But What Now?

I’d like to temper the post I made yesterday. Things that I’ve thought about since then include

1. we need money
2. we need purpose
3. we could get both from our employment
4. that would be great!
5. maybe there is no pie in the sky thing we could be doing every day
6. but wouldn’t it be nice if there were
7. I have lots of things I’d like to do
8. but no time
9. do I need to wait until retirement?
10. or can I work on being more focused now?

Aha… focus. Some mornings for me (especially Mondays for some reason) I have so many things I want to do, I end up feeling completely overwhelmed. That’s a damn shame, really, because if I only allowed myself the freedom to respond appropriately to incoming requests, I could probably achieve a ton more than I presently do and I’d be much less stressed.

I took a course from Eben Pagan called Wake Up Productive a couple of years ago. I think I need to retake it. What he taught was truly priceless, even though the course only cost me around $300. I looked for it, it doesn’t look like he’s selling it anymore – it anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. It was a great course.

We have habits, we have the choice to respond and we have so much time in the day. We need to decide what really floats our boats and then do the work to create habits to focus on those things.

I’m old enough to remember life before PCs in every home, email, message boards, online games, facebook, and twitter (notice the progression there). Life was slower then and maybe I was a little bored, although I did enjoy drawing on real paper with real pens and pencils with real tools before Autocad, but then again, I would not currently have the nice paying job I have managing computer systems and storage, so I guess you lose some and gain some, right?