April 16, 2020 - 216 - "Be a Creator - Not a Reactor - A Book Report on "Creator" by Steve Chandler"

     Arr arr arr...just thought I'd encourage some healthy immunity with this silly hilarious joke.  

Great Read

     The following is a direct steal from the book "Creator" by Steve Chandler, but I may as well have written it myself:

      "Now I'm going to stop talking to you.  Because it just hit me:  I'm actually talking to myself here.  Why do I always seem to do that?  I try to teach other people things I myself need to learn but haven't even started to learn."     

     ..."But I'm talking to myself.  I'm putting down the words that I need to see.  For myself.  For personal reasons.  Maybe it helps you, too, and if so I'm pleased with that, but this is really my own learning going on here."        

Miraculous

     It always feels miraculous when you read a book and someone is saying exactly what you're trying to get at.  It feels they're speaking directly to you.  

     The premise of the book is that everyone is creative.  We're created "in the image of our Creator".  Therefore, we can't not create.

    We're creating when we get dinner on the table, plant a garden, send an email, post to social media, take a picture, come up with something for kids to do all day during a pandemic...it's all the same thing. It's Creation.  And it's good!  (I didn't say that first either.)

The Important Part 

     This is where Mr. Chandler gets at the really crucial point:

       "...this day today feels like a new morning:  and I see that life is for creation.  I don't have to turn on the news and become a reactor in life.  I don't have to read what some politician or actor said and go nuclear."

     I love this.  It's a good reminder that we really do get to create our own day any ol' way we want it.

Again:  Covid to the Rescue! 

     How great is it (okay...big picture here) that a lot of us are getting to see how true this is?  

     What are we going to do now we can no longer blame rude customers, obnoxious coworkers, or a flat tire on the way to work, for a crappy day. 

     (Damn it!!! ) 

     Here we are.  Just us.  

     Now, more than ever, I guess it's up to us to make or break our own day. 

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     And yeah, for sure, I'm talking to myself:  What's it gonna be?  Am I doing things that make me feel the best I can?  Am I doing what I'll feel best about at the end of the day?  Thinking about what I want to focus on?  Or am I dwelling on all of that crazy stuff that I can't do a damn thing about? 

Constant Check-Ins

    It feels like I need to ask myself this two thousand times a day:  What can I do something about right now?  What can make this a good day?  What can I think, say, or be, that would make things better?

   Then try my best to do that.

Hope you're out there creating something wonderful in your day...including some cootie-killing antibodies!

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"At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day."

-Simone Biles

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"Any day above ground is a good day.  Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well."

-Germany Kent

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"I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint."

-Bob Ross

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"Anytime I don't have to wear a bra is a good day."

-Amanda Seales

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