Poignant thoughts on priorities and focus

It was a great Thanksgiving weekend, despite having “walking pneumonia”. I’m still not recovered but sitting here trying to get my focus straight for the next week I have been reading a lot lately and found these thoughts I saved on a paper in one of my books. I don’t have a source, if you know it please send along:

Take a look around you, right this moment, and you’ll see the results of your past priorities. Whatever has been most important to you, whatever has been the focus of your time and commitment, has come to pass.

If you’re satisfied and fulfilled by where you are, you know what it took to get there and you can continue cheerfully along the same path. If you’re not completely pleased with the results of your past priorities, the first thing to do is change those priorities.

Every moment of every day you are committed to something. When enough of those moments are focused on a particular priority, on a particular possibility, that possibility will come to life.

Look at the possibilities that you’ve already brought to reality as the result of your focus and commitment. Whether you like the results or not, the fact is that you’ve definitely achieved results.

The question now is, what results would you like to achieve next? Aim your focus, aim your commitment, aim your priorities, aim the efforts of each moment in the direction of those results, and they will most certainly happen.

Time to get focused again.

My New York Ages is 25

Apparently living here I’m still out and about like I’m just out of college. I guess that happens when you run a pub crawl group, go out to clubs to here you fav DJs …still, and are constantly looking for better living situations.

This New York age puts you-generally speaking-into the young category. That’s what you were hoping for, right? Run and tell your friends. Then get drunk (as usual). Then sleep it off. Then pop an Adderall. Then come back and consider experimenting with a more mature type of New York life (just once in a while). Have you ever been to the Village Vanguard or the Living Theatre? Eaten at Elaine’s? Taken a date to Michael Feinstein? Before you laugh, check ’em out and see what old-school NYC experiences you can add to the new.

What’s your New York age? Take the Time Out New York quiz and find out!

R.I.P Grandma

I remember the crossword puzzles, the great family dinners (and those apple pies), serving up tree top apple juice, that “benji” dog you loved, the collecting of crystal or acrylic paper weights, getting lost in the walk in pantry (sneaking food when I wasn’t supposed to), my wonderful trip to Paris, watching TV from floor of the 2nd floor stairs (sneaking from room to room stealthy), your travel stories, always with another book in hand, that warm smile and positive outlook on life. Always and forever in my heart and mind Grandma.