Ignorance is not bliss but living in fear doesn’t help either. We have to recognize the numbers, develop a plan, run the play, look back up in a period of time, and make decisions.
by Hunter Marckwardt
Sunday Thoughts Posts
…they asked a guy in a wheelchair a question of “how does it feel to be so confined to this wheelchair”, his response was “I’m not confined to this wheelchair, I’m liberated by it”.
The words of the True Gentleman, for me, is the ultimate guide for what I want to be said about me when I’m gone and how I want to live my life.
Brigitte literally had me in tears. She was just having a conversation with me but she had a look of possibility in her face, and said “no one has ever taught me anything like this in my life”.
By explaining “why”, it minimizes the emotions and forces an attack on the problem at hand, and not the person delivering the info i.e., attack problems, not people.
When I’m strong of mind, or strong of heart, my faith overcomes any fear I’m feeling from the pressure and the mindset shifts to “failure is not an option”.
I’m going to finish typing this, I’m going to get in my car, and I’m going to take my dad for a ride. Yes life can get crazy but we need to keep the irrelevant crap in check and focus on the stuff that matters, which for me has everything to do with honoring the relationships I have with the people I love.
Simple exercise for me, every thought that comes into my brain, push it into 2 categories, is this love or fear?
…and he simply said “I try to evaluate how this decision is going to impact me 3 or 5 years out. Also when you look at the best and worst case scenarios, usually the worst case scenarios aren’t as bad as you think”.
I want to be a buffalo in everything I do. None of us are perfect and it’s easy to slip into a cow mentality in all of our lives but the sooner we can say “I’m going down the wrong path”, or, “I have no path”, that’s when we need to take a moment and switch directions.