Welcome to my daily report card. Every day is
a continuous test with no subject. What's your
answer? Was it meaningful? Temporal discounting.
We have the tendency to devalue rewards the further
they are in the future, making immediate rewards
seem more appealing. We don't get joy out of
our smiles not hurting. We don't find pleasure
in our car engine not seizing up. So, therefore,
we don't value things like brushing our teeth
or getting oil changes. And that's the mix -up.
We've been so inclined to go for what's in front
of us that we can't see anything What's in front
of our face. And. I'm no different. I had my
times and half my times where. I don't care.
What's going on except for the right now. And
what it has to offer. We have to channel that.
it worked both ways with our dark and light side
and including every part of us and not making
our own self seem like we're a stranger when
it's us the whole time deep and on march 12th
2025 at 9 31 pacific standard time let's start
song of the day um no do -overs by g perco and
dj drama pride by key glock also in my spirit
of my birthday too young by post -modern i'm
gonna have to stop i'm gonna have to stop with
this song on um my uh playlist i'm i'm getting
past that uh died too young i'm just i just don't
want to die Right now. What did I read today?
I'm still on The Right Kind of Wrong by Amy Edmondson.
And I love it. And about halfway through right
now. And a good line from there. To err is human.
To prevent basic failure, divine. Was I physically
active today? I was actually able to get, you
know, I love what I love about Tuesdays, even
though today's Wednesday is that when I can get
my 24 hour fasting and an actual workout. So
halfway to the goal of going actually to the
gym two times a week. So I'm progress on progress
right now. So I'll say, yeah. What I get from
meditation. Attach yourself to the positive and
negative experience that create full life equally.
To get full value and knowledge, a prerequisite
is usually pain rather than pleasure. What did
I succeed at today? Thought really more than
what I wanted in my own personal wants and pleasures
and satisfactions. um thinking about my family
and what they would need and i know that's an
obvious thing and a duh however just rethinking
your statement taking that extra time to get
up and give a family a Go somewhere to be there
for a family member. Share a good story that
bonds you and that particular family member.
And facing pain head on. RIP Cousin, RIP Grumman.
What made me smile today? Being able to check
off everything on my list of things that I wanted
to do. And knowing that it was just for today,
but still being able to do that. Knowing that
the rest of the day was mine. And with what was
mine, that came with also being able to see children.
spouse and family and seeing their smiling faces
and not have on the back of my head on what I
should have did, what I could have did, even
though that's not really important at the moment.
However, it is to me. And you know when you're
out somewhere and you're thinking that you should
really be present in this moment and you can't.
To err is human. It wasn't today though. I'm
happy about that. Hoping I can be like that more.
Hoping that you can do that as well. Hoping you
can leave all the drama at the door and be there
for someone else and make the collective better.
Sometimes words don't even need to be said and
just the presence alone does the work. I'm going
to take my day overall. Humble, informative,
thoughtful, patient. What grade did I give myself?
I'm going to go with a B+. Sometimes we have
to be pushed in the right direction. I'd rather
to allow myself to walk into it. And even though
I went that right direction, sometimes, today
I needed that nudge and in more ways than one
and we need our accountability managers we need
people to do our nudging too and so that's not
a bad thing and I'm just being hard on myself
and we're always our biggest critics I know you
are to you be nice to yourself and I'm going
to try to do the same and with that once again