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The PMS Triangle – Let’s Get Mental


2009
12.02

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The PMS Triangle – Let’s Get Mental

I have broken up the “M” of the PMS Triangle into 2 different aspects; mental stimulation through Education and Mental stimulation through visualization and affirmation. Let’s start with mental stimulation through education first.

Mental Stimulation through Education

This is going to be the most uncomfortable step for a lot of you. Classrooms are not my thing either but if you can get through it, it puts you light years ahead of those guys who are not willing to get out of their comfort zone.

Two years ago I was a laborer who kept getting passed over time and time again for promotions because I made myself too valuable where I was. I took on the responsibility of running a crew without any increase in pay. It was a perfect situation for management.  Finally, after the third time of being passed for a promotion (which included no pay raise either) I decided to make some changes.

I signed myself up for 14 courses, all of which were 1 or 2 days each. At this time, I was still working a 21 day shift, where I would work 21 days straight which was followed by 7 days off. On my 7 days off, I wouldn’t go out and get slobbering drunk (not all the time anyway).  I wouldn’t go away to the lake or fly somewhere warm. I went and sat in a stuffy classroom for 8 hours a day to improve my situation. I took my destiny from the hands of the management which kept passing me over for promotions and raises, and I put the power where it belongs… in my hands!

I completed the courses in 4 months and 3 months after completing those courses, I was the new health and safety manager for a young oilfield construction company. I was directly responsible for 150 workers safety. It was a new and exciting challenge and it was a huge raise!

The world nowadays is always looking for a piece of paper or certificate that says you’re capable. Learn to embrace the classroom. The minute you decide you don’t need any more education, is the moment you stop growing.

If the classroom just really isn’t your thing, there are plenty of other ways to improve your situation. There are plenty of educational institutions that will provide distance or online learning. You can pick up books related to your given subject from the local library or, as I mentioned in another article, get yourself a mentor and develop a relationship with an expert on your given subject.

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-Scott Weller

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Where did Ditch Digger to CEO and Blue Collar Begone come from?


2009
11.29

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Where did Ditch Digger to CEO and Blue Collar Begone come from?

Lately, I have been bombarded with the same questions over and over again…

“What is it that motivates you to be so driven?””Where did Ditch Digger to CEO and Blue Collar Begone come from?”

Let me take a few minutes to explain for everyone out there. I have been in the blue collar industry for about 10 years now. I cleaned carpets for over 4 years and was laid off due to a very slow post-Christmas season. This eventually led to 4 or 5 months of struggling to find a position that fit me just right which eventually ended up with me living at home with Dad again!

Or

Waking up in the middle of the night to my co-worker/hotel room mate smoking crack and “entertaining” a young lady with fishnet stockings whose name was clearly randomly chosen from the back of a cereal box.

Or

Working in the pitch black, dead of night when it was – 41 degrees Celsius (that’s -41.8 F for my American friends) because we had to get some pipe moved for the next morning. Then returning at 8 am the next morning for work after not finishing the night before until 1 am.

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Watching a co worker get pinned to a slab of concrete by a piece of clay the size of a Volkswagen after it rolled 30 meters downhill off of the edge of a trench.

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Constantly sacrificing holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and every other memorable events just so you wouldn’t be the first cut come layoff season.

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Having your body break down to the point of where you are in extreme pain when going up a simple flight of stairs.

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Living out of a suitcase

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Covering for your nightshift foreman who is hopped up on crack every night, not showing up and then blaming everything that goes wrong on you.

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After being with the same company for over 2 years, you only see a .55 cent raise, while other workers, who you trained, were given $1.25 after 6 months.

I am not sharing this with you to complain, it is to show you that I waited too long! I allowed life to come to me for far too long and wasted valuable time. Now, I am taking my life back. I now take my struggles from the past and allow them to fuel the fire taking me into the future. I am in control of my life. No more layoffs! No more work related injuries, drugs, prostitutes or any of the frustrations with working long hours away from family and friends. I choose to live a life of possibilities. I am possible-ifying my life!

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-Scott Weller

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In the Beginning (Scott Weller Version)


2009
10.19

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I grew up in a pretty decent situation, now that I look around and see what some people were exposed to. I do have some demons in my past which, more and more, as time passes by, affect me less and less.

As a middle child, I grew up flying under the radar, getting away with more than maybe I should have. I feel bad now looking back because I really took full advantage of this. I had house parties and invited people (notice I did not say friends, who came never mattered to me as long as it was fun) to come over, drink and have the time of their lives on the weekends my Mother was out of town on business. I was a completely disrespecting, adolescent with absolutely no regard for anyone or anything that should have meant something to me at that time in my life. All I cared about was being fun. Being the funny guy. Being the guy that everyone said was a blast and that they loved hanging around me. I know now, how sad that time in my life really was.

This lifestyle followed me through to my mid twenties where I did some crazy things, and I may even qualify them as down right stupid. I’m not going to get into details but feel free to ask my little sister. She saw how out of control and ridiculous I really was.

Through those years there are thoughts that really stand out in my mind. “Man, does life get any better than this?” “I’m the funniest guy alive!” “Wow, is she ever hot! I bet she wants me!” All of which were conceived in the same moment as I was wiping away the vomit remaining on my chin after ducking under a table to remain unseen by the bouncers. I’m pretty sure that the girls I was referring to, were just staring in absolute disgust after I aided them in realizing what a half digested, 3 meat pizza pop mixed with Kokanee looks like when it is “sent back to where it came from!”

Throughout all the partying and drinking and attempted fraternizing, (yes…. attempted) I would also have, what I now believe, to be the beginning of my current consciousness. When I say consciousness, I don’t mean to hint at the idea that I am “enlightened”. Far from it! Although I am working towards it.

I remember vividly, on many occasions having this one thought. This one thought is now the basis I live my life on. This one thought rolls me out of bed at 4am when I couldn’t sleep until midnite. This one thought tells me, “yes you can,” when everyone else screams, “NO YOU CAN’T!” This one thought has taken me from the pathetic mess I was and has created amazing opportunity for me, in every single day I live.

This one thought was, “I know I am here for a reason, an important reason…. but…. What is it?”

-Scott Weller

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