I took off from Vegas to Cali around 2am this morning to appear in court for a speeding ticket. On the way out there I listened to an audio book titled The Purpose Driven Life. I had higher expectations for this book than what I found in it. It seemed too basic and written for the masses. I got through most of the book and didn’t discover anything new. However, it did put me in a certain state of mind where a hack of mine on some of the book’s logic quickly developed further into the creation of an original perspective model to see life through. Here it is a quick hierarchy to show the heart of it…

Truth
Morals
Goals
Values
Actions

Several of these proprietary models have come to my mind throughout my life. I don’t have a solid idea yet of what the scope or application of this one would be. If I could see some of that then I might be able to hack it and disprove it or see that it is very powerful or defining in life. Let me know if you can figure this out.

When I got to the court I had to wait a little for it to open. I walked around to scope out the surrounding area for a bit. It was a nice area with a ton of palm trees. So I finally checked in and they asked if I wanted to see the judge today. Of course, I said…we have a few things to discuss. So they set the time for after noon. I had a few hours to kill so I checked out the city, its mountains, and read a book. While out I was walking into a building a guy randomly came up to me with a big smile and shook my hand saying “You look important and successful.” Hahaha! This made me laugh. I was in my power suit and my confidence was way up for court so I guess that inspired this dude to make a point of introducing himself and telling me about it. Funny. Confidence is definitely a big key.

Once I got back to the court I had to wait a little bit to see the judge. All of the cases before me were very quick and the judge just dictated the terms to the people. Now it is my turn. “Is your name Brian Watkins? Yes.” Notice he didn’t refer to me as the Extreme Entrepreneur. (Mistake #1) Then he asked me how I plead for driving 105 MPH. Not guilty. He then started to set my next court date. I interrupted the dude and demanded a trial by written declaration. He said I needed to come in to court for this. I said “No” and read him the specific California law that stated my right to a written trial. He eventually gave in and saw it my way. (Mistake #2) Then he told me I had to pay bail in the amount of $700. I said “No” and tried to show him the current California law that stated otherwise. He got defensive and refused to look at the current bail schedule I printed out. I decided to let him win on that point because it was only a couple hundred dollars difference. (Mistake #3) So overall the dude didn’t know he was dealing with the Extreme Entrepreneur and he wasn’t aware of the law. Overall our legal system is good but not yet close to where it can be. I find it fun though. Pretty similar to hacking computer code.

After that was over I decided to go to a more fun place, Los Angeles. I decided that I really like LA now. Its traffic is still crap but I love the setup of it. It seems like residential and commercial places are more mixed in than Vegas or other places. I think California is more like that in general. I really like that. It makes for more action around where people live and a more social feel to commercial areas. I explored several different areas like Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Santa Monica, etc. I really like LA a lot now and will definitely live here at some point in the future. Later on I drove back to Las Vegas at night. I was tired so I decided to pull over at one point and sleep for a couple hours. I got back to Vegas in the morning, toke a shower, and went to bed. Fun day.