Spent some time thinking about getting ‘back to one’ or in other words, getting back to the space where I am centered and organized and ready to face the world. I was there for a spell and then I went I blew up my life. That all starts by assessing where I am at vs. where I want to be and what I need to be working on in order to reach my goal–especially in terms of obstacles. For example, I recognize that I watch too much TV and tried to solve that problem by canceling DirecTV. When I called they were able to bend my already weak will to at least a month longer stint by offering a massive one month discount. I gotta be tougher than that.
Distractions are the spice of life and I all too often allow them to become a focus of my being. That isn’t the person I want to be. I see that person every day in class. Most of my students are that person. Anything that is going on in their lives is infinitely more important than everything happening in the rest of the known universe. Just recently I had a student decide to miss a week of class because she was fighting with her boyfriend and it made her feel unable to participate.
As the semester winds to a close I am happier and happier about the opportunity I have to get very focused and build my skills both as an online teacher and as a writer, given the significant amount of time I will have to pursue both. I’ll also have the urge–since nobody once to leave the house during the Arizona summer.
All in all I believe it is time for a change for the better in my life and I am ready to start realizing that change… Even though I’ve said it before.
Some Thoughts:
- 1797 was the first year that scientists proved that diamonds were a rarified form of carbon formed, in part, by intense pressures. This immediately invalidated the Superman film produced almost 200 years later when that dude squeezed a piece of coal until it became a diamond he could present to Lois Lane… Is it weird that this is the one part of the film I was like, “that could never happen”
- Sad and interesting perhaps only to me, 1797 was the year the capital of NY was moved out of NYC and placed in Albany. Now in defense of that snowy and distant place, Albany used to be a big deal in terms of commerce. On the other hand, it is the second time a significant capital was moved out of NYC. Did you know that NYC used to be the capital of the United States?