Tag: Priorities

Ask your Son

Spring Grove HS class of 1977
Seven months official notice.

 

Ask your Son.

Ask your wife.

Odds are decent they’ll tell you to go.

You get a handful of these High School class reunions in a lifetime.

If your son plays football, you’ve no doubt seen a couple dozen games from 7th grade to four years worth of college.

Remember, please, after all, it’s your 40th High School class reunion.

Maybe it’s college homecoming. Or a special tribute to the players. could be an insanely good reason to attend the football game.

Knowing in March that Oct 28th is a conflict between your Son’s college football game and your 40th (you caught that, right, 40th?) reunion, and you’re going to pass on the reunion to attend one of four Fall’s worth of college football games? And let’s assume you’ve already attended a dozen or two High School games, ok?

There’s an opportunity to teach a child about childhood relationships. Attending High School reunions is one of them.

My Mom taught and continues to teach me.

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Sounds like an excuse

vision definition
$3 K-Mart poster purchased in the mid-1990’s.

 

vision definition
Photo of our Son, 2004.

 

Yesterday, Friday, March 17, 2017 (St Patrick’s Day no less) was a glorious Spring Day next to Walt Disney World.

However, we spent 99.9% of it indoors.

One recovering from an overnight/red-eye flight, the other recovering from major middle-of-the-night sleep disruption to make the airport pickup.

Add to that the day-long paperwork task and you have a recipe for not venturing out.

Sounds like an excuse.

Well, truth be told, it was.

Hoping today will not be a repeat.

High today is forecasted for 79.

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He has no regrets and no fear as he lives out his final days

Tampa Bay Hyatt
Out for a run in Tampa Bay.

 

Tampa Bay
Running is a great way to see things you’d never see otherwise.

 

While i’m in the middle of an extraordinary milestone (at least that’s what my boss keeps telling me), yesterday i visited with an 89-year old who has asked the staff that he be taken off the 18 pills he takes daily. They’ve relocated him from his Senior Apartment (two doors down from my Mother-In-Law) to the 24-hour Nursing Home (ten rooms down from my Father-In-Law’s room).

Hospice visits him daily, and he told me he has no regrets and no fear.

We fly home in four hours and i will never see him again.

That is, not unless we both believe in Heaven.

He did share that he’s not sure about all the stuff in the Bible – like “streets of gold”, etc.

 

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Dear Heavenly Father, please help me to never cross the line

Disney Speakers
Walt Elias Disney was not a model of physical health.

 

Until we walk a mile in another person’s shoes, we have no idea what they are going through.

Each night as i floss my teeth, i am reminded that we are a product of our priorities.

Dear Heavenly Father, please help me to never cross the line in using my observations of others to help me shape my priorities.

There are things like disease and accidents that no matter what you do, you may have to fight battles you never imagined.

Not going to “sugar-coat” this. Flossing teeth is tedious, time consuming, and boring.

And so it goes.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

Don’t know what that means?

chipped porch paint
Neglect happens for many reasons, few of which are intentional.

 

Just days away from a new year, many of us are thinking about change(s) we’d like to make. For some reason the beginning of a new year feels like an opportunity to personally begin anew.

We should hold ourselves accountable for our past track record. Celebrate and give ourselves credit if we deserve it. And forgive ourselves and recommit in a different way moving forward if necessary.

rethink • reprioritize • recommit

Every failure or success is directly linked to logical priorities.

Not all of us have our priorities listed logically. Often, emotions over-ride logic. Illogical priorities are not intentional.

Don’t know what that means? Then our first priority is to come to understand it. Yeah, it may be difficult, but until we can articulate common sense priorities, success will elude us.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.