Things get cool on Monday.
Not the weather, which seems determined to stay in a post summer heat wave.
I’m not complaining, I love the heat.
But for the past three years, it’s stayed close to 90 until Halloween here, and then a cold front comes through and slaps it down to 50.
I suspect the same will happen again this year, leaving us to wonder how to dress for Trick or Treat, though we are almost too old for that.
We do have ball weekends between now and then though, and it’s always nice to know how the weather is going to play out for our play time.
Then November and nothing til practice starts up again in February.
There will be off season training and maybe a pick up with a basketball team, just for funs.
Not my fun, I’ll just sit in the stands and cheer, but active all the same.
Plus there are three birthdays, T-Giving and Christmas and New Year’s all stacked on top of one another like a freight train that won’t stop.
It promises to be busy, which feels per the usual, and I’ve lined up some new books and videos to go along with it.
So for now though, I’ll just relish the heat absent humidity, and settle in for some more baseball until it’s all over.
As for Monday, it starts the run up.
The plan is a new book each week by series until the middle of Nov, and then a new series.
And in lining them up and beginning the prep work, I ran across a couple of older stories I could/will share with you.
Like this one, Rumors of Me, which you can read for free.
Or this complete audiobook, PACK IRON
Remember in the past when I said I could use an assistant?
It would be to help with stuff like this:
Way back when, in the late 1900’s, I was working in Hollywood trying to write/direct movies.
Dear God, doesn’t that make me sound old!?
I mean, it was only a couple of decades ago, but we’ve gone through a few things since then.
Not the least of which was a revolution on how we read books, how we watch movies, how movies get made.
Strikes. Plagues. Change of centuries!
All the things we’ve lived through that you line up like a list and make it sound like we’ve seen things.
Done things.
Become things.
Once, I thought I would become a director.
And I did, for a bit.
I suppose in some ways, I still am, though not in the way I thought I would be.
Because with the tools out now, and the ambition I had back then, I could really do some damage.
Except…
As a reminder, I still have another fifty one years left until I hit 104 and go off on my next adventure.
So when I think things like, I missed my boat, I need to realize, there are a hell of a lot of boats over the next five decades.
I’ve probably had five different careers that have made me the man I am today.
I could have five more and still find some success that I thought was lost to the whims of time.
Like making movies.
I could take Atlantis, and it’s companion, GRAIL, and the third one and an assistant to turn it into an AI generated movie.
I mean, if Robert Rodriguez could sell his blood and body to science to fund El Mariachi, couldn’t I find a way or make one to earn some extra shekels to pay for an AI subscription or someone to do it for me?
Probably the latter because of the whole time factor. I don’t want to learn enough of the process to get fast at it when someone more passionate about the details could do the day in and out of it.
The question I get to ask myself is;
How can I make this happen?
Which is the question we should ask ourselves whenever any opportunity presents itself to us.
Even if it’s an idea.
It’s part of two questions, which maybe should be three.
Because these things come in three.
The first question is, “What would this look like if it was easy.”
I stole it from Tim Ferris a long time ago, and it still holds true today.
For me, it means finding the simple path to reach the end goal.
Which you can do too any time something seems overwhelming.
Got a long list of things to do?
What would this task look like if it was easy?
The second question you’ve seen is phrased the right way.
I don’t think in negatives, because that’s a limit.
And we live in a mostly limitless world.
How can I make this happen?
Especially when this can be a number of things.
Then, think it out.
How can you make it happen, the easy way?
Thoughts cost nothing but brain space, and most of us have that in abundance.
Except when driving.
Concentrate on the road when you’re driving!
The third question in my trilogy of to do is simple too.
What action can I do today to get me there?
Like when I’m writing on a novel, the action is to sit down and write.
I wish I could get better at sitting down and dictating, but that easy action item will take more practice.
What action could you take that puts you one step closer to where you want to be?
If it’s to make an AI movie, it could be research the software, or find the freelancer who can do it.
Then make a budget for it.
Then figure out how to fund the budget.
Which is always the hard part.
That’s what I’ll be thinking about today.
For lithium mines and GTL opportunities, to video production and getting back on the Amazon saddle, along with more wide books.
My wish for you today is to make it easy and wonder about your own goals.
How can you make it happen?
What would it look like if it was easy?
What action can you take to get you one step closer today?
Figure these out, and you’re well on your way.
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Time to dive back into the Battlefield Z series to get ready:
The Battlefield Z Series
9. Everglades Zombie
10. Flyover Zombie
11. Headshots
12. Overland Zombie
13. Lone Star Zombie
14. Cowboy Zombie
15. Gone Dark
16. Silent Run
17. No Entry
18. Restricted
19. Desolation
20. Exposed
21. Shelter in Place
22. Ashes - a Post Apocalyptic story
23. Run - a Battlefield Z story
24. Hide - a Battlefield Z story
BOXSET
Chris, have you considered a dictation/speech-to-text software/app? Doctors dictate their notes verbally, it shows up on a computer screen, and is easy to correct/modify.