I tweaked my morning ritual to include a few minutes of positive reinforcement. The original plan was to go to sleep an hour earlier than normal and wake 30 minutes earlier, providing me with 30 extra sleep minutes and 30 extra minutes of kid-free morning time in the exchange. The cost has been an hour of evening space where I lay on the couch watching the bad TV I DVR. This, like many other things in my daily life, has led to cause for reflection.
Tony Robbins speaks of success in terms of rituals and small steps meant to add up to a larger sense of planning, purpose, and determination. I am in day two of a process forged late Tuesday afternoon, yet I already can see the effects taking root. The problem—the fear—is that I will fail to stick to it and ultimately sink back into the ways of a near-do-well and not become the person I intend to be. Fear does have its purpose, but that purpose is not served well in this instance.
Full speed ahead.
Some Thoughts:
- This morning I broke my fast at a Village Inn near my campus. I enjoy this particular spot because of the regulars. I suppose I myself am a regular, but not like the gentlemen I witnessed today. It was interesting to watch the 3 men sit and discuss the long years they’ve been coming to this place and lament the three friends who couldn’t make this particular meeting because they’d gone off to Normandy to revisit their past. It made me think about the role that places play in our lives. Often we have a favorite watering hole or a place where something epic happened in our lives and these places become a part of our routine or even seared into our memory as a place we ought to get back to and visit and remember and, in some cases, revere. I have such places twirling through my memory and understanding. Just yesterday I drove past the site where the Albertson’s stood—the place I went to nearly every day when I first moved to AZ. The geography of my life sprang from that faded mall. I remembered all the moments leading up to and away from my time living near there, and the memories warmed me.