In this video we talk about:
Creating the environment where giving is worth more than taking is extremely difficult. It goes against my nature – and I assume, most others. It is far easy to take those scraps on the table than to give it to the weaker man.
However, what I, as well as most people forget in those times of selfishness is that the gift of giving creates a positive relationship – something that cannot be tallied in money or short term party favors.
Relationships separate the leader from the tyrant.
Leaders are remembered. Tyrants are buried and washed away – only to be brought up as the villain when necessary.
I wrote my wrap up paper last night. In turn, I made my todo list today.
I am very happy about that fact.
I feel like a todo list can keep me honest. I jus thave to get used to doing one, and living with one, every day.
The problem for me in terms of tasks tend to be I forget. As much as I say I can remember, I just plain forget. I feel like I am very smart, and with no shame, I can say people tell me that all the time, but I just realized there is no way to even begin to hold all those thoughts in your mind.
I feel like your mind is a road. Each thought is a car. When you empty the road, and allow cars back on it,all the cars drive very smoothly. So if there are three cars on the road, everything has enough space to sort of move along.
When you try to keep everything up there, then everything gets constricted. Everything gets tight. Its harder to focus, and you add pressure to yourself. Inevitably things start to slip, and you start having to say your sorry, then you get calloused to the sorry, and then people get calloused to your sorry, and things start to slip.
The highway gets full, and every single car gets angry, they get infused with bad thoughts, and your depression, fear, and stress can take hold and get the best of them.
Last night when I wrote down what I did, my todos for the next day sort of just came tumbling out. It was easy to figure out what my next moves were. I woke up this morning, then placed them in my any.do app.
Now I have a lis tof things, and a system that I can refine. I felt more powerful.
I keep the pad by the bed now. I hope through this, I can make it a part of my night, like writing my three things down. Maybe it’s time to start breaking down my evening – take thirty minutes and just go into the silence to ponder my day.
It felt good. Maybe I can get that in the morning’s, if I can only just get up on time.
I am slipping on the silence at night. I started listening to podcasts again. I am making a note of it now, and hopefully I can go back to silence.
It is a very slippery slope, and it is something I don’t want to go back down into.
I am thinking about waking up early again, and it is something I want. Birds chirping in the morning as I can get some writing done. I feel like I can start my blog writing before work, knock down some rss reading, and just start in at the job with a full mind ready to start blasting at the problems I have here.
I just have to figure out a way to start making that happen.
I hate coming to my dayjob I think. There has to be something here that I want to do in the mornings. Something that makes me want to come in the mornings and get things done.
It is something I have to really thing about. This is becoming a recurring theme, and I feel like my life gets a lot better if I can get this sorted.
My foot feels better.
I think I am about to donate the rest of my clothes. Start over.
Lets see.
3 Things Done
Todo List done
Night List done
Water done
Teeth Done
From the desk of Adam Thomas 