With every­thing that I do, profes­sion­ally and person­ally I want to lead a life that is christ centered. Using my personal expe­ri­ences and knowl­edge to help others in anyway that I can. Using the right tools to get thing done effec­tively and effi­ciently.

It has been a while since I have had a chance to post an article; over a year to be exact. The last year has had several ups and down in my profes­sional and free­lancing careers. I have been working six or more days a week for the last 4 years between my day job and free­lancing and I have found this to be a struggle at time with having little or no personal time some weeks.

About a year ago my main free­lancing client Phoenix Graphix special­izing in text­book publishing had to start cutting back due to the lack of work because the text­book industry had to restruc­ture itself. With the economy and tech­nology advancing text­books would not be made the same way ever again. So I went from being a full-time contractor for Phoenix Graphix to only helping out one day a week.

Luckily while I was working for Phoenix Graphix I still kept my day job working as a manager for a local fast food restau­rant a few days a week. With less hour free­lancing I had to pick up hours at my day job and I am now working full-time as a Manager and only working a few days free­lancing.

Now here is where the title of this post will start to make since.

While I like working as a manager of a fast food restau­rant and I try my best at getting the job done correctly, I am not passionate about this job. After real­izing this I started asking myself the hard ques­tions:

• Why am I not passionate about this job?
• What can I do to make me more passionate about this job?
• What do I want to do as a career in 5 years?
• What am I passionate at?

Then today I real­ized that the best way for me to answer these ques­tions and to be more passionate about my work is to write a personal mission state­ment. I have never thought about writing a mission state­ment for myself and my goals in life. Right now I do not know how hard this is going to be, but I know that if I want to succeed in every­thing that I do and be more passionate I need to have a mission state­ment for myself and goals.

Next week I will have my mission state­ment complete and will post it here.

My orig­inal plan to get my personal mission state­ment posted with-in a week has turned into a month now but my personal mission state­ment will be coming soon.

Andrew

Here is a snippet of code that I am using for the copy­right date on my website. I had found a snippet of code that similar and simpler online and cannot find it again. I am new to PHP coding and needs some help with this, I want to make my snippet of code more concise and simpler. Leave a comment if you can help.

Thanks,

<?php $start_year = 2008;
if ( $start_year == date(Y) ) {
echo date(Y);
} else {
echo “$start_year — “.date(“Y”);
} ?>