1/20/2024 This Three Year Old

      Over 30 years ago, this kid tells me a secret about life. I wrote about this previously. He was sitting and playing on a 4 ft high wood deck. I was on the driveway. I said to the kid, do you remember when you were big? He shook his curly head yes. He lifted his his head and it seemed that his eyes changed in some way, darker and wider. The kid kid wasn't there anymore. Soul was now front in center. He said I like the fact that I create my own reality. I put my hand out to tap his hand and he put his through the balusters, when our hands met. I was going to ask him another question but he said I want you to leave now. The kid returned. So it was there for 1 question. 

      Looking back, it feels like yesterday.  My failure to a big degree was not to take action along these lines of thought. I wish I was more proactive. Picking a goal and focusing on it with laser precision. I could have had more fun. Some areas I did. But in others things were going good but I took my foot off the gas. I got distracted by other events. It comes to the point of reacting to life's events, instead of being the source of future events. So I let those events  dictate to me, then the other way around. But sometimes I was able to make the adjustment and rewrite the narrative. I dictated that it was time to take the fork in the road. I did good in these instances. Where I lapsed bigtime was my financial situation. It didn't become much better. A laser focus would have worked for me. But I created this life for me, no doubt about it. I am responsible for it all. This has to be your starting point, like a preset factory setting. If goals aren't being met. A reassessment is in order forthwith. Goals should be gone over every Sunday. Look at your journal and monitor your progress. This is the time to tweak it. Look at the goals money, relationships or health. Ask yourself, how can I improve upon this. What is my next form of action?  Write it down and act upon it. Due diligence is required from you. Look in mirror and say I am the one responsible for everything in my life. That means I have the control, no matter what is happening in my life. By thinking this way, you can steady the ship and keep any situation from going under.  Your ship is in dry dock for repairs, make the most of it. By making better choices and being willing to adapt to future road blocks.  No matter what be kind in word & deed always to yourself and others.