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Day #5 of Technology Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
A tool is something that helps you achieve a goal. When you become obsessed with the tool for it’s own sake you are no longer working on a goal, but are now serving that tool. It doesn’t matter if it is the car you drive, the computer you work on, or the body you live in. If you are exclusively focused on the maintenance of those things then you are living a stunted life. Never lose sight of what you are doing with these tools, why you have them in the first place. Are you using them or are you simply an agent to maintain them?
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, surveyor, historian & philosopher
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Aug
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Think deliberately about what you believe and don’t be afraid to change if, upon examining, you find you don’t really have enough to back it up.
This belief can be about your paranoia, your faith, your money habits, your attitudes, it doesn’t matter.
You distrust everyone? Is there really proof that all are untrustworthy or is it just one or two from your past and now you have applied that distrust to everyone.
You believe women are inferior to men? When and how did you make that decision? Do you have proof it is true? Evaluate and see.
What is the nature of the afterlife?
How do you know what you believe about it? where did that belief come from? What would happen to you if you modified that belief?
The life that is thought about is the life that is able to progress.
Drawing by Marty Coleman, the Napkin Dad
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quote by Henry David Thoreau, American Author, 1817-1862
Jul
30
Day 4 of aging week! I missed yesterday, just a bit too busy between visiting my dad in the hospital and taking some time off. Sorry about that.
Having dealt with my elderly father all week, trying to get him up and moving after a hip break, I have seen once again how important motivation and enthusiasm is to recovery. In his case we are helping him remember his friends back at his assisted living home (his girlfriends at his dining table in particular)!
But enthusiasm is more than motivation. It is about interest, curiosity, feeling like you have something to reach for, something you want to know about. In my father’s case he has started to think he might want to live to 100. It’s a goal, it’s something to think about and imagine.
We are encouraging that by saying we are expecting another party (we have one every 10 years for his big birthdays) so we expect him to live to 100. He might not make it, we understand it, and he understands it. But we have hope, and we have enthusiasm and we impart that to him as best we can. That is the key, not just to have it in yourself, but to figure out ways to impart it to others.
Drawing by Marty Coleman, the Napkin Dad
Jan
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I need ALL of you to help me understand this one. Why is this statement true? Or, if you don’t think it is, why isn’t it? I will put great answers that are emailed instead of posted here on the post itself. Let me hear from you, get interacterated!
Oct
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Harry Truman said this. I wonder if part of the reason he says to be wary is from his years as a haberdasher watching so many men spend so much money on new clothes.
