Southerners have some great sayings. One of my favorites is to claim that your day is all catawampus. Who knows where this came from. It is not really a word, although nowadays you can probably find it in a dictionary. It basically means something is askew, or awry. I looked it up, many people believe […]
Perceived Value
Pondering important things today. Was considering this question. I really started to think through of all my physical things, what is the most precious? What is the most valuable to me? What do I add considerable value to? Of course we all go to the intangible things. My family, my faith, my relationships. However, that […]
What is Wisdom?
I think it is rather fun to ponder and reinvent what you really believe the definitions of words are. Take wisdom for example. I have had various definitions for this word growing up. At times it meant “something you hear from an old person.” Sometimes it meant how smart you were, or how good you […]
Seek Habit First
When looking to achieve something, a great success perhaps, then it is imperative that you first seek to establish the right habits before anything else. Too often we try to shoot for the objective, but find ourselves ill prepared. The path to achievement is the process of identifying the correct habits that you need to […]
Not the Event
You know the moment, the runner breaks the ribbon, the athlete standing on the podium, the owner selling the business for buckets of cash, the person setting up at the beach that no one can take their eyes off of. The event. That moment when success is noticed. Here is the interesting consideration, it is […]
Summer of Pre
Over 40 years ago, Steve Prefontaine ran (and won) his last race in front of a crowd on Oregon state’s Hayward field. He never lost a race there and he ran this 5000m in style, just like he always did. He did not do so well at the Olympics, he finished 4th in this same […]
Too Young
When I was 5, the big kids told me i was too young. When I became a big kid, the teenagers told me I was too young. When I became a teenager, the upper class kids told me I was too young. When I got to college, the teachers told me I was too young. […]
Must Stay Hydrated
A while back ago, I blogged about the importance of drinking water. We can worry about all these really important health improvement things, but if we forget to drink enough water, all is lost. We all say it, “I need to drink more water.” Well here is the reality. If you do not stay hydrated […]
Mea Culpa
In Catholic tradition there is a phrase found in what was once known as the Confiteor. This is said during Mass and there is one part of this prayer, if that is what you call it, where you say the phrase mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Nowadays Latin is no longer used in […]
Wrap Up Time
In a perfect world, I would save every file that I am working on, every project I have going on into nicely labeled and organized file folders on my computer or cloud and to do so in nice little categories in the tree structure. However, that is not the case for me. Instead my desktop […]