Implementing The Travelers Gift

From Andy Andrews "The Travelers Gift"

1.  The buck stops here.  I am responsible for my past and my future. (Harry Truman, at the Potsdam Conference)
2.  I will seek wisdom.  I will be a servant to others. (King Solomon, at the 2 mothers with one living child)
3.  I am a person of action.  I seize the moment.  I choose now. (Joshua Chamberlain, Little Round Top the Battle of Gettysburg)
4.  I have a decided heart.  My destiny is assured. (Christopher Columbus, 64 days out of Europe with 10 days provisions left)
5.  Today I will choose to be happy.  I am the possessor of a grateful spirit. (Anne Frank, hiding in her father's warehouse)
6.  I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit.  I will forgive myself. (Abraham Lincoln, at the Gettysburg address)
7.  I will persist without exception.  I am a person of great faith.  (Gabriel, at the warehouse of all the abandoned dreams)


3 week of focusing on the one decision.  Once in the morning once at night.
7/16/2012
Monday morning for the Delaware YMCA Louvers, I had to drive up to Piqua to get the louvers from the powder coating facility.  I did not follow up on Thursday or Friday with Response the week before, therefore I am the one to go get the parts.
Monday afternoon, the louvers do not fit on the fixtures.  I drive the parts to response along with a fixture to show them how they are not fitting.

7/17/2012
Tuesday.  I have left my portfolio home as I planned to work on my self-review Monday night.  I come home at lunch to get my portfolio.  I have chosen to turn my review in before vacation.
Tuesday afternoon.  I rush through putting my comments down on my self review.  I probably scribble something incoherent about wanting to be paid salary.

7/23/2012
Monday Morning.  I feel it is easy to hold my self accountable for the decisions I have made.  I am very tempted to move on to working on the second decision to seeking wisdom.  But I am going to work on the 7th decision of persisting with out exception.  3 weeks of working on being responsible for my past and my future.  I just realized I have not been working as hard on determining my future.  I am working on that now by getting up at 5:30 a.m.

7/24/2012
Tuesday Morning.  I am going to work on market research on 5 of my ideas.  I am expecting a long day at work today.  I came back and immediately needed to be at Marathon yesterday morning.  I could have skipped and went just to the office.  I decided it would be better to get the information I needed from Marathon directly.  I am sure I made the correct decision.   I am also going to work on getting in touch with an expert on RFID.

8/14/2012
I fell off the wagon and I am working to get back on.  Today is a Tuesday and the first day of school for my oldest two children.  There are a lot of challenges ahead this week but there were a lot of challenges yesterday and I have made it through to today.

10/3/2012
I am attempting to take the Happiness approach.  I need to look into some more Zig Ziglar and get me over any mental hurdles I am having.  I struggle because I do not feel true to my self opening up about things.

11/24/2012
It is the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Keeping track of this on a single blog page does not seem to be working.  I still need to work on steps 2 and 3 badly.  But trying to track the steps here is not working.  I need to e-mail them to myself and put them in Onenote at work.

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