One of life’s certainties is that you will make mistakes. You can’t stop it. If you can’t stop something, then you accept it. But acceptance isn’t enough. What is needed is learning. We need to learn from our mistakes. What went wrong, and why? You should ask yourself those two questions when you err.
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A Life Certainty: Mistakes
Posted in Life Lessons, tagged life certainty, Mistakes on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
404 Item Not Found – Can’t
Posted in Life Lessons, tagged Life Lessons on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can’t. I have been trying very hard to get this word out of my dictionary. I don’t like it. I don’t want it. It is a silly word that only encourages excuses and negativity. There is nothing you or I can’t do. Can’t limits your potential and your ability. Sometimes other people try to force [...]
Series of Fortunate Events
Posted in Life Lessons, tagged Blogging, Fate on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Fortune favors the bold” – Virgil
I clicked on Wordful after commenting on a post over at Problogger. I commented and started to scan a few other comments. One comment was by Charles Bohannan who linked to his blog Wordful. Here is the post I landed on. After reading that post, I spent an hour [...]
You’re Not as Smart as You Think
Posted in Life Lessons, Relationships, tagged cheating, comparison, needs work, skills, teamwork on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nor am I. We are not as good as we think we are. Most people think they are smarter than the average. Most people CAN’T be smarter than the average. Look at the guy in the desk next to you? Do you think you are smarter than him? Odds are you aren’t. I’m not saying [...]
Your problems don’t matter
Posted in Life Lessons, tagged blessings, complain, problems on December 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While people watching in a mall today, a group of mentally handicap people passed by. I was stricken by a notion that we are the fortunate ones. Our problems, shallow as they are, aren’t really problems. They are inconveniences.
What right do we have to complain? After everything we’ve been given, we have the nerve to [...]
What If
Posted in Life Lessons, Simplicity, tagged Dream, reality on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a teenager, I enjoyed watching 7th Heaven. I still like to watch it. It has good story lines without being cheesy. Eric Camden was the father, and notorious for pearls of wisdom. One of his tenets was to never play the ‘what if’ game.
“We can’t afford to play what if. We have [...]
Knight Kiplinger on America
Posted in Money, tagged economic crisis, knight kiplinger on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago, there was an editorial from Knight Kiplinger addressing his take on how to fix America’s problem, including the economic crisis. He provides a sound layout and foundation for how we can get America back on track. We need more people like him to lay out these types of options for the layperson. [...]
Halfway to 30
Posted in Blogging, Life Lessons, tagged Blogging, Lessons on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my article on October 27th, I set a goal to have 30 articles written before I started to post. This post is the half way point. It’s article #16. And I wanted to write an article about it, even though, by the time it is posted, I will already have reached my goal. It’s [...]
Lessons From Almost Spending $10,000
Posted in Life Lessons, tagged action, Life Lessons, passion, potential on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Passion, plus work ethic, plus good decision making, in your personal life equals W win in the game of life” – Dick Vitale
In early September I went to the Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. It was two days of basketball stars. I went because Patrick Ewing is my friend’s favorite player, and this was [...]
