Over the last few weeks, I have seen that waiting for a particular email to arrive on a certain day is counter productive to writing.  Yesterday I was looking at writing about something in the contents of the James Clear email.  But it arrived too late.  But the next day I could consider it and write if there was anything I thought worth writing about.
This time a Harold V. Melchert was quoted as saying, “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.”
Mountain climbing is not one thing that has every really on my “to do” list.  In Townsville I did climb the gap between a couple of peaks in Castle Hill.  That was a weird one.  It was a few feet short of being a mountain and one guy took it upon himself to take soil to the top to make it a mountain.  I never heard how that panned out, but it is still called Castle Hill.
But I do like the point being made. To me goals are good and reaching them is desirable.  But to me so too is the journey desirable.  Attaining goals are all the sweeter for savouring the journey to attainment.  I will never pretend that things are all smooth and without challenge.  In fact, I sort of hold to the fact that often the harder something is to achieve the sweeter it is in achieving.
Yet to me it is also true that shuttered vision often causes me to miss what is most memorable along the journey.  All the best journeys to me are full of both wonder and challenge.  The attaining of a goal is enhanced by the memories of how I got there.

I have read it so often. Something that says something like, “You can’t expect different results doing something the same way.”
It has led me to thinking about why I would want to do something the same way, if it does not yield the results I am after.  I have thought of a couple of reasons.
By the same token I think if something done a certain way has been working and yielding the results I am after, then I should not change it.  As a friend used to say, “why reinvent the wheel?”
So what I am considering is, “what prevents me changing the way I do things to yield the results I am after?”
Sometimes I think I can settle for limited success.  I may have seen a smattering of what I am after, and to change would involve more than I am ready to do.  I was thinking it is like I can put up with a certain amount of pain.  I learn to live with it.  I compensate. The ideal may be no pain, but it involves more than I am able or willing to engage in.  Therefore I settle.  It is like they say. “The good is the enemy of the best.”  I am willing to say good is good enough.
Another reason I thought settling for doing something the same way is, it becomes acceptable and comfortable.  It does not make demands.  It is what I am used to.  I may feel a little bit of frustration, but if I am happy to live with that.  Change will not happen.  I am unwilling to step out of my comfort zone.
Also going for different results may involve ceding.  I may not be willing to share.  I act like, if I do not do it, it does not happen.  I act like I am the only one who can do it properly.  Sometimes it means it just does not happen.
One thing I have learned in leaving my job and my being in charge of an organization is that life goes on.  Often what I was involved in still happens - though maybe not my way (and sometimes that is a good thing).  It is hard to admit, but sometimes the best thing is for me to get out of the way as I am holding back others who are capable and keen.  This is especially true if change needs to happen, and I am a gate-keeper who refuses to change.
I reckon I need to be careful that the older I get the more resistant I am to change.  Change may be a good idea despite my age, but resistance to a good idea is never a good idea.
Colonel Sanders was 80 something when he founded the worldwide success that is Kentucky Fried Chicken.  I reckon better late than never. 

​I spent a good bit of yesterday going through digital photo’s. I also had a word file called “sayings”. I combined the sayings and the pictures. I found what I wanted to use to display the pictures did not take PNG pictures but only jpeg. So I converted the pictures to jpegs and all is good.
There is one saying I came across that I don’t remember getting or where it came from, but I like it a lot. It says, “dig your well before you are thirsty.”
Ok it says something that I am big on. Or should I say I take it to mean something I am big on. I reckon available people prepare. For sure I may not have a clear idea of where I am going (here I am 67 and saying that). Yet in one way I am ok with that. Ok I wish that it happened earlier, but it did not. I feel I have done many worthwhile things that were preparation for the main act.
Thing is, what others express makes me know I am not alone. I know a lot of people that have lived good lives and done good stuff but even though older feel “the best is yet to come.” Even though influencing society for good, there seems to be a lot of people who, without saying it, feel that all that has gone before has been in preparation for what is to come.
To me a sense of disquiet is not a bad thing if it sets me up for finding what is right for me and getting rid of the disquiet. In many ways I feel what I have gotten into and the interests I have pursued has been digging my well ahead of time.
I am a big believer in going out with a bang rather than a whimper. To me I do not need to accept unreasonable and uncaring limitations imposed on me by others. I will keep digging my well and one day it will be ready to use. I reckon that, many wells will come online and a lot can be watered from our wells.