I am thinking of Doogie Houser from back in the day. I was thinking how he journaled at the end of every episode. Here, I can post my thoughts and plans for the day just like Doogie, ....except I won't. It's not 'cause I don't want to, it's just that something always comes up. This is a simple blog page, as noted on the subtitle where I just shake my head and stuff comes out and this is where I arrange it. So I have a new suggestion for myself. I will use this page as a success journal. I will note different things that I do or try or add to my ever expanding repertoire of information. When things go well I will post here and if they don't, I might mention that too . Sometimes its OK to remember "That Didn't Work" it helps us not do stupid stuff over again.
For instance I just read a piece that instruct us on how to write faster, improving productivity and profitability in the same manner. It seems to work, I followed the basic instructions and wrote this in about 9 minutes.
Enough for now.
I'll be back soon I promise.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
New Year, New Directions
Once again life has turned a corner. In conjunction with the new year upon us, and as of this posting, roughly eleven and a half months to go in any direction you choose. That is the beautiful thing about a life of freewill. Choices.
Now I am not a big believer in resolutions per se, although if that is your way to make a decision to act then go for it. I do think that life is full of opportunities mostly missed by failure; to act, to decide or to move toward something as the opportunity presented itself. I know lots of people who have missed things because they made a call to a great job the day after they heard about it only to find it was filled the day before. A circumstance that might have been totally different had they not waited to act. So this year I am adding to my list of things to make life easier; the idea that acting and noticing opportunities is important. I will be vigilant for them and act on them as quickly as I can. Be it a drop in gas prices or an opportunity in life, family, career, business or art. i believe this is a habit worth developing because the speed of change in the current world is orders of magnitude different from my grandparents' life. In that time it was easier to hold onto the way things were always done, or to keep steady on a course. But, I think that last year alone I missed at least three opportunities that might have changed my life in a significant way had I noted them sooner. And i had a good last year! Not great i guess there were some bumpy spots, but as Tony Robbins reminds us, the only people without problems can be found under headstones. So I acted on a few things and missed a few last year. My goal is to up the ratio of acting. Of living on purpose instead of just existing in a daily decline of time. In fact this blog might change focus a little in the coming months as I make note of acted opportunities and possibly record results here.
All the best in 2011.
Go for it.
Now I am not a big believer in resolutions per se, although if that is your way to make a decision to act then go for it. I do think that life is full of opportunities mostly missed by failure; to act, to decide or to move toward something as the opportunity presented itself. I know lots of people who have missed things because they made a call to a great job the day after they heard about it only to find it was filled the day before. A circumstance that might have been totally different had they not waited to act. So this year I am adding to my list of things to make life easier; the idea that acting and noticing opportunities is important. I will be vigilant for them and act on them as quickly as I can. Be it a drop in gas prices or an opportunity in life, family, career, business or art. i believe this is a habit worth developing because the speed of change in the current world is orders of magnitude different from my grandparents' life. In that time it was easier to hold onto the way things were always done, or to keep steady on a course. But, I think that last year alone I missed at least three opportunities that might have changed my life in a significant way had I noted them sooner. And i had a good last year! Not great i guess there were some bumpy spots, but as Tony Robbins reminds us, the only people without problems can be found under headstones. So I acted on a few things and missed a few last year. My goal is to up the ratio of acting. Of living on purpose instead of just existing in a daily decline of time. In fact this blog might change focus a little in the coming months as I make note of acted opportunities and possibly record results here.
All the best in 2011.
Go for it.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
OKAY OKAY, so maybe every Wednesday didn't work out.
I really meant to. I planned and yearned and hoped to get back here to post some insightful piece of work for all and sundry to read. It's just, well, a little blog like this just doesn't have the weight of a half a million other things I am supposed to do. However....
