Here I am back from visiting the Survival Guru and as ususal I was humbled by my travels and have returned to my blog with two little insights I want to discuss. See I often allow myself to forget that before all else this is a blog. Which is something Survival Guru has gotten spot on. Go read her blog lots of interesting questions to keep you out of sleep. She’s also has a book out and is finishing up another so check in and support one of our own.

Ok Back to why we’re here, while wandering around Survival Guru I actually popped in and commented on this post Why we forget the little things. It’s a very short post with a very powerful idea. What I took from it is simply this, why focus on the big bad things lying all over the place. focus on the things which you’re grateful for first. Then take some time to pay them back. What we focus on grows. Spend more time on the positives in your life and you’ll find your perception of your plight will change. Over and above that you’ll use your energy on the positive parts of your life, the parts that energize you. Taking the time start by looking the things you’re grateful for first makes a world of difference in your happiness. It’s the motivational equivalent of paying yourself first. The bad things that happen will get taken care of however if you ignore the good in your life it may never return.

Next up while wondering through Survival Guru I was reminded that this is blog dammit and I’m a blogger. A blogger who developed a passion for personal development while working as a manager, a blogger who uses Evernote and hopes you will too, I’ll even show you how. If not Evernote then use some other tool but don’t let the minutes and hours of your day slip away when there is so much living to be done. We either manage our use of our time or resolve to piss it away. I believe that strongly, call me a liar if you don’t. I’m a blogger who meditates and wishes you would too. Meditations is the simple act of re-investing in your body and mind and the result is spiritual. That is the blogger I am and I need to put more effort into my dialog as I tend to have to reverence for my subjects and end up leaving myself out of them completely So I’m going to try and become more bloggy and less preachy.

My last point, thanks to Survival Guru for reminding me about the little things. For me the thing I sometimes forget is how lucky I am to be able to show up here and write and interact with all of you. Every comment matters to me, I know how valuable your time is.

Happy sailing all

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It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

How great is that quote? It’s something I touched on in my post Try is nothing, do or do not as well. I often wonder what our community fascination is with celebrating giving up. Failure is not the end of the world, it’s not even the end of the road. Until we stop trying, we’re still in the race. Read more »

So if you’ve gone  through the steps so far for collecting your clutter into Evernote then you’ll already be well on your way toward using Evernote for goal tracking . We started by collecting all our clutter and then we went about capturing it into Evernote. So if we’ve done everything correctly up until now we have a system filled with all the related information pertaining to our goals for the coming year, and we’ve stored it all in a trusted system. Read more »

So as I sit back in my swivelly chair the smell of coffee filling my nostrils, I’m too scared to reach across and pick the damn cup up. Each time I do I get 2 dozen bolts of pain shooting back and forth across my chest and head. Thursday evening I was elbowed in the chest, a blow that through my protective vest felt like a baseball bat hitting me in the sternum. I took a finger to the face and knuckle to the lip. What a great evening.
This was my first evening of Wing tsun class and I’m really glad I went but as it always happens there was a moment earlier in the evening that could have saved me this ordeal.

Having screwed up the directions to my first kung fu lesson, I sat in my car with my phone in my hand considering my options. My mind was set on going home the moment it realized that I was in the wrong place. I had my out, the reason to go back to the comfort of my flat and climb back behind my monitor. I could always try again next week. I knew I was lying to myself. “If not now then when?” that question is the one that came to me at that moment. If not now, when? Read more »

In my previous post on Collection for tracking your goals in Evernote, I started bringing together all my clutter and also setting up the bare bones of a Getting things done (GTD) system to organize and review your goals in Evernote. In today’s post we’re going to look at the best ways to capture all the information you’re going to be using into Evernote. Read more »

 
We are going to attack 2010 and our goals head on. Quite possibly you’ve tried to achieve your goals before. You’ve probably spent hours online and reading about the goals you want to achieve. In this first step we’re going to tackle all the false starts you’ve had and start corraling the information you have at hand in Evernote while applying some Getting things Done (GTD) principles.
This first post will be the shortest in my series. The purpose of this step is just to set up a trusted GTD system of collection in Evernote as well as collecting all the information you already have amassed which will assist you in achieving your goals and objectives with ease. Read more »