Following through and pushing forward.
It’s hard to stay afloat, trying to get back to prudence, stuck on basics and simple, have to go from simple to being prudent.
It’s hard to do everything alone only to be stuck with people with lack of drive or similar minded people, tried reaching out so many times, only to very little avail, gonna have to do certain things on my own, gotta be organized, visualize and get to my check points, work, gym church. Do errands, and have all each increments and pieces constantly accounted for and tagged in.
Always knew that you should never focus on a job, you should focus on a career, something long term, something you enjoy doing, that also has perks and pros and fits into a positive and progressive being. It seems every time I am just about to cross the finish line, i always get denied or some crazy calamities takeaway all the things I need to hit the goal, it’s friggen frustrating because when I am denied or lose my shit, always get stuck and end up taking it out on myself which clouds my judgement or take to bad habits.
Have to get pass that and focus on my priorities and goals and knock them out one and a time, frustration is good as I know I am making effort to solidify them, but exhaustion and fatigue set in both mentally, and physically and even spiritually I feel smashed down.
Need to one up and reach out again to stay positive and stay consistent, which is retardedly hard. But I know where there is struggle there is progress, but I can’t bullshit myself already, if I’m gonna be in it has to be all in, and be rigorously discipline, even if it means going without certain things, also have to strike the hammer while the iron is hot, for once i backslide and procrastinate, it is an arduous task to kindle the fire back, once it’s burning, gotta keep it going and burn the midnight oil. Thankfully with studying a little stoicism to being pragmatic about things, to toughen my skin and have alternative methods, to study a little Buddhism and click in some Confucius and Lao tzu for some practicalities, and bounce towards the spiritual teachings and practices of the Bible.
Along side those as base, turn to the more recent wise business men who have those teachings, Jim rhon, Brian tracey, Zig ziglar, Tony robins, and Les brown. To have all their books, to watch their videos and also participate in their seminars. That way certain aspects are gained. Those guys are a must have in your repertoire of profession.
Even more so people to talk to in person, a social worker, case manager, friend, pastor and or gym trainees, a consistent of this is needed for progress.
Almost there, ABC-123. let’s do this.
One goal at a time. But get to the point of multitasking and prudence. Have to be simple which is hard, but if you can get to prudence consistency, that is gold.
Diciplines, obedience, steadfast.
Firm, simple and modest are near to virtue.
- Confucius
@Simpleman123
“To be
idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish
people are idle, wise people are diligent.” Buddha
It started off as for survival mode but is becoming a way of life. Building positve energy.
@IsayUncle
Straight up. Gautama was a G. Wanna get buddhist books. Don’t like that zen crap, the mediating is good, but meditating is a rhythm. Even movement is a mediation.
Don’t like all those chimes and bongs, the words of Gautama siddhata is to be cherished.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
-Gautama Buddah
Gota get their books on buddhist, only going off quotes is okay, but to understand the entirety of their ways needs to be flowed through their teachings. Make it a practice.
@Simpleman123
I may die only knowing the two core values of buddhism. (The 4 Noble Truths) & (The Noble Eight Fold Path). So I can't say I agree with "all of", follow or study buddhism. Just grasping these two core values could last me a lifetime. I love the dependency towards understanding rather than judgement of others.
(The 2nd Noble Truth) The Origin of Suffering - short answer = our desires.
(The first three paths of the Noble Eightfold Paths guide me daily... I try to remember them but fail often.) A lifetime exercise. 1) Right Understanding. 2) Right Thought. 3) Right Action.... and the other paths invoke similar self disciplines.
I don't consider any of these from a religious context but more of a self evaluation of understanding myself and others.
At what age do we realize life is not fair, that life sucks. At what age do we start getting angry, hateful and vengeful. When do we start start thinking everything is hopeless and wrong with the world and humanity? As children we/I are taught not to lie be nice, be good etc, etc. etc. There are attempt to protect us from suffering. So it is after our brains have been formed do we realize there is so much suffering and we spent a majority of our lives asking why and trying to get away from it. The sooner we learn to accept it as common as the air we breath, the less brain energy we have to use fighting it and instead let be around us but not greatly interfere with our worthy path or goal.
