Isn’t it great… every day, assuming you don’t have to sleep on a sofa and/or be woken up in the middle of the night due to city public works, generally starts with a fresh/calm outlook and mindset.. a new chance to make something great.. to accomplish a task, to improve the quality of our lives or to improve somebody elses(as I think this is really the key to happiness).   As a day progresses it can quickly become busy, complicated, convoluted, uneventful, but at the start of each day potentiality is generally high! How does one realized the potential..how does one stay on task? Enjoyment of what you are doing..appreciation for all that one has and trusting your own path/gut/instincts are some of the keys.  Often looking at where one wants to be and where one is now can be extremely overwhelming at first..but just start… JUST DO IT! Baby steps..incremental changes and all of a sudden you are there.

What really drives us to do what we do.. to get out of bed in the morning (Dunkin Donuts Coffee for me ), to get going on our day.. to do this job or that job.. this task or that task.  As humans we seem to have a strong need/desire for success and accomplishment versus a dog for instance.. their needs and desires seem simple.. some food, some love and a place to rest.  I guess we, humans that is, are really not that different in our basic needs either though when you truly break it down to these 3 basic components, yet our drive to excel, create, build and grow sets us up for great happiness/sense of accomplishment and also great sadness/frustration when things don’t go the way we want/perceive them to go.. yet it is all in our mind…our brain.. a fantastic 8 lb lump of neurons, synapses and I think a lot of other really cool stuff.

My world in a container.. (minus laptop computer and Ipad of course ).. Having no place to directly call home base at this point.. one might say I am floating a bit.. no big deal really and somewhat refreshing!   To pack all of ones most critical items into a bin 4 x 3 x 3 or 36 sq feet in size..  to transport from couch at sisters, to parents in West Point, to Sprague Hall in Small Point, etc. etc!

With Fall comes refocus, with refocus comes rejuvenation.  Within a society where so many of us have so many material objects.. how often do we really use them? It seems their purpose often is simply so we can think about using them, to feel better about having them .. to talk about using them yet then stress about where to store them thus what should we do with all these items.. throw them out…Find a better home for them….Donate/give them away?!?!!?  I for one just break, misplace and lose mine