Seems like my life just keeps getting more and more busy. I spent four days in Indianapolis for a conference related to work. I come home to a family crisis, I have our housewarming party this weekend and I have to go to work too. My thought was that I would have a stable, quiet lifestyle in my forties but it has been anything but. I am not complaining but I am concerned that I do not have enough of a focus on the truly important things to me in my life. I am going to start working on removing the less important distractions from my life to allow me to concentrate more on the things that are important to me. I found a couple of months ago a web site that I have found to be very informative and very helpful to my efforts. Steve Pavlina is the blogger who produces great content that many of us can benefit from reading and following. I highly recommend taking some time and reading some of the posts Steve has on his site.

I have read many of the posts and while I understand them, when I am in "life mode" I drop back into behaviors that are comfortable but not necessarily what I want or what is best for me at that time. This is at the core of my challenges right now. I feel like I have increased my conscious thinking and my have modified my behaviors to be more in line with my thinking. However, when I am stressed I go right back to my old habits and thoughts. This is what I am currently working on. Breaking old habits and replacing them with new thoughts and actions. This has been very challenging for me as this is a process that one goes through on their own and really you cannot say "Hold on I need to think about this before I react." I simply need to get better at this. I need to continue to practice and I know in time I will get better. My hope is that my putting this out in the open for anyone and everyone to read that I will follow up with a more disciplined effort and speed up my rate of success.

If anyone has any questions or comments I welcome them.

Until next time,

Scott