Dwelling on the unimportant

Dwelling on the unimportant, stressing on the unintended, and freaking over the unknown, simply doesn't work... and are a bit like lighting a match in a dark room to make sure no one accidentally sprinkled any gunpowder on your bicycle, kept under the stairs, near the back porch, in January.

Actually, some of that wasn't really important, but hopefully, it distracted from any stigma you may have attached to freaking over the unknown

A quick question for you today..

Do you schedule your life or does your life schedule you?

Now before you dismiss this question as silly wordplay, I want you to think about it a little more deeply.

Yes, we all have certain obligations in our lives that demand our time. But we always have the power to choose whether or not those obligations will continue to be in our lives.

In my experience, successful people (whether you define success by money or simply by happiness) choose to schedule their lives - rather than being scheduled by their lives. 

Laughter is the best medicine

A study came out this week that said one out of four American workers is angry at work. And the other three save it for the loved ones at home

When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common:

They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path.

Some People Prefer To Be Miserable Rather Than Risk Being Happy

Deja Moo is the feeling you've heard this bullshit before.

Teachers are paid too much! I'm fed up with teachers and their hefty salaries for only 9 months work! What we need here is a little perspective. If I had my way, I'd pay teachers babysitting wages.

That's right. Instead of paying these outrageous taxes, I'd give them $3.00 an hour. And, I'm only going to pay them for 5 hours, not planning time. That would be $15.00 a day. Each parent should pay $15.00 a day for these teachers to baby sit their children. Even if they have more than one child, it's still cheaper than private daycare.

Now how many children do they teach a day - maybe 20? That's $15.00 x 20 = $300.00 a day. But remember, they only work 180 days a year! I'm not going to pay them for all the vacations: $300.00 x 180 =$54,000. (Just a minute my calculator must need batteries.)

What will teachers say about those who have 10 years of experience and a master's degree? Well, maybe (just to be fair) they could get the minimum wage.

We can round that off to about $6.00 an hour, times 5 hours, times 20 children. $6.00 x 5 x 20. That's $600 a day times 180 day. That's only $108,000.

Wait a minute! There is something wrong here...

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

I have gotten that dreaded furniture disease ... that's when your chest

is falling into your drawers! 

It's a small world after all

I train or more precisely new facilitators come to my workshops to watch and learn, I hope what they should and should not do. Most of the time I hope they see how they should approach the workshop not what they should not do in the workshop. Don came to a workshop I was giving on Personal Planning and at the beginning introduced himself and gave me his card, I glanced at it and put it in my pocket as I had still not quite set up the equipment.

The workshop went well, but it was a bit longer than normal and after Don and went for a coffee, to debrief. As we were talking I took out his card and actually read it. I was impressed, on the card it gave his name and the following information: World Citizen, Educator, Traveller. I asked him and he told me he had taught in China, worked in Africa, and traveled to many, many countries so when he retired he thought he would make this card. 

We had a great conversation about his travels, his teaching experience and the fact he was raised very close to where I now live. The world is small and we all have much in common when we take time to talk and to listen to each other