Category: Leaving a trail for our Son

All Mid Life Celebration posts from 2008 – 2014.

Journaling is mental medicine

Inspirational sign on hospital wall
From Advent Health Hospital Lobby wall two days ago. Pick one of two choices: Growth-mindset or closed-mindset. Growth-mindset is medicine.
20-second video: 24 hours ago.

Journaling is mental medicine. You are the…

CMO: Chief Mental Officer.

To me, writing and journaling are synonymous.

And it just hit me while preparing to write the next sentence (this one)… The next time a doctor or physician’s assistant, asks if i’m on any medication’s…

Yes, several. The daily medicines:

  1. B-12
  2. D-3
  3. Movement
  4. Nutrition
  5. Sleep
  6. Writing

Writing daily is like restful nightly sleep, or daily healthy nutritious food. Medicine.

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Yesterday, mind

17-second video out the bedroom window.
sign on hospital wall
Advent Health Port Orange appointment was for 8:00am. They called the day before yesterday and asked if i could change to 1130am. Knowing how cold it was gonna be, and with a long drive, jumped at the chance to be a hero for them.

Today’s posts will be a mixture of pictures, video, text, and no text.

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Picture this, mind

quote about self-awareness
If nothing changes, nothing changes.

Moving is a physical action.

Yes.

But so is thinking.

It’s a mental action.

If you don’t exercise your thoughts, you never notice your chains.

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All improvement is incremental

All improvement is incremental…

Improvement stems from the magic of compound interest.

Countless small iterations.

In hindsight, it turns out that each iteration required all the preceding iteration attempts— all the failures and the successes.

The more you try, the more you fail.

The more you fail, the closer you get to improvement. Until one day, a small, never-been-tried tweak or a sudden, random idea creates a eureka moment.

What feels like a breakthrough in reality is a culmination of small, almost invisible positive steps toward the eureka moment.

This is great news.

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2 Communication timing basics

Timing influences communication. 

Talk about potential mistakes before they happen and people start looking for ways to prevent them. 

Talk about actual mistakes after they happen and people start looking for reasons to defend their actions. 

What do you and i need to be talking about now/next week, so we can learn the lessons before we need them?

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