Published on
05/04/2012 in
Going Somewhere, Music, OCD, Writing and iPad.
Tags: Christian, Contemporary, Jeremy Camp, Mark Young Rocks, Number Ones, Seattle, Singer, Songwriter.
Mental barriers are at times the hardest ones to break. They represent core issues and situations that are formed of the strongest emotions. Why? Because they come from our brain and from our own belief that they are valid in some strange way. So we let them take root and grow. We watch them slowly overtake the highway of life progress. We let them tell us what NOT to do.
I let my barriers grow too freely. I don’t take the time to grab the pruning shears out of the shed and do any trimming. I typically let life go on and don’t mend to my hedges until it is too late and they are waaaayyyy out of control. The end result being a session of depression or angst about why things are the way they are.
Well fast forward to last week and I had what might be considered a slight epiphany. I was forced to look at things from a different perspective. I say forced because the person that was talking to me was one whom I could not doubt. They are living the life that they want to live and they are successful in that direction. The light that they shed on my situation really made me do some hard deep thinking. And I looked at things in a way that like my barriers, I chose to not address in the right way.
Thank you to Mr. Jeremy Camp for the bro talk. You shed a light on my situation that you may not have even known you flicked on, but you did non-the-less. I have started to assess my situation in a new fashion. I have started to re-address my efforts (though small shifts) in a hope to turn my ship in the direction that *I* want to be going in. To express efforts in the projects and things that will serve *ME* and *MY* situation the best.
Thanks again Jeremy. Hope to talk to you, or hang, when I am in Nashville soon.
Right now I find myself 3/4 of the way through April 12th and at a cruising altitude of 33,436ft above you. I am on my 3rd or 4th week straight of being in some kind of airplane, on a trip, away from my daily life.
While work travel can have its advantages, they are few and far between. The plus side greatly falls short of the minus side and will never equal out. The only thing that makes it any better is the sweet time of laying in my own bed next to my amazing wife for that first moment in 3 or 4 days.
Luckily for me this is my last trip for a couple of weeks and I can at least have a two week period of normal living. Amazing how our lives can change and we can accept two weeks of being home as a good thing. I would have never thought 10 years ago that I would even be considering this a positive…or writing about it on my trusty Apple mobile device!
I have seen many things these past couple of weeks that have amazed, saddened, and intrigued me. I will be writing about a couple of them here in this fake world…I promise you this. I know what you are thinking…”yeah, you have said that you would write about things and never do…”, but I assure you these things have left me in a deep contemplative state. A state that I must communicate.
Remember to seize your day. Remember that petty, non forward progressing issues can, and will, bring you down. We can’t move forward if we are not willing to rise above and float upon our own current of positive energy.
Talk to you soon…
It is January 21st in the year 2012. This Saturday following Seattle’s WINTERBLAST 2012 is kind of an odd one. For the past 5 days the temperatures have been in the mid 20′s to the high 20′s. We have had too much snow for the area. NOT too much snow for me…but too much snow for the drooling masses.
Today though…is different. Today is stark in contrast to the days previous. It is partly cloudy…the temperature being 45* instead of 28*. The wind is blowing hard, very hard. The wind blows with such force that it causes wives to wake in the 4 o’clock hour to inform their husband that they are scared. The wind is what I am used to calling a “Chinook Wind”. It brings the warmth from the ocean and the smell of change.
Today is full of change. I am writing this little post in MY world from my IPAD. I am sloooowwwllly starting to embrace this little piece of technology and figure out how to use it in my daily life. I am so used to lugging around my 8.34lb laptop and all of its trappings for these kinds of purposes…but think I might get along well with this smaller, younger cousin. I am hoping that I will be able to bring just this gizmo with me on the road for my business travels. The battery life alone gives me hope that we will have a nice little relationship. Once I figure out the apps that will give me the best business use possible…it is on.
The first thing that I did pick up for this little gizmo though is a bluetooth keyboard/case from Brookstone. Pretty bomb.com little unit. It is allowing me to type much faster than I would ever be able to chicken peck on the flat screen. Though smaller in footprint, it is quite an imrovement.
May this be another part of the things that come…the changes that blow through our life day to day. Not too unlike the winds that blow this fine morning.
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