Focus on the Positive...but Develop from the Negatives

If tracking my time to learn how I spend my time in order to better manage my time takes a lot of time,  is it just an ironic waste of my time?  Could I have better used that time for taking the time to do the timely things I am trying to make the time for in my schedule? (But then I wouldn't have had time to color this chart!)

I wrote this yesterday immediately after the first reports of a potential gunman at Northwestern university.: It wouldn't surprise me if whatever this shooting incident is going on at Northwestern was inspired by these "peaceful walkouts" this morning. Sometimes I think the increasing cases of mass shootings are because of all the media coverage - available on virtually every TV and radio station, news site, and social media platform - inspiring troubled imdividuals to plan their own shooting. All the specific details the media now reports gives ideas to these angry, unempathetic souls, no doubt also motivating some of them by the 15 minutes of fame the news coverage will ultimately give them (something I wonder about since most mass shootings end with the gunman taking their life, leaving him not on this earth to reap in the trauma they caused). Whatever your stand on these issues, incidents like these do give us all the same important message, and no, it is not to be ...