Yo you know that thing you started a while ago and made a bit of progress on but then sorta abandoned? Do me a favor and go back to it and just update it a little bit. Nothing dramatic just move stuff around, look at it, add a lil thing here and there
I get the point and it’s powerful. A spark of inspiration happened and I made something. The spark is still smoldering, somewhere in that bed of warm coals and ashes that is the /Documents folder on my hard drive. Stir things up a bit. Blow on the coals. See if you can coax a little flame to life.
Lesson from this week: do not have calls/meetings littered across my calendar.
It’s not the first time I have learned this lesson.
Time to reset Rules for Calendar.
Aside from that, I am living the Law of Attraction. My wife and I truly have a life that has been manifested from our hearts’ desire.
But why stop? If you stop, you’re dead.
Yesterday I wrote the business dream. Announced it out loud in front of people at work. Shared the write-up. Including sharing with a potential partner. I can’t do this alone. Not at this scale.
Today is the first session with a consultant. He will, I trust, help me see things and do things that get me where I want to be.
What is interesting about writing down a bold vision is that I woke up this morning recoiling from it a bit. Is that what I really want? Isn’t that presumptuous? Arrogant? And anyway, who am I to achieve it? Maybe I should think this through.
Second-guessing. giving myself permission to stop before I have even started.
Fuck that shit.
I have booked a flight to Singapore for the sole purpose of a 30 minute meeting for coffee.
I just had a chat with a neighbor. “The world today, yadda yadda yadda.” We both are about the same age. We have the same number of kids, also about the same age.
His future is smaller than his past. He expressed satisfaction that he’s on his way out—unlike his kids and mine, who are starting on the path of adulthood. He is winding down. Reeeeetired. Going nowhere. Literally and figuratively. He will die in his house.
Imagine living in that brain! I can scarcely sleep a full night with all the stuff happening in my life. My future is bigger than my past, without a doubt.
My wife’s future is exponentially bigger than it was 6 years ago. She tapped an unsuspected yearning and talent in business, and discovered . . . I don’t know (and I think even she doesn’t fully know), but she continues to find new excitement and new horizons.
So what’s it going to be? Is your future full of new, exciting, massive achievements and discoveries? It should be and it can be. At any age. My wife and I are examples.
Or is it:
No Lieutenant, your men are already dead.
My neighbor is already dead. He just has a couple of decades of walking the dog to look forward to, but he is dead.
By the way. When talking with a pre-dead or negative person, it’s important to not mentally assent to their dead mindset. Play the good reply game. Listen and in your head say, “Well, that’s a thought. There are other thoughts.” And especially reply to every complaint (politicians, taxes, whatever) with a positive counter-proposal that involves personal action required.
It’s good for you and it’s good for them. Their evil magic has no power here.
I used to be a “Friday means it’s two more working days until Monday” kind of guy.
I can’t do it. Maybe someday it will come back, but right now the prospect of cracking open a computer and thinking . . . puts me in a low-level funk.
I keep promising people I will do their hard shit over the weekend and I keep experiencing my body, mind and soul in total revolt. Sundays have been depressing for the last three weeks by actual recall.
This is a project management and calendar management issue. Not a personal character issue.
Figure out how to make one person happy about one $THING that person wants.
Get money from the happy person.
Do that again with another person.
Don’t think beyond that point right now. Focus on making a few people happy. Prove it with money.
Don’t think “will it scale?” That’s like thinking straight from “I am going to ask her out on a first date” to babysitting your grandchildren.
But after proving it works? That’s where courage is required. Because doing $THING, which you think will make money and make you happy, will necessarily displace $OTHER_THING that you do right now.
Opportunity cost. Bird/hand/bush/etc.
Right now I have that dilemma. One person said “I will buy this $THING from you please make it for me to me.” We did not talk about price.
I like the process of doing $THING. I do it now, and a few test drives have proven successful in making money, but not nearly as much today and what I make right now from $OTHER_THING.
But $THING is sustainable long-term while $OTHER_THING is less sustainable long term. $THING is less stressful. It can be done from anywhere.
This is the Editor’s periodic reminder to the author of this website.
You started this as a personal journal. It’s anonymous. You are writing it for you—not for anyone else.
You chose a WordPress blog as the journaling tool for minimum friction, and it’s working.
You allowed public visibility, without promotion, because it’s not up to you to decide if something is worth sharing with others. The universe decides.
Just write what you feel, what is true. It’s working for you—your thinking is evolving. You’re getting thoughts out of your head and into the world, exposed to sunlight. That’s enough.