The Regular Day

 Life is a game.  Sometimes you get to pick the game.  Life events have led me to a place where I am at the edge of the frying pan preparing to leap into the fire. The only question is what will happen when I get into the fire, sit and sizzle or continue to move forward?      Yes, I am being overly dramatic. What will really happen has nothing to do with what is going on in my mind. Sure life is playing 52 card pickup with me, the question is what will I do from here? Carefully look at all the cards and pick them up in the right order neatly stacked? Grab them all into a pile, make it look like I had done all the hard work (cards still random)? Well, if I am going to get to pick the next game, when I pick them up I am going to stack the deck in my favor. Life might want to play 52 pickup again, but just in case I get to pick, I am going to put in some effort.     Perhaps a few details are in order. Between modest income, outrageous inflation,...

 How to stack up regular days.      Once you realize that it is you normal activities, how you spend you time sets your direction you may realize, as I did that your regular days are what is creating a direction that do you not want. When you look at your direction in life, and the things that have the biggest impact are those small things that are dragging you down or boosting you up.  As with any new creation, you need a place to start.     If your familiar with Maslow's hierarch of needs, you find that there are layers of needs that must be satisfied before a higher need can be recognized or strived for. ( According to  Maslow , we have five categories of  needs : physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization. ). This is a good place to start on creating your regular day. After all if your regular day includes a struggle to eat, it is much easier to ignore the higher needs. If you are hungry enough the question of "Do I ...

It is a way of thinking about life.  Our concept of how we are doing in life is based on what are regular day looks like.      The regular day philosophy is that the more you understand your regular day, the more you can set your mind to value the regular days for what they are really worth. Once you examine your regular days, and watch yourself as you move through each day you quickly realize the direction you life is heading. Once you get a good handle on your own regular day, it allows you to see if you adding value each day, or losing ground, or if you are just holding steady.  Once you understand the direction of your regular days...     This is the point when you can start asking questions. Are my regular days stacking up the way I want them to? Or does each day make life a little harder for me. Am I just holding on so tightly just to break even each day? Can my regular days stack up to become a better life? What about the effect of my regular da...

 Some days are not going to be regular no matter what.       If you eliminate all your bad habits, or at least have them acting reasonable. Your routines are very solid and you are able to accomplish a great deal on any given day without running yourself totally ragged. Your schedule is as good as it gets, and flexible enough to include those odd days when things just don't work out. Lets face it the real regular day is a pretty rare and wonderful thing. This is why I call this blog forging the regular day . So far in this blog I have only hinted at what a regular day is.     Now the advantage of the regular day is that in includes of progress toward a goal. Now if you have ever pursued a goal, you know that things will get in your way, there will be opposition to it. Sometimes life will not only take one of your regular days, but destroy the whole series you have carefully set up. One really hard thing about choosing the pursuit of regular days over o...

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     The quote “A beginning is a very delicate time” is part of the original book Dune by Frank Herbert. I know that how things begin can have an impact on how things will go. A beginning of a new idea or the attempt to implement an old idea in a better way can sometimes spell disaster. So I have been very cautions on how I begin to write this down.      Sometimes one must just jump in. This blog is not about the end product, it is about the struggle to produce something. I started with a desire to move toward writing ideas and sharing with the world, the expression started with a simple text document. This is the first entry.