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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
How’s your timing, the interviewer will ask, if you are seeking to be a comic. But what about daily living, the whole carpe diem thing? Yesterday was another convincing win for “the harder you work, the luckier you get”.
Fairly little writing was done yesterday, but we did a ton of things worth writing about later, even though we never got more than a mile from home. Two buddies for a sleepover, a great home-cooked meal. But we did miss out on smores by the campfire…
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We’ve all been there. Failure and success. Mostly failure. Right? Luckily we get those occasional victories. Feels good doesn’t it? But why don’t they come more frequently? Is it because we dream too big for our reality?
I guess society provides a smorgasbord of medications to distract and comfort us.
But what about those bases loaded home runs? The rare events in our lives that happen beyond anything we saw as possible. Everyone gets a few of these in their lifetime. Why only a few?
And with those few rare, big victories, there’s the reality of trying to find a humble, grateful way to celebrate those rare moments for as long and profoundly as possible.
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We accumulate so much stuff. So many memories. Stuff we can’t dream of ever losing. Would life go on without those possessions?
I’d grab Jack the Bear, car keys, my cell phone (probably), my wallet (probably), my pocket camera (probably). There’s not much else that seems like it couldn’t be replaced. Nothing that I can think of right now anyway.
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We’ve all been through the exercise: What possessions would you grab from your home if it was on fire and you had only a minute to decide, only one trip out, and only two hands? Let’s also assume your family could escape on their own. What would you grab?
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Going through each day of our lives, we are presented with a multitude of free learning opportunities. I often wonder how many I miss and how others feel about this concept.
Yesterday in North Carolina, in complete casual conversation, I asked a stranger if he had any advice on raising boys, since his boy is almost 18. He said, “Communication“.
He pushed his son so hard in sports that his son started to pull away and retreat – while they we’re together. It was no longer fun for the boy to be with his Dad, during years 12-14.
Duly noted.
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