Tag: thoughts

My Stack

Jennifred Jones

There is a stack of post-it notes by my laptop. It has been there for years…not the same papers in the pile, but the stack is still there.

Every day new thoughts emerge to share with my readers. Who knows where to start? So I jot them down …most of the time…so they aren’t forgotten and soon there are so many!

Today I begin again: (This came to me while I was making applesauce)

Read You Own Book!  (This is today’s post)

Your book is you. There are many chapters to your book. Which one are you on now? Which chapters have passed? Which chapters are you still living or trying to live in?

Books are written successively. One chapter leads to the next. We don’t write backwards. We write always moving forward because life moves forward. It is not to become stagnant.

Do not put your book – your life – back on some dusty old shelf not to be seen or read by anyone. Keep it open – the pages turning- writing new and better chapters of your explorations and points of interest. Make sure your book is as interesting as possible so you will want to keep writing. Others will see what you’ve written and want to read it, and you will want to remember how and what you did.

Keep working on your book. Keep working on you. Everyday our life is published somewhere.

The Pull Back

Jennifred Jones

*Progress! noun (accomplishment; deed done)

*Progress! verb (moving forward to attain a desired goal)

…my definitions…

But wait! It seems there are always things (forces) or thoughts trying to pull us back…not letting us progress towards our progress!

*Letting. Gerund (allowing something, someone to prevent us from moving forward out of our rut)

Again the 80/20 principle takes effect. Most are fearful of change, the unknown, the ‘what-ifs?’ so they hold back and want to hold you back too. The braver ones push on ahead seeing the end result of their progress in the minds eye…resulting in the bridges, skyscrapers, planes, computers, telephones, software…just about all the things we enjoy today. They crossed the line of fear and doubt.

Why not go all in with your thinking and making and doing. Go all out! Make the best craziest good thing or way of doing things anybody’s ever seen! Why not! Get those ideas out in public where they can be acted on. Why settle for mere status quo, only going so far, not wanting to draw too much attention to yourself so you pull back and settle in with the rest of the 80%. This is where inferior productivity arises.

On the road to nowhere…There was a good song with this title decades ago…happens alot! Might want to listen to it.

Do not, I repeat, do not settle your life into the 80% bracket of comfort, ease, no challenges, boring, nothing to look forward to [but at least I’m safe (more about this subject later)].

Climb yourself out of the ‘can’t do rut’ and get in the ‘can do lane’ and speed on ahead with the other 20% who are going somewhere doing important work.

Don’t let yourself get pulled back. Don’t even pull yourself back.

Keep progressing v. with your progress n. and see what good might happen!

Home!

Jennifred Jones

Your place of tranquility, peace of mind, rest and safety.

‘Where are you talking about?’ It can be a place in your mind and heart you resort to in turbulent times…a place no one can enter where you can just ‘be’ and contemplate next steps.

It can also be your physical house or dwelling where you close the door and only you and yours can be together to rest and plan and inspire one another.

I suggest it also needs to be a place of beauty…not meaning flowers all over but needs to be tidy and welcoming. How does that happen in my mind? It can be kept tidy and welcoming also. Close the door to thoughts you don’t need to concern yourself with. Leave space in there for growth and development of the good things you want to accomplish. You can’t entertain every thought or video or movie coming along. Listen to good music to help keep mentally sound. Read good books about struggle to victory.

It can be a form of relaxation to putter around your dwelling, keeping things in order, rearranging and revitalizing the look. Figure out what you like, what works for you, what helps you become a better person. So many things sound too simple and insignificant, but the little things grow and either build you up or tear you down.

It’s your home. Take care of it. Make it welcoming to you. Make it your place of refuge, tranquility and hope.