Montana Fishburne Made A Porn And How It Relates To What Happened To Me Yesterday

Is it just me or does she look like her dad's co star Angela Bassett? ?

Montana Fishburne made a pornographic video. Reason she is giving is so she can get "exposure”so she will be a more viable actress. I am sure what else you get when you film yourself doing what is mostly an intimate act. She claims Kim Kardashian inspired her. Some people get inspired by Abraham Lincoln or Mother Teresa or Kobe Bryant. No law against getting inspired by Kim Kardashian. There is no law against diving into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades either. If this is true that she is using the dirty movie as a short cut to being a bankable actress, you may ask yourself why would she find that logical? There are some factors to look at:



a) She was born in 1991.
The younger kids don’t know anything about library cards, microfiche, stamps, shelves full of records. They are so used to instant gratification. Life is different from school. Life gives you the test first then the lesson later. She wants the destination and not the journey. She is too young to have the skills that come with paying your dues .


b) The Dennis Miller Theory.

Dennis Miller talked about Hollywood and the fact that the years of paying your dues working menial jobs while learning your craft and going to audition after audition weeds out the unworthy. The success is a by-product of your faith, courage, perseverance and enthusiasm. You can’t tell me Montana has those four qualities. She is trying to compensate for those four qualities with a porn video. Imagine the example she will set if she is successful? It’s like someone winning an election for President of a country not by reminding people of what he has done but by reminding people who his parents were. What kind of example would that set? Wait, that did happen?




c) Her dad.

You have to understand I have watched Apocalypse Now more times than should be legal. One of my friends years ago, I think it was Diane Currie who said “The only thing more screwed up than Apocalypse Now is Hearts of Darkness (the making of Apocalypse Now). Her father lied about his age (he was 14 but claimed to be 17) to be in that movie. OK so the role immortalized him for me even if he never was Morpheus. But at what cost? Can you remember when you were 14? I was not a perfect boy but I know that I would be even more screwed up if Dennis Hopper got me hooked on heroine. The sins of the father can be the sins of the daughter.

To get anywhere you simply have to pay your dues. You only know Jack Nicholson for his A List parts but look at all the B movies he did to develop himself into a bankable star.

Kevin Spacey is another extremely skilled actor who I am sure none of you recognized before the mid nineties. But check out all the obscure the roles he did for a decade before that. Looking at that list I regret not following the Vancouver filmed Wiseguy now. Montana Fishburne is 19 now and wants instant fame. Kevin Spacey is 51 now. How old was he when you first started noticing his movies? Bottom line on the young Ms. Fishburne. It seems to me she is looking for a short cut. She does not want to pay her dues. For some she may indeed be signing a deal with the devil.


Now is where you hear every cliché in the book. It’s not the destination it’s the journey. Experience is a name you give your mistakes. A long time ago I toiled with a company called Primerica Financial Services. I made little money. I drove for miles and miles all over the Lower Mainland of British Columbia only to go to dark houses at times. I don’t regret having gone that path. If anything it changed my habits and taught me how to learn about self-improvement and finance. It gave me the habits of reading and listening to all kinds of non-fiction authors.
But what does this have to do with yesterday August 5th 2010? It was my experience in investments that gave me the confidence to apply to La Salle’s Graduate School of Business for their Masters in Business Administration program. Yesterday was the final hoop before the degree. I had to convince three professors that I was MBA material in what is known as the Oral Comprehensive Exam (OCE). I was two hours away. This was my moment, where destiny calls me. This was my moment when fate took my hand. And I laid an egg. Notice I did not say anything about a conspiracy theory against psycho bloggers . It was all on me. The error is assigned to the third baseman Ed Lopez. A call I heard a few times in my softball days.

This was the view from the office where I took my test. I know what you guys are thinking. Charles Durning in Hudsucker Proxy.

Video of my experience here.

