“Thalia dusted off her acting skills from days of yore — and pretended to faint. She lifted her head an inch from the floor and whispered, “My life — is over.”
~Typist, with a flair for the dramatic, as evidenced by Thalia!
In his book, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, Retired Navy SEAL Officer, Jocko Willink, explains why discipline is so important, and how discipline is what creates freedom.
For freedom lovers everywhere, this is important to understand, because if you are indeed, a lover of freedom, then you will do as so many before us have done, and you will embrace discipline as the vehicle that creates the freedom we love, and a planner is one of those “DISCIPLINE” tools.
I anticipate that in the next day or two we will hear about how our dear friend is twirling once again because of what she’s discovered using her planner.
“I find smiles and encouraging words to be golden!” ~Typist
Hurray! Manna from the Universe! Ezekiel 4:9 bread is pretty good, too, but this post is brain-food for me!
Your phone foibles brought to mind your initial change over to a 14, owing to its SIMM-less “simplicity.” 🙃 Progress is not without its pitfalls. May the “Event Horizon” at Verizon quickly dissipate. Event Horizon, from astro-physics, is a boundary beyond which events cannot influence the observer-you. 🤔 With just a little luck, the magicians at Verizon will perform skillful acts that indeed will influence you! Or at least your phone. If not, call me for advice! 🤪
Going back to your planner image, I smiled at your deft touch of incorporating Mark Starlin’s story about Stroller into your embellishments on the page. Almost a variant of geocaching?
The topic of “creating value using encouraging words and smiles” triggered a memory. A worker, in the deli where I shopped years ago, always seemed dour, quite unfriendly. I recognized how that judgement influenced my attitude if she took my order. I decided to act differently. When she finished cutting my lunch meat, I playfully commented, “Nice slice!” That brought a smile to her face and a softened tone to her words. Or was part of that how I “heard” her? With a new framing of the exchange?🤔
Last I’m so glad to read the outcome of your responding to Jack Bosma. I had seen his comments, too, and was mystified as to their implications. Writer speak? A critique? 🤷🏽 And again, thanks to 3mm I’m less clueless on one thing today. 😁
I have yet to find a planner that really worked for me, Gail. Notebooks, sticky notes, backs of envelopes--those are my current planners. It's amazing I accomplish anything., lol. Good luck with your new system of discipline!
T-shirt: “2012: Spend hours assigning individual ring tones to everyone I know. 2022: Set phone to silent and let everything roll to voicemail” 😁
“Create value”... hmmm... well, I have all the to-do items that got put off over the Thanksgiving week that I assigned to today because: #iamanidiot. There *might* be some value in there, maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I felt the the same Pennie… unsure. Jack’s enthusiasm for what he does though… is contagious, and sparked my curiosity. I was able to share two videos right away: one a friend created about the trilogy of books I published in 2021, and another the same friend produced of a muse post.
“Thalia dusted off her acting skills from days of yore — and pretended to faint. She lifted her head an inch from the floor and whispered, “My life — is over.”
~Typist, with a flair for the dramatic, as evidenced by Thalia!
In his book, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, Retired Navy SEAL Officer, Jocko Willink, explains why discipline is so important, and how discipline is what creates freedom.
For freedom lovers everywhere, this is important to understand, because if you are indeed, a lover of freedom, then you will do as so many before us have done, and you will embrace discipline as the vehicle that creates the freedom we love, and a planner is one of those “DISCIPLINE” tools.
I anticipate that in the next day or two we will hear about how our dear friend is twirling once again because of what she’s discovered using her planner.
“I find smiles and encouraging words to be golden!” ~Typist
I have Jocko’s book! I wrote about it once and a reader who is former-army teased, “A squid Gail? Really? A squid?” 😂
Yep! That’s ARMY!
Hurray! Manna from the Universe! Ezekiel 4:9 bread is pretty good, too, but this post is brain-food for me!
Your phone foibles brought to mind your initial change over to a 14, owing to its SIMM-less “simplicity.” 🙃 Progress is not without its pitfalls. May the “Event Horizon” at Verizon quickly dissipate. Event Horizon, from astro-physics, is a boundary beyond which events cannot influence the observer-you. 🤔 With just a little luck, the magicians at Verizon will perform skillful acts that indeed will influence you! Or at least your phone. If not, call me for advice! 🤪
Going back to your planner image, I smiled at your deft touch of incorporating Mark Starlin’s story about Stroller into your embellishments on the page. Almost a variant of geocaching?
The topic of “creating value using encouraging words and smiles” triggered a memory. A worker, in the deli where I shopped years ago, always seemed dour, quite unfriendly. I recognized how that judgement influenced my attitude if she took my order. I decided to act differently. When she finished cutting my lunch meat, I playfully commented, “Nice slice!” That brought a smile to her face and a softened tone to her words. Or was part of that how I “heard” her? With a new framing of the exchange?🤔
Last I’m so glad to read the outcome of your responding to Jack Bosma. I had seen his comments, too, and was mystified as to their implications. Writer speak? A critique? 🤷🏽 And again, thanks to 3mm I’m less clueless on one thing today. 😁
The 14 is back in business! Woot-woot!
Stroller! Wasn’t that a great story?
I have yet to find a planner that really worked for me, Gail. Notebooks, sticky notes, backs of envelopes--those are my current planners. It's amazing I accomplish anything., lol. Good luck with your new system of discipline!
Thanks Karen. It's a work in progress!
T-shirt: “2012: Spend hours assigning individual ring tones to everyone I know. 2022: Set phone to silent and let everything roll to voicemail” 😁
“Create value”... hmmm... well, I have all the to-do items that got put off over the Thanksgiving week that I assigned to today because: #iamanidiot. There *might* be some value in there, maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I bet you smiled at Deb!!!
Always and every day! 😊
Jack had reached out to me a while back. His work is interesting but I'm not sure where a fiction writer like myself would fit into YouTube.
I felt the the same Pennie… unsure. Jack’s enthusiasm for what he does though… is contagious, and sparked my curiosity. I was able to share two videos right away: one a friend created about the trilogy of books I published in 2021, and another the same friend produced of a muse post.
https://youtu.be/Y4hG5XmS8IQ
I invite you to subscribe if you’re interested. And happy to share information if you decide to go forth as an adventurer. 🥾
Thank you and I will check them out.