'Too much' and 'Too little'

'Too much' and 'Too little'
I said last posting that I would talk about: "What are you pretending not to know".
Here it is:

Too much

How can we have too much when we create what we have?

Too many bills?
Too long at work?
Too many 'friends' that only send jokes or chain messages without a personal note?
Too many demands on your time?
Too many chores?
Too many health issues?
Too many mean drivers?

You get the idea.

Change your intent.
Results are measured by successfully carrying out your intent.
Change your intent until you get the results you want.

Too little

See how little you can get along with.
Too little money?
Too little time? (Now there is a common excuse!)
Too little love?
Too little conversation?
Too little enjoyment?

Change your intent.
Results are measured by successfully carrying out your intent.
Change your intent until you get the results you want.

I said last posting that I would talk about: "What are you pretending not to know".

There it is.

Just change your intent, and the results will change. Period.

The best example of this in my cab owner/driver days:

Ted came to work and said it was going to be a slow day, because it was Saturday of the weekend and payday was Tuesday. He asked if he could take the day off.
I replied that if he would just go out with the intent to make a pile of money, he would change the day for himself.

He went out to the airport and picked up a fare that he drove to Fairbanks, and made about $450 for himself. A regular good day was about $130.00 for a day.
You see, it was COLD in Fairbanks and the ice fog was THICK. Airport shut down.

Being a smart cab driver, he went out to the airport in Fairbanks and went into the bar and said to the bar tender that he would drive any two people to Anchorage for individual fares of $150 each. He had a bidding war and collected $200 each from three women.

All in all he grossed about $900 that day for a slow day.

Intent. Opportunity. Fortune. Attitude.
You choose.

Fare is paid for this ride. Ted got so drunk celebrating that night after returning to Anchorage, that he called me about 3:30 a.m.and I took him home in the same cab for free.
He never missed the chanced to drive a shift again.
Oh yeah, I made about $100 for the short shift I drove that night after Ted got back to Anchorage.
Intent.
CABBY

Disagree - Agree - "Nuts." / Nutty

Disagree - Agree - "Nuts."/Nutty

Definitions for this blog:

Disagree
Webster: 1. to differ in opinion; 2.to have an unpleasant effect.

Agree
Webster: CONCEDE (Websters caps not mine)

"Nuts."
In Webster the closest thing is nutty.
Nutty
Webster: mentally unbalanced.


The blog:
Isn't it interesting that people have a shared experience and not agree about what it was?

Friends can be moved to a limbo of limited, selfish, unforgiving, rigid, huffy, blaming, accusing, small minded 'non friend' (NF) status over the stupidest of things.

One person chooses NF; the other is stuck in confusion.

A self chosen limiting view of another person most often is the cause for these NF breakdowns.

I have been on the edge of this kind of bad choice because of what I observe as self centered unbending closed minded smallness way too many times to list.

Why is it that the choice to limit their view has to be the choice; instead of choosing an open dialog an eventual agreement and realization that the event, issue, or occurrence occurred in the past?

The present is now.

All of the hurt feelings, indignation, 'I was wronged' thoughts, the unforgiving occurred in the past. Why do people hang on to that crap?

What is the reward for keeping that alive in your life when it is healthier, easier and more fun to just move forward and laugh at ourselves?

I sometimes become 'mired in' trying to locate the reward for this kind of childish pettiness and negative choice.

I am guilty of some of this. When it is pointed out to me, or when I see it, I just plain say: "Nuts." "I am over that and attempt to repair any damage I can."

I just was confronted with an example where it took me 10 months to get to that point. I thankfully was confronted by the other person, in person. The resulting conversation revealed that I am now 'clear' with them. I have apologized, that has been acknowledged and the air is clear. How hard was that? "Nuts."

I however seem to be stuck with being on the edge of some one else's pettiness and insecurity and their choice to hang onto the past.

Being on the edge in this case really has taught me that:

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen -
There will be something solid on which to stand
or
you will be taught to fly."

Today I am standing firmly on the side of
Let go of "disagree."

I hate not getting to fly! If only there was "agree"?

(The next blog): "What is it you pretend not to know?"

Cab fare was picked up by Rebecca Grace Jones - in 2004
CABBY

Call you - me

Ever think of someone while walking to your gate at the airport?
or
While waiting for your coffee to cool while in Starbucks?
or
While waiting for the car at a fast lube store?
or
While having a craft brew in a local brewery?
or
???

Ever want to hear form someone who hasn't called?
Well, place yourself in their shoes. (See top three lines).

Pick up the phone, or cell, blackberry, iphone, vonage, or even your keyboard and:
"Commence firing!" (Dail the thing!)

Communicate, commit and care.

Just know that I was thinking of you right now, and picked up the keyboard. I used the cell yesterday, and the cell again last night. You know it caused me no pain and cost you no cab fare.
Of course, I am so guilty of all of this that I still have some to call tomorrow...
CABBY

Gardening

Work.
Rewards.
Flowers.
Vegetables.

Snails,
Birds,
Fungus,
Drought,
Hail,
Shade.

I love it all.

I look forward to the planting season. I have planted corn, peas, squash all together in a shared plot.
I have some planters (pots) planted, with a few to do still.
I have lawn to nurse through what looks like an underground assault of ???
Trees have been thinned and pruned.
Hedge is ready to fill in after serious pruning.
Roses fed, beds weeded, and all are well watered.
Tomatoes and onions in the ground.

Anticipation of an abundant flower show; food on the vine. (nothing tastes as good)
Pleasant times just watching the development while pinching back, watering, mowing and cleaning.
Bouquets through the house. Yummy to my nose!

Ah, gardening - a satisfying way to plan for the future while staying in the present.
Why did we leave the old family farm?

Weeds are the compost (3 comppost bins) of the growing season through the fall - which comes all too soon.

Maybe I ought to look for a house with a larger place to farm, not garden?
No!
I have it perfectly arranged as it is now.
I can blame the failures on flower beds too shaded, the slugs, the drought, and just let the garden use my spare time.
All without a single seed catalog!

Come on by in a few days, (60+/-) and enjoy a fresh yellow pear tomato or two fresh on the vine. Ever smell a lightly crushed tomato plant leaf. One of the best smells on the planet.
No cab fare for visiting the garden.
CABBY