That is the First Noble truth. The Existence of Suffering. I believe if we leaned this as eary as possible there would be less sense of entitlement and more sense of gratitude.
Most people think buddhist meditation is clearing your mind of all negative energy and it's not that at all. It's the exact oppisite. It's about letting all that negative come into your thoughts and learning what to do with it in a positve, disfusive redirective manner because it will always be there but how to live with it without great anger and anxiety is just another tool to make room for postive energy.
And so I blab on.
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” Plato
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” Plato
ABC-123
Followthrough
Cover the basics, get to simple, become prudent.
Work, Gym, Church.
Homework, weights, Devotions.
Journal, Androgens, Prayer.
Binders, Tools, Fasting.
Books, Gear, Supplications.
Psalms 120:1 (A Song of degrees.) In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Psalms 120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Psalms 120:3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
Psalms 120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Psalms 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Psalms 120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
Psalms 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
How long should you try? Until
Figure out the basics, the rhythm and do it. Affirmate, meditate and pray.
Plan and take Action, schedule and execute, follow through.
@Simpleman123
Don't get tired of trying my friend. It's hard sometimes; but it's much more harder to live with stopping.
What's going on? What obtacles are happening, interferring with your mainland goal? You got this, Talk it out. Share the realities, let's work through it.
@IsayUncle
Same shit, truck not coming through, fixing part by part, and still not running, tedious as shit, will give it another week, wanna get it going, wasted so much time on minor things, should have had the intuition to just drop it and leave.
So deceptive time and management gets with your in half despair half hope, from the face of it, it looks so small and can easily be slapped in, but it devolves into ignorance of how much I’m stagnate.
Just one piece, which loops back into one piece, and one piece, I’ve lost my sense of urgency, my discernment of what would be more beneficial for my soul, to go back into the same mistakes of thinking I got this covered and can put it off till I get it done, but this is the deception of the light-dark flashing, the light cannot blink on and off, can a room with a flickering light work that way and function well? No, it has to be on, or off.
Been too luke warm with scripture and my priorities. Which is what’s so frustrating and discouraging, if I’d just taken the leap, I could have been atleast satisfied with the decision, but instead all falls apart in each one, it’s hard to just do it when you’ve fallen short so many times, rejected so many times, people who back stab you so many times, yet not being able to follow through even on taking them out, it’s like I’m powerless in any situation. Have to remind myself to stay on track by the day and week, only to have everyone around wanna pull me in different directions. One moment they say to just dip, the other they give me bullshit of how it will never work over and over, fuck them, this job is beyond my rhythm to grasp, I have to make power moves again, this is gonna hurt, this is gonna sting, this is gonna be one hell of an anxiety attack, but I’ll meet it squarely to it’s bitch ass face. Ill give my self my own deadline yet again, and 4 pay checks will be enough to complete this crap.
A fix the damn truck - pivot after 2nd check and send it to my family salvaged with the best I could do.
B get my tats as a promise of grit to fullfill this page, of pain, and symbol of to know when I look at it, the real cowboy, industrial worker, cdl truck driver spirit in me will never leave, he’s here to stay and Persue my life long goal and dream into reality.
C Get that plane ticket and get to pheonix and be apart of swift trucking team and re-continue not the job but the career I always wanted, my rhythm, my soul, my spirit, my heart, my psychoness, and my spit at both life and deaths face. For i know I am cracked, but I can never be broken, not with the stoics to study, not with the Bible to study and buddhist teachings, it’s scripture and it’s people whom I’ve called the men of faith of our predecessors, have to give it a go. Just need help. I trust myself when it comes to crossing finish lines, but I have to cross the finish line first.
Just for fucking once.
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 9:31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
I am not perfect, but I have fought to many battles alone, I have given the easy card to myself, playing complacent when thinks don’t work out, no more, damn if I do, and damned if I dont, I’m damned no matter what, I should as well get something out of it. But I trust myself if I can get to my podium of crossing the finish line. Don’t try, do.
Respect and honor the decision, to truly let go. I did my best, it’s time to move on.
@Simpleman123
It's ok to take a break brother. You don't have to quit to take a break. JUST REST, be resilient, sober and strong by being still instead of fighting. Breath, Rest, Do nothing to twart your progress. Just rest here for a minute.
