I’ve been finishing a major project over the last week or so. I’ll be writing more about it in future posts, but first I thought I’d share a lesson learned during the process. During the early and middle stages of the effort, there were a number of times, I thought about details that needed to be done. I kept telling myself that I’d do them later. I thought it’d be easier to work on them all at the same time…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my thinking. Specifically, I’m trying to have more positive thoughts. That’s why an ABC News feature on a German spiritual thinker caught my attention. Eckhart Tolle has sold millions of books and was the subject of a 10-part online series by Oprah Winfrey, according to the network. Tolle teaches people how to “shut off the noise in their heads and be happy,” the article said. In answer to a question from ABC’s Dan…
Since my car died, I’ve started looking for a new one. Well, not a new one. I prefer to get a used car because I drive a lot and new cars lose value quickly when you put a lot of miles on them. So I was looking at craigslist yesterday, focusing on the two areas closest to where I live. I saw a few possibilities, but nothing real promising. Then I decided to look in a region of my state…
My car’s dead. Kaput. Done. Finished. What’s worse is I’ve only had it a couple of months. I bought it after my last car got totaled in an accident last year. It was a good car while it lasted. It just didn’t last long. First the water pump went. Got it fixed. Then the head gasket started leaking. Now it won’t stop overheating. It’s not worth fixing. That’s what the mechanics tell me. It’s been suggested to me that I…
We all need help sometimes. My car has been in the shop more than two weeks, so my family of five, including two teenagers, had to get along with one vehicle. We were managing, but it was challenging. Over the weekend, a friend insisted that we borrow her car. Her family had a truck and a van they could use and she wouldn’t take no for an answer. So for the last couple of days, I’ve been driving a red…
Earlier today, I stopped by the school where my teaches and my three kids attend. When I saw my wife she asked me to take a fund-raising form to my son and tell him that he needed to find teachers to sponsor him if he wanted to participate in a jump-rope event. When I found my son, he initially said it was too late because today was the deadline. Then his teacher said he could still turn in the form…
I’ve been thinking today about how my busyness seems to get in the way of my business. Sometimes I just think I have so many things to do that I don’t get anything done. I was reminded of this watching a clip from one of the morning TV shows this morning. It focused on traffic and included a section comparing how efficiently ants got around to traffic jams on major highways. The ants it turned out, get around much better…
The other day, I was driving my wife’s van (my car’s in the shop but that’s another story) when an indicator light on the dash told me that a brake light was out. A day or two later I went to an auto parts store and got a replacement lamp. How hard can it be to change a brake light, I thought to myself. Wrong. When I finally got a chance to make the change, it was a freezing cold…