If I had to guess, I would guess that people who fail are more likely to go on to be successful if they continue. They might learn from their mistakes, but mostly I think touching the bottom or losing everything lets you know exactly how bad the worst really is. And if it isn’t that …
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Tell me what you see
This is a group of sailfish circling a group of sardines: And so is this: They are beautiful and different and beautifully different. You might say something I’ve heard ten times before but sometimes the eleventh time is the one that feels like the first time I’ve heard it. Your perspective matters, and you owe …
Make your bets count
One of the things I like about poker is that the blinds (the mandatory bets) increase as the game goes on. This forces you to think about your stack of chips and your cards in a different way. Your chips will diminish faster as the size of the blinds goes up, and you’ll be forced …
Every color of the rain puddle
We have this kinetic sand toy that came as three primary colors and you mixed those to have a rainbow of six colors. It was beautiful but as the kids kept playing with it, the colors of the rainbow became the color of a rain puddle. Mix everything together and you get brown. Variety is …
What is life?
I was woken up by my 4-year-old kid today at 7:00am. He was at my bedside, “I’m bored. Can I watch TV?” We let him watch TV but I don’t like when he wakes up and watches TV first thing in the morning, like that’s life or something, or what he’s living for and wants …
An opportunity to make everything right
I read an article about the damaging economic effects that COVID-19 is having on businesses like barbershops and salons and the author pointed out that no matter how many haircuts you missed while the haircutters were closed, it took only one visit to the haircutter to make everything right and bring you back to normal, …
One of these days will be the day
My two-year-old will walk over to me and sit down on my lap if I’m sitting on the ground. My four-year-old doesn’t do that anymore. Today, they both skipped their nap. Not even a long drive lulled them to sleep. One of these days will be the day. My kid will get off my lap …
Are you enjoying your blog?
The other day, my friend said, “I’m enjoying your blog.” “I’m not!” I laughed. “Sometimes it’s too much work.” I don’t mind that there are few subscribers. I don’t count the likes on Facebook. I’m mostly writing this for myself and trying to make it helpful for other people too. But sometimes you have to …
It will take longer than you think
Most everything is harder and more complicated than it first seems and lots of things will take longer than you think. But it will happen eventually if you keep on putting in the time and effort. There’s a saying: “We tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in one year and underestimate what we can …
Where do we go from here?
The other day my car was in the shop and needed a new timing belt and we were trying to figure out if it had been replaced at 90,000 miles like it should have been or not. But why? We never got the answer—but we didn’t need it. No matter what the answer was, the …