Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Water Your Own Lawn

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: Water Your Own Lawn:                                                                         “If the grass is greener somewhere else. Start watering your own law...

Water Your Own Lawn

                                                         

“If the grass is greener somewhere else.

Start watering your own lawn.”

                                    Mi c h a e l B e c k w i t h

You are rarely satisfied with your own situation. You always

think others have it better. You perceive other people to have

it better, or something they have is better than it really is. It rarely

is. You think things are better in another situation, but when you

get there, they are not. “Things” are hardly ever as great as what

you perceive them to be, nor are they as bad as you had feared. It

seems to be in your nature to want something different than what

you already have. You are always tempted and envious of what other

people have, or more correctly what you think they have. This goes

back to the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and eating

the “forbidden” fruit. You should focus on nurturing and improving

what you already have. Envy is poison. Instead of lusting after what

you think other people have, work on your own house. Water your

own lawn. Eat healthier. Work out. Work hard at your craft. Practice

to get better. Be grateful for what you do have. Your expectations are

rarely what reality is.

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Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: PULL YOUR WEEDS

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: PULL YOUR WEEDS:   “On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.”                         H e n r y k S i e n k i e w i c z “Problems” do not get any easier with...

PULL YOUR WEEDS

 

“On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.”

                    He n r y k S i e n k i e w i c z

“Problems” do not get any easier with time. They only fester, grow

and get uglier. Confront reality. If you pay attention to your

lawn and pull weeds before they grow and spread your lawn will stay

beautiful. Ignore a weed, it grows, spreads, overruns, consumes and

takes over what was your beautiful lawn. Pull your weeds. You can

spray roundup on your weeds, and the weeds will wither and go away

for a while, but the weeds will be back, and, in the process, you killed

off some of your beautiful lawn. Avoid poisoning yourself. Water

your lawn and pull your weeds before your weeds are overgrown and

consume you. You must remove unwanted and unpleasant things

from your life. If something is still bothering you after 24 hours, deal

with it within 48 hours. Be done with it and move on.

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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...