Ripples #690: Tend Your Planet!

Ripples #690: Tend Your Planet!
For our tribe of 30,900 busy people who share encouragement and gratitude.
08/13/2012

PEBBLE:
There is something to be said for keeping at a thing, isn't there?
-Frank Sinatra, submitted by Josh in Plymouth, NH

BOULDER:
It is a question of discipline.
When you have finished
washing and dressing each morning,
you must tend to your planet.
-The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery), submitted by Terry in Franklin, WI

PONDER:

Last week's Ripples was about dreaming, and this week I want to encourage action. It takes discipline to transform your DREAMS into your TO DO list, and sometimes that requires following through on an action because you NEED to get it done even if you don't WANT to do it. One trick is to focus on the desire to GET IT DONE and let that desire grow larger than the desire to continue on your current path.

If I find myself resisting a task, I sometimes try to imagine what it would feel like to be DONE with it, rather than on what it would feel like to DO it. This can help fire me up for a tiny chore (my back exercises) or a larger project (ooh crap, my fall campus tour begin THIS WEEK and I'm not yet packed!). Whether it is your work, school, home, or life, go TEND YOUR PLANET!

Peace,
Paul
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