Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: The Grass is Always Greener Beneath Your Feet

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: The Grass is Always Greener Beneath Your Feet:                                                                    “Practicing gratitude is a very powerful tool to shift your attention on ...

The Grass is Always Greener Beneath Your Feet

                                                     

“Practicing gratitude is a very powerful tool to

shift your attention on the things you don’t have to

the things you do have and this alone will make you

feel better.”

                No e l i a A a n u l d s

If only I had this, or if only I had that. Ambition can be a good

thing. Desire can be a good thing. Ambition and desire can lead

you to where you want to go, assuming you know where you want

to go and that is where you want to be. These things can also be a

distraction or an illusion. I will be happy if ..., I will be satisfied if ...

This conditional happiness can be a trap. Not to be confused with

legitimate goals. The key is to love the process. Love the journey.

Be happy in the present on your current path. If you are always

chasing rainbows or walking towards horizons you will never get to,

you will lose sight of the beauty you are standing in the middle of.

The grass is always greener where you water it. The grass is always

greener beneath your feet. You just need to pay attention and notice.

You are surrounded with beauty. The only place where the grass

may be greener is in nature. It is like wanting what you cannot have, 

that forbidden fruit, it is because you can’t have it that you want it.

You do not really need it. You already got it. It is not about wanting

what you cannot have but rather wanting what you already got and

being thankful and grateful for what you do have. Avoid comparing

yourself to others or looking for greener pastures elsewhere. Chasing

the more can be rewarding if you love the chase, but not if you are

only doing the chasing because you want the more, the greener grass

may be right beneath your feet, you just need to see it; or learn to

appreciate it.

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Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Perfect Drift

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Perfect Drift:   “They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that’s not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles f...

Perfect Drift

 

“They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream,

but that’s not quite it. What happens is that you

begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand

scheme of things, and suddenly they’re not such a big

deal anymore.”  

                             J o h n G i e r a c h

The water is too high.

The water is too low.

The water is too dirty.

The water is too clear.

The water is too fast.

The water is too slow.

You are full of excuses putting off just getting started and getting

going. You wait until the conditions are “perfect” to get started.

The “conditions” will never be perfect. Just get started and magical

things will happen. Often you need help from a friend or even a

total stranger to get set up and get going. At times you set off solo.

You prepare and plan beforehand. You are ready. You put your toes

in the water and step in timidly, or you put your boat in the water

and start paddling furiously. Either way you are off. Sometimes you

fail. Your line gets tangled, you snag a tree, you get stuck on the

bottom- and your-line snaps. No worries, get set back up and go

back at it. You got snagged again. Oops, I got a tangled mess. No

worries, keep going. Other times, first cast, boom it worked, perfect

cast, perfect drift, bam, set, reel it in, in the net. Wow, this seems

easy. Other times you execute perfection each time, and nothing.

Over and over again, nothing. But you plod on. Keep at it. The day

will come to you. Most of the time it is a roller coaster of emotion.

You have many tangled messes and failures, but each time you keep

getting back in the water. Sometimes you execute perfectly, hit it,

are close to getting your prize in the net and snap it is all gone in an

instant. So close. You had it, but now it is gone. No worries, just start

over. Other times, you are hot, win after win, success after success.

These are the times you must stay humble and grateful, because it

will never last, never does. Everything is temporary. You will find

yourself stuck on the bottom again. No matter what, just keep going

Do your best. Pound your craft. Successes and failures will come and

go; that’s life, but make no mistake, your true friends will be there to

celebrate with you and to pick you back up, when you need it most.

The perfect drift.

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Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Perfect Drift

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Perfect Drift: It's here! Perfect Drift i s the sequel and continuation of Sh*t I wish I Learned in College. Perfect Drift  is a sharp, practical colle...

Perfect Drift

It's here! Perfect Drift is the sequel and continuation of Sh*t I wish I Learned in College.

Perfect Drift is a sharp, practical collection of short reads that bring you back to what actually matters. 

 Perfect Drift strips away the noise and delivers simple principles for living with more focus, calm, discipline, gratitude, and joy. No fluff. No pretending life is easy. Just a clear way to keep moving forward when conditions are messy, motivation is gone, and your mind is full of excuses.

Inside you will find grounded reminders and mental resets on topics like:

• Getting started before conditions feel perfect
• Building routines and consistency that compound over time
• Eliminating non essentials and creating space to think
• Handling setbacks, fear, doubt, and hard days without quitting
• Choosing perspective, controlling what you can, and letting go of the rest
• Finding real wealth in health, relationships, freedom, and peace of mind

If you feel overextended, distracted, or stuck chasing the next shiny thing, this book is a quiet shove back toward your own best life. The kind built one good decision at a time, then repeated, until the drift comes again.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

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ORDINARY MOMENTS

                                         

“There are no ordinary moments.”

            Dan Millman

The ordinary is the extraordinary. It is in those moments of calm,

peaceful, blissful moments where we just slow down and enjoy the

moment. Routine. Especially when we take things for granted. The 

“regular” days or drudgery should be what we enjoy the most. We

tend to trip up when we look at something and say this is easy. I have

done this before so I will not put forth my usual effort or prepare like

we know we should. It is in these “ordinary” moments where we let our

guard down, where we get off track or disaster strikes. You think the

hard part is over or yet to come. Think again. It is all important. It all

counts. You may feel “ordinary” and that may be good because we are

calm, cool and collected. But that is not an excuse to be unprepared

or take things for granted. Everything is wondrous. We should marvel

at it and above all, always do our best.

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