Time -- What, When, HOW

How now brown cow?

Cute. Remember that one? It was a way to inquire about the goings on in one's life since speaking last. How you been or what's up are another way to do it. So, it's been awhile since I last posted so I'll tell ya what now from this brown cow.

My life has been busy on several fronts. Getting ready to move. Started Class A driving classes. Began classes on FOREX trading as well. Paid off all my bills from the sale of my townhouse. O, just enjoying life in general. But more important is that I did not let any of this get in the way of my health.

Distractions are the bane to success in anything that one does. I bet that you started out to do something on your list of things to do and BAM, the phone rings, the front doorbell goes off, the kids start fighting, the water heater springs a leak and so forth. Soon, you forget what in the heck you were going to do in the first place, right? Well, that has been one of my biggest problems throughout life, letting distractions get the better of me. Not now, not ever again.

So, how am I goin to do that? By making and keeping focused on a plan. It has taken me a year to get to the weight I'm at now and eating the foods (or not eating as the case may be) I eat now. I do it per plan. The driving classes could have put me way off the track. Though it did modify my schedule time wise it has not prevented me from doing the plan. The plan is what gets me back on track when something or someone makes me deviate off course just a little bit or a lot. In the old days I would just go off tangent and be gone for years!

That is why planning is so important in all areas of life. For instance, the sale of my townhouse went longer than planned. It got to the wire. I spent down all my savings and no job. Talk about stress. But I had planned for that as well. It kept me on track and sane. I had confidence. I had faith. I did not panic. Praise God. And now I have time to put into play the other parts of the plan to reach my ultimate goal of a debt free and care free and money free and healthy retirement.

A slave to no hard-and-fast rules, he developed a course that is as real as the measles and twice as much fun.