Ferchil Reality
I'm typically more reserved in my virtual reality versus my actual reality. That's going to change soon. You'll be seeing more of me. #10000
— just.chill (@WHATtheFERCH)
November 8, 2014
For the past few years, instead of making concrete resolutions like 'I want to lose 20 pounds' or 'I want to save $XXX per paycheck', I started to make more abstract resolutions in the new year. I used acronyms to help me remember them easier. In 2012, my resolution was T.H.C. This stood for 'transparency', 'honesty', & 'conviction'. Even now, I can still remember what these acronyms stood for. These were values or characteristics that I wanted to strengthen year after year. Transparency was to be more clear about my feelings and my intentions. I wanted to work on Honesty because I wanted to be more honest with my feelings; if I was feeling a certain way, I needed to be more vocal and honest with everyone about it. Which leads to speaking with Conviction. I figured that if a person wanted to speak with conviction, he or she should absolutely know the content that they are speaking of. Because these goals were easy to remember, I could always 'check in' with myself to see how I was doing. In 2013, R.P.M. was the acronym. This stood for refinement (strengthen the prior year's resolutions), power (referring to will power as well as physical strength), & movement (in regards to my career & position in life). I chose RPM because I wanted to plug this idea in my head about buying a car.... and that year I did. So in 2014, my acronym was B.Y.O.B. No it wasn't 'bring your own beer (or preferred poison of choice, bourbon). It stood for 'build your own brand'. It was something that an old supervisor tried to instill in me, and still value to this day. Furthermore the individual pieces stood for different things as well. Maybe I'll go into it another time. However this leads me to the 2015 resolution... F.T.R.
F.T.R. happens to be my initials. In order to 'build my own brand' I need to continue to build upon the blueprints that were laid out in the previous resolutions. They have all culminated to this. Being more honest and transparent will help me speak with conviction. Refining those skills will help me power forward when moving in a direction to help better my own brand. That brand is F.T.R. So I need to take all those skills (which I'm still continuing to develop) to share myself more openly to the world. If my intentions are honest and true, there should be no fear in what I'm putting out into the world. So here I am... you'll be seeing more of me.
