Category: Dreams

Sleep!

I like to sleep. Actually, I might not really know what sleep is like, but I like the results that it brings – that warm fuzzy feeling when you wake up: relaxed and comfortable. I think what I dislike most about sleep is the fact that it most often is broken by an alarm clock.

From what I hear, there are specific sleep cycles that we each have and that each person operates with differing success based on the quantity and quality of sleep they receive. I’ve heard about scientists who slept 15 minutes every four hours and were able to continue working on things that match their purpose in life. I like that idea – I’d like to learn how to best sleep for re-energizing myself and being the most productive individual I can be.

The other day on LifeHacker.com, I found a link to a BBC science website which allowed me to take a little quiz and to learn about my sleep patterns.

This is one of my dreams – to have the time, and the resources to hire people to help me understand with great detail my natural sleep cycle so that I can have more time in life to do the things that are important to me!

The other thing that I would LOOOVVVEEE to do is to get one of those really really comfy beds with a thick pillow-top mattress and soft but firm pillows. I love the feel of a down comforter, but I may be allergic to down… I’ll have to figure that one out too!

Natural Gourmet Cooking School

Natural Gourmet
I found this video online from the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts. It seems there is a 4-month training for ~$17,000 that potential students.Check out this video:

This definitely is something that I am interested in pursuing – perhaps not from this school, but I love the idea of learning to cook healthy foods for my family, and to learn the fine details of how foods interact & build off of one another.

Aspirations

Last night while we were prepping for the upcoming Go Green event, Bill was recording brief clips of why we decided to start and continue to build our own companies.

I just though to post quickly a list of the things that jumped to mind yesterday – perhaps I’ll come back through later to elaborate on the list.

  1. Retire my mother (or supplement her income drastically to help pay off her debt.)
  2. Support causes close to home: BBBS, local youth programs, outdoor educational programs (WOA)
  3. Freedom: I want to be able to make choices based on the quality of the choice, not the resources I have available. I want to control my schedule and the activities I participate in.

Born Identity

The question keeps coming to my consciousness, and I can’t (in spite of all my self-distraction) make it go away. I don’t really want it to leave, but it’s a moderately scary thought to consider the reality that if I am made, even created, to do something – then I have to put down my fears and concerns and pursue it with all my being.

So, the question…

What am I, Cody James Bennett, meant to do with my life? What was I born into this world to do? If I were to thrill my Heavenly Father, if He could look upon me and say, “there is Cody, my son, in whom I am well pleased.” What would that look like?

I think about the pains in my life and how those pains may be a guide to help me make lasting changes in the world:

  • My father died from alcoholism
  • Raised in a single-parent family
  • Lack of commitment to relationships
  • Schitzophrenia

I see the magic in other people if only I give myself the time to look. Children are a blessing, and so are adults, though sometimes farther removed from the vulnerability of support. How is it that I am breathing life into others? What is it that I live for?

If I were asked (about my self) what I seem to live for, what would I have to answer? What would I like it to be?

Right now, I think the answer would be that I live for nothing inparticular – I from time to time support people & their technology and I go out to play Ultimate, or take pictures, but that I don’t have any single overarching purpose for my life. When I think about it, the thought that immediately comes to mind about what I would like it to be is thus:

I want to be known for living to help other people fulfill their dreams and ambitions in life.

And how do I do that? I help people. I build a business that allows me to reach into other peoples lives and bless them with the resources to do great things.

Hilarity

One thing I look forward to doing as a wealthy man will be to partner with friends to come up with zany pranks for other friends to experience.

There’s the idea of ‘Nessie in the lake, or hearing about the prank traffic stops – it’s just a world of enjoying life and laughing! Sure I’ll laugh at others, but I guarantee when it happens to me, I’ll look at it and laugh at me too!

Here’s one idea I like:

Snow Plow

I would love to have a truck with a snow plow, and the time to visit friends & family to help bail them out of binds… I know it could be a sink of time, but I remember how nice it was to be toiling at shoveling, and to watch someone clear the next driveway over in just a couple minutes.

So far, I can’t tell the variety that I’m interested in, but it looks like Blizzard has some nice ones…

T-Rex, Custom 6×6

T-Rex, Custom 6×6Bill turned me onto the T-Rex back in the 1997-98 realm. He had photos plastered around his shop office, and would wax fantastically about the capabilities that a 6×6 off road vehicle could provide. Today, while I was browsing around, I located a site dedicated to a particular custom-built 6×6, mirroring the T-Rex. With military surplus axles, hummer rims, and two extra wheels, it seems like this truck will go anywhere.

See photos here: http://www.urbansurvivors.com/trex/gallery.asp

One of the dreams I’ve always looked forward to doing is a Hummer/Off-road Safari. I don’t really know the location, but I know it’s not where normal people go in their cool off-roading vehicles. I picture trees, creek beds, ravines, mud, and good times. Over the years, I’ve had friends, and I’ve had foes… Some of them I would like to come along, and others, I’d simply like to invite, with the known intent that it was just to make them jealous and mad that I was able to do something great with my life, while they have pursued the job world and found themselves in a rut.