2.19.2011 more quotes

I really like the following “resolutions” of Ben Huh, CEO, Cheezburger.com:
1) Compromise less on core beliefs. 2) Worry less about the future and concentrate on being in the moment. 3) Focus on the important and outsource the urgent.

I think they’re all worth pondering and pursuing. The last one however, really struck me. It was like the clouds parting and a bright light and voice coming down saying, “hey, THIS is for YOU dummy!” I get caught in the tramp of the opposite ALL the time, especially at work. urgent does NOT equal important, even if it needs doing.

“finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” -emerson

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2.19.2011 quotes

“It is a physical journey, but also one of learning and imagining.” -Susan Viguers, on Clif Meador’s artist book: Memory Lapse

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2.14.2011 spending time with my boys

Playing on the playground with Max, enjoying his excitement over his monkeybar accomplishment, pushing him on the swing, spending the day with Carter, even though he’s been sick, making him a grilled cheese sandwich.

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2.14.2011 happiness is...

My amazing, beautiful wife.
Making her a valentines card.
Spending time with my family.

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2.2.11 reading

reading “drive: what motivates us” dan pink. really like what this book has to say.

listened to a rob bell lecture at greenbelt conference
began listening to randy pausch’s “the last lecture”

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2.2.11 spending time with the boys

enjoyed spending time with the boys yesterday, reading, playing, working on some lego projects and laughing.

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2.2.11 happiness is...

an amazing partner who is often able to fly at a higher altitude than me and help me see that even when our 7 and 2 year old boys are driving me crazy or not doing what i’d like for them to do, that they really are wonderful kids and we have so much for which to be grateful.

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2.2.11 happiness is...

having a great eye doctor. even though he’s in a different city, he was able to squeeze me in and i’m grateful for one good eye (my better one anyway!) that could get there and back safely!

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