Admittedly, my life this year is not routine — not often sticking to a regular schedule. When is bedtime? Why get up at 6:30 AM like our Detroit mission schedule?
However, some daily “baby steps” are like clockwork, done smoothly and easily. Habitually running up stairs, for example, and resting for siesta. Making and receiving phone calls are unlike clockwork, whereas my texting and checking text messages are routinely frequent.
Talking to strangers is a worthy practice discussed in a March 2014 post about my wife Kay’s people skills. Would our society improve if more people overcame the bad “stranger-danger” training kids received decades ago? Unlike clockwork, as an introvert I hesitate to risk bothering people I don’t know, but easily offer “free listening” every day. Let’s smile and say hello to strangers on the street. My Utah client surprised them with love in central London ... like clockwork.
