# Daily Reminders – What's Yours?

Source: https://geoffblades.com/daily-reminders-whats-yours/
Published: 2010-10-28
Updated: 2019-10-11
Author: Geoff

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**People often tell me that I live a fascinating life**.  It’s strange to hear because to me it just feels like my life. It’s a response that speaks to the human trait of adaptability**.** **Physically and mentally we are highly adaptable creatures.**  As a species, we are able to adapt to almost any climate, food source, and raw materials necessary for surviving, and indeed in most cases, thriving.

As individuals, **our bodies are highly adaptive.**  Consider one simple example, walking.  The physical movement, the sense of footing and balance, the adjustments, etc. **Each step an adaptive physical process we call walking.**

**Mentally we are [even more adaptable](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity).**  Consider for instance the **mind’s ability to affect physical performance,**say through the activity of mental rehearsal.  In this case, a weight-lifter can’t think more muscle, but by harnessing his mind he can think more strength.  **Mentally, we adapt all day every day** – constantly processing new information, circumstances, decisions, people, thought processes, whatever.  **Our minds and bodies are literally and physically continuously adapting.  **

Adaptability has **massive benefits but requires some [Attention](http://www.geoffblades.com/main/2010/10/21/there-is-no-such-reality.html)**.  It’s this adaptability that enables humans to keep pushing forward.  As a species, it’s what got us from the **farms to the factories and exploring the seas to exploring the galaxies.** As individuals, it’s what gets us from achieving our goals and resting on our laurels to choosing new goals and pushing forward – what **took Eminem from Refill to Recovery.**   Adaptability also helps us overcome adverse circumstances – deaths, failure, etc. – and to survive and thrive in a world of constant change.  **But, the cost of all this wonderful adaptability often comes in our failure to appreciate what we have, when we have it.  **

And what’s the point of all this pushing forward – as a species, as individuals – if we can’t **appreciate what we have at each point in time that we have it**?  From hot showers to iPods to freedom.  And what’s the point of all this adaptability **if we don’t appreciate what we had to adapt for?**  To grow. To achieve something. **My life is fascinating because****I have the time and financial flexibility to explore my passions.**  I’ve adapted to it.  My daily reminder is to appreciate it.  **What’s your daily reminder?**