I actually write these things down.
This exercise will be completely useless unless
you actually write things down.
Not exact matches
That sounds corny, but I've found that when I take the time to
write down the
things I'm grateful for, I can
actually feel my mindset shift.
Derp... fair question... you answer the question yourself (mostly): «Or did people many many years after the death of Jesus start
writing down the
things that John thought he remembered Jesus had said many years earlier but never
actually bothered to
write down?»
Or did people many many years after the death of Jesus start
writing down the
things that John thought he remembered Jesus had said many years earlier but never
actually bothered to
write down?
If you have a hard time thinking about what He is
actually doing, take a moment to
write down five
things you're grateful for, or a way that God has answered prayers.
They certainly contain descriptions of
things that should have been easily noticed and
written down by many sources had they
actually occurred, such as the star in the east, the Great Census of Caesar Augustus, and the zombie jamboree in Jerusalem as Jesus was being crucified, but NOBODY ELSE NOTICED.
It's hard to get motivated sometimes but I'm
actually just a big fan of blogging and
writing things down, so hopefully that will carry me through to the point where I do have a few more people listening.
Consider
actually asking him to
write down a list of
things he can do next time he's triggered.
Could be a mental plan, (note to self, kind of a
thing) but I've seen parents sit
down and
actually write it out.
This can
actually turn into a really fun adventure for you both: grab a bottle of red and some paper and
write down your sex fantasies — from role plays to that
thing you've always wanted him to do but have never had the courage to ask.
In fact, I now
actually get physically uncomfortable if there's nowhere to
write down what pops into my head — so I have a
writing program in my phone because that
thing is always with me.
Research has shown that if you
write down a few
things that you are grateful for every day, it
actually helps lift your mood.
I
actually used to have a page in my notebook for
writing them
down, but I quit making it when it started to get too weird to read: when besides the normal
things like the toilet backed up again, or they called to say they were turning off the electricity, there were
things like she lost the ticket stub from some hippie concert twenty years ago where she met the guy she should have married but never saw again, or the color of the dryer lint made her remember a sweater she once had when she was an exchange student in Belgium, back when she thought she would become an archaeologist when she grew up, but now she was only someone who worked in a deli and sometimes did catering and couldn't even say one sentence in Flemish anymore.
I think you've probably got some similar
things with The Creative Penn; you wanted to learn about publishing and I wanted to learn about not being lazy and
actually sitting
down and
writing.
From the desire to have a book in your name to
actually sitting
down and
writing a book, lots of
things can get in the way.
Just 3
things (because if I
write down the 3000
things I
actually want to get done....
«Yet lawyers are going so fast doing so many
things, that they don't
actually write down their time notation as they're working on e-mails.
Joe Bahgat: Right,
actually so my goal, one of the
things that we did at the workshop with how to manage is when you leave the workshop, they have a meeting every quarter, and when you leave you have to
write down your personal goals, your professional goals, and you have to pick one
thing that is the one
thing that you're going to do and it's on a carbon copy sheet, sort of old school, and so you tear the page out of your workbook, the top page you tear out and you give to your managing partner, which is the person who's assigned to basically put their foot up your ass when you screw up.
Writing things down will give you a better idea of just how much property you
actually own.