I tend to be a big list maker. Mostly due to the fact that my thoughts are pinging around in me head at a rate that doesn’t often allow me to accomplish things in the moments that I think of them.
A regular saw me jotting some notes on a 3X5 card I’ve started carrying with me and led into a conversation that really opened me up to some new angles of looking at the same issue. So much so that I have been super pumped on sharing.
The comment he made, I’m sure with no idea that he would be altering how I look at life, was “what are you doing writing down ll the reasons you’re so amped up and happy” I jokingly explained I was writing down a to do list before the idea leaked out of my ear. But I started to really think about this contrast.
I am a physically imposing person. So much so that customers will often times in passing wonder at what is wrong, what kind of upset I might be or, even if I am mad. 99% of the