I read a thread today at the PI community's forums.

A post from a Gal that found 4 hours in her day to devote to her well-being by printing out the threads from the PowerfulIntententions forums and taking them along on her 2-hour commute to work. Awesome move!!

It also brings up some good feelings around a time in my life when I realized what she must have!

This has me knowing now that the creative uses of my time has been one of my single-most precious gifts.

For several of the first years I consider myself tohave been "in business" [read - green, naive, wet behind the ears], I was a high tech specialist on the road for my employer. Somedays consisted of 5 or 6 hours of windshield time to make a service call in a town half-way across the Province.

It was also the time when my first business venturecame along and I was introduced to the gold of listening to audio tapes and to the dynamics and valueof "soaking one's head" in those things that support what one wants to become. I began the process of turfing out the old beliefs and sucking up some new ones that served me better!

I always had an abundance of free materials tolisten to - compliments of my upline at the time - and they turned the hours of boring back-roads driving into an absolute delight!!

I looked forward to hittin' the road every morning and I'd head out the door with my bag of tapes, the player and a large pack of batteries and eventhe latest book from the book-of-the-month subscription, for those times when I'd treat myselfto a nice quiet lunch along the way! I came to callit my "University on Wheels".

I listened to and read from the best of the best inthe field of business and entrepreneurialism for several hours a day, I found that the driving timewas always too short!

Much of my current success can be attributed to those early days of voracious learning...and, 12 years later, I can say, the learning has not stopped and I stillcan't get enough!

Today, I plug my Samsung Digital Audio player into my laptop, which has my large personal library of MP3s of all the CDs I've owned. I upload my player with what I want to listen to for a couple of days, then I unplug and go! It'll even read books to me!My partner and I can plug it into the car stereo and listen together as we drive.

No more bag and player to haul around, and I cancarry my pictures on it, listen to FM radio clearas a bell, store my address book and - don't tell anyone - play a game or two or three! ;)

Sudoku is a latest favorite...

Now, I ALWAYS have fresh and uplifting material to take with me on my walks, in a stylish and snazzy, light-weight hard drive around my neck!!

Some people can do all that and more on their cellphones!!

I LOVE technology...what we focus upon expands, and we have a world of learning at our fingertips, we just need to tool up and be creative to take it in!!

Things can only get bigger and better!

Or is that...smaller and better?!