Freedom 433b

Overcome fear

And find

Freedom

Every time I do something I'm afraid of

My confidence and autonomy increase

Like most other personal assets

The more we practices

The better we get

Overcome fear

And find

Freedom

1/30/18 day 28,567 #433b

Time 433a

Time is just 

A place

To practice

Awareness

Before-after  sooner-later

Tomorrow-yesterday then-when

Now is the only time I can be aware 

Aware that I will die

Aware that I am eating

Aware that I'm talking bullshit to someone

Aware of now

Not lost in the past or the future

Time is just

A place

To practice 

Awareness

1/29/18 day 28,566  #433a

Past 433

Living in the

Past

Is the best way to stay

In the past

Most of what we see today

Are past decisions on display

We sow seeds without concern

And dislike the outcomes but never learn

To think and plan before we act

Create the best plan of attack

Time flies by at an exhilarating rate

As we come to realize we share one fate

Remain at ease be loving and kind

Stay fit & healthy while the days unwind

Living in the

Past

Is the best way to stay

In the past

Rich Lowenstein

1/28/18 day 28,565 #4433

Complicated 432a

See it small 

Keep

It complicated

Think about it forever

Try not to risk anything

Create detailed plans

That cover every possible contingency

If it becomes difficult

Quit and start something else

After you think about that plan forever

Be sure to stay outside your expertise

See is small

Keep

It complicated

1/26/18 day 28,563 #432a

Curious 431 cc

Stay curious 

There is always

Much more

To learn

We will never know what we don't know

But the more we know the more we grow

So much new is learned each year

About health, science and what to fear

As we learn our brains grow stronger

It may even help for us live a little longer

It's always easy to keep on learning

All it takes is a burning yearning

Lady Google knows it all 

She's always at our beckon and call

Stay curious 

There is always

Much more

To learn

1/25/18 day 28,562  #431

Ember 431b

Crush the ember

Deter the inferno

A few extra corn chips 

Can become 50 pounds of

Body fat

A small leak in the roof

Can turn into a house full of mold

A pack of cigarettes per day

May lead to emphysema or

Lung cancer

Crush the ember

Deter the Inferno

1/24/18 day 28,561  431b

No act 431a

Everything counts no act

Goes without it's

Penalties and rewards

I float peacefully or struggle desperately in a river of

Accumulated consequences

Every thought      Every act       Every emotional experience

Put's forces in motion

That determine   How I feel   How I look   What I can do 

What I do    Where I do it    How I feel about what I do

And diminishes or empowers my habitual way of being

Every part of my life today is determined by past

Thoughts   Decisions   Omissions   And habits

The more focused i am on this insight

The more likely I am to remember

That everything counts

Random daydreams and angry thoughts

 Do not just Colour the present

They cast a long shadow into the future

Everything counts no act

Goes without it's

Penalties every rewards

1/22/18 day 28,570 431a 

Motion 427

Get in motion

The wrong direction

Is a lot better then

No direction

Just because your plan didn't work

Doesn't mean your a helpless jerk

Lessons gained are worth more than wealth

Exercise,eat right and maintain good health

So what's of value that will actually last

A quest for wisdom cannot be surpassed

And what is wisdom and how is it made 

It's comes with time when the price is paid

The price is simple just stay alive

Study, think and it will arrive 

Get in motion

The wrong direction

Is a lot better then

No direction

1/17/18  day 28,564  #427

Sharp 426

Stay sharp

Act fearlessly

Move gracefully

Die with a good haircut

There's so much to learn and understand

The little I know can always expand

Of all the skills that I'm trying to learn

Is how to respond with skill and discern

It's not what happens that creates our state

We can choose what kind of state to create

Step into fear and learn even faster

It hardly ever becomes a disaster

Stand straight, breath and move like a dancer

And gleefully except that there's really no answer

Stay sharp

Act fearlessly

Move gracefully

Die with a good haircut

1/16/18 day 28,563  #426

Wisdom 425

Learning is

Common 

Wisdom

Is rare

It started out when we were young

A well-meaning teacher waging her tongue

We learn useless stuff to pass a test

And leave our interests unaddressed

Look around how it came out

Over half of us are big and stout

Philosophy, art and what to eat

If taught at all are incomplete

All facts are in hand and completely free

The curious ones will learn with glee

Learning is

Common 

Wisdom

Is rare

1/15/18 day 28,562  #425

Vortex 424

Mindless

Time sucking

Vortex

(Internet)

Take a walk and pick wildflowers

Exercise to develop your powers

Get some paint and make a mess

Something great may coalesce

Play loud music and dance around

Study the Stoics and get profound

Sky dive, bike or ski downhill

Catch the next flight for Brazil

Save your money be real frugal

If you're bored consult with Google

Mindless

Time sucking

Vortex

(Internet)

