by Marty Coleman | Dec 16, 2010 | Anonymous, Work - 2010 |
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Day #4 of Work Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
It’s easy to mistake thinking about doing something with doing it. It takes up a lot of mind power, mind time and mind energy to think through something. The mind work make you feel as if you have already done it, so it can be hard to get up the enthusiasm to actually go and do that thing.
But taking action is the only way to make your thoughts real so best go do it!
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by Marty Coleman | Dec 7, 2010 | Anonymous |
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It’s day #2 of my ‘Maxims I am not sure about’ week at The Napkin Dad Daily!
I first came across this idea a number of years ago and drew a napkin about it. But it deserves another one. At first I thought it wasn’t but the more I thought about anger situations the more it seemed to be right on the mark. What do you think, is it true? Leave a comment on the blog, ok?
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by Marty Coleman | Nov 16, 2010 | Anonymous |
I think most people would say I am not this type but in truth I tend to be this person. I have a bad habit of waiting for something to happen, for someone to contact me. It’s not that I don’t put out effort to find opportunities, I do. It’s just that I tend to slide back into waiting once I put out that effort. I don’t always push it further. At times I am afraid of bugging people. Other times it’s fear of rejection. It’s also often the situation where I don’t know what next step to take; who to call, where to write, what to submit, etc.
What I do to combat that tendency is simple, it’s just to put it out there all over again. It’s in fits and starts, it comes and goes, I forget then I remember. But no matter how or when it happens, I get back up and put it out there again.
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by Marty Coleman | Nov 11, 2010 | Anonymous |
Many thanks to Erin Patrick for her FBing of this quote this morning!
Who don’t you think you are? I can guarantee that you will have to change your mind about that if you are to become it. YOU MUST UNTIE THAT NOT.
Do you say, ‘I am not the fitness type’? If you want to be fit, you must first untie that not.
Do you want to be artistic? Then you can’t keep telling people that you aren’t. You have to decide that that can become part of your identity. You have to untie that not.
Are you not the happy type? Do you say ‘I am just not that type of person.’? Then you have lassoed yourself and are tied up tight. You can’t change until you untie that not.
How does one do that? By action. You want to be an artist? Then create art. Do you want to be a runner, then run. Do you want to be happy, then smile and love someone. Do what it takes to make those things happen.
And whatever you do, do NOT brag about what you are NOT!
My new clarion call: UNTIE THAT NOT™
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 29, 2010 | Anonymous, Stress - 2010 |
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Day #5 of ‘Stress Week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily and it’s a piece of cake!
Clinical studies have shown that 9 out of 10 people who start to eat dessert are less stressed than before they started eating. I don’t know where the clinic is that did that study, probably in the home town of Betty Crocker, but who cares. Eat dessert, live longer.
By the way, it wasn’t long ago that I used this quote on a napkin. I usually don’t do that, but I was out a coffee house being photographed for a magazine article. I knew they wanted to have pics of me drawing so I brought my markers and napkins, but forgot a quote book. So, I just started with a ‘stress’ quote off the top of my head. I liked the cake I drew so I thought I would just continue on with it and make it my day #5 napkin!
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 25, 2010 | Anonymous, Stress - 2010 |
Don’t freak out, but it’s ‘stress week’ at The Napkin Dad Daily
‘What’s below’ means what is happening in your body and your mind that isn’t obvious. You feel stress the same way you can feel an ankle sprain. But there are also elements of stress you can’t feel. Your stressed body is weakened, easier to get sick. Your stressed mind is cognitively vulnerable and it is easy to lose track of what is important.
Really think through what is essential in the here and now. Let the rest go. You will either come back to it when it is a better time, or it will pass and prove to have not been that important in the first place.
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“Stress is like an iceberg. We see 1/8 of it above, but what about what’s below?” – Anonymous
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 18, 2010 | aha moment, Anonymous |
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I am a FINALIST! You can vote for me again at AHA MOMENT. The top 10 will become national TV ads in 2011.
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I take WAY to long to get things done. I talk more than I do. Ironically, the fence I built last year was one of the quickest projects I ever completed. Had it all done in 10 days, working every day but one on it. Now if I could just do that with the guttering and a zillion other things on my to do list!
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 1, 2010 | Anonymous |
Feed the belly of the beast or save it all, live on or off the grid, sacrifice it all or spend your time gathering only for yourself. Whatever you do, if you are alive, you have hope. It might be hard, and even worse, it might be too easy, but life is what you have now. Later maybe not, but now yes. Make of it what you can.
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 27, 2010 | Anonymous, Lying About The Truth - 2013 |
There is only one way to know if you are being told lies. You MUST be a self-educator.
Where might you be told lies? We can start with religion, culture, science, nationality, race, education, government, nutrition, fitness, illness, sexuality or history. The list goes on and on.
In those situations (and many more) how do you know if you are being told lies or not? Maybe you aren’t, maybe you are. But how do you know? You know if you seek answers from multiple sources. If you are in a ghetto then you aren’t likely to get those multiple sources. (I don’t use the word ghetto in a derogatory fashion. It’s original meaning was a place isolated from it’s surrounding area for one reason or another. I am using simply as a description of isolation.)
I don’t mean a physical ghetto. I mean an intellectual ghetto, a mental awareness walled off from the wider world. If you only listen to people and ideas that come from within that intellectual ghetto, then there is a good chance you will have a distorted view. At the least you will have a view by default. It won’t be one you came to be exploration, it will be one you came to by taking the path of least resistance and not taking responsibility for your own thorough education.
I have known a number of people, for example, within the Christian community who think they have thought through an issue. But in truth they have simply mulled over a pre-determined, pre-packaged ‘thoughts ready to think’ supplied by those in charge of their ghetto. They haven’t read or listened to ideas outside that ghetto. This is true in both liberal and conservative congregations I have been a part of. So, while they believe they have come to their own conclusions, their lack of objective exploration outside the ghetto belies that assumption.
To be fair, I do know many, including the Pastors of the two churches I attend regularly (one liberal, one conservative), who are constantly exploring outside the confines of their own congregation’s leanings and heritage.
I appreciate and applaud the people who do this. They are the ones I trust to be truly searching for truth.
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 24, 2010 | Anonymous, Lying About The Truth - 2013 |
The Half-Truth is an animal whose mother was a purebred Truth and whose father was a purebred Lie. They fooled around and next thing you know this creature was born. A Half-Truth can only breed with a Lie. It can’t breed with a purebred Truth. Each successive generation will be more and more like a purebred Lie.
It is a very sneaky creature. It lives among Truths by disguising itself to look like one. It usually gets away with this for a while but it always gives itself away by being angrier and more secretive than a Truth. The other Truths always can sniff out the Half-Truth after a while and usually kick it out of the clan. It will go off looking for another tribe of Truths but almost never can sneak in, since the original Truths have warned all the other tribes of his coming.
Catching a Half-Truth is very hard. It will bite you if you try to catch it from the front so it’s best to try to catch it’s tail. Of course if you catch it by the tail it will always quickly jerk around and bite you. It is not an easy task. The best advice is if you come across a Half-Truth it’s best to walk way out of its way. Don’t try to make friends with it, it will bite you. Don’t try to feed it, it will just get stronger and more ferocious. Don’t try to cage it unless you are very sure the cage is escape proof. Do remember, the Half-Truth is very slippery and can get out of even the smallest of openings.
The best thing to do is to keep the Truths and the Lies completely separate so no Half-Truths are born in the first place. Stay near the Truths’ den and don’t let any Lies come close. They will try to charm you and get you to let them go in, but if you allow it, they will try to take advantage of the Truth and breed with it.
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