The thing is, it’s a temporary setback. I was asked fair questions. Enough of my replies were sub standard. I did work hard for that moment but not well enough to cover what my panel wanted to see. There came a point where I even thought to myself that I would have not passed me. I am at peace with the verdict and I am determined for a better outcome before the year is done. When I worked at Primerica Financial Services, many things I heard there stuck with me. One of them was that promotions are not there for the sake of being promoted. Promotions are not there for the sake of the title you earn. Promotions are there for what they will make of you while you are trying to earn them. Last night I realized with my performance I have not earned the Master’s Degree. I already paid the price of deferring my prize by a few months. Might as well get what I can with the price I paid. I sat there and wanted to hear where I screwed up. My panel was not intimidating at all. They were trying to help me. Sometimes hard things to realize while you are in the middle of your own failure. But I had to avoid being a hypocrite since I wrote this piece on failure.
By not being as ready as I could be, I was attempting to be like Montana Fishburne. I wanted the title but not be the person the title is supposed to make me. If I was, I would have managed the questions. I want you to rejoice when there are times you realize that it’s your fault. Why? Because your thoughts and actions are two of the things in this world that you have the most control over. Thanks for deciding to read this.
Ed



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Beauty, Necessity and Reason for Failure

Beauty, Necessity and Reason for Failure



I keep telling all of you to subscribe and listen to Colin Cowherd for free. Regardless of your interest or disinterest in sports. Even if he is indeed a sports talk show host.


http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/show?showId=theherd

Because Colin when he wants to make a point will always make an analogy to life. Like a - this is how it is- example. He just has a gift for making a point. Just listen to the 7 minutes I provided in the attachment section below or here if you are not on multiply.

Thomas Edison went through failure because for him it was learning what DID NOT WORK.

Failure is there for many reasons. Motivation to succeed is one. Motivation to even try. De-motivation to fight the human tendency to coast. We learn from our mistakes. How can we truly learn if they are never identified as mistakes?



You have to go through struggle. As much as I do not want to struggle or be put in positions where there is doubt and pain. That is why I thought of the story I was told about the struggle to get out of the cocoon. You may read it at the bottom of the post.

There was one day in college I thought I was having a particularly bad day. Just one thing after another that could have been better. Back then I drove a Chrysler New Yorker 79. Huge car. My school (www.sfu.ca) was up on a hill ( as in the song Aja) and it was bit of a drive down. Well that night my car choked. It lost all power. Had I been having a normal day maybe I would have panicked at this sudden intrusion of adversity. But at that point I was so besieged that I was calmer. I had no steering, no power brakes and was going too fast down hill to resort to the emergency brake. Looking back on it, I had two things going for me: 1) no traffic ahead of me 2) I was going down the straight path not down the spiral path. I ended up slowing down by switching the transmission to "2" then "1" then the parking brake. Only now, nineteen years later do I appreciate what truly happened. But adversity and struggle helped.

Failure is good if we deserve it. Failure tells us where we are at. We have choices when confronted with failure.



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Off the top of my head from the Tom Hopkins Academy of Champions. ( It's been years since I read it)

• I never see failure as failure but as an opportunity to improve my sense of humor
• I never see failure as failure but only as a learning experience
• I never see failure as failure but a chance to improve my technique and perfect my performance
• I never see failure as failure but a chance to change course in my direction.
• I never see failure as failure because its the game I must play to win.

See how I did:

http://www.tomhopkins.com/April2009Newsletter.html


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I knew of some people ( in college) whose automatic answer to the question what is the score when we were playing sports was "tie". No winners and no losers. What is that? That's Marxism is what it is.

Failure is there for a reason. The cliche says the only way not to fail is not do anything. Anybody who has ever broken ground in anything had to go through failure.


Ed

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http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/tag/colin%20cowherd

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/tag/herd

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518101,00.html

http://www.tomhopkins.com/April2009Newsletter.html


http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/wp-print-mobile.php?p=1377

http://www.candogo.com/search/insight?i=617

http://www.whisperceo.com/Pages/Motivation/Stories/Cocoon%20Struggle%200001.htm

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COCOON STRUGGLE (posted 05/10/03)

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A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force it’s body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.

Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happen!!! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of it’s life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggles required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into it’s wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved it’s freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggle are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to go through life without obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

And we could never fly…