TJP- first off thank you for your time. Secondly, for your comment. Ultimately success is determined by one’s ability to not give up. In school if we give up on the class we will fail. In friendships and intimate relationships. If we decide to give up those relationships will no longer continue. Winston Churchhill says success is running from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. failure is not failure. Failure is education. Stephen king is a perfect example just as the authors I wrote about today. Some of the biggest authors in our time today will admittedly say, their first draft was terrible. But they continued working at it. What you want can be achieved in moderation. schedule events or gatherings with friends. Have a goal each year. For example, I want to host dinner with friends at home 15 times per year. Jerry Seinfeld has a great line about parenting, he says all time is quality time. As parents we focus too much attention on ensuring the time is special. All the time with our kids is special! He says I want junk time, like eating cereal in the middle of the night or watching a movie. All the time with kids is quality time. You get to define and decide that. Try automating some things in your life. If possible, hire help. Or, if you have children old enough, teach them, and have them master and own a chore around the house. Dishes, laundry, garbage, sweeping the floor, etc. I believe that if we are present in each moment, we end up getting more time. Less TV, less scrolling on the phone. Staying up an hour later and waking up an hour earlier. There are moments in time in the day, where we waste a lot of it. I know because I’m still trying to crack down on myself.
TJP- first off thank you for your time. Secondly, for your comment. Ultimately success is determined by one’s ability to not give up. In school if we give up on the class we will fail. In friendships and intimate relationships. If we decide to give up those relationships will no longer continue. Winston Churchhill says success is running from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. failure is not failure. Failure is education. Stephen king is a perfect example just as the authors I wrote about today. Some of the biggest authors in our time today will admittedly say, their first draft was terrible. But they continued working at it. What you want can be achieved in moderation. schedule events or gatherings with friends. Have a goal each year. For example, I want to host dinner with friends at home 15 times per year. Jerry Seinfeld has a great line about parenting, he says all time is quality time. As parents we focus too much attention on ensuring the time is special. All the time with our kids is special! He says I want junk time, like eating cereal in the middle of the night or watching a movie. All the time with kids is quality time. You get to define and decide that. Try automating some things in your life. If possible, hire help. Or, if you have children old enough, teach them, and have them master and own a chore around the house. Dishes, laundry, garbage, sweeping the floor, etc. I believe that if we are present in each moment, we end up getting more time. Less TV, less scrolling on the phone. Staying up an hour later and waking up an hour earlier. There are moments in time in the day, where we waste a lot of it. I know because I’m still trying to crack down on myself.