Good, clean, pure, powerful, and positive information

This quote:

Make sure that on a daily basis you only allow good, clean, pure, powerful, and positive information to enter your mind. Zig Ziglar

(from: http://twitter.com/TomZiglar)

Reminded me of this post:

http://www.zonebyzone.com/2008/02/would-you-wash-with-dirt.html

Which reminds me...

I need to keep leveraging my commute time.  This is a great Zone.   Goal:  Decrease commercial radio and increase more quality music, audio books and reflective time.

Question for you...

What do you do during your commute time? I am looking for some fresh ideas and I am sure others would appreciate your ideas too.

In just a little while... life, death, living and the band

This is a post about death. This is a post about life. This a post about living.

I have a playlist of "reflective" songs. In my last post I talked about some work I was doing at the GTD 50K foot level. At that level you are asking yourself "What is my Mission in life?" Listening to my "reflective" play list is part of the process I use to detect my mission.

There is one song on my playlist that really resonates with me when thinking about the bigger picture of life.  The song is Believe by Brooks and Dunn.

"Says he was in the war when in the navy
Lost his wife, lost his baby
Broke down and asked him one time
How ya keep from going crazy
He said I'll see my wife and son in just a little while
I asked him what he meant
He looked at me and smiled, said

(Chorus)

I raise my hands, bow my head
I'm finding more and more truth in the words written in red
They tell me that there's more to life than just what i can see

I have found comfort in the phrase "in just a little while." It has helped me frame my belief of life and death. We all will die. I think that is an indisputable fact. It is what happens after that last breath that causes my mental and spiritual wheels to turn.


I also love the phrase "there's more to life than just what I can see." We are all ripples in the same pond. The inner circles of the ripple we can see, the outer circles are out of our view but still living and impacting the world. For example, a kind word to someone today may put a smile on their face (an inner ripple that you can see) but it also may be the tipping point in their day between choosing one path over another. My father was a football coach and a teacher. He worked with a lot of kids growing up. Every so often he meets a former player or student who says, "You remember when you said XYZ? That really made a difference for me. Thank you." Who knew? That is an outer ripple coming back. That is a gift. Most of them enter the mysterious realm of "there's more to life than just what I can see."


My aunt Margaret Ann once told us of a dream she had after my grandmother (her mother) passed away. She saw Nana (my grandmother) playing in a band with other family members. This also included my Uncle Steve (Nana's son) who died at an early age and before Nana. In the grand scheme of things it was just a "little while" before she saw her son again. It will be just a little while before I join the band too.


"Just a little while." That is comforting to my heart and soul.