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July 25, 2014
Morning Pages Entry – December 19, 2013
So, today will be day 3 for Personal Power from Tony, and yesterday’s sessions were pretty good, as they got me thinking a bit about my own life, and why I choose to do the things I do. The principal, was basically, that we as humans do what we do for two basic reasons. Pain and pleasure. Or perhaps more succinctly, the avoidance of pain, and the pursuit of pleasure. It explains why we procrastinate so often about things (avoiding painful tasks), and why we do things like overeat so much...
July 24, 2014
Morning Pages Entry – December 18, 2013
Well, this is day 2 of having the Tony Robbins Personal Power audio CD’s [personal stuff edited out]. Yesterday’s exercise was a good start I think. I had to pick a couple of things I procrastinated about, and get started on doing them. One was to basically clean up my office, and the other was to finish reading the “Techniques of the Selling Writer” book, that I’ve been procrastinating on for a long time. So, I got all the old electronics out of my office, cleaned up a bit of miscellaneo...
Morning Pages Entry – December 17, 2013
Well, I did manage to get some Christmas shopping done yesterday. Actually a little bit early for me. Some electronic gadgets for the girls, and one little thing for Karen. I suppose, I need to buy some more stuff for Karen today, some stocking stuffers, then I can consider myself done. Still didn’t do any writing yesterday, which has me a little bit concerned. Got a little bit hung up with the Tony Robbins videos I was watching yesterday. [personal stuff edited out] I’ll have to check it...
Morning Pages Entry – December 16, 2013
So, here we are rapidly closing in on Christmas day. Only 9 more days, and I haven’t done any Christmas shopping yet. Have a few things I need to get for the kids, but not too much. Then of course something for Karen. I’m really not that much a fan of shopping, but that’s neither here nor there. I do actually like it, I suppose when I can think of the perfect thing for someone, but that seems to happen pretty rarely. Ah well, it’s all part of the time of the year. I actually like this tim...
Morning Pages Entry – December 15, 2013
So, here we go with another bunch of ridiculously snowy day in London. I guess winter is truly upon us, and there’s nothing to be done about it. Given that I’ve started babbling about the weather, should be a sure sign that I really don’t have a whole lot to talk about this morning. I was out to play some squash yesterday, or more accurately to hit the ball a few times, just doing drills, as my ankle is not quite up to stuff. It hurt quite a bit actually, but that’s to be expected I suppo...
July 23, 2014
Morning Pages Entry – December 13, 2013
Clearly, I’m in a pissed off mood this morning. Yesterday night in league was not a good ending to the first half of the season for my squash team. It was really, our first legitimate beating of the year. We had pretty much our best lineup on the floor, and still lost 5-0. Sure, there were a few excuses I could make, like Mark was just coming back from a 3 week vacation, and I didn’t actually play, even though I’m our number 5 (although James who played at the number 5 spot is pretty even...
Morning Pages Entry – December 12, 2013
Well, here we go again, about to hit 10 days in a row writing my journal. I think I made it to 11 days last time, before I forgot to day. So, we’re on the verge here of setting a new record. But, I must admit, the record I’m really interested in is the new one I’m starting with my novel writing. I wrote again yesterday, albeit for only the second day in a row, but with more words then I had ever done before. Perhaps, I should set a goal of writing more words every day then the previous da...
Morning Pages Entry – December 11, 2013
Well, I finally did it yesterday. Finally started writing on my novel again. that essential piece of work, that’s going to change my world. At least I hope it is, and according to Geoff Shaw it is. We’ll see. I didn’t feel as ecstatic about it as I thought I would of. It seemed like such a big hurdle to me leading up to it, that I was sure I’d be thrilled about finally writing. Perhaps, it’s not enough of a goal. Or perhaps, I know that it means it’s only the beginning, and that there are...
Morning Pages Entry – December 10, 2013
Yep, the key to being good at something, is finding a passion for it, and the key to being passionate for it, is to be happy when your doing it. At least I think that’s how it should work. Be depressed, and full of worry, is not going to help out with what your trying to accomplish. Don think of the big momumental task your trying to accomplish . . . you have to think of it in tiny pieces, and remember the theory of the pale blue dot . . . none of it really matters in the end. Right here,...
July 22, 2014
Morning Pages Entry – December 09, 2013
Watched some pretty cool videos from TED last night via NetFlix. Stuff about how to make your life better, and becoming a better person. How to find happiness, live a longer, and more fufilled life. I still like the one from the gamer girl that talks about how your life can be more fufilled, and less full of regrets come your final days. It’s a pretty inspiring story. I think I should watch a few of them again. It’s interesting, how I seem to be gravitating to some of those more education...
