From Seth Godin:
Do the extra work not because you have to but because it's a privilege.
Get in early.
Sweep the floor without being asked.
Especially when it's not your turn.
Not because you want credit or reward. Because you can.
The industrialist wants to suck everything out of you. Doing extra work as a cog in an industrial system is a fool's errand.
For the rest of us, the artist and the freelancer and the creator, we know that the privilege of doing the extra work is the work itself.
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice. And the habit is priceless.
Because I can.
Saturday. During Morning Pages I wrote that I will write today. Back to what is a good day? Today it was getting together with Debi - long time friend and colleague. Product Manager and Sales Demo person for GE (first PHAMIS) Revenue Cycle for so years. Traveled to Singapore, Doha and other places for the Product and Company. After we all left PHAMIS/GE we continued to spend travel time together including Florence, Edinburgh and other great locations in Scotland, Amsterdam, London. Such great times and a widening of the circle - add Tom, and Nancy and others from the Opera Workshop. Any way, she was here in Seaside for a visit. We immediately jumped into our friendship like we were continuing a conversation we started yesterday.
Today I committed to writing something - my intention was to write. I stood on the deck and there were two stellar jays in the tree chattering away at me. I talked back, asked them what are you doing up there?
I don't know what to write. Do I have a story to tell? What can I talk about? I don't see/feel a long story or novel. Memoir or essay is the format I have wanted to write in. Poetry - I like to write free from poems. Even though I read poetry and do not always enjoy or understand. I do love Mary Oliver - so maybe there is hope for a reader of Mary can also become a writer of poems.
I could write about being a volunteer at Fort Clatsop. It is amazing, I always wanted to volunteer at a Lewis and Clark site and now I am. Talk about the power of intention or at least long time focused attention.
Intention and focused attention. My intention is to create the perfect environment for retirement. My intention is to spend more time in Italy. My intention is to have plenty of money and resources to do that.
My intention is to write daily - write until I figure out what to write.
My intention is to be healthy and fit, to eat healthy to take care of my mind and body.
My intention is to nurture my relationships. But to let go of those that are full of blame, anger.
I have noticed that this obsession with this terrible situation our country is in has made me one of those people hooked on watching hour by hour the pundits and analysis. Right now all saying the same thing and all of them and the rest of us looking at each other and saying "we are watching history, right?" .
I can make a choice to be calm, to be centered and to sit still - to just be present. Lately, I am investing in this practice.
It is a practice, like yoga, or daily Morning Pages, like walking, like a 10th Step Inventory.
A thought, as I am planning to travel I need to add purpose to the travel and maybe it is about writing my thoughts as I am immersed.
Because I can.
Saturday. During Morning Pages I wrote that I will write today. Back to what is a good day? Today it was getting together with Debi - long time friend and colleague. Product Manager and Sales Demo person for GE (first PHAMIS) Revenue Cycle for so years. Traveled to Singapore, Doha and other places for the Product and Company. After we all left PHAMIS/GE we continued to spend travel time together including Florence, Edinburgh and other great locations in Scotland, Amsterdam, London. Such great times and a widening of the circle - add Tom, and Nancy and others from the Opera Workshop. Any way, she was here in Seaside for a visit. We immediately jumped into our friendship like we were continuing a conversation we started yesterday.
Today I committed to writing something - my intention was to write. I stood on the deck and there were two stellar jays in the tree chattering away at me. I talked back, asked them what are you doing up there?
I don't know what to write. Do I have a story to tell? What can I talk about? I don't see/feel a long story or novel. Memoir or essay is the format I have wanted to write in. Poetry - I like to write free from poems. Even though I read poetry and do not always enjoy or understand. I do love Mary Oliver - so maybe there is hope for a reader of Mary can also become a writer of poems.
I could write about being a volunteer at Fort Clatsop. It is amazing, I always wanted to volunteer at a Lewis and Clark site and now I am. Talk about the power of intention or at least long time focused attention.
Intention and focused attention. My intention is to create the perfect environment for retirement. My intention is to spend more time in Italy. My intention is to have plenty of money and resources to do that.
My intention is to write daily - write until I figure out what to write.
My intention is to be healthy and fit, to eat healthy to take care of my mind and body.
My intention is to nurture my relationships. But to let go of those that are full of blame, anger.
I have noticed that this obsession with this terrible situation our country is in has made me one of those people hooked on watching hour by hour the pundits and analysis. Right now all saying the same thing and all of them and the rest of us looking at each other and saying "we are watching history, right?" .
I can make a choice to be calm, to be centered and to sit still - to just be present. Lately, I am investing in this practice.
It is a practice, like yoga, or daily Morning Pages, like walking, like a 10th Step Inventory.
A thought, as I am planning to travel I need to add purpose to the travel and maybe it is about writing my thoughts as I am immersed.
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