Notes To Myself

Discipline: Wasted time is lost opportunoity.

We work not only to produce but also to give value to time.

Redemption - lessons learned.

The WWW is the new fontier for business...

Always change a losing game...

Reduce main purpose to a series of goals that are then reduced to bite sized chunks ...achievable tasks within the course of a day

Break your day into blocks of time, assigning tasks to those blocks, such as, personal hygiene, apartment maintenance, directed reading...

My reading to be around a few topics...

MBSR with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Aaron Beck with behavior therapy and combine the two in mindfulness based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy...

Read Martin Seligman and  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  Positive Psychology

Aaron Temkin Beck, M.D. is the father of Cognitive Therapy, having created and refined cognitive therapy over the course of his research and clinical career. He has published more than 550 scholarly articles and 18 books and has developed widely-used assessment scales. He has received many prestigious awards including the 2006 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for developing cognitive therapy, which fundamentally changed the way that psychopathology is viewed and its treatment is conducted. He has been listed as one of the "10 individuals who shaped the face of American Psychiatry" and one of the 5 most influential psychotherapists of all time.

Dr. Beck is an emeritus professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center, which is the parent organization of the Center for the Prevention of Suicide. His current research focuses on cognitive therapy for suicide prevention, dissemination of cognitive therapy into community settings, and cognitive therapy for schizophrenia.

 Focus on the one day at a time philosophy...

Tony Robbins is a good guy to motivate yourself to action.....

3 Pillars of Zen are learn, practice, teach...  try not to get ahead of yourself.  Practice meditation.

Remember to begin with the end in mind, as Steven Covey prescribes in 7 Habits

Choose books to read with a purpose in mind... there are too many books in the library and too little time to read them all...

Life Mission - write a statement to be your compass....

Don't find fault, find a remedy.  Henry Ford

Pay attention and focus on one task at a time...

Change attitude from one of employee to entrepreneur creating an income...

Plan for Probable outcomes, if you act in certain ways, work hard, advertise....

Start a Donate Box and add something every day.

What is your destination, you are drifting...focus now.

All things in moderation

transform habits, always replacing a habit with more effective ways of doing.....

Realize that there is no way to make up for lost time look to this day, where your strength to act is what counts...start from where you are now and begin to build a better future for yourself and your loved ones....

Remember... tattoo this on your brain:

Focus:  If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.