Hello, world! Thanks for stopping by and welcome to the first installment of the “Do You” series, inspired by the Russell Simmons book. Every month this year, I’m reflecting on one of Russell’s 12 laws laid out in the book.

Russell’s first law is about the Power of Vision. He drills into the reader the extent of the power one can wield, by simply freezing a goal or idea in their mind, growing and chiseling it into a vision, and following it with conviction. A lot of us have heard similar messages, but for some reason, nothing changes. We’re all blessed with ideas, but few of us pursue them. While everything from Def Jam Records to Apple Inc. flourishes, the majority of us are left on the sidelines, with a great number of us marveling at something we have the potential to do ourselves.

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Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. Welcome to a new year of possibilities for the world, your life, my life, and briangoins.com. I’ve spent the last 6 months of my life building new relationships and fretting over old friendships, obsessing about every dollar involved in my cash flow, and my relative life position to my goals. I’m not the New Year’s resolution type, but by pure coincidence, (and maybe some subliminal societal influence,) I find myself in the first week of 2011 poised to begin another major life change. I hope you’ll stay tuned throughout the year, because I harbor a lot of things in my mind, and the combination of a new-found creative compulsion, and my acknowledgement of my blogging neglect should bring some interesting content to this website.

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