Quote of the day

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

Just a quote from one of my favourite authors.  This means to me that mastery is the goal but we can not ever truly achieve it but we always strive for it.

Year of the horse posts

As I am ending the year of the horse I spent some time looking over my blogs from this year.  It was interesting to me some of the constant blogs themes that I saw.   One was talking about living in the moment.  This is hard for me, as a business person I focus on goals and the future is where I am looking.   Also in my nature I have always been looking into the future to get to the next place.

Because of this I have never focused on the journey and where I am at in a point in time. I.E. Living in the moment.  I have had numerous discussions with my wife over the last year and told her to give me a good slap if I wasn't focused in the moment.   She is way too nice to have slapped me the few hundred times she should have slapped me.

I am still not living in the moment but I am thinking about it and in time I should get there

Powerful

I heard something today that really made sense to me.  A young lady said" A day where you don't help someone is a day waisted. A day where you help someone is a day well spent."

Very powerful words from such a young soul.

Just a thought

Late night last night at a hockey game in Legal.  The boys did well and pulled off a win against the first place team in the league.  Always good to be there when there is a win.

We can learn when we win but usually more learning in a loss.  Critical analysis is what helps us get better at whatever we do.

Challenge

Where does ones mind go when confronted with challenge after challenge. Evolution gives us typically two responses fight or flight.   Does one turtle and begin to give up in the conscious and unconscious mind. Or is the response to fight and beat the challenge?

Or maybe the right response is to take the time to understand the challenge and formulate a response to the challenge.  Implement a plan to overcome the challenge and at an intellectual level defeat or concur the challenge

When the challenge is people I typically do not flight. My instinct is to fight.  I have always had the best results with implementing a plan to overcome the challenge.  I need to remember to not think emotionally and go straight to the fight mode.

I am the only one who can decide what kind of day to have. I plan on having good days.

January

I always like this time of year.  Not because I like winter but because I can mentally and physically feel the days getting longer.  It is a expectation that spring and warmer weather is on the way.  I always appreciate that anticipation.  But it also reminds me that when I think like this I am not living in the moment. 

Living in the moment is where I will produce the best results for myself and those around me.  Enjoy the journey and the destination will happen. 

This is a paradox for me.  This is something I will have to think a lot more about.

Shihing Choy's challenge

I am really glad that I accepted Shihing Choy's challenge to do 6,000 sit  ups and push ups in January.  It lit a fire under me and I feel more invigorated because of it.  Not sure it is because I am doing more in the morning or that I am publicly posting my numbers.  Probably a combination of both.  Either way a great motivator.