Life is hard and will continue to be challenging

Letter to Santa
Write what you wish for to yourself, not Santa. Photo: Yesterday at Orlando Ritz Carlton.

 

Life is hard and will continue to be challenging.

Good luck with that.

It’s your sole responsibility to lead your life-time efforts.

If you aren’t working hard to mitigate (possibly even eliminate) the steady influx of unexpected challenges difficulties opportunities, you are slowing and surely being beaten down.

Keep fighting.

PS. Happy birthday Walt Disney (December 5).

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Classic rethinking, reprioritizing and recommitting

delivering food for families
Yesterday 8:00am, Thanksgiving Day 2017, at Ocoee High School.

 

delivering food for families
Volunteers line up to have their vehicles loaded with boxes of food.

 

delivering food for families
Driving directions are printed up – one page for each Family. We received eight pages.

 

What began as a yet-to-be Father’s vision to do something to give back to those less fortunate – as a Family (with children) – has continued for 18 years.

Cheryl was not yet pregnant with our Son when we first volunteered on Thanksgiving 1999.

Miraculously – and at the time we didn’t know – Cheryl was pregnant when we returned a month later for Christmas Day deliveries.

And even on Easter 2000, we were still four months away from our Son’s birth.

The odds of us doing this three times a year, for 18 consecutive years, was a long-shot at best.

Something about serving less fortunate neighbors on days when American tradition has us focus on our own Families – this felt like something worth starting.

As we struggled to become parents from 1992 – 2000, we began shedding things that no longer served us.

Classic rethinking, reprioritizing and recommitting.

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Why we do what we do mentally

Atlanta airport
The treadmill of life at Atlanta airport yesterday.

 

Why we do what we do mentally.

When it comes to your attitude, only you can answer and defend your why.

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Nothing is Impossible

Home office bookshelf
Context. Bottom shelf: Christopher Reeve book (left) and framed Time magazine photo (right).

 

Christopher Reeves
Focus.

 

Nothing is Impossible.

First photo, bottom shelf, one of Christopher Reeve’s books.

Second photo: Time magazine cover. His life changed in an instant while riding a horse – paralyzed from the neck down.

The book (pictured on the shelf) is entitled, Nothing is Impossible, is his second. The first is, Still Me.

After the Equestrian accident, his wife, Dana, had to convince him that he was still Christopher Reeve.

She’d say, “You’re still you.”

The second book speaks to his goal of being the first quadriplegic to walk.

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Is it worth your defense?

disney attention to detail
Tarnished (attitude).

 

disney attention to detail
Polished (attitude). The difference is metaphorically dramatic.

 

Holidays and year-end work stuff challenge us in ways that are gold-medal stressful.

Is it worth your defense?

What?

Your attitude?

Is it worth defending?

If it is, or if it isn’t, you’re in charge.

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