Rebuilding Rob

A special thank you, to you: my blog has seen an upswing in traffic lately, and I’m very grateful to all of you, who are reading, liking, and commenting on my posts. I am grateful! By all means, keep it up!

Now, back to my usual spiel…

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

What is something that you can do today that will benefit you tomorrow?

I can think of several things that I could do today that will benefit me tomorrow. I guess it depends on if you mean literally tomorrow or tomorrow as “the future“. Either way, here are some ideas:

• Eating better – I know, I eat like crap. And I know that one day it’s gonna bite me in the rear end. Eating better just leads to a longer life. That’s all there is to it.
• Read every day – ever since I read of mice and men as I was teaching it to my sophomores, I’ve been trying to get better about reading from an actual book every day. I’m currently working on the novelization of the Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith. I know. It’s not exactly high-brow stuff, but just like eating better is good for the body, I believe that reading every day helps keep the mind sharp. And these are things I need to think about as I’m not getting any younger.
• Keep working out – I’m realizing more and more than I need to continue exercising every day, for similar reasons that I mentioned above. I need to take care of my muscles and my ability to use them before I lose them. I don’t want to end up like Mother, who’s bed-ridden at 78.
• Saving/spending money more wisely – I’m tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, so I’m trying to get better at saving – or at least not spending so much – money. Given what’s going on in the US today and the President’s tariff war, stuff ain’t going to get any cheaper anytime soon. I have to be more careful; as well as starting thinking about retirement.

Wow, ALL of those things I mentioned are about “future tomorrow”. Let see if I can come up with a few “literal tomorrow” things I can do.

• Making my lunch (dinners too?) the night before – as a teacher, and I suppose this is true with any other occupation, I could see myself probably five or 10 minutes in the morning, just by preparing my lunch tonight before. Five minutes doesn’t sound like a lot, but you who work days realize, five minutes in the morning as a very long time. Getting out the door five minutes earlier makes my whole warning go much smoother.
• Getting gas or groceries early – this goes along the same lines as meal prep. One is much better off handling what they need in advance instead of realizing at the last minute that they need gas in their car or they need food in their house.
• Running through lesson plans, or at least having lessons planned in advance – I’ve been teaching a lot of enough that I can pretty well wing it of my lesson plans. I don’t wanna say I make things up as I go, but I’ve gone through these same motions so many times that I can always experience a recall when I’m in the middle of a lesson and just go on auto pilot. Of course, it is nice to look things over in advance. I noticed sometimes when I re-teaching some material, that I end up coming at it from a different perspective from one school year to the next. It would be nice to have some of that stuff in mind as I start with my first class in the morning – rather than having them be guinea pigs for the rest of my day

A recurring theme I see here is being prepared, and preparing for the future. I guess it’s like the old Boy Scout motto says “be prepared”. I was a Boy Scout (I believe they’re just called “scouts” now, as girls are allowed to join) for a few years as a kid; but now I’m so disillusioned by their Uber conservative policies that I probably wouldn’t let either of my kids join if they asked to. Having said that, those words that Lord Robert Baden Powell spoke all those years ago. “Be prepared. For any old thing” still apply.

Of the last few days, I’ve been noticing some lines in my face, and I hadn’t really seen before. Maybe it’s because I’ve been kind of growing my beard out a little bit and letting things go. And then later on today I saw a photo of myself on Facebook from five years ago. I’m amazed how much my face has changed from age 45 to 50. I guess that’s natural though. At this age, that’s a substantial period of time in my life. that’s just something I’m thinking about tonight is I got all the stuff about the future and taking care of myself going through my mind.

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