Pain Makes One Think

Thought makes one Wise,

Wisdom makes Life Endurable.

Teahouse of the August Moon

Author Unknown

The Winners in this Life know the Rules of the Game and have a Plan so that their efficiency is comparatively exponential to that of people who don’t.

 

Dr. Phil “Tell it Like it Is” McGraw

The Objective of Becoming Organized so as to become Efficient in your activities, just can’t be realized by the saving of very many, large increments of time in your daily life. There just aren’t enough opportunities to save very many, “really Big” increments of time.

Organization results from the disciplined expenditure of Large and Continuous Effort with the determined and deliberate intent to save many, many, very small increments of time in performing tasks that will be repeated over and over

… with the undertanding that saving those very small amounts of time is not, by itself, immediately gratifying.

Lazy or Undisciplined Thinkers and those that demand Immediate Gratification, actually believe that the expenditures of great effort required to organize themselves … when compared to the initially perceived small return of time and effort saved immediately, is “Just Not Worth The Effort”.

And because they are either

1.Lazy and/or Undisciplined, or

2. they just can’t view this Organizational Effort as an investment that will “Pay Off” for years to come,

they thus, choose to not invest that Time and Effort and seek more Immediate Gratification, elsewhere.

This Lack of Foresight and Lack of Discipline and/or Determination to improve their personal future

Condemns them to miserably repeating the same boring, time wasting “Piddle Tasks” in an Everlasting Whirlpool of the Lack of Permanent Accomplishment; and

“Paying for the Same Ground Over and Over“

for the remainder of their “Tread Mill”, harried lives,

instead of “using” those large blocks of time which result from saving those multitudinous small time increments,

to Enjoy their Lives and Spend Time
in Useful and Happy Activities.

Robert Jorrie, 1999
October 25, 1999

but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

Helen Keller

Opportunities Multiply as they are Seized.

Sun Tzu
The Art of War

For you never miss the water ’til the well runs dry.

Rowland Howard
You Never Miss the Water, 1876

MARGARET: Father, that man’s Bad.

MORE: There is no Law against that.

ROPER: There is! … God’s Law.

MORE: Then God can arrest him.

ROPER: Sophistication upon Sophistication !

MORE: No, Sheer simplicity.

The Law, Roper, the Law.

I know what’s Legal, not what’s Right.

And I’ll stick to what’s Legal.

ROPER: Then you set Man’s Law above God’s !

MORE: No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact … I’m not God.

The Currents and Eddies of Right and Wrong, which you find such plain sailing,

I can’t navigate. I’m no Voyager.

But in the Thickets of the Law, Oh, there I’m a Forester!

I doubt if there’s a man alive who could follow me there, Thank God …

ALICE: While you talk, he’s Gone!

MORE: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he Broke the Law!

ROPER: So now you’d give the Devil Benefit of Law?

MORE: Yes. What would you do?

Cut a Great Road through the Law to get after the Devil?

ROPER: I’d cut down every Law in England to do that!

MORE: Oh? And when the last Law was down, and the Devil turned round on you,

Where would you hide, Roper,

the Laws all being flat?

This country’s planted thick with Laws from coast to coast …

Man’s Laws, not God’s … and if you cut them down … and you’re just the man to do it …

D’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

Yes, I’d give the Devil Benefit of Law, for My Own Safety’s Sake.

dialog between Sir Thomas More
and his family members
from “A Man For All Seasons”

WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME:

Man’s Law is not capable of perfectly following God’s Law

Because Man is forced to write down and codify

That which most folks SAY is God’s Law.

And we name Man’s Law, “the Law.”

But Man recognizes his own imperfection at judging his Fellow Man

And in order to account for his Human Frailty,

This causes Man to need to be less certain to find Guilt,

This sometimes results in Man’s Law

finding “Not Guilty”

a man who, under each individual’s understanding of God’s Law,

is known by everyone to have broken God’s Law.

and while this is not a desirable result,

no one has yet found a better system.

Robert Jorrie

It is not possible to have a “perfect” marriage, because of the lack of identicality of any 2 persons,

The trouble is that no matter how good “the Match” of the couple is,

Over time, they get complacent,
And the good points of the marriage get taken for granted.

They usually don’t focus on how good the congruence is,
And how positive things truly are …

The parties “home in,” focus and even dwell on the only thing they can still see … the Differences between them!

Soon the “Good Parts” in the marriage dim in their consciousness,
And the unmatched parts become the center topic of controversy.

One needs perspective, to recognize “How Big” the “Good Part” is.

Robert Jorrie
June 7, 1989

Ever took a man

away

from his Wife,

The Wife Threw Him Away.

Susan Jorrie

It’s Beautiful to look at and to touch

you read it with pleasure Again and Again.

There are always parts of it you understand for the First Time

and other parts you suddenly don’t understand at all,

So you never Really Finish It.

Anniversary card Susan gave Bobby
1/30/75 in New York