Blog - habitcaptain

J. Habit Development and Training · 25. May 2018

Summer Writing

We are not Gold Miners, we are creatures of habit. We only do what is immediately rewarding, period. We don’t search through tons of dirt to get something rewarding. We do what is rewarding now. Creatures of habit do what is rewarding,and try to do that again. Most of us lead sad lives of going from biological reward to biological reward. We go from food to more food to maybe sex, sleep and do it again. It's what we find rewarding. We might get a random reward of uniqueness while watching TV,...

J. Habit Development and Training · 24. May 2018

I don't know ....

Too often when I talk to kids who graduate from college, I hear: “I don’t know”. I had asked, “What are you going to do with all that education? They don’t know or say something menial or average as, “I guess, I’ll get a job.” They want to get hired by someone who will tell them what to do with their education. They have no clue, no experience, no training and probably no education on what to do with knowledge. Knowledge is power! Now, that is a big bunch of puck! Knowledge is...

J. Habit Development and Training · 18. May 2018

Problems

What habit machine are we going to build? Yes, we are all set up with our Captain. We have initiated our Values, Dreams and Goals machinery. We have our Habit Making Machines tooled up and ready to go. We have of Self Imagine and World Beliefs supporting our goals (I am capable and the world is ready to help). We’ve initiated the Journey machinery. We are all set and the first thing we run into is a snag, a problem, an obstacle, one of the stupid things in life. How do you deal with stupid,...

F. Creation - Giant #1 · 03. May 2018

Something from Nothing

Something from nothing, bringing something into existence by putting energy to it, writing it down and clarifying it, sharing it with a friend, drawing a picture or a plan, …. How does an idea, poem, picture, dream or goal start? Do you take a clean slate, a blank piece of paper and just start? Do you throw any color on the blank canvas? Does it have to be perfect? Are you concerned if you do the wrong thing, wrong project, wrong approach, wrong words, …… wrong everything, …., are you...

J. Habit Development and Training · 03. May 2018

Children, I apologize.

Children, I know you blame me and you have every right. I apologize. I meant to train you, raise you to be the person who could go out there and take on the world, …… but I didn’t. I guess, I failed you. I really didn’t ever figure out how to take on the world myself. How was I ever supposed to train someone else to do it. I don’t know how to train either. I never even trained a dog to sit. What was I thinking I could train you successfully. I should have gotten the clue I needed...

J. Habit Development and Training · 28. April 2018

Thinking is Bad

The alarm goes off and my robot is in action. Off with the alarm, up and out of bed, march to the bathroom, turn on the warm water, go to the bathroom, wash the sleep out of my eyes with warm water, directly to the kitchen, turn on the heat and start breakfast. I’m awake and I am moving!ing. I’m on target for the day! Wait! Wait! You might be saying. Are you human? Do you really do that? The alarm goes off and you think and grumble, “So soon.” You automatically think, am I tired? I am,...

Children, I apologize.

D. Journey or Experience · 26. March 2018

It's not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.

It’s not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. You’ve heard that. Most of us think if we could master that, what would happen to us would change. Go ahead and laugh. We don’t want to change, we want to keep doing what we do. We just want to get back to being ourselves. We already know, what happens to us is not going to change, we just wish it would. In fact trying to change what happens to us seems always so temptingly much easier. Deep breath, little laugh, what...

J. Habit Development and Training · 21. March 2018

I'll Teach him a Lesson he won't forget!

Many people are very capable of doing the right thing, but they don’t. They may even know the right thing to do, but they can’t get themselves to do it. They may be very capable of savings and investing for their brighter future and they can’t get themselves to do it. They may know what to do to be healthy, trim and fit and here they are fat, sickly and out of shape. They may want desperately to be great parents, but everything is so overwhelming and confusing. They may have tremendous...

C. Values, Dreams and Goals · 07. March 2018

Dreams, .... really?

When my wife and I go to an open house, looking at homes for sale, we picture what we would do with the house or how we might use the house. This is us daydreaming. When I go to Home Depot or get some building supplies made available to me, I start to come up with projects on how I would use these supplies. What I would build, how I would do it, how we would use it and about how long and how much effort it would take to do it. I mainly stick to the tools that I have and the skills that I have....