A John Lennon Song for Dreamers & Doers

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Ken Thompson in Lifestyle, Self-Help and tagged Advice, Beatles, Dream, Dreamer, Dreamers, Enlightenment, Happiness, John Lennon, Music, The Beatles, Watching the wheels.

“Watching The Wheels” by John Lennon

Lyrics beneath the video! Enjoy!! :))

Full Lyrics:

People say I’m crazy
Doing what I’m doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I’m okay, well they look at me kinda strange
“Surely, you’re not happy now, you no longer play the gaaaammeeeeeeee”

People say I’m lazy
Dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice
Designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I’m doing fine watching shadows on the wall
“Don’t you miss the big time boy, you’re no longer on the ballllllllll?”

I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people askin questions
Lost in confusion
Well I tell them there’s no problem
Only solutions
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I’ve lost my mind
I tell them there’s no hurry, I’m just sitting here doing timeeeeeeeeee

I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round

I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

I just had tooo let it go

I just had toooooooo let it gooooooo

Well, there it is. Love this song. What’s your favorite part of this song?

Interview with Youtuber Denise Vlogs

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Ken Thompson in Motivation, Successful People and tagged 4 Hour Work Week, Accomplishments, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Author, billion dollars, Blog, Blogging, California, DeniseActuallyVlogs, DeniseVlogs, Dream job, Dreamer, DVPresents, Escape 9-5, Famous Youtuber, Film Producer, Film Production, horror films, iMovie, Inspiration, Instagram, Interview, LA, Lifestyle, Lisbon, Lisbon Portugal, Live your Dream, Los Angeles, Los Angeles California, MacBook Pro, million youtube views, perfect day, q and a, scary stories, screen writer, short films, short horror films, Skype Interview, Snapchat, Superpower, Traveler, Traveling, Traveling the world, Twitter, Vlogging, Write, Youtube, Youtuber.

I had the pleasure of interviewing YouTube star Denise Vlogs via Skype! Denise loves creating short horror films which you can check out HERE.

She also vlogs her travels in which she has been all over the world; so if you love a good horror story and an adventure you need to check her channel out! She has almost 100,000 YouTube subscribers and videos with over a million views. She recently bought a one way ticket to Europe and was in the Capital of Portugal, Lisbon when I interviewed her. For now, enjoy the q and a interview with Denise Vlogs:

Hello Denise! Where are you from?

DV: “I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York; moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Brooklyn College majoring in film production.”

2. Where are you currently and would you like to live somewhere specific?

DV: “Lisbon, Porutgal. If I had to settle it would be in Los Angeles.” She knows a lot of people in Los Angeles, but is not too fond of living in the states because at the moment it is hard to be a freelancer here.

3. What is your dream job?

DV: “Film production; writing scripts, film maker, and that being the only source of income.”

4. Do you have a role model? Who is it and why?

DV: “Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. I met him when I worked as a receptionist at Anonymous Content.” She watched his movies in film school where he was used as an example of a great foreign director and admired for his work.

5. Since she had lived in Los Angeles for awhile I asked her if she met any celebrities and she did: DV: “I met Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher..lots of famous people and famous YouTubers. I was more excited to meet other YouTubers because I wanted to collaborate with them.”

6. Tell me about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career.

DV: “DV Presents-Denise Vlogs presents; a series of short films-10-20 of them. I love these films that focus on a story. These are what I love to make.” Check out these videos HERE

7. If you had a superpower what would it be?

DV: “Time travel—I’d warn my mom about her cancer so she would have survived; also a friend who died of the same cancer. I’d tell myself to break up with several people.”

8. What does your perfect day look like?

DV: “New experiences; a brand new country in a beautiful place. When I just released a DV presents video, get a lot of money, and eat good food.”

9. How would you spend a billion dollars?

DV: “Travel, film making, donate to charities. I would save for 10 years and adopt a child. Buy several properties all over the world. Buy a citizenship in another country. Never bring a suitcase with me everywhere I went; I’d shop wherever I went and then donate my old clothes.”

10. What did you want to be when you grew up?

DV: “Starting at 11 I wanted to be a screen writer. I wrote a script when was 11. Before that I wanted to be an actress and singer, maybe I just wanted attention…I also wanted to be a meteorologist when I was really young; I was fascinated by natural disasters as a little kid. My dad bought tons of movies, and my mom loved to watch scary movies so I would watch them with her and I really like them. At sleepovers and with friends I would make up ghost stories with friends. My uncle also told me he wrote a screen play when I was a young age, so that made me realize that anyone could do it!” Her friends liked her scary stories the best!

11. What is the hardest part about maintaining the lifestyle you live?

DV: “I want to make more money; I just make enough to get by at the moment. Being a digital nomad can be sad having to leave people after I connect with someone. It can get lonely being by myself, so it might be nice to settle.”

