Author: Jim Gohrick (Page 107 of 159)

A strong-structured schedule can offer plenty of opportunities for freedom and spontaneity.

Like a hug jar, your schedule can be filled with the biggest stones first. These are your non-movable items throughout your day. Whether that’s your Monday morning meeting with your staff, your entire workday or must-have appointments with clients. These will take blocks of time out of your schedule in order to begin filling with the next tier of tasks important to you.

These can be such tasks as working our and exercising during the day, reaching out for new business or wrapping up past job for the week. These are not “less” important activities, but they become smaller stones fitting into your jar because of the amount of time needed to accomplish these, because they don’t take precedence for that day or because they can be shifted around to another avaible time slot.

Once we have filled in our first two sizes of stones, we can now place the pebbles into the remaining available time slots. Maybe you have 45 minutes on Tuesday to sneak in a quick lunch with your spouse at a mutual meeting spot. You have set time aside for the things that are important to you, so you know where you stand for the week. Now you can enjoy your time with your wife and remain present with her, knowing your other tasks will be completed all in due time.

Glory be to this wonderful life.

Glory be to my healthy body.

Glory be to all of the Loved-ones I have around me, including friends and family.

Glory be to this journey called life. Although it may not be easy, I accept the path and know it’s exactly where I need to be.

Glory be to artist’s and joy they bring to others and the risks their willing to take no matter what the cost. To the air I breathe and connections I make with others.

Glory be to the blue skies above in which we all share, as well as the hopes and dreams of our innermost desires.

Glory be to being human. We all make mistakes and we’re all flawed, but we’re all on this blue marble together.

Glory be to Love. “Still the most powerful and yet unknown energy in the universe.”

It’s a funny thing – the darkness. It would seem I’ve had a few – just as I’m sure other people have as well – negative experiences during the blackness of the night. Whether that’s hallucinogenic dreams and body aches due to the flu, a phone call that a loved-one has passed or sometimes straight-up anxiety because we have time to lay in our bed in the midnight hours as our mind runs free like a wild stallion on the western landscape reminding you of all your worries.

The night may just parallel the recesses of our minds at times. It would seem all hope is lost during those gloomy hours when there is an absence of light. Until, of course, the sun begins to rise and the skies slowly fade to blue.

It feels as if our hope is being lifted with the rising of the sun. Shortly our space is filled with light and warmth stretching to each and every corner. We shrug off the bleak views we once stood by just hours ago. We’re able to see what’s in front of us – to know what’s coming and where we’ve been. It’s comforting.

Or we can subscribe to faith. Blind as it may be, it may just be the answer to those long dark nights.

When I was younger I believed I would make a pile of cash – striking it rich – with some great new invention or becoming a famous actor and then coast the next 50-60 years of my life while laying around my home, exercising and going to see great shows.

One of my biggest realizations is that you never “arrive.” That image of pulling up to your “destination” in a black stretch limo as the crowd cheers your exit from the vehicle is flawed. Just a bit.

You never arrive. Why? Because you are constantly in process. Or at least you should be. The moment you sit back and begin to count your accolades and accomplishments is the moment you’re done.

I wished I realized that at a younger age. Not that I didn’t hustle, but it’s a perspective that I have benefitted from after understanding the big picture. When you fall in love with the process, then and only then can you have a healthy perspective of your journey forward. If we can stay away from focusing on the results and dive into the process, we’ll end up exactly where we need to be.

I have to believe the awareness to ponder our own thinking comes at a cost. To what degree I’m not sure.

A bird sings her song in the early mornings because it’s in her nature. There’s no stress, stage fright or anxiety about how she sounds or what the crows may think. She belts out her tune over and over again as she goes about her day. After all, she’s a song bird.

Maybe we overthink a bit too much, which can lead to a whole lot of nothing. Maybe we should engage in more “doing” and let the chips fall where they may. Or sing our song loud and proud and not worry about what our audience thinks.

After all, if you have to sing, then sing.