Enjoy your post everyday! That said, I have to disagree with you on this one. I find that I type so much faster than I can right that words flow better from brain to keyboard. 🙂

Hey Larry,
I love reading Think Daily but I will have to say that this particular post somehow did something to me. The right word spoken in the right place at the right time that I could receive. See, I have always been somewhat on the tech side of things and found myself to be mostly in the digital camp. As an example, I use Evernote to keep a daily journal for personal and professional things. Yet somehow, there has always been something lacking. Something is lost when just typing a thought. What about the stroke of the pen or the color we use? The space in between the words or how we position the pen to paper? I would always use the excuse of “well, my hand cramps up too easily and I can type so much faster!!”…so I just resigned to being a digital-only kind of guy, until today. I am by no means jumping ship from digital but your words shifted something in me. I have heard Ricko and Mike talk about journaling, not to mention, countless other great, successful people. I have been asking myself lately, am I missing something here? Then your post came and I tried for the first time in years, actually writing (in my CNLIVE journal that was given to me)! My hand didn’t cramp up and I was able to capture every nuance in my thinking. You are right! It does activate a different part of the brain. Then for all you digital camp people out there, it is so easy to capture these analog pages into something like Evernote. You have the power to categorize and index. You can even search the hand-written text and of course you have the power of the cloud to pull your notes up on any device. Then you can also incorporate video, pictures, annotations and dictation. The list goes on. It’s like a whole new world for me now and 2019 just got brighter. I’ve tried the other way as well where I would start digital and then print out to analog and put sheets in a book but still something lacking there. Starting analog and going to digital gives the benefits of both worlds and possibly activating more areas of the brain than just what writing alone could do. I suppose the possibilities are endless. To wrap up here, I come from somewhat of a recording background and a lot of old school recording artists swear by capturing everything on analog tape with analog gear first, then mastering down to digital for media consumption. It captures all the nuances of the live performance while maintaining the spirit of creativity. Analog provides infinite sampling and resolution, where digital is always going to be limited by zeros and ones. Our minds are not made up of zeros and ones but of limitless creativity! So thank you for your post. I can honestly say now that I don’t have to choose writing or typing. I can have both. We can have both 🙂

I need to Say MORE NO, Sometimes I think I”m to Generous

I really enjoy your blog Larry. I say yes way too much to work requirements, volunteer activities, family needs etc. Reading your blog helps me focus on the important aspects of Life. ?

I say yes much at work and more in my life!
I do not like the word no.
To me, it means no sale,
Or I am a limited thinker or dreamer !Or I just don’t have enough info.
If No meant no, I would not be married or have 1/2 the things I have.
Larry , you are a terrific thinker who likes new idea’s . They mostly come from Yes!
Kurtis

I say yes more often than not. Though, I am learning the art of saying no. No, is how you free up time in busy life.

I just heard the term “FOMO” — Fear Of Missing Out. I prefer to look at what a blessing it is to live in an age where we have so many wonderful opportunities to choose from! Life is like a sculpture, sometimes it’s what we carve away and remove that exposes the beauty within.

A liitle too much yes at work and a little too much no at home.

Don

It is actually the other way around for me, I rather not like to be like everyone else

In my experience, the people I know are so active in retirement that they often wonder how they had any time to work. I saw this with my father, who after retirement, continued helping people in various ways and more often now that he had more time. After 32 years of teaching, I decided to take early retirement so that I could be with our first granddaughter three days a week. It was really difficult at first to make the decision to leave teaching, but when I became truly grateful for the many years I had in this field, I was ready to let go and move onto my new adventure as a “retired” person. Now, like my father, I find that I can better take care of myself, help others, and spend more time doing the things I like. The creative projects I did when teaching simply changed forms and I am still finding ways to be creative, active, and productive. Yes, the income is considerably less, but we’ve always been content with the reality that “less” can be more of what’s most important. Now, every moment I spend with my two granddaughters is so precious and when I think I could have still been working and missing out on all of this, for me, I know I retired at the right time.

I agree with that statement. I know too many people who have passed away not long after retirement. I think maybe it’s because some people fall out of the regular routine of getting up and going to work, and it throws some kind of imbalance into their functioning. I agree that the best thing to do would to continue to remain active and stick to a regular schedule.

Great advice. The sooner you start the better off you will be. The miracle of compound returns.