Tim Ferries

1/14/18 day 28,561  #424

Hope 421

Give up all

Hope

For a better

Past

It's good to reflect on events of the past

Sometimes we extract lessons that last

But to whine, complain and wallow in regret

Will makes you tense and always upset

The past is the past it's over forever

Use what it taught in your next endeavour

The present is the only place

That we can win our daily race

Stay focused on the task at hand

And your skills and talents will expand

Give up all

Hope

For a better

Past

Lily Tomlin

1/11/18 day 28,568  #421

Change it 419

If you don't like

The way things are

Change them

You are not a tree

Ignorance and the lack of skills

Are the cause of most of our ills

Cause-and-effect are the rules of the game

The choices we make create pain or acclaim

If it's peace that we seek then study & practice

Stay the course let nothing distract us

When we let emotion guide all our actions

Then all we get is a lot of distractions

Knowledge helps but you must use your will

To overcome obstacles & charge of the hil

If you don't like

The way things are

Change them

You are not a tree

Jim Roan

1/9/18  day 28,566  #419

Control 218

Gun-control

A 2 inch group at

20 yards

Like any skill all it takes is practice

And not allowing things to distract us

Play the flute or throw a pot

Skills we have learned are not forgot

Stay cool and lead when you react

Don't go crazy and start some attack

We use our skills to make a living

The marketplace is unforgiving

Our skills are all we really own

Money and  stuff are way overblown

Gun-control

A 2 inch group

20 yards

1/8/18  day28,565  #418

Do it 417

I don't want to

I don't feel like it

I'll do it anyway

If all I did was what I like

I'd eat ice cream and ride a bike

Most of what I enjoy today

Is here because I joined the fray

Exercise if you'd be fit

Read and study increase your wit

Too much coffee not enough sleep

Thoughtless acts pile up in a heap

Real balance is a tricky act

All we do has some impact

I don't want to

I don't feel like it

I'll do it anyway

1/7/18  day 28,564 #417

Fat 416

Not as fat as I

Used to be

Fatter then I am

Going to be

Father time is on our side

If by his rules we do abide

A tiny difference every day

Will put big changes on display

Anytime along life's road

The best laid plans can explode

Life's uncertain and very short

But that's no reason to distort

Study, create and do your best

Soon now we'll all be laid to rest

Not as fat as I

Used to be

Fatter then I am

Going to be

1/6/18  day 28,563 #416

Common 415

Become master

Of common

Things

My mother always said to chew

Even when she served me stew

Almost 80 years have passed

And I still gulp food to the very last

Stand up straight and pay attention

I hear her voice from the next dimension

She said young man listen to me

I am still sometimes I'm absentee

Chew and listen stand up straight

Don't let yourself get overweight

Become master

Of common

Things

1/5/18 day 28,562  #415

Pause 414

Pause

Think about what you're

Thinking about

We think and think the whole day through

But rarely question what's untrue

Like background noise at a busy station

It plays all day without observation

Once in a while we pay attention 

And then there may be comprehension

There's lots of talk about meditation

As the pathway to quick liberation

From all of this noise and random chatter

But soon will be dead so does really matter

Pause

Think about what you're

Thinking about

1/4/18 day 28,561 #414 

Being 413

A person's problems

Are a measure of

They're being

All these flies are making me crazy

That's because I've been real lazy

I never took the time to learn

How to choose my actions with discern

The world is not a perfect place

No one asked to join this race

The only hope for peace of mind

Is study, effort and training combined

Let Seneca and Aurelius show the way

To create wholesome reactions everyday

A person's problems

Are a measure of

They're being

1/3/18  day 28,560  #413

Good 412

Get so good

They

Can't ignore you

It's so simple it's so hard

Practice practice all else disregard

Writing, fighting, shooting baskets

Cooking, sewing, building caskets

Researching, tumbling, painting pictures

Music, building, quoting scriptures

Study, practice don't relent

You don't need anyone's consent

Pick one thing and get really great

Seize your destiny from the hands of fate

'

Get so good

They

Can't ignore you

Steve Martin

1/2/18 day 28,559  #412

Indifference 411

Develop a

Gleeful

Indifference

The long view perspective is all that it takes

To keep us from making lots of foolish mistakes

For decades I tripped on the same stupid stuff

I finally realize that that enough was enough

As I get older life seems like a dream

An incomprehensible cosmic scheme

Be an outsider and enjoy this freak show

It's not going to last so get into the flow

Be happy and joyous sea life as joke

Let gleeful indifference be your magic cloak

Develop a

Gleeful

Indifference

1/1/18 day 28,558  #411