About
Hi. My name is Corin.
This is my blog is about change.
I’m an INFP. I write a blog about it at INFP Blog.
This is where I prove that I what I write on that blog will work.
Filling a need
I’ve been reading Tony Robbins stuff since I was twenty. He had 4 Rules in his book Unlimited Power.
- Know what you want.
- Take action.
- Measure your results.
- Make changes to your actions until you achieve your desired result.
I’ve used that formula for 20 years. It works, but I want to be further.
Tony also says that instead of trial and error, I should use mirroring. Find people that have gotten results I want to achieve. Do what they do EXACTLY in order to replicate that success.
Here’s the problem.
Most blogs never go into detail about how they achieved their success. One day, they want to live their dreams. The next day they’re successful and writing a blog about it. It’s all those days in-between that I want to hear about. I want to hear about the ups and downs, the successes and set backs.
Reading that will help me get into the mindset of the person that has the success I want to achieve. I believe to that to have more, you first need to be more. Being more is about growth. That’s what I want to see a blog about personal growth over time. I want to know where they were and the progression they got to where they are now. I want to see people walking the talk of their success blog.
Leading by example
This will is going to be a day-by-day blog about me trying to improve my life over the next few years in all it’s gory, boring detail. It’s going to be full of false starts and failures. And hopefully, successes.
My goals of this blog will motivate others to make changes. Yes, I will fail and hopefully often. More failures means more successes.
Where I am now
I’ve been married 13 years to a wonderful woman (INTJ) who keeps me motivated. The marriage has been wonderful with very few rough spots. We accept each other for who we are and who we want to become. She’s the one for me.
I have two daughters we adopted from China, currently 7 and 3. It’s a challenge raising children as an INFP. This blog is for them. Hopefully, they’ll read this in their 20′s and 30′s and realize that settling for good enough isn’t good enough.
I work in web development and make between $50K-$60K which gives me a comfortable life style. I like my job. The income allows us to have a modest home, to travel and have investment property. Most of all, it allows my wife to stay at home for the kids and to run her video editing business without worrying about bills and food being dependent on her income. This relieves a tremendous amount of pressure from her to just build the career she wants.
I’m also about 20 lbs over my desired weight. I’ve only gotten maybe 15% of “the things I want to do” done. I’m not being a good example to my kids by coasting for as long as I have.
Where I want to be
If I wanted to sum up what I wanted to be, I can do it in two words: Be Good.
Be a good person. Be a good me which means growing and becoming the best I can be.
I’m 40 and I feel like I should have gotten more done. I don’t want to feel like that. And the only way to stop is to actually set and complete goals.
If I was two envision my perfect lifestyle, it would be this. I’m sitting somewhere in Australia. My daughters are 11 and 14. I’m taking a month long trip teaching them how to backpack their way across a country they’ve never been to before. As I’m doing that, I’m also doing a little work probably writing a success blog because by that time, I’ve really figured it out and can prove it.
I’ll also have multiple streams of income that pay my current my current living expenses. My wife is shooting her documentary in some other country in she’ll meet up with us in a few weeks.
This is blog is about me getting from here to there.