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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
The work you do defines you.
And your definition of yourself impacts your attitude.
And your attitude drives your definition of yourself.
And so it goes.
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A short story about “and then I realized”
The people i want to talk to the most almost always get a call, text, or email from me first.
The people i want to talk to the most rarely (almost never) initiate a call, text, or email.
And then i realized this (a long time ago, actually).
But for some unknown reason that i still can’t explain to this day, i felt a nagging guilt about how to remedy this.
Mostly, i felt like it was my place to always be the initiator.
i didn’t like it, and i still don’t.
And then i realized there was never any written or even weirdly implied expectation for me to always go first.
Over the years (decades) i suggested to some of my family and friends that we could set up some sort of schedule to call.
But many of my family and friends never liked that idea for whatever reasons and no process was ever tried.
And by the way, trying something new is only a starting point. A point from which things can be tweaked with input from those involved. Each Family member and Friend may like something a little different.
i’m used to scheduling things because i worked in a career that required me to be organized and to plan ahead in order to get the things done that were the most important.
And then i realized i have a choice that i have never done before. What would happen if i stop calling, texting, and emailing?
And then i realized, i don’t need to feel guilty anymore.
And then i also realized, everyone is OK with this, and i was just making it a bigger deal than it really was/is.
Now I feel free.
And then i realized, i like this feeling of freedom.
If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.
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How crazy is too crazy?
Las Vegas has deeply stirred our Nation’s emotions.
In an effort to manage my attitude, physical health, spiritual wellbeing, work quality, and home karma, i write to process on paper what i cannot find another way to process.
We commit slow personal injury to ourselves, often leading to premature “death” of our attitude, health, spirit, career, and home life, when we do these things day in and day out:
We are killing ourselves so quietly and so slowly, it’s the ultimate assassination.
And to medicate, distract, and entertain ourselves, we pick up our social media microphone and broadcast our (mostly) self-righteous, grand-standing, American values, and blah, blah, blah…
You want to get pissed off and offended about something to the point of taking a stand and taking action?
Address and remedy 1-5 above.
Then, and only then, would it make sense that yours is a voice worth listening to.
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There’s no way you can be positive all the time.
Until you can.
And trust me, you can.
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You’re doing it wrong, Jeff.
Ok.
To which i think to myself, “But at least i’m doing it.”
Why does that matter?
For many, it doesn’t matter.
And then i remind myself i thought that way too.
Then a series of changes happened and i began a long, slow journey in thinking differently.
The aha moment?
Once i’m doing it, i have a chance to do it better.
Life.
It ain’t a dress rehearsal.
Waiting for perfect means not starting.
Not starting, for me, was riddled with excuses.
Using June 8, 2019 as a deadline for life.
Taking an unopened box to Epcot to open it.
Yeah the stuff i have no role model for.
Live like you mean it.
Or not.
Our choice.
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