Little By Little
It's sometimes hard to believe how fast time flies. It feels like I last posted just a week or two ago but it's been nigh a month. In a sense, nothing has happened since then except several mental "donuts" where I've driven my internal direction around in spinning circles like a teenager behind the wheel of the family station wagon at 2 a.m. in some remote parking lot.
I haven't really gotten anywhere, nor do I know what direction I'll eventually be heading when I stop spinning, BUT I'm having a heck of a lot of fun getting dizzy. Since I can't really talk about the tour and the if/when/where it might happen, I'll just blab away about "uncertainty" once again.
I often find myself weary from uncertainty yet if you think about it,
everything is pretty much uncertain. The sun could go out tomorrow. You could win the lottery or get nailed by a meteorite. Heck, even eating at a restaurant and ordering the same old, same old can be taking a chance. So how to deal?
I think the first thing to do is try and take care of what you can take care of and then put the stuff that you don't have any control over out of your mind as much as possible. Sure, you need to check in once in awhile, but if something is out of your hands, let it be. Think about it this way...if you think, you're using energy...and, generally speaking, you can only really think about one thing at a time with any degree of focus. So the real key is to totally block out the stuff you can't and don't need to deal with until it's time.
You know how when you're counting out a bunch of items and some smart ass of a friend starts yelling numbers out from all over the map and you get screwed up and have to start over? Well, that's what worrying about uncertainties out of your control does to the rest of your life that is trying to get on with itself.
So, I don't have much control over this tour at this point, the when, the where, the how. So, in order to keep from going nutso, I focus on the only thing I can: getting in shape. Yea, tell me about it. There's probably nothing quite so boring as trying to get into shape. I do know the secret though. This is the diet and workout plan that is totally and utterly guaranteed to help you lose weight and get in shape: exercise and burn more calories each day than you consume.
Yep, there you have it. Same goes for money in the bank...make more each day than you spend each day. What about getting more of the things you want out of life? Easy...spend more seconds, minutes, hours and days doing the the things you want to do instead of doing the things you don't want or like to do.
I'm telling you, I definitely should be a life changing guru of some sort, huh? Who knows, maybe I am and my little grasshoppers just aren't telling me about it. In any event, the title of this is "little by little" and the purpose of it was to simply get back into the swing of writing in my journal again since it's uncertainly likely that I'll be on the road soon. In the meantime, I definitely need to get the old creative/humor juices flowing. This post could bore a post...so to speak. (Note to self: just stop before someone hurts you, dude.)