GET GOING

Today I will let go of procrastination

Procrastination is so easy. I'll get the that in five minutes, make it ten. I need to send a few emails, visit my friends on facebook, oh this show is interesting. ( I want to learn how to organize my house.......) Before you know the day is gone. What could you have done, instead reading emails, chatting way to long with a friend on the phone.......

Clean up you yard, 3 loads of laundry, clean a bathroom.

Each day I set goals, small ones. Once I accomplish those things I seem to do more........

Life is short, if gardening, scrapbooking, painting bring you joy, get up and get going. The joy is so much better, when the work is done.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make your most important decisions when you are in the worst mood. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.- Wolf Dyke

Wolf Dyke quote is very wise. How many times have I read a person wrong when I was upset, rushed an important dicision just because I felt cold. My marriage ended during a very bleak time in my life. I have bi polar and was coming out of bad depression. My ex husbands father died three days before he told me goodbye. I often wonder if I had asked him to wait so I could fully recover and give him time to grieve if we would still be together. But that isn't how it went. We cut down our tree in the our Wintertime.

Please see the trees

I don't always see the trees but I try damn hard. This is worth reading, even though it is a bit long..............Jenni

See the Trees
By William Lambert

I lived in Alabama on a half-acre lot blessed huge oak trees that were 40 feet in diameter. They were HUGE! The house was laid out such that every bedroom faced the backyard. Each bedroom had a large picture window. The view was breathtaking. I enjoyed just looking at the trees. In the fall I would identify a particular leaf that was falling and watched it for what seemed liked 5 minutes before it fell to earth.
One day I invited this married couple over to enjoy the view from the bedroom window. I took them into the bedroom and excitedly pointed to the trees out of the window and exclaimed, "just look"!
After about 20 seconds there was no comment from the couple. I however, noticed a big frown on the woman's face.
I said, "What's wrong". She was reluctant to reply.
I insisted and again said, "What's wrong?"
She relented and said, "Don't you see those fingerprints on the glass?"
I turned and looked and there were what seemed to be fifty or more fingerprints on the glass. I ran for the Windex to clean the glass. The lady "Oh, I didn't mean for you to clean it now."
The morale here is this. That lady never saw the trees. Even when I tried to point them out, She missed it! I didn't see the fingerprints. I was looking through the glass not at it.
When the fingerprints were pointed out to me, I saw them and removed them. The lady never saw the trees. She focused on the fingerprints and she never got passed them.
Life is much like that. There are things in life that are good and things that are bad. You choose which things you want to focus on. I focus on the trees.
What are you focusing on?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Lambert has made teaching his life submitted this story for our MDI subscribers. With a Master's degree in Education, from Memphis State University, He is a former teacher in the Memphis City Schools System, where he won the prestigious Distinguished Teacher Award. He has published articles in the education and training arena. Some of the articles are: Liven up the Lecture Method, What You Say Is What You Get, Micro Videotaping and The Madison Avenue Approach (to Teaching). You can reach Mr. Lambert at wlambert7@comcast.net or visit his website http://www.motivateme.com

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

Think about it.............. I did

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them.
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was a man of many talents.

Born
26 July 1856(1856-07-26)Dublin, Ireland
Died
2 November 1950 (aged 94)Hertfordshire, England
Occupation
Playwright, critic, political activist
Nationality
Irish
Genres
Satire, Black comedy
Literary movement
Reformist Socialist
Notable award(s)
Nobel Prize in Literature1925
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay1938 Pygmalion

The only man to win both Acedemy Award and Noble Prize Literature.

Seems to me he got up and looked for what he wanted