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