Good morning!
This video is gonna be short and sweet.
It's not a lesson that I really have to teach you, because I'm currently going through it myself,
and the lesson has to do with having a things-to-do list.
This van build is taking so much longer than I thought it was going to -
nothing is according to plan.
I try to do something, I have no idea what I'm doing.
On average, things are taking me at least three times as long as I thought they were going to!
I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I'm frustrated, I kind of want to snap my fingers and have it be done.
[snap!]
It doesn't work in the real world, that only works in my videos...
I honestly had no idea that it was going to be this challenging.
I didn't know that it was going to be - it was gonna require SO MUCH physical labor,
and the list of things I need to do to complete this goes on and on.
It feels like it's never-ending. I would say I'm like halfway there right now.
Yesterday morning, I decided "to heck with it,
I'm not going to do anything on my things-to-do list today."
"I'm gonna put it on hold for the day," and at first,
it felt really weird, and I sat in the van for like a half hour,
trying to figure out what I WANTED to do that wasn't something I NEEDED to do.
So I spontaneously decided to take a trip to Portland, Maine.
Portland, Maine is gorgeous. It feels like the West Coast.
I used to live on the west coast; I kind of miss it, so it's a nice little vacation spot.
I took a road trip there, walked around for a while, saw some cool boats,
saw some cool other stuff, saw some other cool stuff,
and then I happened upon a few tents,
and then those tents became more tents,
and it became a huge festival, and there was a parade
with some jugglers and puppet things -
it was huge! It was crazy.
Also, these dogs were there. And this dog was there.
So it was an awesome festival, obviously.
It turns out that this is an annual festival Portland,
Maine has been having for the past 46 years:
it's called "Old Port Fest," and this year's is supposedly the last one ever!
And I was there for it! To think, I could have missed it!
I could have missed this crazy festival in this beautiful place,
but now I can say that I was there.
It really taught me something, and it's still something that I'm trying to digest.
Instead of slaving away, and becoming really frustrated, and trying to
bulldoze my way through getting this job completed, or any other job completed,
I need to step back and realize that life is going on RIGHT NOW.
It's going on THIS SECOND. And if I think that I'm going to be able
to finish my things-to-do list before life starts,
before I can start to live my life, then I'm never gonna end up doing anything.
It's great to get things done, and I feel great when I get things done,
but it's when getting things done gets in the way of actually living my life,
and exploring, and taking time to go to crazy random festivals in cities I hardly go to -
I mean even this view right here is amazing!
There's ducks swimming around. How can you not stop and take it all in?
Okay, I've got to get out there and watch these ducks right now, because they are fighting,
and I want to see what happens.
'til next time!
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