Twice yesterday we drove past a place that generally for about 11 months of the year has no water in it.  Today there was water and low and behold there were ducks swimming in it.
I thought to myself “there has got to be a lesson in there somewhere.”
So I got to thinking about the ducks and how they are such opportunists.  I admit I have never heard of a duck lying awake at night wondering where the water was coming from and if there would be any again.
It is like as we put it, “they play the hand they are dealt.”  If there is no water in a particular spot they do not stress.  They do what they do.  It seems whatever state they find themselves in they are content.  If there is water to swim in great.  If not they forage and fly and come across water.  I have had ducks land in my pool at one place I lived.
They had me thinking how that is a good lesson for me.  I will do all I need to have what is needed, but it is a waste of time to worry and stress about anything - in particular what I cannot control. 
What I eat and what I have to wear matters less than who I am.  I would be less than honest to suggest that does not matter to me at all as it does but it is not the most important thing to me.
All I possess can disappear so quickly.  I reckon it is important that I can lose everything but still have all I need.  Truth is I brought nothing with me and when I go I can take nothing with me except who I am.
So I reckon those ducks are onto something.  They looked so content and were obviously having a good time.  They just do it.  I aspire to it and do it.

Boy was I glad to have yesterday afternoon off.  I feel like it was a crazy busy week for Merril and I, and yesterday gave us some well needed down time.
This week promises to be busy too.  Everything starts again.   All that we were involved in last year kicks off in February again.  This morning we start early.  We put this on ourselves but prayer is a great way to start the week.  I find I am at my most venerable or susceptible early in the week after the high of the weekend.  So starting the way we definitely gets us off to a good start and helps to keep us grounded.
This morning we have a tradie coming at 7am.  He is doing something we have wanted done for ages.  Later in the morning a friend is coming over for a visit.  Tomorrow morning I have a doctors appointment.  Tomorrow night we are having a number of people over.  Wednesday morning we are running a Market and I see someone.  That night we go out.  Thursday Merril has a doctors appointment.  Saturday it is Menzone which I have here once per month.  I need to prepare for that and some newbie’s have said they will be here.
That is the stuff I remember.  There is a cupboard that was delivered last week awaiting assembly.  There are a number of other things we have in mind to do but will do them when we get around to them.
So yesterday was a needed day off.  We love what we are doing but our bodies tell us when we need a break.  Personally I prefer to be busy and determine what I should not do then to but so quiet that I wonder what to do.
I tend to find like leads to like.  By that I mean that the sacker I am the slacker I get.  Conversely when I am busy I am more inclined to get busy.  They say if you want to get a job done give it to a busy person.  The thinking is that person has learned to prioritise and is in the habit of behaving in a productive way.
But there are times when a break is in order.  Yesterday afternoon was such a time. 

This is different.  I was looking at the email from James Clear and each thing I saw I thought “that would be good to write about.”  So in the end I am including the lot.  In some cases there may be a slight variation.
The first three are ideas from him.  The next two are quotes from others.  Lastly there is a question.
"Beware the student of one teacher. A good idea spirals into dogma when it gets applied to everything and stretched beyond the areas where it is useful. Remain open and embrace a lot of teachers."
(When the teacher is God I tend to listen.  I do however think it is so true for other.  I can tell when someone has embraced another person’s ideas only to the exclusion of valid thoughts of others.  I find this disconcerting for the reasons stated above.)
"Your best performances will come when you are working in a way that is a full expression of you. The work becomes a natural display of your personality. This is when you not only get better results, but also love the activity — because in doing the craft, you feel alive."
"People can sometimes be held hostage by their expectations. They have a dream of something they would like to achieve or a path they intend to follow, but their mindset falls apart when things don't work out how they had hoped.
The key is to reach for an extremely high bar, but to be adaptable enough [to see] the failures, disappointments, and defeats [as] fuel [and not a reason to stop] Give your best effort.
Everything you are given is material for the next move. Everything."
Physician and educator Maria Montessori on leading others:
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." But this holds true for leadership in general—give people space and they flourish."
Physicist and chemist Marie Curie on the connection between fear and knowledge:
"Nothing in life is to be feared, [but] understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
A question from Nick Cammarata to inspire action:
"If I had 10x the agency I have, what would I do?"
That last one is a variation of a question I ask myself.  “If I had unlimited resources available to me, what would I do?”
Anyway that is where I am at this morning.  I have some things to do and I hope to veg this arvo and this evening.  Then back into it.