Tag: Work

Eliminating paper (work)

First time home buyers
First time home buyers.

 

First time home buyers
First time home buyers.

 

First time home buyers
First time home buyers.

 

First time home buyers
First time home buyers.

 

homeowner filing system
Homeowner filing system. Only need to keep the past seven years (2017 – 2011).

 

paperless vendor system
Eliminating paper (work).

 

backyard fire pit
Social security numbers used to be on all important documents. So much burning this weekend.

 

Eliminating paper (work).

Photos include visual evidence of:

Our first home had 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1-car garage (1,100 sq. feet).

That house cost $47,400 in 1985.

Our first mortgage was $45,000.

When mailing our monthly mortgage payment, an extra principal payment of just $52 saved us over $700 in interest.

i burned dozens of paper files from our 35-year marriage’s history.

 

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Reunited after a 30-year absence

luck
Cousin shared a quote i hadn’t heard, so i dictated it and texted it to myself at 6:59am yesterday.

 

Cousins reunion
About 30 minutes later, we parked our bikes to take this photo.

 

We hadn’t seen each other in 30 years and we couldn’t explain why.

Heck, Randy is one of only three cousins i have.

His older brother and younger sister are the other two.

Randy drove from Pennsylvania to the University of Idaho to pick me up and drive me home, via Seattle, Los Angeles, and New Orleans.

True story.

We were 22 years old.

It took a couple days.

 

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Are your steps doomed from the beginning?

Delta airlines napkin
Truth. Keep climbing. Our world needs you. Photo: From yesterday’s flight.

 

Warning, this post is not short and pithy, but the rest of today’s are.

Being in a position to solve important and interesting problems is a privilege.

The only way you find yourself interested in a problem though is if it aligns with your passion(s).

And then there’s…

The first, difficult, and potentially catalytic task for solving an important problem….

Calling it out.

 

This can embarrass and anger people – usually unintentionally.

You know, speaking up about what could be better when no one has a clue right now how to make it better.

Most people sense the world’s America’s biggest problems, take obesity or the divorce rate, for example.

But big issues are easy to ignore.

Why?

Because they’re hard.

So we stall, we wait, and we do nothing.

Before any real work gets started, we convince ourselves we need:

  • Certainty
  • Easy answers
  • A quick fix
  • A guarantee

If we need any of those things, we’re making excuses not to start. The search for quick, easy, guaranteed and certain results will undermine our creativity to begin.

And without the first steps, the next steps, and the ones after that, well, they never get taken.

 

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Fear is out to trick you into mediocrity

Screen shot from Pinterest
Recent screen shot from Pinterest.

 

It just spewed out of my mouth yesterday in the dentist’s chair, “i work seven days a week. i can’t remember the last time i took a day off.”

What would happen if we worked seven days a week for a decade or more?

What if it never felt like work?

We eat everyday.

We pray (hopefully) everyday.

And by pray, i simply mean we give thanks (live in constant gratitude).

Right?

 

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