Doubtful, home

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This is such a remarkable milestone, here’s a second “completed” photo.

Doubtful there will ever be a desire to lower our standards.

What standards?

The ones we have for the community we live in.

Between the Orange County Code Enforcement guidelines and our Property Owners Association’s specific, uncomplicated, and modest requirements, the standards (when enforced) are all anyone needs to live peacefully. Respectfully.

Doubtful any community will ever see 100% respect and compliance.

Note: We have long been planning for a creative middle-ground. Life is good, even when it’s not excellent. Thank you Universe.

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A blinding flash of the obvious

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Life comes with few guarantees.

 

Life comes with few guarantees.

Trusting your gut isn’t 100% fool-proof.

Sometimes our gut is wrong.

It’s rare.

But it happens enough to tempt us to play it safe on the really big things.

Shedding material things that clutter our home offers a rare freedom from attachment.

Fear is an attachment to people and things.

Taking risks is risky, so is playing it safe.

Experiment with reducing, recycling and reusing stuff that you are emotionally attached to but may never (ever) use.

 

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Dear doubt

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From a lunch meeting yesterday.

 

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Last evening on the Peoplemover.

 

Dear doubt,

Why you even cross my mind anymore is crazy.

Crazier still, i think about you nearly every day.

There must be something wrong with me.

 

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Caught off guard and learning a lot about myself

Seth Godin quote
Do what you fear and the death of that fear is certain.

 

One door opens, another closes.

Finding a project manager was a blessing. This opportunity produced a new website, some sales sheets, and some logo samples.

Dear Son you will find that opportunity sometimes creates challenges, as surely as challenges often create opportunity.

This is my first experience were opportunity has created a scenario that is stretching me in unexpectedly uncomfortable ways.

The upside? It helped me see how high my expectations are and how patient i need to be while discerning these:

  • Pay by the hour
  • Pay a salary
  • Hire a replacement

It frightens me that i may be the issue.

It gives me solace that i am a good and decent person, leaning always to the more-than-fair side of things.

Meanwhile, i am graciously transitioning from paying a monthly salary in advance of any work being done to paying two-weeks in advance of any work being done and then moving to a traditional practice of receiving a work-completed invoice – for review before paying.

Seems more than fair.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

For everyone in doubt, especially myself

For everyone in doubt, especially myself.

 

THE GAP by Ira Glass from Daniel Sax on Vimeo.

Just yesterday, i took a giant step.

Giant steps only happen after hundreds – more like thousands – of small, normal steps have been taken.

The long way is the short cut.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

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