I’m a big fan of Good Earth Sweet & Spicy tea. First, the aroma alone is nice. It usually will generate a comment from someone, especially if I bring it into a conference room.
Second, the taste that goes with it. Cinnamon, some orange. Mmm.
The bonus of Good Earth is the tag on the end of the string has a little pearl of wisdom. This was today’s nugget.
There’s days where things occur and situations arise that don’t require a lot of intervention or even thought, and then there’s days like February 2016.
I didn’t expect life would be a walk in the park and things would just naturally happen to or for me. And I didn’t think it would be as challenging and as full of opportunity, either.
The last year or so, I spent a little too much time wishing things would be better. Easier. Grandpa Gustafson said it best about wishes in Grumpy Old Men:
I sat on my ass a lot of last year wishing. (You can guess which hand filled up first.) I need to start doing. To that end, I joined Light Hustler Evolution this year, to push myself out of the wish zone and into the do zone. I am meeting and working with like-minded individuals that want to thrive in 2018. Setting goals, holding each other accountable. Some want to grow their business, some of us are going to get control of our finances, rather than be controlled by them. Someone will start writing a book, and someone is going to finish one. Not by shame, not by wishing it were so, but by breaking down our goals into small, managable pieces and working on them each day.
I set a personal goal of being more creative this year, in some way. Maybe it’s writing, maybe it’s through some photography. Maybe it’s both. Maybe it’s neither. This morning, Austin asked “what are you doing today to accomplish your goal,” and so I said I would write something.
I couldn’t wish this would would write itself. I had to make it happen. I had to wish that I was better, and then stop wishing and do it.
I’m looking forward to what 2018 brings.
