Hoards of us are over-privileged. We are indulged and entitled.

We are demanding, self-centered, often impossible.

We eat too much, spend too much, waste mounds of everything, and get annoyed if things don’t go exactly according to our self-centered plans.

This includes me, of course, which is not for some appearance of humility.

Perhaps like you, I can be quite impossible.

This condition of being over-privileged is most crudely evident when we waste what we already have, and then expect more of whatever it is we’ve already squandered.

It’s seeing life as a bottomless cup – for phones, cars, computers, houses, travel, and even for friends.

How quickly I lose sight that there are billions of people who would readily trade their lives for mine and for all I have, for where I live, for what I do, and for my day to day comforts – and probably do a better job at leveraging it all for the good of all.

At my worst I am drunk on myself – and I see others who are equally hung-over.

At my best I am low-maintenance. I serve. I love. I use all I have for the betterment of all – the very purpose of blessing and wealth.

At my best I am part of the solution to the problems in the world.

At my worst, I am the problem.

The Mercury / Monday

Think yourself into a new way of being and feeling. When people overly focus on their feelings they tend to be trapped in a moment. The feeling keeps you there, keeps you in a moment, and it’s often in a place you don’t want to be.

Thinking frees up possibilities.

A large sheet of paper developed into a blueprint with colored pencils and sketches and symbols of crazy and courageous and wonderful and colorful plans for the next five to ten years will get you into a whole lot of more productive Imagineering than sitting around trying to identify exactly how you feel or how you felt.*

Yes. It’s important to understand feelings. It is important to acknowledge them. But they are not good and leading, guiding, and planning. They are unreliable, they are fickle, often linked to how much coffee you’ve had or how much you did or did not sleep.

If you want a really good new year move from your heart to you head, and plan it. Put your heart in the hands of your head before you follow it!

Before I’m hit with mail telling me it’s important to feel and that I am denying my own feelings by suggesting we focus on thinking more than feeling let me tell you that I am not.

I think a lot about how I feel!

* Yes. I know it’s a long sentence.

Have a great 1/1 everybody-