We are pouring some concrete in the front yard for a front porch.
The team of builders needed to remove with a jackhammer, concrete orginal to the house. It was 62 year old and so solid! We hope our new concrete porch step will last even longer.
It made me think how valuable construction materials can be set in place and then under pressure and time, stay solid. You can rely on them because they stay put.
Life’s daily crucible can dissolve good decisions, unless you construct in your mind with the right materials. You can put a cap over your choices by sending a message to yourself: “this is what I truly want.”
In blue sky moments, you can decide ahead of time, when it is clear and understandable. For example, if you’ve decided that “I won’t try smoking,” Then when you find yourself in a time or place where it seems almost reasonable and desirable to “come-on just try this once,” the decision is actually easy: you already made it, and you knew then that it was a good decision. You put a cap of “I won’t need to change this” over it, so you don’t engage in overthinking it when the decision-dissolving forces are at play.
What decisions do you need to make more clear to yourself?
So many choices in life become easier if you are clear to yourself when the best thinking is, and remove your thinking from the pressures that could muddy or dissolve it.
You can shape your M.O.– the way you operate, the way you roll– then just live from it.
It is a happy way to live.
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