The Regular Day

  Howdeee! Ok, on April 18th's Facebook post I put forth the notion that it was time for me to review my goals. This has left me a bit aimless. That place of indecision makes me very uncomfortable. Start from scratch, sure no problem, double efforts and focus, ok I will give it a try. It is that place in between that really creates stress and misery for me. The model of the world that I was using when I set up those goals was incomplete. The rules, rewards, and penalties were unclear. When trying to apply a sloppy model to the real world, without understanding the rules, tracking the rewards and penalties the game quickly becomes nothing but moving pieces around without knowing the consequences and you relay on pure luck to make progress. In the game of tic tac toe, you start with nine choices, all fairly equal. Then someone else has control with eight choices most are fairly equal. Each move takes away the number of choices and the number of good choices. Most bad moves are easily...

Garbage in garbage out.      The process of sending a receiving messages is as complex a topic as particle physics. At its core all life is constantly sending messages. The choice to speak or not speak sends a message, to take action or wait for others to act. Human beings are not the strongest critter in the forest. We do have a couple of huge advantages though. Our ability to organize large groups and provide everyone in the group with ample necessities is rare in nature.       Where I am trying to go with this post is how to balance the messages you are sending with your regular days that will produce the maximum number of regular days for yourself and those around you. How do you tell if the messages you are sending and receiving are producing regular days? Even more important is what messages are you sending and receiving. How do you tell if those messages are just making a mess out of your regular days and the regular days of others?   ...