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In the beginning of this year , I quoted Bilbo Baggins from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” Since then, I have come to find there is always too much bread. Bread is something you can't control. There's always another interest, another issue, another emergency demanding your immediate attention. What's more, none of us has enough butter or attention to consider the amount of bread piled on our plates. It grows by the minute. Good News. We can control is where we scrape our butter. We control where we pay our attention. Ask yourself, where do you pay yours? 2015 In 2015, I scraped my butter over everything I could get a hold of. With work and family, I was ran a Dungeon & Dragon's Adventure League for the Greater Houston Area. That was 3 full time jobs itself and I didn't even know what I was doing. I also dedicated a lot of my butter to video games and to a struct...

Having 3 kids, a wife with long work hours, long commutes, and many other 'things' coming at me proved problematic for living a healthy lifestyle. Or so I thought in January 2016. On the surface, there was no way I could fit an hour of 'gym time' at night. By the time Anne Marie got home, I was exhausted! But Looking back, i realized I was giving up before I even started. Why not? I believed I would fail if I tried. I had no hope! Of course, the person with no hope of succeeding isn't even going to try. But, the only sure way to fail is to not try. I was making excuses . I was content enough with being discontent, I didn't 'care enough' to fail. "Care enough to fail." - Seth Godin I believed my work would be of poor quality because I had no time. But isn't poor quality better than nothing? How long must we starve our goals in anticipation of the perfect solution? And what good is the perfect solution if it is never executed? For we ...

In January I wrote about Doing Less to Do More . I look back and wonder how I managed so many different hobbies and how little effort I put into each one of them. I was juggling! The interesting thing I found out about jugging, nothing stays in your hand long enough to grow, change, or evolve you. Everything is always in the air. You don't have time to dedicate to the ball in your hand. Another ball, another hobby, another facebook group or post, another video game or youtube video is falling fast towards you. And you just can't have the falling 'thing' drop. No no no! You can't have that, can you? I remember so many times I'd drop all my important things. I'd forsake critical things for one distracting ball descending, because it was shiny. What shiny balls are you chasing? What hobbies are you so fixated on, you drop your other balls in your life? Oh wow I went somewhere with that. That message was for me 10 years ago and I missed it for 9 of them. H...

"You run the day or the day runs you." Take inventory of your day Find out what exactly are you doing with your time. Are you being efficient with your day? Are you running your day? Or is the day running you. Are you so busy playing catch-up, you feel like a professional juggler? Your Day Take inventory Find out what you do, when you do it, and why. Once you discover your routine, start to tweak it. What's really important and what's wasting your time? Are you utterly inefficient with your time? I was. Found Time Now I'm amazed at what I can do. I found time to cook healthy, real food with 3 kids. I found time to exercise I found time to devote to those I love. I found time to learn new skills. Don't Wait Find ways to optimize your available hours But waiting for your available hours to optimize themselves is waiting to lose. Don't wait to lose. Take inventory and start winning. Related Posts The Most Important Thing 1 Gamschanging Sym...

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” - Tolkien