Making Life Easy(ier)

Life doesn’t have to be as tough as we often make it on ourselves!

Truth be told, we do a lot that is not only unnecessary but that is counter to our primary goals and sometimes debilitating.  Such things include:

·         Unnumberable hours watching television

·         Unnumberable hours Twittering, Tweeting, playing “Angry Birds”, etc.

·         Unnumberable hours “getting it together” … whatever “it” is

·         Perseverating on trivial matters

And, on the flip side, we don’t do a lot that is “enlifening” and that can actually increase our capacities, like: 

·         Eating right

·         Exercising

·         Reading / Researching Life Mastery  and life-enriching resources

·         “Practicing” our art or profession or craft

·         Constructively cultivating our “self” expression through relevant hobbies

Goal tending is important and our primary goals should command – better, conscript – our primary attention. 

Time is our greatest ally if we use it wisely and our greatest foe if we abuse it.  

“We can only do what we can do, but we have to do that much.”  (Unknown)

If we can give up the notion of “having it all” and “doing it all” and not missing anything, and if we can make a few strategic sacrifices – like giving up “junk bond” investments in favor of “blue chip” investments, life can become much more meaningful and manageable. 

“Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself.”  Andrew Carnegie

Good places to start are: Redefining what “ALL” should include*, narrowing the unlimited choices we have, discriminating and separating “wants” from “needs”, and redistributing our “wants” over an expanded time frame (i.e., practicing delayed gratification). 

*NOTE:  There are a good number of things one shouldn’t do at certain times and in certain circumstances and a fairly large number of things one just shouldn’t do altogether – in any circumstance.  

 “Life is about choices.  Strength comes from constructive choices; power from avoiding unconstructive choices.”    Quartermaster

Whatever you do NOW on your “Oughta Do” list will make life richer, fuller and more manageable in both the short and the long run.  Be an “Oughta Doer” (“Auto-Doer”?), not a “Doo Doer”, and just go ahead and DOIT NOW! 

 “If we do what we’re supposed to do, life will turn out the way it’s supposed to be.”  Posting on an old farmhouse calendar