Poet Tree: Volume One - Forrever Memories

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I have finally published my first volume in the Poet Tree series called Forrever Memories.  I utilized www.lulu.com to help me publish the book onto the web.  I am in the process of preparing a second edition that should work out the kinks that I experienced with the first edition, namely the table of contents.  It took some time for me to understand what goes on using Microsoft's Word program.  A support guy from the makers of PDF-Xchange has helped me identify the problems I had with my document and in trying to prepare it for conversion to a PDF file he found some errors with the table of contents that had repeating page numbers for different poems.
I am quite proud of myself, being able to put together this book over several years and several PCs worth of saving my transcribed poetry onto disk.  My nephew was the first buyer of the book and I am really excited. 
If anyone has any questions or would like their own copy of the book, I am selling it through Lulu.com - just look up my title or go to my personal website Forrest Fyr to obtain your copy.  I am selling the 180 page book for $18.50 and I of course have to pay for the book to be printed, so my income will be more like $6.99 after everyone else gets their cut.  I have about 100 poems, the first hundred I have ever written back in 1991, when I was a pre and post graduate of high school. 
Although I love writing poetry, I have taken some time off from working that avenue to explore more creative avenue's with video recording my lipsyncing and dancing to remixed dance and pop music while editing it in a program called Pinnacle Studio 10 Ultimate Collection and Adobe Premiere 3.0.  I have not been able to master the editing process yet and have decided to delve deeper into my pockets to purchase another PC, this time a more recent new and faster processor on a laptop which will be new for me.  It will support gaming and video editing which I would like to get real good at.  I want to be able to upload videos to You Tube and have my own little video creation that I will allow other access to involving my life.  I was thinking of doing something similar to that of www.ijoseph.tv.  I have found that site to be filled with superb videos of this guy singing with his shirt off to dance music.  He lipsycs the music and has fun with his friends and post the videos to You Tube.  I like the idea and want to express myself the same way he does.
I should be receiving the laptop computer by AlienWare - a Dell product within the next 2 weeks.  This will be my birthday gift and hopefully I can tear myself away from the desktop PC that we both use.  I can install Bioshock 2 to the laptop and Pinnace and Adobe Premiere as well so that I can begin to utilize the speed with the new PC.  I think I should also try to start to blog more often.  I think having the laptop will provide me a way to be at my parents house and play magic with Charles and also blog more often, being that it's portable.  I can bring it anywhere and log in my thoughts.

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Insurance Agents suffer from Bipolar Disorder

If you are a financial planner, or an insurance agent and you sell life, health or disability insurance, chances are you suffer from mania and or depression.  This is what bipolar disorder looks like.  You make several sales and you are all hyped up and then you crash and weeks go by without a sale.  All your income is based on commissions that you may or may not earn and you suffer from boughts of heartache.  You suffer from sleepless night wondering if your mortgage payments will be made for the month.  You wonder if you can afford the utility bills and food for your family. 
You become psychotic because you value life and have to - you are forced to view life as a number and you suffer from knowing that if you don't get people to see how you look at their own situation without life insurance and the need they have for it, then you suffer along with them.  You die a death with that customer and suffer from the backlash of buyer's remorse and have to pay back a commission that was forwarded to you ahead of time.  You realize that life is precious and that all peoples, all your friends and family needs this insurance and so you try your hardest to sell it to them and nothing works.  You may have sold a few annuities or a few rollovers from a 401k, but the hard part is selling the life and disability insurances because people don't think they will get hurt or die.  They are the ones you target, and if they don't buy you suffer from major depression because you worry about their lives....and the lives that make up your contract to survive in the insurance field.  You certifications and long hours of studying didn't prepare you for the feelings that go along with becoming a financial planner.  You suffer tremendous guilt and apprehension when it comes to selling and you have to sometimes beg for a income check from your manager that you may have already earned but they control your income flow because you may be a new agent and you got put into a financing program that is supposed to help you survive the battle of being a successful insurance agent.

If you or someone like you is experiencing these symptoms of being a life insurance agent, then perhaps they too suffer from bipolar disorder and don't know it.  This happened to me, and after thinking I have bipolar disorder II, the lesser of the two forms, I was diagnosed with the worse form bipolar I disorder in 2004, two years after I thought it went away and that I was just experiencing what I called the "sales cycle", the up and down feelings that accompany a new agent in the field.  Don't be alarmed.  There is help out there.  Let's review in an upcoming blog how to deal with your disease and recognize how to survive once you have been diagnosed with it and you must decide to stay or forgoe your dreams of becoming an certified financial planner, like I had to do for my health and well being.  Next we will discuss the social program of social security and how it helped me to survive in this world of danger and intrigue.

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Newly published book for sale!

I encourage you to purchase a copy of my newly released poetry book called Forrever Memories.  It has been a painstaking several years in the making and I have finally worked it all out.  The book is a special collection of poems written during a time in my life when sin and sex were being questioned in my life.  Haunting metaphors encompass the poetry while using my pen name Poet Tree - distinct and significant for a person named Forrest.
Please visit my new website too www.forrestfyr.com.  Here I have established a place to record my writings and publish them for all my friends and family.  If you ever wanted to delve deeper into the mind of Forrest, then I suggest you pick up a copy today.  With 186 pages, the book is filled with lust, homosexuality and passion, along with evil, dark stories of my past experiences as a young adult maturing through high school graduation having to deal with and struggle through what is right and wrong in a moral sense.
Please leave me feedback to help me become a better writer!  Enjoy.

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