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spend time where it counts
Jun. 21st, 2021 09:13 amFor years my mom has been trying to get me to put my efforts behind things that do good instead of allowing people to monopolize my time when they don’t even appreciate it.
The problem is I’m terrible at figuring out who is actually going to appreciate something and use it and what’s best to focus my efforts on.
I’m not the type of person who half-asses things. If you ask me to do something, it’s getting overdone.
Which is great for things that need a lot of research like the business I’m in, which would’ve failed miserably if I wasn’t the way I am. And it’s great for people like my mom who appreciate and use the things I find. But for a lot of things it just works out to be for nothing.
Like with my dad.
Every time my mom has been diagnosed with something or has a problem, I learn as much as I can about it. Between the two of us, we came up with a food list of dos and don’ts and changed our entire way of eating for her cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
The result was that her cancer doc and her dermatologist were both blown away by how fast she recovers from every spot of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma she develops.
It never shows up in her lab work, unlike almost every other patient with the disease.
The spots clear up so quick that both of her docs go on and on with “keep up the good work!” and “maybe you should do a seminar to help others” and they give her the lowest and second lowest doses of cream that usually aren’t strong enough to treat this disease well, but they work for her because she just needs a little help.
(lowest dose cream for mild spots and second lowest if the other cream doesn’t work fast enough)
Anyway, I’ve been working harder at putting my efforts where they’re needed and appreciated.
So yesterday when my mom came out of my dad’s room and said “Paul (dad’s best friend) told him that he did some research and found that low B12 can make ringworm worse” I nodded, said something about how yeah that might have a connection since my dad’s side of the family has B12 deficiency -- I’ve got it too and it’s part of what I had to work with for our diet.
When I followed that up with, “But I’m not going to put my time and energy into researching that when he’s not going to follow through,” she paused for a moment, seemed a little surprised, but then nodded and smiled.
The fact that we found all those nearly untouched vitamins in his room a few days ago definitely helped me realize quicker that I shouldn’t bother with the B12 thing, but I’m also hoping I’m doing better with the whole spending time where it counts thing 🥳
The problem is I’m terrible at figuring out who is actually going to appreciate something and use it and what’s best to focus my efforts on.
I’m not the type of person who half-asses things. If you ask me to do something, it’s getting overdone.
Which is great for things that need a lot of research like the business I’m in, which would’ve failed miserably if I wasn’t the way I am. And it’s great for people like my mom who appreciate and use the things I find. But for a lot of things it just works out to be for nothing.
Like with my dad.
Every time my mom has been diagnosed with something or has a problem, I learn as much as I can about it. Between the two of us, we came up with a food list of dos and don’ts and changed our entire way of eating for her cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
The result was that her cancer doc and her dermatologist were both blown away by how fast she recovers from every spot of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma she develops.
It never shows up in her lab work, unlike almost every other patient with the disease.
The spots clear up so quick that both of her docs go on and on with “keep up the good work!” and “maybe you should do a seminar to help others” and they give her the lowest and second lowest doses of cream that usually aren’t strong enough to treat this disease well, but they work for her because she just needs a little help.
(lowest dose cream for mild spots and second lowest if the other cream doesn’t work fast enough)
Anyway, I’ve been working harder at putting my efforts where they’re needed and appreciated.
So yesterday when my mom came out of my dad’s room and said “Paul (dad’s best friend) told him that he did some research and found that low B12 can make ringworm worse” I nodded, said something about how yeah that might have a connection since my dad’s side of the family has B12 deficiency -- I’ve got it too and it’s part of what I had to work with for our diet.
When I followed that up with, “But I’m not going to put my time and energy into researching that when he’s not going to follow through,” she paused for a moment, seemed a little surprised, but then nodded and smiled.
The fact that we found all those nearly untouched vitamins in his room a few days ago definitely helped me realize quicker that I shouldn’t bother with the B12 thing, but I’m also hoping I’m doing better with the whole spending time where it counts thing 🥳
