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Total posts?
Since March 2009, 1,152. From five daily blogs, by the way.
Not bad for a guy who simply wants to “leave a trail” for his young (9 years old) son.
And, oh yeah, one other thing. Not bad for a father that wants to help raise enough money until a cure is found for his son’s incurable disease.
Hopefully, you’ll never tire of hearing about this. I don’t. How could I?
Benchmarking. Seeing, not how others do things, but more importantly, seeing how others think.
I am a serious bench-marker. Way more than the average bear.
There will come a time when my (five) blogs have more sophisticated features. All good things take time. Rome wasn’t built overnight. I didn’t wake up one day and get to represent the United States at the WMA Master’s Track & Field World Championships. It took a decade.
Anyway, this blog caught my eye because of Trent’s 14 Money Rules. Click here to go to Trent’s blog. Scroll down a bit, its on the right side column.
Money, like our mind, body and spirit, need constant attention, otherwise we will not reach our potential.
Morbid thought or inspirational thought?
Inspirational thought!
Why?
Because when we realize that tomorrow is not guaranteed, perhaps we will put more focus on today.
Looks good on paper, but is incredibly elusive. The whole “live in the moment” thing is very challenging to do.
Have you ever tried it? I mean, day after day, after day. Month after month, after month….
“To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know”. — jeff’s friend
Said another way: “Common sense needs to be common practice”. – jeff noel
Otherwise, it’s like we don’t even know what common sense is.
Yes, this is painful to admit. Yes, it’s not easy to apply common sense. Yes, our lives will become better (not perfect) if we apply more common sense to our lives. Yes, it’s completely up to us. Always has been. Always will be. Carpe diem!
I’ve had this article for ten years, given by a friend. The author is unknown. Here it is in it’s entirety:
The question remains, despite all the work and inquiry of the researchers discussed in this column and countless others: How can we build committed, competent people and workforces?
I received the following as a handout at a class I attended; the author is unknown. Because these reflections give me solace, I am sharing them.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time information school called life. Each day in this school you will have opportunities to learn lessons. You may like the lessons, or you may think they are irrelevant or stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, of experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately work.
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. There is not better than here. When your there has become here, you will simply obtain another there that will again look better than here.
7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
jeff here again. How was that for the first installment of “Too Long Tuesday”?