Is it?
Is today the day you do the thing you’ve been wanting to do, but haven’t found the courage?
Do what you fear and the death of that fear is certain.
If not today, when?
Seriously. Carpe diem. 🙂
Tag: Mid Life Crisis
Try
That’s all we can do really, isn’t it? Try.
Seems simple enough. Just try.
Try to do what?
Try to do your best. To be a good and decent person, using a moral compass as our guide.
jeff noel.org is one of the ways I try to practice what I preach. But you already knew that, right?
PS. (gulp) How do you think I’m doing?
Has The Door Been Opened?
Maybe. I hope so. Ever have something that’s been sort of nagging at you? Something important? Some critical piece of the puzzle?
Me too. And often (not always), what we seek is an opportunity (an ice-breaker) to open the door.
I think it happened last night. Thanks to my wife for being a positive catalyst.
Now it’s up to me to push the door open a little wider. Please pray that I’ll have the wisdom to demonstrate compassion as well as courage. And I’ll do the same for you. Carpe diem.
jeff noel – Blessed & Stressed
jeff noel, blogger, average guy, Father, Husband, teacher, is blessed and stressed after yesterday.
Blessed because I am all those things.
Stressed because I am not all those things.
Yes, my wife and I conducted an excellent Children’s Liturgy of the Word yesterday. Yet stressed, because at the afternoon birthday party, I realized there is a long way to go with helping our son work through his competitive nature.
He actually has a gift. We all do, don’t we?
Some us simply need help unwrapping it. Now, where did I put those scissors.
So I Told Him This
“My goal is to help you”.
Had a “deep” conversation with our son (9) last night. He has several chores he’s responsible for. One of them is daily. This is the one that we discussed last night.
We finished our simple dinner from our screened-in back porch. The sun had set and it was dark outside, with only the light from inside the house gently illuminating our peaceful surroundings.
Conditioning led me to first offer a consequence for not doing what he is supposed to do. Then it hit me, what about a reward for doing it, instead of a punishment for not? We agreed to use both.
Generally, children are conditioned to think, “when you don’t do something you get in trouble”. I reminded him that the goal isn’t to catch him doing it wrong. The goal is grand and noble. And the goal is deceptively simple.
“My goal is to help you”.