The daily grind. It either wears you down or polishes you up.
It’s You Tube Sunday, and here’s my 12-second clip from Joshua Tree National Park – “Why we get old”.
Listen carefully for the fundamental reason.
It’s totally within your control.
(scroll down for yesterday’s post or jump over to Mind blog)
Is More Better?
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This Longfellow quote came to me in a most unusual way. A piece of mail from Senior’s First, a Central Florida charity to help seniors who can not help themselves.
But what is so powerful is recently, I was talking to someone about what happened on Christmas day, while we where doing our 11th annual Christmas day tradition – delivering Food for Families.
The month before doing the same thing on Thanksgiving day, we had a van full of food, and got lost, spending several hours making deliveries.
But on Christmas morning, as we pulled away from Ocoee High School, Cheryl said all the deliveries were on the same street. We found the street in about 15 minutes, delivered the food and were done.
Cheryl asked if we should go back and do more.
And I said, “No. We shouldn’t let the amount of time determine the value of our efforts. We should feel good about what we did to help.”
And so it goes, the constant battle to listen to society’s stereotypes and what’s in our hearts.
Hotdog?
Being the Internet’s only Five-a-Day Blogger, there is a certain feeling of, well, it’s hard to describe.
It’s like finding yourself in a place you never dreamed of, but if you did dream of it, you’d think it would be:
Well, after writing 1,500 posts in the spontaneous, same-day format, I can’t stop myself.
In fact, some days I do need to stop myself.
Why?
Because I want to write more than one post per blog. “That would be too much for the Internet community to read”, I think to myself.
And then it occurs to me, “What if it’s not?”
That’s today’s message. As you are nearly two weeks into your new year, “How are you doing with your impossible goal?”
Read My Lips
Didn’t see that one coming did you?
Yesterday’s post I mean.
Live, Laugh, Learn, Leave a Legacy!
Carpe diem!
It’s 100% up to you.
Trust me on this one, this one is actually some of my best work, if you can call One-Take-You Tube videos work.
Makes me laugh, because I just turn on the camera and start talking. No idea what I’m going to say. No editing. Just a One-Take-You Tube video.
Just to clarify, yesterday’s post was funny. In fact, it’s still funny.
But this is more funny:
Guess it’s not more funny, and what is “more funny” anyway. Sounds stupid.
Are You Serious?
Comedians are funny.
America’s Funniest Home Videos are funny.
Kids Say the Darndest Things show is funny.
Bloopers are funny.
Being serious is funny.
Huh?
Yes, being serious is funny. Remember the cartoon Walt Disney did so well back in the 1930′s, The Three Little Pigs?
Remember the one Pig that built his house with stone?
Pretty funny when the big bad wolf came and he huffed and he puffed and he blew the other houses down.
Now that’s funny.
What’s not funny, is that scene and this blog post may have been lost on ignorant, ill-prepared people who pawn themselves off as adults.
It's Who You Know
Heard this phrase the other night, probably on the TV as I was walking though a room, and I wrote it down.
“The art of compromise.”
We can take guesses as to what this means, or we can simply make up our own meaning. That’s what I did, and came up with five different ways:
The comment’s intent targeted the Senators power to say “no” to President Obama – relationships and the passing of President Obama’s Health Care Bill.
Some Senators held their vote until they got a really good deal for their state. This had people debating it’s fairness, and the Senator’s enormous power to say, “No.”
At the end of the day, it’s really about relationships and who you know.
Or maybe, just maybe, it’s about who you no.
Bigger?
“Never let your memories be bigger than your dreams.”
Did You Check The Oil?
Transforming oneself is an elusive goal.
Hell Heck, most people don’t even consider doing it. Well, most people do, until we realize how much it’s going to cost.
And it’s at this very moment when a 1971 Fram Oil Filter campaign slogan comes to mind, “You can pay me now or pay me later.”
The reason getting started on your life changing transformation is so important is because, well, you simply have to start.
Then, the tricky part. The part most people can’t handle. Never stopping.
Bob Dylan, the folk-pop-rock icon of the 1960′s and 1970′s once said, “He who’s not busy being born, is busy dying.”
And the longer you wait, the more it costs.
Editor note: These conversations are always to myself. If it strangely sounds like I’m talking to you, it’s merely a coincidence.