Just reflecting on the kids’ personalities and my own and how important it is to guiding them to future careers

At the end of and early morning drive, breakfast and seaside hike Zachary gives us some fun facts.

We all have a personal mission that we need to discover and pursue. Some things we need to do that are: freedom from emotional noise, a clear conscience, and a progress vs perfection view of failure.

Today’s episode is about my ponderings on life death and eternity. And her programming your soul with the things that you do.

We can’t give what we don’t have. We have to change ourselves first. Because our actions and interactions that our children experience and observe are the seeds that are sown in them.

What is the meaning of life? From the atomic level, to cellular, organism, community and business level living beings are desperately working to bring order out of chaos.

There is a film crew inside my head that I can blame things on. Ha! The writer is the one that has the ideal plan for my life.  He creates goals and new years resolutions and ambitions for me.  The director calls the shots of what I actually try to do, she dictates how I should do things.  The combination of the direction and the cast's interpretation is what actually gets out into the real world.  There are different cast members that have a potential for tension in their relationships.  You can never make all of them happy and sometimes one of them upstages the others.  Another important crew member is the PA who is the hinge between having the people, props and etc that you need and not having what you need to make the shot.  Finally we have the editor who frames your perception of what actually happened or is happening.  The editor provides the scenes that your director has to work with when making future decisions to make sure you have a full and happy life. Book Recommendation: Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine Equipment Used to record this podcast:  Device: iPhone 8 Microphone: Rode VideoMicro Me-L

Two key factors to my happiness are appreciation and rhythm. No matter what we have, what kind of lifestyle we’re living and how much money we make there is one constant that affects our happiness; that is our appreciation of what we have. This is really the core of the “it could be worse” mentality. Acknowledging how things could be worse makes you look at your situation and say “phew, thank God!” The second key is creating a rhythm to your day. Not just any rhythm, but a routine that starts your week or day off on the best note possible. This ensures that even if your week or day gradually gets worse, because you started it off strong, you still end it better than if you started your day with a negative mindset. The daily/weekly routine also gives us something to fall back to when the stress, fatigue or excitement is overpowering and it is difficult to get into the normal groove. Equipment Used to record this podcast: Device: iPhone 8 Microphone: Rode VideoMicro Me-L

As parents we tell our children to chase after their dreams. Let’s go a step beyond and show them how it’s done by chasing after our dreams. We tell them to go after what they think is impossible, let’s do what we think is impossible and push beyond the boundaries of the present into infinity. Equipment Used to record this podcast: Device: iPhone 8 Microphone: Rode VideoMicro Me-L

Just because everyone around you is getting promoted and changing jobs doesn’t mean you’re not where you should be. People who are moving around in their career path are searching for their “sweet spot”. If you’re happy where you are, you may already be in the company of people you fit in with, doing work that reciprocates your love for it. Equipment Used to record this podcast: Device: iPhone 8 Microphone: Rode VideoMicro Me-L