Leaving a trail for our son – Page 50 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Bullseye, not the target

Three universal truths:

The goal isn’t to consistently hit the target.
And likewise, the goal isn’t to consistently hit the target, and occasionally hit the bullseye.
The goal, above all goals, is to consistently hit the bullseye.

Ps. Customer Satisfaction (hitting the target) is dangerous.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

AMP

Handwritten notes on a piece of paper — Things that add to your paperwork of life. Travel. United States column and Australia column. January was a busy ‘work’ month. Had many calls to coordinate.

Australian university info sign — Very first UniSC photo. Local and regional customs, mandates, laws, etc, can change from what you know at home.

Family of three posing on a college campus — Second UniSC campus photo.

College campus safety info board — Tenth UniSC campus photo.

Prepaid mobile phone plan receipt — A day later. Grateful each of our phones had e-sim capability. Looking back, it was way too involved to establish an Australian mobile account. We physically had to go to a store and work with an associate. It was cumbersome and clunky. But it had to get done.

Australian equivalent of 911 — Something as simple and routine as calling 9-1-1 is different here. Better know this before you need it. Australia’s 911 is 0-0-0.

AMP.

Means what?

Always More Paperwork.

Life’s In-Box.

It ebbs and flows as you ebb and flow through life.

It ends when you end.

Note: i’m banking on a plan that will minimize any in-box surprises for whomever is the Executor of my will.

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The paperwork of life

Post-it note with handwriting — Days later, still working to close my Old GoDaddy Legacy account. Multiple calls, on multiple days, to multiple people. A few emails too. The drag from ‘administrative friction’ puts unproductive strain on our time and psyche.

Oil leak on concrete under a car — Same unwelcome drag when one issue, car repair, becomes a series of domino-effect unresolved administrative chores. Pictured here is a new oil leak, after $3,600 (and three weeks). Will have to return to Action Gator Tire and begin again to ask, “Why is this happening? It wasn’t happening before i brought it to you. Please exceed my expectations, if possible.”

iPhone alarm clock setting — Getting eight hours of sleep is a daily ‘to-do’. It is never on a list though. It’s an automatic (atomic) habit. Actually got nine hours last night. Yay me. Day seven, Flu-A. Sleep is recovery medicine.

The cosmos.

Inexplicable.

Hard to articulate.

But i feel a cosmic energy shift in my commitment to minimalism.

Note: i envision less of everything is more of everything. It sounds paradoxical. Which is in my wheelhouse. So that feels like money in the bank.

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More room, less space

woman holding a touring bicycle near an ocean — For two and a half weeks, this was all we had. Photo: Gazing out at the Pacific Ocean from a “San Juan” Island. A belated (by 14 months) honeymoon trip bicycling across Washington State, West to East. Note: Cheryl is also holding my bike while i snapped this pic.

Over the decades Americans have gradually lived in bigger houses, with less space.

Bigger dwelling.

Less space.

Paradox.

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What pain at home

GoDaddy admin screen — The pain of being a sole proprietor. Everything is on you.

When you change your priorities for the better, you might think your change seems inspiring to others. Instead, it probably makes them uncomfortable because they are confronted with their own priorities.

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