Category: Please don’t tell me

Generational DNA

Breakfast meeting notes written on the back of this paper wrapper for the napkin/silverware bundle.
So much power, so little space.

Generational DNA.

Met yesterday with a business owner, fellow High School parent, and an ambitious, insightful, and hopeful middle-aged man.

He developed and teaches entrepreneurial studies to high school students locally and nation-wide.

His conclusion is that teens are frightened, insecure, and literally paralyzed by their fear.

Further, he believes their ability to take in-person risks (not social media risks) is catastrophically (my word) low.

He theorized this phenomenon is the result of the first parental generation to raise digital natives.

Because this is a first-in-our-world’s-history, it will take a generation or two to correct any massively detrimental generational habits.

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Harness your distractions

Humans are easily distracted. Photo: Tee-shirt design at Disney’s Emporium store on Main Street.

Harness your distractions.

What?

Know what they are and send them to your spam folder, then delete.

Repeat daily.

Additionally, know your superpowers and use them generously.

Gratitude, forgiveness, kindness, compassion, surrender, faith, hope, creativity, focus, discipline.

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Sticks and stones may break my bones

Do words matter? WordPress meetup last night. Presentation by Matthew Montoya from Constant Contact email list services.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

This was a phrase i learned as a child because children make fun of each other by calling out names like sissy, nerd, faggot, privileged, fat, stupid, ugly, etc.

The words we use when we talk to ourselves matter. Your words can encourage you. Your words can hold you back.

You have to decide what to do with this information.

Super excited about the powerful and intentional choices you make. Rock on!

You were born for greatness.

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Three ways to lean into discomfort

Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year old Claudette went to jail for not giving up her bus seat, which was the comfortable practice so white bus riders always had a seat. (It’s sickening to imagine our Country was this way and white people were comfortable with it.)

Three ways to lean into discomfort:

  1. You are forced to
  2. Someone helps you
  3. You self-initiate

Comfort equals stagnation.

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Truth and not truth

Truth and not truth.

None of us wants other people telling us what we should or shouldn’t do.

Especially when we were teenagers and adults (parents, teachers, coaches) could, and were expected to, tell us what to do.

And yet.

And yet there have been others who cared enough to share a blind spot i never knew i had.

Of course this is painful.

And once we get past the pain, we are free to transform as we move toward our next birthday.

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