Blogging For Purpose

For a good while now, I’ve been working on making changes and additions to my blogs, both to this one and the social blog. I think the time has come to start implementation.

As far as the social blog goes, I’ve been setting up a massive project to do since January—nicknamed Project Mo Fe Mo Arami (yoruba translation is Know Yourself—MFMA). The goal of this project is to understand myself better and to define how I’ve perceived by people. I have 27 social experiments ready to go and have been researching the studies of Freud, Lacan, and Jung. I want to see what kind of personality I project to others and how I can manipulate and control it. By doing this, I can better control my environment and get the reactions I want from regular people (friends, family) and business people (tenants, mortgage brokers, underwriters, banks, etc.) alike. The estimated time to complete this project is 8 months, but it varies depending on what I have time for. In my social blog, I’ve done 19 experiments total. 16 of them have produced great results and 3 produced nothing because the planning was flawed. I was considering putting Project MFMA here, but I have other plans for this blog.

Reviewing this blog daily, I noticed that I don’t put a lot of technical real estate terms on here. I have vague ideas about what certain things mean like depreciation, NOI, and debt-to-income ratio, but I don’t feel I have a firm grasp on that type of technical knowledge. So starting in June, I plan to start every blog with a real estate term’s definition and example—just like I used to do in elementary school. Sometimes it will be a real estate question that I may have and need to find the answers to, which can be found online or by asking a real estate professional. I’ve used this blog to help me with P90x and Beachbody Insanity, so I figured it’s time to use this real estate blog for actual real estate education. Not to say that I haven’t learned much because I have, but I could be educating myself so much more with these new additions.

I’ll admit that I’m a bit nervous about Project MFMA. I see myself in a certain way and I’m not sure how I’ll react if my perceptions are challenged. But I’ve got to do it. I’m one of those people who believes that a person both directly and indirectly controls their environment which is ultimately responsible for the direction his/her life takes. If I can know myself to the point that I can gain the favor of those I do business with through simple adjustments and manipulations, the possibilities would be infinite!