Life is really busy right now. Wait. That’s an understatement. Life is about 2 notches above “I’m getting married tomorrow” busy. I’ve been there – freaked out over last-minute details like getting flowers for when we got home that night, etc. – and this is definitely busier than that.
I’m Guilty, your Honor.
All of that busy-ness due to business and school and marital harmony has my feeling slightly guilty about all of you out there who never see an update from me here. For that, I’m sorry, and I hope you understand. These pages would be full of overflowing ideas, rants, information, photos, musings, and resources if I could capture what my mind thinks and what my eyes see in a given day or week – just doing my work.
What You Can Do About That
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What I May Do About That
I’m kicking around the idea of writing about my living with cystic fibrosis. I do not like the idea of being thought of a “CF person” or a posterboy or being debilitated or handicapped… you get the idea. I HATE what that brings. I am a firm believer that there is a time and a place for people to find out something like that, and it’s not during first impressions. I have that ability and I have that right, so long as I’m not on oxygen at some point or in the middle of a coughing spasm in a store. If that’s the case, well, my cover is blown. As an alternative to writing that here, I may do it for my up-and-coming friend, Ronnie Sharpe in Arizona. You can find him at Run Sickboy, Run. We’ll be talking soon about me doing some guest posts there.
I am also considering changing my theme to reflect my updates on those social sites as well as my posts – and anything else I write – all in one place. That’d be cool, and I just might be able to make some time for that. Someday.
Just because you have an MBA doesn’t mean you can function in society or the workplace. This is from an actual data manager for a company with over 5,000 employees:
“I would like to request that if any shipping is happening for Xxxx programs that you are not aware of that I know is happening, please cc: me on it.”
Huh?! I just wish I had my old company e-mails to dig out more grammatical wonders.
One day at the beginning of February I committed myself to finish Bounce! by Barry J. Moltz because I had to–I’d just been fired. At the time I didn’t think anyone could relate more to his opening chapter than I did because it was as if my story was being told, except the names were changed to protect the innocent. There I was: 30 years old, married just two years, stuck with a brand new mortgage, and kicked to the curb with one month of severance pay to get on my own two feet… if only I could even comprehend what had happened.
I had failed. Failed as an employee (I guess), failed as a husband, and failed as a member of society. I was down in the dumps and later learned that I met more than enough criteria to be diagnosed with “major depression.” The eternal optimist, I started working on projects I had been dabbling on late into the night for friends and clients the very next day. I listened to the book every day, and with each shower, my business confidence grew and seemingly washed away old concerns.
There are so many good “take-aways” from Bounce! that this would be an article rather than a review to go over everything that impacted our life through the experiences and wisdom Barry poured into these pages. Here are the best bits that directly affected my day-to-day life after failure and my increasing confidence:
- Failure is not always your fault. Sometimes things just happen out of your control and there is nothing you could do to prevent, prepare for, or postpone every failure. People move, die, cheat. Companies fold, merge, and take you out. Failure will happen to everyone at some point.
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“Sir, I am sitting in the smallest room in the house.
I have your letter before me. Soon it will be behind me.”
- Voltaire responds to a critic.
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