Who Are We Really Trying To Impress?

Think about it.  We do a ton of strange things to try impressing people we really don’t know or even care about – just to be looked at as being more “successful” than we really are.

The truth is:

“Success depends on who you compare yourself to.”

Who Are We Comparing Ourselves To?

What our parents want for us?  What the person has down the street that we don’t have?  This false perception that we’re not “successful” if we’re not “living our dream” or having to work another job to finance our vision?

For the past few decades we’ve listened to people who were more “successful” than us because we’ve thought, “since they’re doing what I want to do, I’ll just do what they do” – buying all of their products they sell to try and live the life that they APPEAR to be living (or sell us to believe).

The thing is… it doesn’t always work.

We become frustrated.  Angry.  Burnt out.  Unbalanced.  Trying anything and everything to try and live this false facade we’ve been sold to believe just to look a lot better than we really are… and we need a better alternative.

Let’s Be Honest.

It’s almost hard to believe anything we’ve been told lately.

What’s been happening, is that we’ve been overwhelmed with a ton of conventional wisdom – sold on a lot of overly complex yet watered down theories from an immense amount of people we don’t know much of anything about and… we’re starting to lose ourselves.

We think, “Hey if this person has a ton of ‘followers,’ a book deal and dresses really nice they must know something and…”

A lot of what they say and what we’ve been sold to believe is just not true.

Why?

Because we’re  STILL overworked.  Under-appreciated.  Scared to lose our job – most of the time running on empty using prescription drugs as a band aid to cover up the real problem.

Us.

“We wouldn’t need great benefits if we stopped working a job that made us sick!”

A New Paradigm: Mixing Business, Creativity And The Truth.

This is what I mean when I say that I provide ”simple unconventional insights (for you and your business).”

It’s a movement towards living your own unique and authentic self both inside and outside of the workplace. A place where unconventional ideas, businesses and people with an actual soul, melt into one.  Not from someone like me, but from people just like you that I come into contact with each and every day all over the world.

Won’t you join me?

“Never value your level of self worth based on the position you hold.”

The Formal Me:

Jared Matthew Kessler is the author of a unique book entitled, “The Poet and the Billionaire” and the CEO of a company called “Moving Mountains” – a small place that’s making a big impact on people’s business and personal life.

Appearing in a handful of commercials and television programs, he’s evolved through many things.

Starting out his career as a singer/songwriter, Jared performed hundreds of solo acoustic concerts across the country. He is also a composer and musician whose music has been heard on several shows on Mtv and CMT - operating his business and personal life 100% debt free.

Helping companies and individuals to thrive in their own unique way using the wide variety of products and Copywriting service he offers, over 50 different countries read and visit his web site and blog each month. Recently releasing his first eBook entitled, “Your Uncommon Guide to Finding the Ultimate Mentor” Jared looks to constantly push the envelope in helping people to help themselves.

“Evolve or perish.”

What Others Are Saying:

“We should have more people in the world like you my friend (always willing to be themselves).  The best thing about you, is your outlook on life.  It takes a great inner self to be that disciplined.  You are a great individual.”

Elio Garcia – Pasadena, CA

“Very uplifting, definitely inspired.”

Dr. Jamie Bedics – Seattle, WA

“Thanks to the support of Jared and people like him, many artists like myself have carried on making their dreams come true.”

Emily Haston – London, England

“As you know there is a growing need for the millions of Cultural Creatives in the world to know how to make life work for them. This is an important, because it supports our soul’s desire to fully self express and be creative at a very high level. There is virtually nothing to support people in this arena.  It will help people who do not have the business savvy to make their “creative calling” more functional, adaptable, and sustainable for them.”

Paul Jamarillo – Portland, OR

“You are an amazing man, Jared.”

Elizabeth Vargas – Newport Beach, CA

Still Want To Know More?

Born in Brooklyn, NY I started my career as a singer songwriter back in 1997 (growing up around various parts of NJ).  Armed with a passion in music, a degree in psychology, and an acoustic guitar, I made a way where there was none.

No money?  I made my own (working various ”Survival Jobs” to fund all projects).  No publicist?  I created my own publicity (receiving national press recognition for the accomplishments I made happen).  No label support?  I started my own.  No one to book shows?  I learned how to book them myself.

In short, I was a self-sufficient one-man machine that could not be stopped despite any and all circumstances I faced along the way.

400 shows later, I was beyond burnt, ran out of money, and ended my solo acoustic career back in 2003. My last show was recorded live at the “Little Theatre” in Farmington, New Mexico at the peak of it.  This was my 3rd self released album entitled, “I’m listening.”

Months later, I signed with a well respected talent agency after a known casting director approached me – playing on the strip in Venice, CA.  Despite having appeared in various commercials, music videos, and tv shows… it still paid minimally, so I went back to music and working “the day job.”

With the music industry taking a plunge, my music career went along with it.  Tired of living off of credit cards, to “Just hang on,” I decided I could not live like that anymore, and stopped everything.

With “The Billionaire” at my side to help me to help myself and encourage me through the grueling times, I was STILL far from where I wanted to be!  Frustrated beyond belief, I stopped communication with him, put the music aside, ceased activity on this supposed book that was forming on its own, and went to live with my parents to pay off all my credit cards I used to survive.

Although everyone thought I gave up, I knew that I would be back – I just had no clue when.  Doing whatever it took to pay off all of my credit card debt, I worked two jobs delivering pizza and mopping floors till 2 am (while also answering phones during the day).  Two years later, I came back once again – heading back to Southern California for a second time.

With a transformed body, mind and spirit (as see in the before and after pictures above), I finally started to see my hard earned results pay off.  Still working two jobs to “Pay my bills” and fund upcoming projects in music and writing, I once again, got let go from another “Survival Job” in 2006 despite the fact that everyone loved me (averaging 3 jobs a year over the past 10 years to fund much of what I do).

Up until this point, I was reading and applying a book a week for the past few years and thought, “These people INCLUDING ‘The Billionaire’ DO NOT know what the fuck they are talking about because nothing I am doing is working!”

Once again on the verge of giving up, currently living in a garage behind an elderly ladies house with no income coming in, my laptop wound up dying on me.  Going against everything I was taught, I decided to finance a new one.  Then something magical started to happen… I found the technology I needed in order to make the music that I truly wanted to make since day one, almost 10 years ago.

Teaching myself piano, and learning how to use a program called, “Garageband,” I released my 4th album entitled, “Fighting To Be Me,” again on my own label “Moving Mountains.”  Later heard on “True Life, Two a Days, My Super Sweet Sixteen, Engaged and Underage” on Mtv and CMT… I knew I was onto something -recently releasing my fifth album, “Flight.”

Returning back to the book idea (taking six years to put together and fund), it was finally done.

Beating incredible odds, I began embracing the concept of “Moving Mountains” as a way of life.  Using it to form my own company, I wanted to provide a source of unique inspiration to help give people in the workforce today a truthful perspective on things – while also understanding that no matter the circumstance, we should never settle for anything than what we set out to be.

To be continued…