Found On The Web - Living Life, The Game

In the process of roaming the web, I came across this "game" if you will which just seems so fitting to what this is all about.

The folks at Uncommon Goods have the "
Living Life Game." To me, looking at the larger picture, this seems to be something that could be the perfect thing I could use to get my mind thinking of things to do instead of just letting life pass by.

So why not start your own list of possible things you could be doing. Take the game and run with it. 



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David Stoddard
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Search And Ye Shall Find... Something

Note: I came across this posting from several years ago on a separate blog I had started (and wrote in for about two months). I post it here because not only do I need something to post and this is easier than writing something new, but it is still how I am at times even today.

I was digging around stacks of papers last night searching for the columns I had written for the Alton Telegraph a couple of years back.

I came across old magazines, papers with scratched out notes, past issues of the newsletter, printouts of ebooks, and even a few quotes I had come across over the years which were in sheet protectors. I made those for my own bits of inspiration over the years.

But in the process of my search, I came across a small collection of pages. Ramblings of sorts which I vaguely remember writing some 5+ years ago. They were written at a time when I wasn't necessarily sure of what in the world I was doing. Some would say this hasn't changed much since then.

I wrote of writing. What it was, what it meant, how I started to do it despite really not liking English classes growing up, and even why I didn't do it even though I felt that is what I was meant to do.

I wrote of my own expert status of being indecisive. I still think it has something with being a Gemini (and born on a Monday none the less).


I wrote of the future and what it could be, should be, but not quite what I intended to make it be.

In the end, I never found the prints of the columns I was looking for. But in some strange way, I found something even more important. Those pages reminded me of who I was, and that I am still that same person. But it also allowed me to see that I am different as well. Older, maybe wiser in a sense, but still always searching for the answers for a better tomorrow

I've got a question...

  • What have you been searching for? 
  • Something to do?
  • Somewhere to go?
  • Friends?
  • A good job?
  • That lost sock from the dryer? 

Or something more important...... yourself).

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A Never-Ending Question


It’s a popular open-ended question which has helped change the world, make the seemingly impossible, possible. It has helped bring the unmotivated into leaders. It has helped creative people who may have been blocked for lengthy periods of time, come back with fresh views, ideas, aspirations and more creative ways of doing what they do.

What if… is the starting point to countless questions in any given area. And it works for writers as well. For me, and for this list, it’s about getting ideas and sitting one’s tail in a chair to actually write again.

What if…
   1. …I got up 30 minutes earlier?
   2. …I would exercise for just 10 simple minutes a day?
   3. …I bring the tools of my trade with me everywhere I go?
   4. …I would edit those pieces I wrote 4 years ago and sent them out?
   5. …I sold something I wrote?
   6. …I could sit myself down and actually write every day?
   7. …My teachers were write when they said I wrote well?
   8. …My teachers were wrong then they said my writing sucked?
   9. …I could make writing more a part of my job duties?
  10. …I go to the park, bring a voice recorder, talk about what I see, feel, smell and hear?
  11. …while I am still at the park, I recorded my thoughts about what I wanted to write?
  12. …I recorded ideas I had for possible greeting cards, bumper stickers, buttons and the like which I could send off to some places, or even design myself for Cafe Press?
  13. …I just sat and recorded ideas I had for different books, booklets, articles, chapters, plays, videos, blogs and poems?
  14. …I would just write instead of wondering What If…?

What are your What if… questions you have asked yourself over the years?
--David

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That Pretty Much Sums Up A Lot

I sat down to write this post about 5 some-odd hours ago. (and they were some of the oddest hours).

What has taken so long was redoing the whole look of the blog. It brings me back to those days when with a web site, I would change this and that and another thing way too often. And now that same thing is coming back with this blog.

So that's why I am sitting here now saying Huh? What in the world am I doing this again. For those who have been following for the past many years off and on, you have seen the transitions. For those who want to see what I had done (and again, looking back at some of these, I say Huh?) click on the Wayback Machine and see for yourself.

Feel free to enter other web addresses to see what they looked like years before.

So as I look at today, I did get some stuff done. And in a few minutes, I will sent this post to just add 1 more thing to my vast accomplishments of the day.

Now get out there and get yourself something completed. Just don't take as long as I did.

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Motivated Enough To Make A New Presentation




Hi all. Because of an email from a co-worker, I have been introduced to Prezi. The online presentation creator. Why Prezi? Well, it's free (does have paid upgrades). I thought I'd give it a try to see if it is better than the traditional PowerPoint.

It is different in that you are creating everything on a "flat" surface instead of in a "stack" of individual slides. Working with it has force me to look at things differently as you may be able to see when you play the Prezi. (and yes, you need to continue to advance it forward with the right arrow on the bottom like your average slide presentation).

See it for yourself. And let me know what you think of the intro I did. (soon to be placed on the about David page).

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Confession: I Get More Done On Bruno's Vay Kay Blog Than My Own.

I don't really know what that means. I do more postings for my Girlfriend's dachshund while they are on vacation than I do on my own.

Now yes, I would like to believe that he is telling me what he wants typed while he is on the floor snoring. It must be his magical way of letting me know the exciting happenings he has been through on a given day.

His latest post was yesterday, (darn slacker hasn't posted yet today). It was about his restful moment on a stack of pillows on the couch in the living room. It was great until he was so rudely interrupted by a couple of humans who just happened to start wondering where he had gone.

Mini mountain climbing and perching himself atop the pillows, obviously.

He's done well with his blogging as well as staying out of trouble while he is here. Has only torn up 1 toy and 0 soda bottles.

Shh, I think he heard me typing about him. He's on his way over, probably ready to explain his day to be so I can forward it on to his vast network of fans.

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Guest Posting @ "The Writing Life Too"

How often have I felt that I wasn't good at something I was doing, you ask?

Probably a lot more times than I care to admit. And trust me, we don't have time for me to go into all of them on here. It might just shut down the Internet if I attempted to do that.

And that feeling even happened again when I was okie dokied by Jessica Morrell to guest post on her blog "The Writing Life Too."  I won't go into it all here since I touch on it in the blog post on her site. But needless to say, it got me thinking about where this feeling comes from and we do we know we are actually good at something?

(Depending on when you check out this post, my entry is dated July 8, 2010 since there is no individual link to the post). Check out "The Writing Life Too," to find my posting.

--David

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