# Chapter 307

Having a difficult start this morning or having so many thoughts running through my head that it is the net equivalent of a non-starter. All the possibilities and directions that this amazing life has taken and could now take are just overwhelming and stunning. Instead of talking about the weather or worse yet, which TV channels are coming in or not, I want to have some major time to think about changing the world, securing our reach and future, impacting our grandkids, helping our kids, serving our church, helping our neighbors and generally living a life that is full and complete.

I am booked up this morning as well, and having a tough start with that too, because the TV is playing in the room, and dad is talking from another room and so now I have to try and think while engulfed in the noise of all that is going on in the lives of the other people in this house and all the other agendas that are at play here and that is just life right? This is always true to varying degrees, but the level of noise and distraction here is generally beyond my ability to block and continue forward successfully. The practice of constant partial attention, never deep focus nor in the flow of deep work, that is the best that I will ever get here and that is just gonna have to be ok because the alternative is far worse. Ok off to the first meeting of the day.