12. What do you enjoy most about your lifestyle?

DV: “New experiences and new people I get to meet all the time. It’s a burst of energy when you connect to a new place. I enjoy not having to sit in a desk every day, learning new things, creating content, and hopes I’ll have more time to create more content to focus on.”

13. What kind of computer do you have? You probably have to edit a lot for those awesome videos!!

DV: “I recommend the MacBook Pro to edit videos and stuff. I have the MacBook Pro 2014. I use adobe premier to edit but for beginners recommend iMovie. I use photoshop sometimes and would use a desktop but I move around a lot.”

Currently Denise is working now as a freelancer. She edits videos, consults people and companies for social media– YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. She has looked into teaching online and possibly substitute teach. She also like to volunteer to teach English. She has two YouTube channels DeniseVlogs and DeniseActuallyVlogs. She uses both channels but deniseactuallyvlogs is more casual.

Follow her on Twitter @DeniseVlogs, Instagram @DeniseVlogs. Follow her travels on snapchat at DeniseVlogs too!

If you missed it at the top here is her youtube main page!

Action Cures Fear

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Ken Thompson in Motivation, Self-Help and tagged Action, Believe, Cure, Decisive, Dreamer, Experience, Fear, Hope, Inspire, Motivate, Move, People, Pleasant, Pleasing, Positive, Practical, Read, Situations, Success.

Everyone experiences a great deal of unpleasant, embarrassing, and discouraging situations. But unsuccessful and successful people deal with these situations in exactly opposite ways.

Successful people focus on putting positive thoughts into their memory bank. Unsuccessful people dwell on unpleasant situations. If you’re reading this right now you either want to be successful or are a good friend of mine, and hopefully both! If you do want to be more successful then you should practice recalling pleasant, positive experiences and count your blessings! I’ve begun to practice recalling pleasant situations and I actually wrote down a few amazing experiences on a note card to remember! I am very appreciative of everything and have to give some credit to this method.

Another practical thing you can do is to take actions that support your HOPE! What is it you desire? What is holding you back from reaching it? What you hope for, you can have. This method has been proven time and time again, but you still might not believe it, which is why you will stay exactly where you are. BELIEVE. Act on what you hope for! People who consciously think of their hopes and then act to make them happen are the people you see who are living their dreams!

The next time you experience fear, calm yourself. Then search yourself for an answer to this specific question: “What kind of action can I take to conquer my fear?” Here are some examples of fear and some possible action cures:

Fear Fear of failing an exam
*Action*Convert worry time into study time.

Fear Fear of things totally beyond your control
*Action*Turn your attention to helping relieve the fear of others and pray.

Fear Fear of what other people may think and say
*Action*Make sure that what you plan to do is fair. Then do it. No one ever does anything worthwhile without being criticized.

Fear Fear of people
*Action*Put them in the correct perspective. A person is just another human being pretty much just like yourself.

We all experience fear in one way or another, but the most successful people feel the fear then do it anyway! They take action! BE decisive! Instead of dwelling in fear, take action! Do something. Recall pleasant experiences often and get going!

Who I Am

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Ken Thompson in Lifestyle and tagged Beatles, Breathe, Change, Cherish, Deams, Dreamer, Effort, England, Forever, Goals, Inspire, Life, Liverpool, Love, Motivate, Realist, School, Semester, Success, Time, Unrealistic, Work.

You may say that I’m a dreamer. I know I’m not the only one though. This world is filled with dreamers, but it is also filled with realists. Can you be a realist and a dreamer at

At The Beatle’s Story Building in Liverpool England. (2013)

the same time? I think so.

There are dreams each of us have every single day that become fulfilled, and there are dreams that are not fulfilled. A lot of times we don’t see our dreams as dreams. What I mean by this, is that most people expect to eat at some point in the day. They dream about it, they think about it. If they never thought about it, would they not eat? You have to eat to stay alive, so why don’t we look at success as if it were dinner? If ya know what I’m sayin. Need it, breathe it, think about it and be it.

There are also some dreams that some people may find unrealistic but that other people are doing. If someone else is doing it then YOU CAN TOO!! A few years ago I was presented with the idea of studying abroad. This seemed like it could be a life-changing experience, and it was, but I will get to that later. Looking back on what I did to make studying in England possible for a semester took effort. It was not easy by any means, but it was worth it. Paper work sucks, but sometimes it needs to be done if you want to do the things you really want to do. I didn’t look at studying abroad as a dream until it actually happened, and reflecting on that experience makes me see that that is exactly what that was, a dream come true. Many people talk about it, few people do it.

If you want something, go for it. Work for it. Put in TIME and EFFORT. Nothing worth having comes easy, but once you get it, the dream is something to be cherished forever.