Guide: Choosing A Love Interest

He llegado a la edad donde no vivo con el fin de impresionar a nadie. Es más, si alguien desea retirarse de mi vida muy cordialmente lo conduzco a la salida para que no se pierda en el camino.

Ese momento en que tu inteligencia empieza a despertar y comienzas  a ignorar a la mayoría de personas.

How should I go about describing a character who goes through a lot, becoming more disheveled and desperate as the plot goes on?

Desperation is the emotion that drives characters to their limits, leading to their most intense and extreme behaviours.

By showing how characters become more desperate as your plot progresses, you can create characters that are interesting, dynamic, and relatable.

Here are some ways you can show desperation in your characters. As the plot moves forward, these elements can get worse, showing their decline.

How do they behave?

Obsessive and/or compulsive

Repetitive actions like hand wringing, or overuse of stock phrases

Self-destructive and risk-seeking

Enhanced aggression

Avoidant and isolationist

Manipulative

Exploitative

Short-tempered

Impulsive decision-making

Unrelenting pursuit of something

What physical signs do they show?

Heart palpitations and short, rapid breathing

Sweating profusely

Shaking or trembling

Sudden onset of nausea

Feeling weak or dizzy

Muscle tension

Headaches

Insomnia caused by worry and stress

Feelings of fatigue

Stomach pain and cramping

How do they interact?

Begging or pleading with others

Manipulating others to get what they want

Increasing paranoia and questioning other's motives

Pushing away loved ones

Becoming overly clingy

Either an inability to trust or being too quick to trust others

Self-sabotage

Single-focus conversations

What do they look like?

Unkempt hair and poor hygiene

Rumpled, slept-in clothing

Nervous tics, like fidgeting, pacing, or picking at nails

Extreme and unexplained weight loss

A haunted, faraway, or panicked look

Dark-rimmed, bruised eyes from lack of sleep or exhaustion

A constant sheen of sweat and clammy skin

Unusual clothing choices

What body language do they display?

Hunching over, as if trying to protect themselves

Fidgeting or pacing

Avoiding eye contact

Clenching fists or grinding teeth

Sweating or shaking

Staring intently at something

Repeatedly touching hair or face

Darting eyes and biting lips

Meek and under-confident stance

Pleading look

What is their attitude?

Feeling hopelessness

Sad and dejected

Becoming increasingly irrational

A loss of faith in themselves and others

Obsession to the point of resorting to extreme measures

A sense of helplessness

Blaming others

Feeling powerless

A sense of urgency

What are some positive things that can come out of desperation?

Increased motivation to achieve their goals or solve their problems

Resilience and adaptability in the face of adversity

Heightened creativity and resourcefulness

The ability to form deep and meaningful connections with those who share their struggles

Catharsis or character growth through their struggles

What are some negative things that can come out of desperation?

A tendency to become self-destructive or engage in risky behaviour

Difficulty forming and maintaining healthy relationships

Increased isolation or loneliness

Chronic stress and physical health problems

A tendency to make impulsive or irrational decisions

Prone to depression and anxiety

Numbers? Numbers?

Who said numbers?!

Hey, first of all, let me explain the difference between a real person and a fake one.

Fake ones count like the stars

Real ones, hard to find

Fakes Ones like acceptance (that’s why they use other people and/or other people post)

Real ones, stand by themselves, because they know their values and what they stand for

Fake ones, do not like rejection

Real ones, know who they are, and their values is on themselves, not in the crowd.

Fake ones, go for popularity

Real ones, WTF, I’m not a number, but a fucking human being, bad ass, with a word to say to shout out, because that word defines me and makes me who I am.

Just to make clear about the numbers.

Everything is About Finances!

I still remember when I was at my friend’s house and used to poke around by grabbing the paper to read the news, and show off myself by saying “my stocks in the market are doing pretty good”. Nothing to laugh about it, except that the only thing of value was my own bicycle that I used as a mean of transportation to go from home to everywhere else, and my own persona if a body could be counted as gold since my family was “poor” in the terms and conditions of that little kid from “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”.

Years passed by, and we do not know what the future holds for us, and one day at school I am supposed to write a blog for my Entertainment Business Finance about the things that I learned in class. Believe me I learned a lot, and now the real world.

Stock market? Google stocks or Wal-Mart stocks? Which one do I go for? It depends. Stocks in the market behave divergently depending on the sector, and even within the sector a share might be of high value, depending on the company performance such as its efficiency, liquidity, profitability, and stability. We should look at the ratios when we compare Google vs Wal-Mart: Return of Investment (ROI, which is related to the efficiency of the investment for the company) for Google 14.15; Wal-Mart 14.31; Return on Equity (ROE, how much profit a company makes with money from shareholders) for Google 15.55 and Wal-Mart 23.30.

  Negotiations? Big deal in business finance when making a contract with an artist. 120 millions deal for Madonna in which she is getting 90 % of the concert sales, and also 50% of licensing money? In the top of that, LIve Nation is releasing $17.5 million to the artist in advance, plus another $50 to 60 million dollars when she delivers the music for some CD’s.!!!?????

What!!??? Are you crazy? She is going to steal even the clothes that I am wearing on! There should be a point where the artist knows when enough is enough! Do not worry my son- it seems to me that the CEO, Mr Rapino from Live Nation is telling me- everything is about finances! “We got the Madonna 2014 tour at 2008 prices… We project that Madonna will gross over $1 billion in this 10 years. She's working to generate the $1 billion, not the $100 million schedule that we're going to pay her over time. That's just the appetizer.” Everything is about finances; the money that you spend in the present time will grow in the future because “time is money”. It is like buying a house at $100,000 at the present time, and within 15 years that same house will value $140,000.00 because of the rate of inflation, interest, and time value of money. You see? I take off my hat for Mr. Rapino. Nice move, and above all, a whole concept about finances and time value of money.

Decisions in business? How would you know if an opportunity for business is good at the present time, and will be good in the future, taking into consideration the different rates associated for that loan?

R: By analyzing the profit that will be made in the future minus the cost at the present time. Formula? NPV= PVB-PVC

How would you know if an investment of $100,000 would return, at what rate, and within what time? Payback= C/ATB

I could go on, and on presenting a lot of variables and formulas that show us how taking business decisions is about critical thinking and finances.

  As I said before, and I repeat it again: everything in business is about time, rate, money and finances, specially finances which is the key to analyze proposals to get the best deal that should be represented in profit, profit, and profit.

What did I learn from this course? Finances, is the most important key to make business profitable

    REFERENCES

  http://www.reuters.com/search?blob=google

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=WMT.N

https://assethub.online.fullsail.edu/assethub/Disc-LiveNation_f423bde6-646a-4a15-8a27-0cca269e8a6d.pdf

https://assethub.online.fullsail.edu/assethub/Disc-livenationCEOinterview_bafe6c0b-19ef-465e-8dd6-56fa1eab2982.pdf

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