getting them ready for the digital and business world. Or as said making them professionals, in & outside of the class, after learning. I really hope that this can motivate students worldwide, starting here at Full Sail it would be a huge worldly help out, at least I think. The good thing about it is that it is already starting here at Full Sail with our brand new Connect site that we have, which is forever awesome!

 “In the world earth, we are already golden in it. It may never look like that from the surface, that’s because it starts within the mind”- Paris White