I have a little something to share. I am learning about being in the zone. Those times when work or play or whatever is so all consuming that you are unable to notice whats going on around you that is unrelated to what you are doing. That feeling of power and control and the almost unbelievable rate at which time in the moment is slow so you get everything, but the time outside seems to fly by. For me it happens in football sometimes. I can see the play develop in front of me and react defensively at the perfect moment. Sometimes writing gets like that too. I can focus on a certain document or a scene in fiction and just not notice that three hours have passed. This happens to everyone once in a while. But here's today's secret. You can learn to get yourself in a zone like that for almost everything you do. Even the crap like dishes, and sweeping the driveway. Mundane tasks, that for me bring little joy, are much harder to stay with. But the secret is learning to be naturally successful. Using yourself and your innate abilities to conquer almost any task efficiently, effectively and most of all happily. And it's pretty easy to do.
A weeks practice and your life begins to become effortless. And it escalates, because the more you do it the more you want to do it and the better at you become.
Unfortunately I didn't invent or discover it myself. If your interested in trying the most un-selfhelp program that will change your life, and explain why other programs may not have given you everything you thought try reading up on P.J Eby.
you can get the free book I got from his website. Check out www.thinkingthingsdone.com and see if it works for you. Its odd because I have said it before, but... I think this might be the one. Really the one. Please ignore any other posts that may have mentioned any other programs, I was mistaken. I think.
I have a little something to share. I am learning about being in the zone. Those times when work or play or whatever is so all consuming that you are unable to notice whats going on around you that is unrelated to what you are doing. That feeling of power and control and the almost unbelievable rate at which time in the moment is slow so you get everything, but the time outside seems to fly by. For me it happens in football sometimes. I can see the play develop in front of me and react defensively at the perfect moment. Sometimes writing gets like that too. I can focus on a certain document or a scene in fiction and just not notice that three hours have passed. This happens to everyone once in a while. But here's today's secret. You can learn to get yourself in a zone like that for almost everything you do. Even the crap like dishes, and sweeping the driveway. Mundane tasks, that for me bring little joy, are much harder to stay with. But the secret is learning to be naturally successful. Using yourself and your innate abilities to conquer almost any task efficiently, effectively and most of all happily. And it's pretty easy to do.
A weeks practice and your life begins to become effortless. And it escalates, because the more you do it the more you want to do it and the better at you become.
Unfortunately I didn't invent or discover it myself. If your interested in trying the most un-selfhelp program that will change your life, and explain why other programs may not have given you everything you thought try reading up on P.J Eby.
you can get the free book I got from his website. Check out www.thinkingthingsdone.com and see if it works for you. Its odd because I have said it before, but... I think this might be the one. Really the one. Please ignore any other posts that may have mentioned any other programs, I was mistaken. I think.
Friday, March 5, 2010
People
Once again it happened that a person in my life is obviously there to show me something, or teach me something about myself. I am learning. This time it all happened backwards. You see, I thought I was the one to do the teaching and the lecturing, and the educating and the helping. And I like to think that the relationship is equal in that regard. I believe I have offered wisdom, of a certain type, that will help this other person move forward. At the same time the insights I offered pointed out glaring omissions in my own life. Looking at your world through a different perspective is like looking at your house from the Google Earth view. Oh you know it's yours, but you're used to seeing it a certain way, and the new perspective highlights different things. I am not entirely sure I like the things that I have become aware of, but that doesn't make it any less true.
For me, the old adage is true, and the teacher also learns from the student.
Thank you student for what I have learned.
Look at the people newest in your life that you are drawn too. I bet, if you are patient, you will both learn a thing or two. About each other surely, but also something about yourselves and sometimes that's the most difficult lesson to learn.
For me, the old adage is true, and the teacher also learns from the student.
Thank you student for what I have learned.
Look at the people newest in your life that you are drawn too. I bet, if you are patient, you will both learn a thing or two. About each other surely, but also something about yourselves and sometimes that's the most difficult lesson to learn.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Late again, I know.
