Daily thoughts

It's on my list to write; so I will. I woke this morning so happy. I'd dreamed a dream of a play I was in, and we started with me adding lines that weren't there, and I'd forgotten my pants, and someone else came out of character to call me an ass, and then I couldn't remember my lines, and then I ate some stage food, and it just got damned sticky, and I couldn't get enough of it out of my mouth. I had a line coming up. And the production was a disaster, but from so many angles and in so many ways, you couldn't be philosophical about it.

And we knew we were going to have to work like dogs the next day, but it was okay. It was going to be good, or even if it wasn't, it wouldn't be because of us.

In other words, the dream had fail forward written all over it. And I woke up confident about my move, and then I kept getting tired and falling back to sleep, and getting distracted.

And the market is down. And to me it looks like a black Friday sale, but I haven't enough money.

And what I wrote the other day, I'm adding that to my code, or maybe I'll just restate the whole damned thing as Fail Forward.

Here's the thing: What scares us about the Corona Virus is that we might be dead sooner, in some arbitrary way that wasn't already figured into our calculations.

A Stupid Fear

If you think about it, this is downright stupid.

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So, a new day, a new post. ✘ on the little calendar. I'm growing to like it, but I've spent altogether too much time on the Joyner rabbit hole this morning. Day 11 says go check this out, and it's another one of his courses, which is good - I already have access - but it has no place in my schedule. I already feel like I am scrambling to keep up.

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I got a bit stupid yesterday, and then got smart. I did contact someone, and that turned into a conversation, which I definitely call a win. I also made for some outside time by way of a walk with my son. I did workout, but then did got sidetracked, in one good way, and in one bad, and got to the end of my day not having completed my core activity, which is making contact with three people. So I wasn't going to go to bed without that, and got it done, which also felt good. As to the assignment, I realize it actually is present for me in the mornings, and I am not feeling the need to comment as completely as I have the last three days, but I'll work into a form that works:

1. Smile! ✓
2. Breathe life into Your Body. ✓
3. Think of three things for which I am grateful.
   
   1. that I can still feel my toes
   2. that I can walk
   3. that I still dream
4. Think of three things I am looking forward to.
   
   1. More outside time.
   2. Writing.
   3. Scheduling certain parts of my life.
5. List three things I will do today to make my life even better.
   
   1. The pitch that's been running in my head, but occurs as a huge effort.
   2. Contact three people.
   3. Ironing: it still didn't get done, but I think I'll combine it with my soap opera, one of yesterday's distractions, which wasn't necessarily accompanied by fruitful activity yesterday.
6. Then mark it off on the calendar. ✘ Just for clarity, this is obviously not that I've finished it all, just that I've done the damned planning exercise, and if I've done that, at least some of the other parts follow.

Thanks again to Mark Joyner's The Little Calendar that Brainwashes You: It might be enough for you. For me, it resides in a bigger context. I suppose it depends where you find yourself.

Bonus Step

I'm just about to toss last year's calendar; so I figure I should share this as well:

Throughout your day, move. When you move your body as if you were happy, it's impossible not to be that.

I went for a reboot this morning. I didn't start the day as intended, and then got really tired; so I took a nap, and now I'm starting again. Here's the list again, complete:

1. Smile!
2. Breathe life into Your Body.
3. Think of three things for which I am grateful.
4. Think of three things I am looking forward to.
5. List three things I will do today to make my life even better.
6. Then mark it off on the calendar.

The Little Calendar that Brainwashes You: See Monday for more on this.

Today's entry:

Smile! ✓

Breathe life into Your Body ✓

Looking at doing more.

Think of three things for which I am grateful

1. Ability to express thoughts in writing.
2. My boldness.
3. My showing up.

List three things I look forward to:

1. More outside time.
2. More results from my outreach.
3. Some time out of the house with Sharleen tomorrow.

List three things I will do today to make my life even better

1. Another pitch.
2. Contact three people
3. Ironing: didn't get there yesterday.

Then mark it off on the calendar ✘