When is it time to pack it in and work at Wal-Mart?

Pelorus said:
Every day I say to myself: I gotta outlast Gu.
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Not much has been serious in this post...but this is a serious comment.

Set goals!! That is what works for me to keeps me motivated. I write then down and try to achieve three goals a year. Can be whatever you want. I find that having goals keeps me motivated, engaged, and always pushing myself. Also...it helps me to look back and see what I have accomplished and what I can accomplish in the future.
But also do what others have said and take some time off, get a massage, eat some ice cream and take a long walk in the woods. Problem is might just be time to hang it up and move on. You will now what that time it.
 
JeffGu said:
How can you do all that at the same time, and still push a wheelbarrow with a body in it?

But you're so right... you gotta relax! Right now, I'm so relaxed I'm almost catatonic and the bottle still isn't empty.
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Two man job clearly. You like digging all by yourself?

As long as a cooler fits in the wheelbarrow as well it's all good in the hood. On special at Wal-Mart I believe.

Coolers and wheelbarrows that is. Not hooker corpses. That's just weird.
 
JeffGu said:
How can you do all that at the same time, and still push a wheelbarrow with a body in it?

But you're so right... you gotta relax! Right now, I'm so relaxed I'm almost catatonic and the bottle still isn't empty.
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Why use a wheel barrow? Thats what we have chippers for.

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Either watch the YouTube video or listen to the podcasts:

Jocko Podcast #90 - Travis Mills

Jocko Podcast #92 - Rob Jones

After listening/watching you will be compelled to get your shit together, get out there and get "it" done. There are no excuses, when viewed from the lens of these two warriors' life circumstances.

To further augment your improved perspective, get and read Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win

"There are no bad teams, only bad leaders." - JW
 
But in all seriousness I think all younger than you could benefit from training from a well rounded season pro.

But either way, I hope you find that feeling again in whatever/all that is out there for you
 
Limb It said:
Thats what we have chippers for.
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Yeah, but then you're spending all your relaxation time trying to scrub DNA evidence out of the chipper. I like a gasoline powered earth auger and a chainsaw. Easy cleanup and smaller chunks. Meander down the path, whistling a happy tune and saying, "Time to feed the bears!" to the tourists. They wouldn't know pork from pussycat if it didn't have a Walmart price tag on it.

But, when your job or your hobbies get to where there's no love in it, anymore... move on to something else. What's to worry about? Pension? Health insurance? They're going to steal that shit from you, anyway.
 
:) thanks Tim.

I don't think this necessarily addresses all of the issues presented in the original post. But when I first got myself free of pain I realized all of a sudden that it had been so long since I had felt no pain that I had actually forgotten what it felt like. Pain for me clouds all of life and takes so much away.

So the easiest access to a snapshot of how to get out of pain induced by the daily living of life that I know of is found in the book Somatics by Thomas Hanna. In 43 pages he shares five stories of people who got into pain and dysfunction by various means, what brings that about and how to get out of it.

Also in those first pages is a section entitled, The Myth of Aging. Every time you hear someone repeat how tough it is to get old, how repetitive use of a muscle causes it harm etc. you can bet they are not aware of these simple principles to take their muscles back to the natural pain free resting state they are meant to enjoy.
 
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Might better then Walmart maybe they'll let ya roam the streets and give ya a car!!


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Pelorus and Guy could get together and build some kind of arborist training program to churn out decent, employable tree workers. I don't know how that would work, but if you guys could figure it out it'd do the world some good.
 
I took Merle's book recommendation from a pain thread a while back and it was a great read. I will send my copy of Somatics to anyone interested, it is simple enough to memorize, but brilliant. Thanks for putting it on here again, Merle, this community really needs to understand that the "wear and tear" can be undone. Self care is so vital to everyone's health and fitness, but almost always half-assed or ignored completely. I would prefer working with a fully rested, well-fed, non-stressed noob over the best over-worked, burned out, unhealthy arborist around.
 
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