No More Long Breaks

I need to get better at doing this regularly. It's been twenty days since my initial post, and I've kept telling myself that I'm going to get back on and do this again. I even started a Twitter account (twitter.com/MoreLikeNelsonM) and was posting on there for a couple of days, then slacked off of that. If I'm going to better myself, then I need to start here. And there.

I still haven't watched INVICTUS, and I'm very disappointed in myself for that. I'm going to watch it by the end of the weekend, and I'm keeping that promise to myself. (Also, my thirty-day rental of it is going to end in nine days, so I'd better watch it.)

While I've mostly been with my family and resting after the last job I had (which was brutal physically because of insane hours), I've also been a bit lazy. And that needs to stop. While I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to be a messiah, or trying to identify them, I've not spend much time DOING much of anything.

I just went to my Twitter page where a video I'd posted no longer was applicable to the link I put up. It was an ESPN piece about a NASCAR engineer with no arms named Richie Parker. This guy is phenomenal. He types with his feet and actually fixes cars by using tools with his feet. This is more than worth the less-than 8 minutes to watch it, if you have the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLDMBDPCEY

This guy is a hero to me. Absolutely. He does the most with what he's given and accomplishes incredible things. I'm looking at both of my hands typing and wondering why I'm not doing more.

The more and more I think about it, however, the more excited I am about my upcoming job. It's still not carved in stone, as a few things have to fall into place before it happens, but I'm confident it will and I'll be able to finally really feel good about what I'm doing for a living. Right now, my existential crisis has hit hard and I'm considering no longer doing a lot of the work things I've been doing, because I feel that they're for money and have no meaning. I need meaning. I need to search to do things that have meaning. And I have another idea that could really help the world that I've been kicking around for a while, and I'm going to apply myself to that as well, starting today.

Everything's really starting today. Writing on here daily. There, I said it. Now I have to hold myself to it. Too bad my smart phone is utterly crapping and would never be able to navigate here to write a blog, but my computer access should take care of that.

Focus is everything.