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Instant Sean

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  • One Shot…

    One Shot…

    My wonderful BOLD wife Joanna Watson Donahue took a chance, left her comfort zone because she knew one thing… let me tell you a story to illustrate it:

    For my first wife Angela & my first house, it was going to the house that had a tree stump in the middle of the living room. The sellers never had the stump removed when they built the house, they just put a glass table on top of it.

    Don’t get me started about the cow house that had cows EVERYWHERE including the wall paper and didn’t have a working HVAC system inside….

    Or the house whose sunken living room had a spa in the middle of it.

    Joanna knows that every family has a “home” story. Those were the stories I still tell today because when we saw the teacup roses outside our current home we knew it was perfect.

    Right now, she’s looking for the first referral, the first opportunity, the first person who will discover that she is willing, wanting and able to do whatever it takes to be their real estate agent.

    Enimem said it in “Lose Yourself,”

    “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
    To seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment
    Would you capture it, or just let it slip?”

    She’s willing to capture it. Are you willing to give her one shot?

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  • Words, Just words

    Words, Just words

    There are many lessons in life fathers teach their children. But only one necessary lesson. I bring this up because I failed in teaching this lesson and it hurts my soul.

    My friends and family know of the torment I suffered at the loss of my sister Tara. I never said goodbye or that I loved her and those lack of finality still haunt me to this day, lesser now than in the past.

    But I learned my lesson and make an effort each time to wish people as I leave their presence, my fond wishes of them. When my brother died in 2006 in a car accident, the last words I said to him was “I love you.” When he died, I had closure and peace. I am horrible at hand writing but my wonderful wife is very specific about thank you notes. She sends them like leaves in the wind in the fall.

    Give thanks. It seems simple and easy but millennial’s bristle at the thought of thanking anybody. They think they deserve everything. I once had an intern who at the end of his internship ask me where his office would be when he got a job with our company. I told him offices weren’t handed out to starting employees and earned from hard work. He quit because he wasn’t getting an office.

    Give me a break.

    I try to tell my kids, my friends and even my family how much I care about them every chance I get. I never know if that one chance I fail to say it will be the one time they need it the most.

    Simple words, but they have power and meaning. I Love You.

    I Love You Joanna. I tell her it every day because my life without her had no meaning.

    I Love You Shelby & Ryan. I tell them it every time we speak because I never know how long I will be on this earth.

    I Love You Mom & Dad. Because as they are in their golden years, I’m not sure how many times I will get to tell them those words.

    They are just words Sean, they don’t have any power.

    Tell that to a son who wishes he could tell his dad Happy Father’s Day one more time.

    Tell that to a daughter who wishes she could hold her mom tight one more time.

    Words you say. They have more power than any hateful words you can think of. I can ignore hate, I can shuffle hate to ignorance. But you can’t ignore love. In your darkest days, in your miserable nights, love will always shine through.

    Love means I understand you are eighteen and scared. It means I’ve been there too and I want you to learn from the mistakes I made so you don’t have to have the pain that I have. Your heart won’t hurt from being as broken as my has been.

    Love is forever, so when you have determined my punishment is over I will be here.

    Because I love you forever, that’s what father’s do.

  • Quotes are meaningless unless…

    Quotes are meaningless unless…

    If you take a look at Twitter at any time of the day, you can always find someone tweeting a quote. I don’t have a problem with the quote, but expand upon the quote, tell me why that quote is important to you, and when your account is nothing but links to other social media articles and quotes but no reason for me to follow you, you get a quick unfollow.

    That is the problem with chasing a number. Social Media “experts” have to chase the followers and scores that give them notoriety which allows them to be invited to speak and be considered an expert. But are they really an expert? Probably not in my opinion because they are just a manufactured number given to them by a flawed system. Anyone can buy followers, and get reaction with paid sponsored tweets. The internet continues to move on, and you can’t just sit on your laurels celebrating your 75+ Klout score with 100k of followers.

    I have 400 followers and try to respond to every message that I get back. Now imagine if you are someone who has a large amount of followers. You have to feed the beast and if you don’t it all crumbles. The world continues to spin, and with each day quality content is demanded by users. If you aren’t putting compelling content on your site, your followers and clicks disappear. Don’t give your fans an excuse to leave. Tell them a story so they may stay awhile.

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    When the poker boom of the turn of the 21st century began, I was part of a group of bloggers that played poker, blogged about poker and couldn’t get enough content about poker from each other. From 2003 to 2011 this group of players were creating content, blogs, videos, podcasts, live broadcasts and poker players ate it up. Sponsorships and money flowed to users.

    Then Black Friday happened[2] and poker as a fun gathering shriveled up. The weekly gatherings online were gone, and all of the content provided by these players disappeared.

