Sure Sign Of Getting Older

Hello,

My Dad used to tell me that a sure sign you are getting older is that you’re always trying to remember some guys name. I have arrived at that point in my life. I’ve never been that great at remembering names anyways, but I sear it is getting worse. It is not a matter of disrespect, but when I meet someone I notice how they shake hands and the way they speak. But, I just don’t listen to their name as well as I should and there lies the problem. I even got a book one time that was about how to remember people’s names. The author said you are suppose to make up a story about someone when you meet them and that way you’ll always remember be able to call them by name. I can’t remember the author’s name but I tried that and when I would see someone I had met in my life I couldn’t remember their story either. So I would just apologize that I could not remember their name and most people consider the source and move on.

Now with all of that said, I am sure you have been in that same situation before where you are telling someone a story and you are trying to remember someone’s name and for the life of you, you just can’t say the name. The name is right on the tip of your tongue and it just will not come to you. You try to tell the person you are talking to you know ‘that guy, you know his name.’ Finally, you just have to go on with your story because you just can’t remember it. That just happened to me two days ago. There was a guy that I watched rope a lot when I was younger. He could really get out of the barrier well, he was really aggressive, and he won a lot. I remember the guy has two first names before his last name, but I couldn’t remember his name. The person I was telling the story to lost interest in my story because I was struggling so with the name thing. This morning I woke up at three AM, set up in bed, and said Gene Ray Ward. My wife woke up and asked me what in the world I was talking about. I said, ‘Gene Ray Ward that is the guy’s name.’ She asked me why I was thinking of Gene Ray Ward in the middle of the night and I said I wasn’t. I was trying to remember his name for two whole days and it came to me just now. All of us have had that happen and when it happens to me, I like it. It is like my brain is working on a problem for me while I sleep and that is a good thing. I imagine it as a guy walking through the hall ways of my mind looking in filing cabinets for the answer to the problem at hand. Thomas Edison has been quoted that when he was faced with a problem he would take a 15 minute nap and many times when he awoke he would have the solution.
I read an article one time and the author talked about a sixth sense that we all have and that is what he was talking about. He said that when we want something in life and we start to think about it our brain starts to work in that direction. That is why it is so important to think positive thoughts and think about our goals and why we can reach them instead of why we can’t. When we have a goal and we think about it first thing in the morning and the last thing at night and as many times as possible during the day, we are starting the machine in motion. Ideas start to come to life out of nowhere that will help us achieve our desired results.
Listen to this. It bothers me to waste anything. Like when you buy food and you don’t eat it in time and it spoils and goes bad, that bothers me. I think I shouldn’t have bought it or I should have given it to someone that could have used it and that way it wouldn’t have wasted. So the other day I go to get a banana at my house and your guessed it they are almost black. I like bananas, I like ripe bananas but I don’t like black ones. During my life I have thrown away a lot of bananas and the other day when I am sitting in my kitchen looking at black bananas it dawns on me. Instead of buying six or eight bananas in one bunch I will buy two perfect bananas, two slightly green bananas, and two completely green bananas and that is my new plan. I am not enjoying perfect bananas all the time and happy to say no more waste. A great idea like that came to me while I was looking at black bananas. I should have been doing that my whole life, but I never ask my brain for help until the other day. We can look at something that bad and tell ‘I would like to do something about that’ and our brain starts working on the solution. Hopefully it is something greater than black bananas, but I’m still proud of that idea. The next time you go to the super market and you pass the bananas, stop to get two, two and two and think to yourself, that Walt Woodard is a smart guy.

Until next month,
Thank you for your time.

Walt Woodard