Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Moving Along the Trail of Life

What is the Hardest Part of Your Job? Tell us how you deal with it.

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Quote :Mindfulness can open the door, but only character strengths can keep it open
Ryan M. Niemiec, Mindfulness and Character Strengths {https://www.wow4u.com/quote-of-the-day/}

Right now. My job is being retired. It's a lot like being a kid again. No one says I have to do anything each day, so I try to use my time wisely which, is some days well spent other days a joke. I crocheted a Stetson hat this summer and it is so cool. Now, working on a winter coat for my whippet. I read, do housework, cook and bake, play games on my kindle. mow lawn sometimes. I think of spending an eternity of days finding activities and think it would be fun to live this way for years yet. The hardest thing about being elderly is convincing younger people the elderly life is worthwhile. Elderly people can think and work and live.

I look back on my time when I was training horses and riding. One time when I was teaching a girl guitar. Some students have the idea that they can take in the information without doing the practicing that sports and music demands. I had students, that had a regular excuse, when they did not spend time on the specific practice for the week. I felt like I was just taking their money. I often asked such students why they kept coming to lessons if they were not going to work on the problems they were experiencing.

Often such students, particularly the horse back riders, had unruly mounts. The horses knew the rider was out of sorts and so refused good manners. The riders could not comprehend that the horse would be mannerly only if the rider cared to put into practice the proper equestrian model, that would give both the equine and rider comfort and pleasure during the ride.

Learning any thing is a hands on experience. New knowledge has to become a part of your life. So, when the new changes show up in any given subject as they will down through the years. You can see the rightness of a new system in an old subject .You can absorb the new material and continue on with your life. Use cooking as an example. Cook stoves fueled with wood or coal moved to cookstoves with electricity, to Microwave ovens, now to air fryers. If you are going to stay on the earth 50 or more years you will see a change in something you know or use.

Happy Trails.