Creating more goodness

This morning in my litany of prayers for healing, for peace, for particular people in my life that have needs, for solutions to global warming, for people to have meaningful work, for people to have employment that pays a living wage, for safety of travelers, for so many intentions I realized my list could go on forever. It was overwhelming to me and I began to pray to help me create more goodness in the world I live in so that we could heal all little by little. I am putting my best foot forward to be good, to create goodness and to heal someone in the process. Maybe just a little goodness will ripple and heal more than just one person today.

Predictive Scoring

Many years ago while working at Dun & Bradstreet, I sold services which enabled companies to predict business' credit ability and marketing response. These services are based on predictive scoring models that are widely used for many aspects in business.  I often recall these models as I know my own predictive score for exercise, reading and other matters I should do, however, am not always motivated to do.  My own predictive score is that if I do my exercise right when I wake up and I read my materials (books, proposals and other informative email) the likeliness of doing it increases exponentially before 6am.  So for today I am up, I have exercised, read part of my book and written this blog.  As for the rest the of the day.... I predict that this early activity has motivated me for full productivity. Two reflection questions: 1. What are the activities that you can predict based on your previous habits?, and 2. What is your predictive score for the day?

One thing at a time.

Many to do's, feeling overwhelmed and recognizing that one thing at a time is all I can do.  Life comes at me full force every day and I choose each day to just go down the list and get one thing done at a time. While in the midst of completing the list, more calls and requests come in, I add them to my notepad and just keep methodically moving through the list that grows.  How do I cut back, I don't. I just do what I can do and work hard and continue do do one thing at a time. Just for today, one thing at a time starting with love.