I have a 1966, a 1978, a 1980, a 1988, a 1994, a 1997 and a 2004... (if I said Cadillac right now, you'd think I was Johnny Cash) I've had all of these for many years from neccessity, not collectibles. And they are all junks. I always manage to keep two running at all times because I have too. When one breaks down I have to use the other one to get parts and I hope it doesn't break down before I fix the other. I do all the repairs myself from major to minor and I could say they are all held together by bailing wire and duct tape but it's more like barbed wire and masking tape..... the barbed Tears me up to fix it and the masking tape don't hold long.... SO when I say I can relate about your truck, You know I mean it.
I know you are tired of trying and probably don't want to talk about S%*T. Let's talk about your truck. A = 99.9% done -set back - try again - set back - try again - set back..... Lets Try Together. Tell me whats wrong with your truck; if you want to and you are up to it. Don't falter my friend, just rest but while resting you can tell me about your truck if you want to.
@IsayUncle
Engine blew out, replaced it, and still had problems because of corrosion of the fuel lines, replaced fuel pump, throttle body, sparks, converter, and still has hesitation to start and dies when idles.
No codes, so only can think of the o2 censors, injectors and fuel regulator.
Gonna give my self this four weeks and than if can’t get it going just gonna salvage it.
Have to stay on track. Can’t let this hold me back. No excuses. Just follow through, last four weeks and this is enough.
@Simpleman123
That sounds like a good plan. Sometimes taking a breath, Does miracles!
(Is this your only vehicle and a major problem for mobility i.e. job, shopping etc.)
I have a couple questions about the truck.
1) What Make, Model and Year?
2) Where did you get the engine? Did you know the engine or hear it run, or was it a new engine?
3) What will do with the truck when you come to the Arizona? Sell it for $$$$ for the trip and resettlement?
I think sometime it's ok to cut bait and move on (with reason). I call it changeing my mind and re-planning. Your reason is you want to get stateside. Anything that stops that, reevaluate and adjust.
Work, Eat, School, Workout, Chores, Sleep, Rest.... Repeat..... leaves little time for auto repairs so four weeks sound doable and reasonable. We got This, You have progressed so much but it might be hard to see or believe because you didn't win the prize yet. You got this. It's not a sprint, but the finish line is not far. It's marathon you've started, You are Doing well and succeeded in getting this far.
Rest Now and then.... DO It Again Brother!
@Simpleman123
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Are you Resting or Crashing and Burning? Monday's coming, time to get back at it. Lets do this.
Don't Quit
by Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about when he
Might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than it seems
To a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up when he
Might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And when you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst,
You must not quit.
@IsayUncle
Yesert, still working, this week ill tag in the last two parts, if it fires up all G, off to B, than we will see C.
Love that poem, listen to its audio on redfrosts channel, some of those quotes are needed to look at week to week, listened to and spoken out, and reside in our minds and heart.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step
- Diogenes
lol Diogenese the same dude that Alexander the Great told him I can make you a God if you follow me, and diogenese told him, told him, you know what you can do for me? Get the hell out of my sun light. 😂
Alexander came with a army and swords only to reach a demise, while Jesus came with no weapons, and a small discipleship, and we follow Jesus and the prophets more than the great idiot.
We got this man, keep pumping these books, quotes and words of wise knowledge and wisdom, for we live on the death of others - Leonardo davinchi.
Get that CDL man, I will get mine, ABC-123.
Eligible
Credible
Capable
Check to check, Test to Test and chapter to chapter. All the way, is the only way.
Yessah, Kachow.
@Simpleman123
Oh Man. Good to hear from you! Love your grit and determination. It keeps me lifted.
Same here friend. We got this. There is always another route up the mountain. This is our mountain, we get a choice to take up the climb.
It’s like Tony robins always says, you wanna take the island, burn the boats, for me that is similar to just make the choice, no going back, that mountain doesn’t have a backward route, only up and over. And to a lush place of liberation.
Psalms 66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Psalms 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms 66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
Psalms 66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Psalms 66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Psalms 66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Psalms 66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms 66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms 66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Psalms 66:19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
David made it through, I am still in the fire, I am getting through burning and all, I rather feel the wrath of God in punishment to learn and be corrected than to be cast into true darkness and be absent of Him. I will take my punishment knowing that I will come out refined. A little burnt, but that’s how smelting works, you can’t burn Gold and not have it shiney and of value.
