If you had to go a summer day with only one, would you rather be without running water or air conditioning?
Which One?
Category: Day To Day
Day To Day Grind
Day to day stuff. The miscellaneous, but critically important details we need to attend to day in and day out. If we don’t, we get behind, and eventually, we may get buried by our workload.
I know this well. Can’t recall the last time I had nothing to do. Every day, there’s a dull, but heavy pressure to do all the stuff that needs doing. It never ends. It never should end.
Today, in addition to the usual prayer requests, I’d like to add anyone dealing with a particularly heavy, and horrible situation today. There are many of you fitting this description. In particular today, however, I’m responding to an email that came through late last night.
Pray for Peace in her Soul, Joy in her Spirit, and Love in her Heart. And not only for her, but also for her entire Family. Transport to deeper message.
How Was Your Day?
Were you insanely busy today?
Were you frustrated at the volume of your work? The pressure from your deadlines?
Did anything cool happen? An unexpected nice thing?
What’s keeping you afloat right now? Where do you get your strength? Your hope?
Are you a leader in this regard? Or do you rely on others?
Are you ready for tomorrow? You know why I’m asking, right?
Because tomorrow will not wait for you, nor me, to be ready. And neither will the day after that.
PS. Today’s second post. (9:30pm Orlando time)
Ever Notice The Names?
Two days ago, stopped at an intersection, the car in front of me had a bumper sticker that caught my eye. We all find ourselves reading funny ones, crazy ones, inspiring ones, and sometimes offensive ones.
If you click on this photo, it’ll enlarge and it reads:
- WILDCAT TERRITORY – BEWARE
We see names like: Wildcats, Bulldogs, Warriors, Rockets, Fighting Irish, Rams, Raiders and other assorted “power names”.
You know what we never see on High School “Team” bumper stickers? The Bunnies, Chicks, Duckies, Wildflowers, Snowflakes, Gumdrops.
Culture is what people think and do, without thinking.
What if we started to think a bit differently about bumper stickers, names, habits, confidence, tough decisions?
Real Time Blogging
How does your day start? Do you have routines? Are they working well for you, just okay, or are they a disaster?
Routines can set you free, and they can also poison you. Figuring out how to live well is your responsibility, and there is no one right way.
Hard work and tough decisions. One of the many challenges that being alive brings as a prerequisite. We can never give up.
Here’s the catch though, figuring this out and living well, based on intuitively good morale principals, leads us to a better place than if we don’t make tough decisions.
For well over a year, I’ve been writing five daily blogs. Website traffic has steadily increased, with occasional spikes. But this past week has been confusing. The spike has been significantly higher. It reminds me that it takes a long time to become an overnight success.
And that if you’re not careful, it will arrive before you are ready.