Getting Up Early – Things to Say
One of the advantages of waking up early in the morning is that you have a lot of quiet thinking time. As soon as my alarm went off at 5:30 this morning, my mind was in gear and I stood in the shower pondering all kinds of issues from gay marriage in California to some of the dumber things that happened at work the last few days to application of my most recent reading of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to wondering why current art is so focused on the basest human nature to whether the Coldplay album released this week was worthy the rave reviews it has received.
Of course, I am slammed at work today with a patent application that has to go out the door tonight, so I had time only to jot down my ideas on the back of an envelope and all of my congitions will have to wait.
I find it really interesting (frustrating) how when one has free time there is nothing to watch, and no good books to read, nothing that looks interesting on the internet, and nothing to do. But when you are busy, there isn’t time enough to accomplish everything you want to do… I think any reasonably motivate person knows exactly what I am talking about.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Amen to that. I have more good ideas at work that always go undone or unfinished because I can’t do them at work, and don’t do them when I have time. Oh well, maybe some day.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
It is all the same struggle for discipline. If I could just not plop in front of the TV, I would be so much more productive…
June 27th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Depends on what you watch I guess…speaking of Coldplay, I don’t think it matters what you think…it IS Chris Martin. According to everyone, he is the greatest genius ever. I like the album, but I don’t think it is earth shattering or anything. I guess being married to Gwenyth Paltrow, being a big champagne socialist, and hating Bush and Cheney will get you rave reviews no matter what the music sounds like.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:31 am
I seem to remember the same hubris coming from Oasis in the mid-90s. The big difference is that X&Y is one of the best albums of the decade, while Oasis promulgates a couple of good songs. Big difference. But in the end, how important in a musician to the history of the world? And who names their kid Apple?