Burn me, I can take it.
@Simpleman123
Good psalms, AND You're right, WE GOT THIS!
I just made up a quote:
An obstacle is nothing more than a seed for many unintentional blessings but with disgust and discouragement, we often crush it. JoRu
P.S. Truck? Wanna talk about it? What year, make, model
@IsayUncle
Dodge ram 04, replacing the injectors and 02 sensors, these last pieces are cheaper, should be the final fixes, replaced damn near everything else, motor, throttle body, fuel pump ect. So we should be good, even if not the final fix, best I can do.
Than B, than Dip. The swift schooling already is waiting for me, did the application, just have to get there, the rest will be all tenacity. Don’t need to study anymore, just getting there is all that matters.
Yesert, the obstacle is the way.
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anxieties and all, bitter and all, better to be bitter sweet, than no taste at all. Like Jesus talks about the salt. Don’t lose your flavor. Don’t lose the optimism, don’t lose the possibilities, for what do we have if not dreams, we can see way too much success stories to not believe that dreams can come true. Like Arnold says, Vision.
If we talk about it, it’s just a dream.
if we plan it, it becomes a vision.
if we schedule it, it becomes reality.
Don’t prioritize your schedule, schedule your priorities, we dont plan to fail, we fail when we don’t plan.
Getter done.
@Simpleman123
Nice truck man! I'm guessing a 4.7L engine. You'll get her going, it does sound like just couple more basic pieces. I don't believe they are very expensive, Of Course, that's relative to the money you got or can get. Get those and you could be golden. AT THE RISK of sounding really stupid here.... In-line Fuel Filter? (I always replace them.... needed or not)
Anxieties and Bitterness. Try to maintain those through ABC-123. You are buiding your strengths in your core with all these self teachings and I do know the frustration of not being there yet. These teachings get monotnous and seem fruitless at times my Friend. Trust me when I say they are not! They will give you positive strength for years to come if you do not give up. Your bitterness may be what's needed now to persevere but to soften it is also to ease your anxieties BUT now is not the time to worry about it. All in due time. Keep the focus. ABC-123 Like you said, "see the vision".
Don't GO through hardships. GROW through them and you will always win... always!
PS. You mentioned the family salvage yard. Do you have family in Hawaii? (Are you from there or the mainland?) I just assumed you were from the mainland trying to get back. I'm just being nosey and curious.
Have a good day today!💪
@IsayUncle
Psalm 37:24
Though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
Isaiah 40:29-31
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Absolutely, the arithmetics is there, just have to tie in the spiritual faith. I will make it, even if the truck doesn’t fire up like I want it, that would be good enough. I’m from hawaii, and getting to the mainland, never left. Ready to, striving to and will.
Will have to be diligent, can’t be careless this time around, the surrounding is not sound, but we see Noah did not give in to his surroundings, we see David, there is no meet Him half way anymore, there is only all the way, is the only way.
Ima have it done this week, and blast in B right after. Keep it contra flow, have to really watch my steps and run it in for each first down, short passes and get to the touch down.
Increments are set up, so One big piece at a time. 3 major pieces to be whole, and whole is more than enough to move on and get to the next chapter, i under stand what you mean, tedious can make it lose its flavor. So I will have to draw directly from the friendship, brotherhood and fellowship. No more watching and listening, it’s about engaging, collaborating and solidifying. We got this man. ABC-123.
All the way.
@Simpleman123
Amen Brother🙏
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You've fallen into the "progression" trap
We're born, we breathe and then at the end of our lives we stop breathing
There is no progression
You want to spend your life chasing carrots then go ahead but you're only ever progressing in illusions
@Daniel7777
I disagree, the Bible lays out what is true progress. And I am adamant to follow it.
@Simpleman123
Ok, if u know everything
@Daniel7777
Are you saying you do not believe in progress OR you only believe in your definition of progress?
How has faith helped anyone here?
@forcefulMango2060
Who is anyone here?
@Simpleman123
Hey SI, do you know where these advertisement posts are coming from. I checked both members and thier membership started just today. I was going to flag them a suspect but figured to check with you first. After all, it is your house.😜