Everyone needs motivation...

I just remember that Christmas I came home from college where I spent most of the time reading a contract and comparing it to a different version trying to find the differences. My dad had messengered the contract to another lawyer, who signed "it", scanned "it" in, and emailed it back to my dad as a pdf. No biggie right? Except this was in 2001, my dad was a technophobe (in addition to being overly suspicious in general) and he noticed that the last page was slightly longer in the pdf version than his version. He, his secretary, and I spent a long time going letter by letter through those two documents looking for a change in the otherwise boiler plate language. When we compared discrepancies each one of use found one that the others had missed. The other lawyer had changed the document subtlety, but in ways that would benefit his client or even negate the whole contract.

Imagining doing that every day makes dealing with Chicago traffic a breeze.

 

Sometimes just a day or two completely away from trucking or anything to take my mind off it for a couple minutes. A good book or movie

 

I have got to a point where everything is just about paid for. Truck, cars, credit cards... It removes the stress, but still the cost of living and repairs and operations is troubling.

I have a few things that take my mind off of trucking and it lets me forget. Here they are,

Woodworking, Running my Jeep Wrangler through the woods, playing chess(on-line), going to a concert, playing board games with the kids, calligraphy, watching a good TV show or movie, being home almost every night, autobooks on the road. Volteneer for something. Educational reading.

 

I find motivation in reading threads like this instead of ones complaining about the rates and all of the other things about trucking that are mostly beyond my control.

 

My motivation will be my fiance. Though she'll also be the reason I want to get my home time. Being on the road will give her the alone time her PTSD issues need. But we'll have enough together time in between. Plus she'll probably go on some of my trips with me. Once I am solo and not with a mentor.