“Making friends and uniting communities one assumption at a time.”
Good day gamers,
- I just started another Through the Ages game with Bill and Rich.
- Ginger is learning Horrified, sitting across the table from me.
- Some new streams coming to our LITabletop Twitch Channel. I’ll have more information soon. Right now, don’t forget to watch me every Mon, Wed, Fri at 6:30am here. Give us a follow, so you get notifications. (Note: You can also turn off notifications.)
- Going to cover Kingdomino tonight on my LIVE show at 10pm on the same LITabletop Twitch Channel.
- Working at the Carrier Academy the rest of this week. I hope my postal route customers don’t miss me too much.
Four Agreements: Life is hard. I’ve made a ton of mistakes. Some I regret. However, my life has gotten easier since I read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. You can find his website here. The book’s subtitle is “Practical Guide for Personal Freedom”. The basic concept is we need to try and live by four tenants in order to live mentally healthier. These tenants are not easy and at different stages of your life or in different situations, you may be challenged by different ones. Here they are:
- Be impeccable with your word. I don’t lie often. However, I have not told the whole truth in my life sometimes and it really affects me when I do this. I want to tell the whole truth, but fear the consequences. I have gotten much better over the years with this, but once in a long while, it still happens.
- Always do your best. This one I usually do well with. However, sometimes I really get down on myself saying I could have done more, I needed to do more, I wanted to do more. Sometimes you can’t do more. You are tired, sick, frustrated and need a break. It’s hard work to always do your best and some days we just don’t have it within ourselves.
- Don’t make assumptions. This is the one that is the hardest for me. I find myself projecting all the time. I would assume something I did or said is affecting someone or a situation negatively. Nine times out of ten I find that all the energy I spent worrying about it was not worth it and the situations is absolutely fine.
- Don’t take anything personally. I used to be bad at this. Very bad! I used to take everything someone said personally, as a personal attack and I would defend myself. I’ve mellowed over the years and reading this book helped me with this. I now let 99% of what people say not affect me. I listen, I work towards compromise, I help solve the issue, but I don’t take what is said to me personally. This change in my life has made a dramatic difference.
Anyhow, check out the book if you find what I wrote above interesting. I’d love to hear if you already have read this book and it has made a difference in your life. Send a note to Dave@GameMasterGames.com
Thank you for making it to the end of another Game Master Dave’s Dispatch. Give yourself 100XP and until we meet again, across the internet, keep your beef jerky dry, your daily journals ready and your loving heart strong!
- Game Master Dave
Foxy Joan, “David Dear, Foxes never tell lies. That is why we are the dominant species. Humankind is great, because they have propagated sheep colonies, but where would Foxdom be if we lied to one another. Your fellow compatriots can learn a lot from Foxes.”
Lamby Pie, “Dude…I’m not taking anything personally. I mean, the lady Fox’s comment about sheep colonies? I could think there may be a reason about why she mentioned this, but I’m just letting it wash off my back like a warm Summer rain. Keep up the advancing your life behaviors, my main man. Do you have any fresh greens?”
Snuggle Bunny, “Boo boo, have you seen Chester? I think he was playing in da batroom. I want to show him my new twick of jumping off the stairs.”
Chester, “…”