It's about priorities I guess. Life sneaks up and deliverers all sorts of things that need attention in each moment. The office phone is ringing, there are reports to write and emails to respond to and perhaps even family matters and household business to deal with. What theses attention fires have is the power to pull you from what you want. Sometimes job completetion and family matters are what you want, it's just difficult to see the goal during the process sometimes. The secret is to steer your own life through goal setting and focus. I don't mean to sit down and write a detailed plan for every element of your existence and stick to like it's a law. Life doesn't work that way. But if you set out a few clearly defined results for the end of every week or month, and devote a few minutes to review your progress each day, you will get more accomplished toward any goal than if you didn't have a plan. This isn't rocket science or a tightly structured model. Just focus on a few little things and be amazed when you discover how easy it was to get them done. The secret forces of the universe will move to help you, sometimes in ways you might never have planned. So dream a few dreams, write them down and plan to do a little each day next week towards their accomplishment. Nothing is perfect but you will find yourself getting things done and answers or solutions to HOW things can be fulfilled will just come to you.
I managed to get this blog done, and only a couple of days late. But isn't that an improvement over my last few posts? Set something down and force yourself to review it, othewrwise it will get shuffled out of the way by things you are reacting to. Maybe that's the key. Proaction vs reaction. Reading your own plan and trying to stay on topic is more successful than hoping for results when you are reacting to other things around you. Remember, your plan won't ring. you will never have to answer it, but if you set the time to read it againyou just might develop a habit of succeeding.
Be Well.
Lary
It's about priorities I guess. Life sneaks up and deliverers all sorts of things that need attention in each moment. The office phone is ringing, there are reports to write and emails to respond to and perhaps even family matters and household business to deal with. What theses attention fires have is the power to pull you from what you want. Sometimes job completetion and family matters are what you want, it's just difficult to see the goal during the process sometimes. The secret is to steer your own life through goal setting and focus. I don't mean to sit down and write a detailed plan for every element of your existence and stick to like it's a law. Life doesn't work that way. But if you set out a few clearly defined results for the end of every week or month, and devote a few minutes to review your progress each day, you will get more accomplished toward any goal than if you didn't have a plan. This isn't rocket science or a tightly structured model. Just focus on a few little things and be amazed when you discover how easy it was to get them done. The secret forces of the universe will move to help you, sometimes in ways you might never have planned. So dream a few dreams, write them down and plan to do a little each day next week towards their accomplishment. Nothing is perfect but you will find yourself getting things done and answers or solutions to HOW things can be fulfilled will just come to you.
I managed to get this blog done, and only a couple of days late. But isn't that an improvement over my last few posts? Set something down and force yourself to review it, othewrwise it will get shuffled out of the way by things you are reacting to. Maybe that's the key. Proaction vs reaction. Reading your own plan and trying to stay on topic is more successful than hoping for results when you are reacting to other things around you. Remember, your plan won't ring. you will never have to answer it, but if you set the time to read it againyou just might develop a habit of succeeding.
Be Well.
Lary
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I have been coerced into updating this page.
I didn't want to be, but my anonymous commenter was right. I have been lax and simply failed to complete what I set out to do. I didn't intend it to turn out like this, but then isn't that true for lots of things in our lives. Good intentions often get waylaid by interruptions beyond our control, or lack of preparation, or simple laziness. For me, this time, I think it was guilt. I simply haven't had much worth telling, and I felt badly about that. Things seem incomplete. I want to inspire you and me when I right things here. Lately well there hasn't been much to tell. Inspiration is one of those fleeting emotions that hit you like an adrenaline rush and fade quickly, once the idea solidifies and the process of acting on it sets in. I think some great people in the world are genetically prepared to blast through the idea, process, completion stage of things readily. I don't think I am one of them.
I am still full of ideas, plans, and dreams. I just need to find space and time and enough order and organization to get through to all of them. I might be on the right track now, but I can't tell you what it is yet until I am sure. I don't want to be embarrassed here any further. So new posts will be about progress, discoveries, or real insights and inspirations.
Until then try this little technique if you are like me once in a while.
Find something that needs doing.
Desk cleaning, dishes, laundry, filing, calls to clients....whatever needs doing go to it. No before you start the doing, stare a the task at hand for a few minutes. Just wait until you feel the need to act. You will be amazed at how much your brain begins to impel you towards completion of any task just y witnessing it and being restrained. THe human brain wants something to do. This is the difference between external " I should file all those bills" and internal or natural motivation
"I want to clean up this mess."
