Today I had to resist reacting to my wife when she griped at me.
Today I had to change directions when my son did not have his lunch at school.
Today I had to resist my tendency to exaggerate and worry about what other people might be thinking of me.

I am grateful that I got to water a garden in the cool morning air.
I am grateful that I got to observe occupational therapy today.
I am grateful that I got to build a squirrel's nest with my daughter.
I am grateful that I got to go to a meeting tonight.


This morning I had a few important thoughts that I need to save,

In order to set life vocation goals my son should list his ambitions and then think of a pyramid of related occupations or skills to offer a model with a broad scope of possibilities.  For example:
Fighter Pilot
remote pilot, co-pilot
flight crew, plane designer,
any military aviation related job, non-military aviation related job, etc, etc

When people seek help with addiction they need a model, a process, and a plan.  They need vision and motivation.  Addiction is a problem of the will, the addict has lost the power of the will.  The motivational force has been abducted and is employed by the obsession to receive the un-natural form of hyper-stimulation.

A trigger is a stimulus and a response.   A natural stimulation and arousal of the senses is an unconditioned response, it is an autonomic process.  A non-natural stimulus that has been paired (trained) with a natural stimulus so that the response is elicited by the non-natural stimulus is a conditioned response.  An example of a natural stimulus is the smell of food.  A non natural stimulus is the word "steak."  b


Thanks be to God for this day.