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.

You can get your copy of Perfect Drift here:

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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:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTN8VB51

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.

You can get the International bestseller The Shi*t I Wished I learned in College here:

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5FMWDGW

NOW

                                         

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on

the future, act now, without delay.”

                        Simone de Beauvoir

Love the now. Be present. Love the process, embrace the work. It is

not the result it is the effort you put in to get the result. Do your best

and do it again, but love the process, it’s like working out, enjoy doing

it, and remember that feeling in all our endeavors. Love what it is.

Want nothing to be different. Accept what has happened and what will

happen. There is a name for this, its “amor fati” – “love of one’s fate.”

We accept life and all our experiences. The highs and the lows, what

is and what will be. The ordinary and the seemingly extraordinary,

it’s all awesome. Limit our desires, accept what we have. If we want

more, we will never have enough. If we love what we have, we will

always have enough. Take the good, the bad and the ugly, or painful,

embrace it and be the better person for the struggle and always do

your best no matter what happens. Anything worthwhile always takes

effort and love the effort.

You can get the International bestseller The Shi*t I Wished I learned in College here:

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5FMWDGW

TIME

                                             

TIME

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

                            Michael Altshuler

Time can feel like an eternity. Time can feel like we never have enough,

and we must rush, rush, rush. Time is our most precious resource.

Time is our most squandered resource. We measure time in seconds,

minutes, hours, and years. Time is what we make of it. We sell our

time for money at our jobs. We give it away. We choose how we want

to “spend our time.” We only have so much time in the bank, but the

problem is we do not know what the balance is. So, we should act like

our balance is almost at zero and we should be guided accordingly

in how we choose to live our lives. Spending time where we want to

spend it. Maybe it is work. Maybe it is exercising, walking, reading,

family, alone, together. Maybe it’s all of these. Make no mistake, time

is too precious to give away to other people where we are not getting

something in return that we want. What that is we get to decide but

no one else has the right to decide time for us.

The author Robert Greene (48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Laws

of Human Nature) talks about alive time v. dead time. I like to think

of it more as it is go time, or it is quiet time, or down time, time to

re-charge. Alive time is go-time! Go time is when we focus, our adrenaline

kicks up and we just do it. We get started, get going and find our

flow. Whatever the task is at hand, work, exercise, reading, creating.

For me, it is always tough to get started, but like a cold plunge, just

dive in and start paddling. I can usually sustain a focused effort for

about 90 minutes, so I usually try to take my breaks, accordingly, walk

break, snack break, yoga or stretching break, whatever. No emails or

distractions during go-time, just focus on the task at hand. The flip side

is down time. We all need to shut our minds or bodies down for a little

while, otherwise it can be counterproductive. Quiet time. Usually after

a burst of productive go-time, I try to shut it off a little and re-charge.

Then do it all over again, and again.

You can get the International bestseller The Shi*t I Wished I learned in College here:

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5FMWDGW