Natural motivation is in all of us, but it is attuned to different things. The reason external type pressure might not have worked in the past is because your natural mind just didn't care about the project. Your conscious mind might have impelled you to do something, but if your natural mind was involved it would have went smooth and easy until complete. Thanks for listening. More on Wednesday.
L
I didn't want to be, but my anonymous commenter was right. I have been lax and simply failed to complete what I set out to do. I didn't intend it to turn out like this, but then isn't that true for lots of things in our lives. Good intentions often get waylaid by interruptions beyond our control, or lack of preparation, or simple laziness. For me, this time, I think it was guilt. I simply haven't had much worth telling, and I felt badly about that. Things seem incomplete. I want to inspire you and me when I right things here. Lately well there hasn't been much to tell. Inspiration is one of those fleeting emotions that hit you like an adrenaline rush and fade quickly, once the idea solidifies and the process of acting on it sets in. I think some great people in the world are genetically prepared to blast through the idea, process, completion stage of things readily. I don't think I am one of them.
I am still full of ideas, plans, and dreams. I just need to find space and time and enough order and organization to get through to all of them. I might be on the right track now, but I can't tell you what it is yet until I am sure. I don't want to be embarrassed here any further. So new posts will be about progress, discoveries, or real insights and inspirations.
Until then try this little technique if you are like me once in a while.
Find something that needs doing.
Desk cleaning, dishes, laundry, filing, calls to clients....whatever needs doing go to it. No before you start the doing, stare a the task at hand for a few minutes. Just wait until you feel the need to act. You will be amazed at how much your brain begins to impel you towards completion of any task just y witnessing it and being restrained. THe human brain wants something to do. This is the difference between external " I should file all those bills" and internal or natural motivation
"I want to clean up this mess."
Natural motivation is in all of us, but it is attuned to different things. The reason external type pressure might not have worked in the past is because your natural mind just didn't care about the project. Your conscious mind might have impelled you to do something, but if your natural mind was involved it would have went smooth and easy until complete. Thanks for listening. More on Wednesday.
L
Friday, November 13, 2009
Cash is King
Most of you might be surprised to know that I am only just learning to understand the mythical world of finance. It's true. I am great at spending money. I am a perfect consumer, I love impulse buying, and even " feeling sorry for myself" shopping. I buy stuff because it makes me feel good. Unfortunately I buy a lots of stuff on credit which means debt. It means I have been suckered in to believing that the best thing I can do in my life is buy whatever I want for minimum monthly payments. That's what the great North American marketing machine is always telling us, and I know because I have used the same tactic. But, we are being bamboozled out of our paycheques.
So this week my advice to you is to get a handle on your credit cards, and destroy them if you can. Promise yourself that they are for emergency use only. (shoes are not an emergency purchase, even on sale) You see, when you buy stuff on credit you are spending next week's unmade money. Sometimes it's next month's or next year's money even. If you are like most people you live about three paycheques away from serious trouble. So kill the credit and make cash the king. This discipline is empowering because the work you do today won't go for something like the pizza you bought last week. Trust me on this. Debt free means all the money you make is yours and not a bank or card companies who are killing your life with interest, the fee that let you borrow you money in the first place. Get that under control and then we'll talk about your mortgage, which comes from the words Death and Grip. Yikes!
So this week my advice to you is to get a handle on your credit cards, and destroy them if you can. Promise yourself that they are for emergency use only. (shoes are not an emergency purchase, even on sale) You see, when you buy stuff on credit you are spending next week's unmade money. Sometimes it's next month's or next year's money even. If you are like most people you live about three paycheques away from serious trouble. So kill the credit and make cash the king. This discipline is empowering because the work you do today won't go for something like the pizza you bought last week. Trust me on this. Debt free means all the money you make is yours and not a bank or card companies who are killing your life with interest, the fee that let you borrow you money in the first place. Get that under control and then we'll talk about your mortgage, which comes from the words Death and Grip. Yikes!
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