Gratitude Journal
1. A good night’s sleep
2. Time to think and be bored
3. Thunderstorms

Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

- Brett Hull

Gratitude Journal
1. Intermittent Fasting
2. Early morning mediation
3. A nice pen

The music of Hamilton never gets old!

I started playing around with Toggl to track time. Now, I’m not one of those people that feels the need to track every moment of my day. But I do want to know how long its taking me to work on certain projects (personal and work related).

It’s that time of year again!

Volleyball games for tonight (8/8) rrvsports.net

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

- Francis Hutcheson

Gratitude Journal
1. Morning routines
2. High School Sports
3. Freshly mowed grass in the morning

One thing  needs to addres for the iPad is the little keyboard/microphone floating box when using the Magic Keyboard . It’s always in the way of the “post” button on certain apps. Sometimes you can move this box and other times you can’t.

Love this song from Shinedown

I did a thing!

In an effort to minimize my screen time, I decided to try out downtime on my iPhone this weekend. I decided to limit what apps I have access to in the evening time until morning. This prevents me from mindlessly scrolling and watching videos when I should be asleep. I don’t have a lot of data yet but plan on monitoring it over a period of time. I’ll have to do some tweaking to the apps that are/aren’t allowed as well as the time chosen for downtime.

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

- Tryon Edwards

Gratitude Journal
1. Revelations on creative processes
2. Swimming in the pool when its 100+ degrees
3. Intionality

This article has some really good points. I really liked this particular part:

I also use Do Not Disturb quite liberally. Basically, it’s on from 5pm until noon each day. It’s like intermittent fasting but from distractions.

Gratitude Journal
1. Game night with the family
2. Unexpected rain showers
3. Hey Dude shoes

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

- Lucille Ball

Sweden won that game because of their goalie. She was fantastic

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

Gratitude Journal
1. Morning meditation time
2. Daily scripture reading
3. Saturday morning bike rides with my wife

I decided to steal this idea from Aaron Aiken and post it here

Gratitude Journal
1. Conversations with family you haven’t seen in a year
2. Birthday celebrations
3. Iced Coffee