Efficiency Abounds

I finally got frustrated with my fat fingers and uncooperative keyboard on my phone and downloaded a text-to-voice app so I can dictate my thoughts and send them to myself.  Re-examine them and then post some of the better ones here to remember down the road.  Here are a few of my thoughts over the past week or so.  

• I had to deal with all of the obstacles in my way before I could move forward in my growth
• I spent a lot of time in my youth trying to prove that I was as good as everyone else.  Now that I'm older I realize it's better to check in with everybody else both to see what they're doing ok.  I am on par if not better than most of my peers and in the end it doesn't matter anyway as I am on my own journey. 
• I should make sure to check in to ensure others are doing ok as well as sharing information that I have learned on my journey.  
• Interesting idea that we follow patterns and once we start fresh all over again and we,  without realizing how or why, we end up making the same choices,  same decisions and ending up in the same place.  This could be transformed into a story idea or song,  could be partly my own life experience now through after my health scare I feel like.  It is also a universal experience that others can related to. 
• When I was young, I spent a lot of time figure out who I was.  I knew I was different and I liked thinking outside of the box.  It made me feel special.  I remember writing down a lot of lists and notes and thoughts and I am glad I did because now I can look back over some of these old memories.  Then I got out of the habit of doing that I got out of the habit of self-discovery as I locked into raising a family and didn't really think about me very much.
• So now I'm really in self-discovery mode and have been for the last couple years real refreshing to be back on track to remember who I was and excitement about where I will go now that I have rediscovered my journey.
• In the process of letting go of everything that was not helpful to me, Catholicism was one of the first things to go.
• Human Nature - Man's desire for permanence is a cause to a lot of human suffering and misery.  We are only here for a short time and it is arrogant of humanity to think we understand what's going on in the tiny blip that we've been here.
• Michelle Obama's book - Becoming - "Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.  It is vulnerability that breeds with self doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear."
• Any good feelings or good work that I do is compounded when it starts early in the morning as it gives it more of a chance to percolate all day long and it spirals into better and better and more exponential value so it is best to start the day as good as you can because that maximizes the potential for the rest of the day
• It isteresting to Look Backwards on our decisions particularly those decisions that didn't go the way we expected them to understand if it was obvious it would not turn out well or whether there was something we could have done differently.  
• In life you have to control what you can
• Over the years I think I skipped some kinds of coping mechanisms and coping strategies so when bad things happened I wasn't fully able to process them.  Now I've been filling in those gaps and I appear to be in a place where regardless of what's going to happen I have strategies in place to deal with them;
• Worry is better against yourself and I want to "Bet On Yourself" - BOY.  Also believe in yourself, be yourself, betting on yourself bedding against yourself.  I am really trying to lock in on the idea that when I worry (particularly at night) I re-focus on knowing that I can handle whatever situation comes my way so there is no need to worry about it.  I will handle it when the time comes.  I am betting on myself. 
• TV quote - "After my injury I learned that I needed to make stress my friend and understand it better."
• You never learn what you're capable of love if you avoid all risk 
• Who cares what the process is as long as the result is what you want it to be. In other words in other words don't question how you got there just appreciate that you did get there.
• I need to start putting some of these words into action rather than just writing them down take the top few and really build on them.
• A Friend once told me that the bad was good and the good was Grand.   how he knew I'll never know and I'll never completely understand? Poem response
• I have followed the rules of the game until the rules changed, and then there were no more rules, then there was no game there was only you
• If you sit back and passively go through life, you will not end up where you want to go. You have to actively make decisions about your interactions with this world, your relationships, your working environment and how we live on this Earth.
• Great line about life. I look back at all the times I wasted having good times.