Category: Daily Life

I do what I have to do

Not because I want to

Or that I can

But because I have no other choice

I’ve often said, “Sleep is a waste of time.” This past week I’ve put my money where my mouth is. I wonder if I keep this up if my body and mind will just accept no sleep as the new normal. Is wakefulness simply mind over matter?

Your brain will tell you you can’t

But do it anyway

Your body will say quit

But keep going anyway

Others will tell you it is impossible

Prove them wrong

I had given up on it but the ginger I bought from Kroger has sprouted! In two places. I have no idea what comes next, how long to let it grow, or when to harvest but I grew a plant from food!

My new hobby is checking credit karma like it was some sort of social network.

I’ve become an early riser again out of necessity. I feel it but I’m loving it. Nothing compares to the calm of pre-dawn and the productivity it brings.

So you want to be a programmer? Be prepared to watch the perfect spring time weather pass you by as you pound on the keys of your keyboard and day dream of working on your yard and your house.

I use a paper planner to keep me productive. I know..tech dude says what.

Today my todo list says “Reset PW”

Someone needs to be a little more specific.

I should have spent my weekend working two 8 hour shifts. Instead, I spent it mostly building pipes to replace the rusted out galvanized steel pipes from the kitchen to the basement and snaking the cast iron pipe in the concrete foundation.

Good news! In the end, I was able to run 8 gallons of water through the pipe.

Bad news. I have no idea where the water went because it never made it to the sewer cleanout just outside the house. Well, I know where it went. It went into the ground because the pipes have collapsed and the plumbing snake came back with clay all over it.

I really need a month dedicated to working on my house. It would help if I could bring in a 20 foot shipping container for storage of stuff in the house as well as building supplies. It would doubly help if I owned a truck or SUV and put new wheels on my trailer. All of this needs to happen in the next 3 weeks which perfectly coincides with an absolute overloaded work schedule that will have me working night and day. And of course, they sold my $1.3billion lottery ticket to someone else…again.

Sometimes words come out of my mouth and I’m not sure why, where they came from, or if I could even define them. Today? “Humdinger”

Oh to imagine where I’d be had I stayed on the path. Walked the line. Followed the rules.

But then, would I have had this most excellent adventure?

S.M.A.R.T. goals are often interchangeably written with the A as either achievable or attainable.

Attainable is wrong.

Achievable refers to something that is capable of being accomplished, while attainable refers to something that can be reached or obtained. In other words, achievable is about possibility, while attainable is about accessibility.

The Content Authority – https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/achievable-vs-attainable

When defining goals, you are looking to remove ambiguity. Therefore the A needs to be achievable because we are interested in assessing whether or not the goal is possible. If it is not possible, then we have not written a clear goal.

S.M.A.R.T. goals are a way of setting oblectives that are clear, trackable, and achievable. S – specific; M – measurable; A – achievable; R – relevant; T – time-bound