Pay It Forward is about duplicating the intent of the favour, like thinking about helping others first before business requires control.  Giving away trade secrets or days of your time is less what Pay It Forward is about than simple things like plain talking to troubled workers long before they quit, long before any demand for your attention appears from no where.

In my lifetime, family members and better managers saved by hide more than once on  deadlines.  Ever since, I try to be like them when talking to neices and nephews.  I would sooo like to prevent them from making my mistakes...career mistakes, workaholism, financial, not maintaining licensing...thinking long term at age 20 something.  I am reminded of a couple of close Italian immigrant parented wealthy friends who grew up fixing their cars, saving accounts built since age 20+, engineering careers built on prudent career decisions.

ToolsToLife is like the writing habit that I MUST have to repay those memories...MUST not a big enough word to make it a habit...so far...need to see progress one day at time.

Sounds extreme, I guess, but I have started an EXCEL log of daily checklist...seeing is believing, is progress...still needs work.

story2, if that is OK?

Sometimes habits are accidents.  My endless TV habit was fixed by a $12. wireless audio headset that turned out be worth much more than expected...audio quality and stopping my TV habit.  Because I want to save batteries and the length of the TV setting process, I actually turned the TV set off after favourite TV program...seeing the effect of work without the TV set in the background is unepected evidence for replacing my TV habit with way more valuable "entertainment".  SO I need to trick myself into writing something every day...NEXT story...?

Thanks for posting

GT

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