Adam Schultz

Laugh, if you love it.

Share, if you live it.

And I find it completely useless.

Instead, I propose we all live by 3 simple rules that have been recently shared with me through my local Prophet.

1. Do Good

2. Be Nice

3. Have Fun

These are the threads of life fully filled.

That’s it. Throw everything else away and stay true to these 3 simple threads.

How would you live differently were you to follow the threads?

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If this is gods plan, there is nothing we can do about it.

If we can do something about it, we must.

Tough part is when, how, to what extent and at what cost.

Thoughts.

Have you even eaten a super hot chicken wing?

I don’t mean a regular hot chicken wing, I mean the one with the friggin mushroom cloud next to the name on the menu.

It’s normally the last one in a long list where the first one on the list is hot and then there are like 8 degrees of additional hottness with names like atomic, or braveheart.

You eat it almost as a dare if not actually because someone dared you to eat one. Friends tell you, it’s ok, it’s not that bad, I had one a few months ago. You smother it in ranch as if that’s going to somehow help you.

It starts off easy enough, gone in a minute or so.

It was kind of hot but not terrible. Then slowly and with increasing intensity, your lips start to tingle and your pulse speeds. You begin to feel like your mouth is actually melting and no amount of beer, celery or wings of lesser intensity are of help. Your friends laugh as you begin to sweat and your face turns red. Five minutes in, it has only gotten worse but you are pretty sure that you have finally plateaued. Finally, your taste buds numb, your blood pressure slows and over the next 30 minutes you begin to return to a less red faced, sweat saturated state.

About that time, when your you feel fully revived and have convinced your self that the worst is behind you, is when another other ultra-mega-super-suicidal wing starts calling your name. Maybe a friend (if you still consider them a friend) reminded you it was there. Maybe you had experienced some kind of masochistic high from the first one. Either way, you seem to be watching it like Tyrone Biggums to a crack rock.

Whatever the reason, you cave. You put the wing on your plate and pretend that it’s no big deal. You tell your friends, I have already been through this, it’s no big deal. You take a deep breath and eat the wing fully convinced that you are somehow better prepared to handle the sweat, the pressure and the pain.

Then the reality of the situation sets in.

The first wing was bad enough, but now you have eaten another one on top of the former. You couldn’t have known at the time, but now it’s like 10 times worse than the first one alone. The 2 have somehow exponentially compounded their individual impact like a payday loan with a couple of missed payments.

You wonder, as your mouth ignites like a biblical lake of fire . . . what the frick was I thinking.

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I would like to formally introduce my second chicken wing.

Hunter Lee Schultz
He is 3 weeks old now
Was 9lbs and 13oz when born

Heather and baby are happy and healthy and we are adjusting well to our newly intensified life. =]

Here are some more pics.

This is what happens when your camera starts to take video instead of setting your timer.

Here is the eventual end result.

Happy holidays!

For those of you who are not my wife and who do not work with me on a regular basis, the decision has been made and boy am I happy about it.

I have pulled back on one of the projects that was greatly contributing to the amazing ass whooping I had been taking over the past 4 months and man does it feel good to have a normal workload.

Not only will I have an easier time managing and growing Bold, but I have more time for family and I am getting back to those positive personal cycles.

Here is how I have been spending some of that new free time. Enjoy.

Clumsy Dance:

Mercy Rose Dance:

Hanukkah Dance:

For those of you who are not my wife or who work with me at one of the 2 places I frequent, I have been extremely busy these days and am on the verge, like 11:30 this morning, of putting an end to it and piling the majority of my time back into 1 full time endeavor instead of 2. Not sure yet which one that will be.

The past 4 months have been an absolute whirlwind and between spending time with family and the 2 endeavors I formerly spoke of, I have been completely neglecting myself. I don’t play Frisbee any more, house hold projects aren’t getting done, I have put back on 10 pounds of the 30 I had lost in the past year (prior to the past 4 months) and I don’t even know what friends are anymore.

As far as cycles go, mine are completely out of whack. In fact, I would presently consider myself in the middle of an anti-cycle.

Funny thing about cycles. Everyone has them and a wise man once told me that cycles need busting, good or bad.

A bout a week ago I decided that I needed to make some hard decisions in order to be fair to my family, my employees, my clients and most importantly myself. No sooner had I done that than one of my good friends and marketing hipster came back online and started blogging again. His first post back was about cycles and timing no doubt!

Little did I know that without his dialog, I had been missing an important voice in my life.

A couple of days ago, I was in bed and all of a sudden I began to miss another important voice that had inspired me from March 17, 2006 to March 17, 2007. Ze Frank is a creatively inspiring power house. I don’t know him like I do Cord but he is also a motivating force in my life. I was thinking, “Man, I wish Ze would start vlogging again”. I’m not sure what made me think about it, it’s just with all the stress lately, I needed a release.

Then, on today of all days, when I am stressed to wits end and my body is actually showing physically painful symptoms of my mental strain, He answers my prayers with this. (As an Athiest, answering my prayers is a hard thing to do)

This gave me a boost and reminded me that no matter what is going on, I need not be stressed and that no matter what happens today, I have 2 strong directions to travel. Either one is a big step in the right direction and either one will bring plenty of challenges and rewards.

Wish me luck!

Take Home Quiz:

How have your cycles been lately?
Do you think Ze is back for another year?

I set up this code a good while ago but recently realized that I needed to be sharing this information with the general public.

Basically, If you want to track an external link in Google Analytics as a goal or just to know what’s happening, here is some code to get it done.

Code for JS incude
function goNow(location, linkType){
urchinTracker("/aff-link/" + linkType);
//document.location = location;
window.open(location);
}

Code for your header in every page (remove spaces in open and closing script tags)
< script src="/javascripts/aff-track.js" type="text/javascript">< /script>

Code for your links(remove spaces in open and closing a tags)
< a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="goNow(' http://www.site.com/affvar=AFFID','linkID');">Link Text< /a >


Use the linkID for whatever you want to show up to differentiate different link types.
It will show up in GA as a page load for www.site.com/aff-link/linkID

Once you get it working, you can set up www.site.com/aff-link/ as a goal page with a $$ value.

Good luck and happy tracking.