Believe…

In this link you’ll get to see some fun and more recent pictures of Haven.  Haven is 9 months now and is always smiling, laughing, playing chase, trying to stand up, and he loves to eat.  Here he is: http://www.nigelstorey.com/havenfirstnine

Additionally – I take this day to remember my grandmother who passed a couple of years ago.  Today would have been her birthday.  Thank you gran for everything you did.  You did an amazing job of taking care of me and my sister and we appreciate it.  I love you and am sending hugs to heaven.  From above I hope you can see Haven and enjoy the pictures. 

I just finished midterms and it’s quite a relief.  Test stress is annoying and draining.  I did have a very interesting moment today during my Global Economy exam.  It was a 9 question exam and I skipped my way around the exam and had made my way through about 4 questions.  I had 5 questions left, and they were all pretty difficult.  The first thought that came into my head was !#@$ this is impossible, but within a millisecond another thought and voice popped into my head (my favorite voice-the optimistic fighter).  I started talking to myself (in my head) and I began to have a full dialog with myself.  I told myself that the next 5 questions were no big deal and that I was really smart so I would make my way through them.  Whether or not I believe I’m smart didn’t really matter.  What mattered was the peace I felt in beginning to attack those next five questions.  It was unbelievable and comedic at the same time, it was as if I was talking myself off the ledge, but amazingly – all of this really seemed to work.

Later on, I was talking to Maria about this situation at dinner.  She mentioned to me that what I was doing was a form of self-hypnosis and that doctors actually use this as a common practice when they are faced with a very difficult situation.  Sometimes when doctors are confronted with insurmountable odds they have no choice but to talk themselves through because in their circumstance a human life may be at stake.  Thus, the stakes are high.

The lesson is when confronted by a challenge you are the best person to help yourself through something, just use that little voice it’s pretty powerful – BELIEVE.  Another powerful lesson is draw bigfoot when things get confusing, my friends at school will know what I’m talking about here.  Bigfoot is a metaphor for “Believe”.

-Ni

This summary illustrates a typical day for me right now:

7:30AM – Wake Up Shower

8:00AM – On the Road

8:30AM – At Work Cleanse E-mail

9:30AM – Project Management Call for a Web-App Launch

10:30AM - Noon – Redirect Strategy for SEO

Noon – 1 - Lunch (My 2nd favorite part of the day)

1:00PM – Conference Call on Corporate Website Launch

2:00PM – Creating a Draft Access Control List Procedure

3:00PM – Writing My Goals & Objectives for the year

4:00PM – Installing Productivity Applications for Business Partners

5:00PM – Quick Getaway

6:00PM – Dinner with my parents, wife, and Haven

7:30PM – Crash – one hour nap

8:30PM – Head to the Library

8:45PM – Library For Studying Statistics

10:45PM – Head back home

11:00PM – Study some more to get through some hang ups

Midnight – Blog

Costa Rica – Surf Trip Photo
(Jimmy, Tommy Dolce, Nigel, Harry, Matt)

I’m headed to NYU in the fall – I’ll still be working full-time, but I’m completely excited about getting my MBA and the future challenges. People think I’m crazy for doing both, but I know it’s going to be rewarding. I might not see my people as frequently as I’d like over the next couple of years, but I hope they understand.

http://www.nigelstorey.com/

(me @ Stern & the storyboarding exercise I did to create 1 of my key essays)

Was out at dinner with a crew of people from work, and saw this unreal skyline – the formulation of the clouds is so strange

What a great wedding party. Thanks to all of
the friends and family with countless love and
support, you made our day!!!

Click on the picture above or this link:
http://www.nigelstorey.com/photos/wakeboarding
to see the shots from Saturday 06-16-07.

http://www.nigelstorey.com/photos/Paris
http://www.nigelstorey.com/photos/Brussels%20Grand%20Plaza/
http://www.nigelstorey.com/photos/Amsterdam%20and%20Haarlem/

I was at the National Training Meeting in Orlando for work and David O. and I were able to take some time out to go to Disney world. Obviously we ran into the guys from back to the future there.