If less is more, why do i have more?

less is more
Less equals more. Photo: yesterday, serendipitously on social media.

 

If less is more, why do i have more?

Want to be happier?

Have less stuff.

How does this apply to our mental attitude?

Have fewer go-to responses to life’s constantly changing scenarios.

Limit your outlook and your responses to a few essentials (and no more):

  • Gratitude
  • Optimism
  • Compassion
  • Decency

Go.

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The first “sober” New Years Eve happened in 2001

Highline Trail
The best hike of my entire life happened August 31, 2016 with Dave Weir – Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. It happened 3 more times in 2017 on the same trail – with Family July 31, Howard Doran August 30, and solo September 29…pictured here. 
Highline Trail
September 29, 2017 the trail was deserted.
Orlando Disney Keynote Speakers
Smiling because i’m free, yet knowing the devil is always wanting a piece of me,
Highline Trail
Fall colors from shrubs and trees, not flowers, this time of year.
Highline Trail
Remnant smoke from the 2017 Sprague fire.

The first “sober” New Years Eve happened in 2001.

i intentionally picked December 30 to be my final drinking day, so that New Years Eve (the biggest drinking day in the world) would be the beginning of my resolve.

New Years Day is a terrible day to begin transformational change – it’s so unreliable.

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Feel blessed by and grateful for the confidence you’ve developed

film canister
Dropped off at Walgreens yesterday – remember film? This canister is old. Will it contain anything to feed my confidence?

 

Feel blessed by and grateful for the confidence you’ve developed during your lifetime.

And know this confidence you carry is fleeting.

It comes and goes like the night.

Find a million ways to remain confident in the darkness.

Never take confidence for granted.

Never boast.

Always nurture and feed your confidence.

Walk humbly, and carry a big stick.

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Life is hard and will continue to be challenging

Letter to Santa
Write what you wish for to yourself, not Santa. Photo: Yesterday at Orlando Ritz Carlton.

 

Life is hard and will continue to be challenging.

Good luck with that.

It’s your sole responsibility to lead your life-time efforts.

If you aren’t working hard to mitigate (possibly even eliminate) the steady influx of unexpected challenges difficulties opportunities, you are slowing and surely being beaten down.

Keep fighting.

PS. Happy birthday Walt Disney (December 5).

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Classic rethinking, reprioritizing and recommitting

delivering food for families
Yesterday 8:00am, Thanksgiving Day 2017, at Ocoee High School.

 

delivering food for families
Volunteers line up to have their vehicles loaded with boxes of food.

 

delivering food for families
Driving directions are printed up – one page for each Family. We received eight pages.

 

What began as a yet-to-be Father’s vision to do something to give back to those less fortunate – as a Family (with children) – has continued for 18 years.

Cheryl was not yet pregnant with our Son when we first volunteered on Thanksgiving 1999.

Miraculously – and at the time we didn’t know – Cheryl was pregnant when we returned a month later for Christmas Day deliveries.

And even on Easter 2000, we were still four months away from our Son’s birth.

The odds of us doing this three times a year, for 18 consecutive years, was a long-shot at best.

Something about serving less fortunate neighbors on days when American tradition has us focus on our own Families – this felt like something worth starting.

As we struggled to become parents from 1992 – 2000, we began shedding things that no longer served us.

Classic rethinking, reprioritizing and recommitting.

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