    Content was created because of a common love and gatherings of these players, friends, compatriots still occur, but the websites where content flowed are now like graveyards[3] of old airplanes.

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    The passion that hundreds of thousands of players had died on Black Friday, and poker media with it. Friends of mine watched as they sponsorships disappeared and the people who used to shill for sites went back to their lives.

    This is just an example of the content explosion and implosion that happens daily with different groups around the world. All it takes is one event to change the pattern of how a group’s dynamics change forever.

    So my friends, don’t give me just quotes, tell me why that quote has meaning. Make me feel like I am an insider into your life. Tell me a story where I find out more about you and enrich our relationship. Give me a reason to give you that retweet and you shall get it.

    Because if you just give me a quote, it makes an unfollow so much easier to give you.

    [1] Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg ,the unsealing of the indictment on April 15, 2011 killed online poker in the US.
    [3] http://www.dtra.mil/press_resources/photo_libra
  • Would you like some cheese with that WHINE?

    Would you like some cheese with that WHINE?

    I’ve held my words these last couple of days. I’ve tried to be the better man.

    But in the immortal words of Popeye… “That’s all I can stands, cuz I can’t stands n’more”

    Stop complaining people. Yup, I said it. If you have a problem with something, don’t complain, offer to help. 

    I have been told of several people who would like to complain about the 4th on Broadway parade, street fair and fireworks today. I would like to reserve this place for such bitching.

    I will take the comments and requests up to the 4th on Broadway Committee when we next meet.

    Please remember the following: 4oB is volunteer driven. most, if not all of the problems that you may have experienced were due to the errors of other individuals and not of 4oB.

    I will accept all flames here.

    I accept them and then will reply to your flame with an invitation to be a volunteer next year.

    My wife and I will be co-chairing the parade next year and unlike the under 33 days I had to prepare with no previous experience with a week taken away, since i was out of town getting my teenage kids, we will spend the next year trying to make the parade even better.

    Please have the guts not to leave anonymous emails and messages at my work unlike some people who have done so since Saturday.

    Have the guts to sign your name to your complaints, then help us make it better next year.

    I believe in the volunteers and in our city! Do you have the fortitude to back up your words? I do, will you?

    I have the guts to be proud of the volunteers of 4th on Broadway cause they were too few.  I have the guts to say that a bunch of people cussed my wife out because she told them to back up and they didn’t.

    Some people will say that “parade marshals” will stop people from coming onto the road.

    I have a better idea, let’s try this out for size. Parents should take responsibility for their children instead of letting them run out into the streets.  People hate change, but we as a city need to change.

    How about one suggestion, that I heard, no candy throwing at all?  Or would people complain about that too?

    I love this city so much, but people complaining about the parade are the reason why this city can’t have nice things.

    You want to complain… down below is where you do it.

    This is my opinion and not of Alpha Media, our sponsors, 4th on Broadway or of anyone else but me.

  • Origin story of my public twitter handle… InstantTragedy

    Origin story of my public twitter handle… InstantTragedy

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    Q: What is the background of your online name… InstantTragedy?

    So I have tried to keep an optimistic attitude toward everything that changed after my wife of six years left me.  I became a very bitter man.  I did not understand the bad luck and fortune that had started to accompany me.  I saw not the good in life but the more realistic in life.  I saw the homeless that I had once pitied as someone that I could be.  I saw the negative in anything.  I had let my divorce affect who I was and what I saw in life.

    That was a tragedy.

    When I was at work one day I was reminded of a band that I had managed or saw named Tragedy, which played in Lubbock a long time ago.  We were having all sorts of problems on the (WORK COMPUTER SYSTEM) and we were waiting for AV Tech support to call back.

    Then it started to rain.

    It was the beginning of a long day, and I told “Ah Instant Tragedy: Just Add Water” and a co-worker started to laugh asking me where that came from. “This is like some bad dream, some instant meal where all you do is add water and POOF, it’s done”.

    So when I decided to go online playing poker I wanted to have fun and Instant Tragedy was born.

    InstantTragedy is where I can be gonzo fun and not care about the consequences. I am a performer for a radio group and my life is truly never private. However I have a private Twitter handle / Facebook account where only the elite of elite ever gets to see behind the curtain. If anyone in the public asks, my handle is InstantTragedy. If people want to know the real me I’m @SeanADonahue , but the line is long for people to enter and I just don’t feel like moving the rope line yet.

    For if I don’t understand where I have been, I will never truly know where I am going.

    So @Ginaschreck that’s how I got my name.

    What’s one fact about you that nobody would know about you but would find interesting.

    I’m waiting…