e's improving on E

The Fundamentals/Basics:

1. Who do you listen to?
2. Teachability Index
3. Training/Balance Scale
4. Four Steps of Learning Information

Thoughts on the Foundation:

"If you know and do not do, you do not know."


"If you want to be a master, you must be a master of the basics."


"You can only build as high as your foundation is deep."


"God gave you two ears and one mouth. Use them proportionately."


"I am not afraid of the 10,000 strikes you have practiced once. I am deathly afraid of the one strike you have practiced 10,000 times."


"Focus on the fundamentals; master the basics."


"If your attitude is right, facts don't matter."


"How you feel is 99% of success; when your thinking is correct, the how doesn't matter."

in E's quest for balance... some things must go

I'm in need of some balance. I need to drop some of the baggage I'm carrying. I have too much on my plate, too many pans in the fire. My fingers are scalded, and my mind is a kettle on the verge of a steaming boiling scream.

I have to decide what is important, and what I can set aside.

• I'm setting aside music for now. Not my guitars, but the desire to record my music and share it. I simply don't have the time or money to invest.


• I MUST continue working on the movie poster for "Writing Christmas Cool" but I have to balance that work with the work that MUST get done at the station... a lot of changes in job duties there, and I'm not as confident as I could be that all will be well in the end... especially in THIS economy.


• I am setting aside my language studies, TV (well, MOST of the shows I watch), and every book I'm in the active process of writing or drafting... five at varying stages of completion.


• Much of my blogging is also going. I'll keep this and Letters to Mary, and my portfolios, but that's it. I simply don't have time for it.


• I'm giving up politics. Or rather, following politics.


• I'm going to pick up my brushes again. I'm going to stop putting so much effort and emphasis on Photoshop and other programs and get back to the basics. That's where my real talent lies.

And that's just for starters.


UPDATE: Monday, April 5 - 8:45am

Look closely at the man in the picture... recognize him? Was HE saved? or was this photo a study in cynicism by the late Kurt Cobain? Is this something upon which I need to focus more? What am I doing to carry light in an increasingly darkening world? A lot less that those who paid to have that billboard placed. In a search for balance, I can think of no greater duty.

I had a dream last night. I wonder if I have the nerve to actually do it. Especially since it would require using company property off the clock, and for a purpose other than news/work related.

vir res trunco

I gravitate between two poles
One of excess, one of denial
And have learned the center, that perfect between
Is both greatest reward and darkest trial
I would stand at the center
If the center would but hold
All efforts put forth in containing that eye
Leave me weak, inconsolable ~ tears untolled

ELAshley
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a bit of bad poetry, I know