T-shirt Tuesday. And I am actually wearing this one today.

T-Shirt Tuesday

I checked and I started this blog February 7,  2005 mostly so I could respond to a blog a friend had started. I think he had some photos of where he grew up and some from high school but I am not sure. That blog is long gone.

Many years ago I used to do a thing called T-Shirt Tuesday where I would post pictures of the t-shirts I have. Today I start doing that again but will not limit it to ones I already have. I will also post ones I would like to have or ones that my friends have.

First one is for all my friends in education.

Hiked just over 9 miles last weekend. Hurt my should this past Saturday so did not hike.

Still working on the 3 Words for 2014.

Persistance is hard. I knew it would be. Things get in the way and so many times it is easier to put things off till later or just give up on it altogether.

Preparation - Have been doing the 52 Week Savings Challenge. It is where you start with $1 into saving and then the next week you put in $2 and then next you put in $3 and so on. Am at week 7 so have $28 saved so far. By the end of the year will have almost $1400 saved up. Not going to be easy in those last weeks of the year but think will be doable.

Fearlessness - the hardest of the three. Some things are better left unsaid. Do I need some big upheaval in my life at this time or for that matter at anytime in my life? If I do not go for it sometimes I will continue to live the woulda/coulda/shoulda life I have lived so far.

Changes and updates to the blog. The quote is from A.J Leon. It is on a coffee mug I got from them. See picture below. The quote is on the other side but wanted to focus on the image for this picture.

Trying to be more positive in everything I do, say and feel. It is more difficult than I thought it would be. So, got rid of the old title about being angry and aging(both true by the way) and went back to the original title of the blog. It just hit me, I am getting close to 10 years writing here, on and off: mostly off since 2008 but never did hit the delete button. Perhaps, blogs will be the way to immortality.

3 Words 2014

3 Words 2014

I started doing this last year after reading C.C. Chapman's post about his three words. To be honest I am not sure I followed those three words the entire year and/or remembered to put the things in action I said I would Nonetheless I am doing it again this year. 

Persistence - I tend to not follow through on things that I want to do for myself whether it is reading or photography or hiking. The "I am tired" excuse is lame. Sometimes 5 minutes is more than enough time to accomplish something and it ends up being less time spent than coming up with reasons not to do it.

On the work side of things, I block progress of ideas/project/improvements I would like to see implemented (see fearless section below).  The more people that hear the ideas the more likely things are to be adopted. 

Preparation - I spend hours/days/weeks planning for a game session that may last 24 hours over a weekend BUT I spend hardly any time planning for my life: the future, let alone the daily. I want to change that and I know it may take a lot of time to do. After 40+ years of not doing, it will take some getting used to doing.

I have found that I do not reflect on the year that just ended as much as I remember the bad things and the things I see as failures. Reflecting means adding in the good things but it took lots of time to get some of those in my head and onto paper. 

Fearless - I have lived most of my life in fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of being afraid. It is cyclical. So many times my memory is some variation of  "woulda coulda shoulda" instead of I am glad I did that or I am glad I said that. I want to change but I at a loss as to how. After 40+ years of doing things this way I feel stuck in a groove that is very deep and I see no ladder to climb out or shovels to dig with.

But all journeys start with the first step or in the least: 3 Words.