Pet Peeves

Today's post is on public toilets.

Nobody likes public toilets.  Even the most pristine public toilet totally grosses me out, though the more expensive the establishment somehow the less gross.  So I get people who don't want to touch anything.  But just don't make it worse.

I hate, hate, hate when you have to use a public toilet and there is pee drips on the seat.  I get you don't want to sit your ass down where everybody else has but if that is the case then either aim better or make sure that you didn't leave anything behind for the poor person behind you.

I have always considered my aversion to public toilets to be a little extreme.  With most anything else I am pretty hard to disgust but something about public toilets just does me in.  Porta potties take it one step further.  When I presented with the option of a porta pottie my bladder gains an amazing ability to hold it.  An ability that exists in no other situation.

With any of these odd reactions to something I have never had a real bad experience to I wonder was there a past life experience that I am working with.  Things that make you go hmmmmm.

Getting On In The Fast Lane

I am so thankful to be feeling better.

It's been a really long time since I have thought about my
first few cars and it brings a smile to my face.  Mine first
was an ugly khaki green.  I loved it.

I lived in Mississauga when I was younger.  I remember driving home from Toronto, there was an entrance onto the QEW I think it's Lakeshore but I am guessing.  Anyway you would come up a hill and have to merge into traffic in the fast lane.  I was young and had crappy, not fast cars such as a K Car and a Ford Fairmont and getting that car up to speed on a hill was always a little nerve wracking.  Eventually I just hit the gas and went and prayed the person behind me would slow down and not hit me, it was Toronto so you could never be sure.  I never got hit.

I was on fire before I got hit but now I am just flying. My goal is to get organized and focus to get more accomplished.  I have been listening to Brian Tracy and some things have really resonated.  If you are scattered in your goals you will accomplish much less than if you focus.

When I was younger my goals where much more focused.  Buy a car, buy a house, buy a dog.  Now I am all over the place, business, home life, son, dog ...

Writing stuff down is also supposed to make an incredible difference in whether or not the goal gets accomplished.  Last night Bill and I sat down and made a list of house stuff that needs to be accomplished.  Honestly once it was on paper it was a lot less intimidating than it was in my head.

Here is my list

1.  Spend time every day interacting with Logan
2.  Spend time every day with Bill.  Every day I want to go to spend at least 10 minutes talking to each other.  No TV, no computer.
3.  Increase my business gross profit by 30%.
4.  Train Iggy's contacts by the end of the summer.

Guilty Pleasures

I was listening to Brian Tracy yesterday and he said something that totally affected me.  I know the concept but I have never applied it to myself.  Reward yourself for good behaviour.  My whole life revolves around rewarding good behaviour between raising a 3 year old and dog training.  I know I had heard it before listening to Tony Roberts he said he would play a song he loved after doing something he didn't want to.

Right now my guilty pleasure is playing a computer game.  Usually I use it as a procrastination tool which really is rewarding bad behaviour, instead I will do something I don't want to and then let myself play a game.  So much better.

As I have gotten older I have stopped trying to change myself to someone else's ideal and accepted some of the things I enjoy.  Of course there are things your really should change liking eating poorly or smoking but I really like to watch TV.  I always feel guilty when I watch TV it is such a useless way to spend time but you know it's not really useless if I enjoy it.  Rewarding yourself is a great way to use all those guilty pleasures that I enjoy in a very productive way.

I have been really working on this with my son.  It is so easy to battle all the time to get you want from a child and my child being just like me will battle back.  Rewarding good behaviour just leaves us both so much happier and I still get what I want.

Goals and Goal Settings

It always makes me laugh that everything I learn in dog training serves me so well in the rest of my life.

Goals are the word of the day.  At least in my world it seems that everywhere I look I am seeing that I have to set goals.  I have tried especially in dog training but also in my own life and I become overwhelmed and discouraged and walk away.

When I was younger I was better at setting goals.  There are a couple of times in my life that I totally focused on something and had complete confidence that it would happen.  Of course it did but maybe me being so focused was a large reason why.

Today I started Brian Tracy's The Ultimate Goals Program.  I love listening to stuff like this.  It inspires me, so far not enough to actually do it but maybe this time :).

Wish me luck.