Yesterday I left the phone at the house all day. We ran some errands and then went to a wedding last night and I purposefully left the phone at home. It was extremely nice. I think I need to do that more often!
“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.”
- Steve Martin
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12:30 and I just finished the last item on my power list. I could have easily said screw it and did it tomorrow. But that doesn’t help me win today. And that’s what it’s about. Win the day.
Aug 13 was a win.
Went to a wedding tonight. It was fun to celebrate the union of two young people. It’s been a rough week with two funerals. So it was nice to celebrate a wedding to end the week.
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
- Alfred Hitchcock
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There are still good people in the world!
Updated my Bookshelf “want to read” items to reflect purchases I’ve made on my Kindle. I’m not even close to putting everything in there that I own. I have so many books.
Good thing my “Power List” has read on it everyday.
For those of you who send out newsletters, what service do you use? Micro.blog or something else?
Someone in my neighborhood is a very heavy sleeper. I walked out this morning to go to work and I heard an alarm going off. It was an iPhone tone and it was coming from one of the neighbors houses.
Sitting here looking at my files app on my iphone and realizing I need to clean this up in the worst way!
“I let my racket do the talking. That’s what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.”
- Pete Sampras
Is there anything more maddening than being asked a question by someone you work with only to have them texting something on their phone while you are trying to answer said question?
“If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?”
- Joe Rogan
Win the day. Whatever that looks like for you. Win the day.
Don’t worry about tomorrow. Just win today.
If you want to change something, stop putting yourself in a situation that will cause you to fail. Recovering alcoholics don’t frequent bars or the recovery won’t last long.
Likewise stop setting yourself up for failure!
“Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.”
- Herbert Hoover
“It’s gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it’s alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.”
- Deion Sanders
“You have to find an identity that’s true to yourself. You really have to find your own voice.”
- Princess Beatrice of York
“There’s nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they’re not.”
- Charlize Theron
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