TAKE A HARD LOOK, THEN ANOTHER

The last tine I took a hard look at anything my brain logged in.

Is it important?

Did it matter?

Should I care?

What to do about it?

The answers:

If something is important to you, you know. You don’t have to be told, or reminded.

Let’s say you’re on a weight loss journey.

Do you tell everyone you’re going to lose five pounds?

Get ready for:

Don’t do it. You look fine, your clothes fit, what’s the problem.

Then you look at pictures of your past when you thought you were a big load, but you weighed more than you do now and still look slim?

The reoccurring loop you hear in your mind is wrong.

Maybe you were fat then, but you remember being oh soooo huge.

Except you weren’t much different than now.

So to ahead and drop a few pounds just for you.

It’s not a journey as much as side road away from buffet.

 

When Hair Gets The Business

Your hair is too long, too short, too thick, too thin.

Remember, it’s hair, just hair.

If you get too wound up in your look you may need to see a ‘hairapist.’ (Hey Debbie)

You see a lot of old guys around, baby boomers for the most part, sporting their thin greasy ponytail and spotty beard.

Is it a good look for them? For anybody?

Every time I see someone looking like I might if I didn’t keep up? Shave and a haircut.

Oh, I’l love to grow a mane and an Old Testament beard. Maybe carry a few tablets.

Then I spot that one influencer who looks like they just rolled out from under a bridge and what do you know, change of plans.

What gets me are guys who shave their melon when they have a full head of hair.

Instead of a combover, they go shiny, and every bald guy hates them for it.

‘If I had that hair I’d never do that.’

Somehow we all manage to move through life with our dinky-do and mop top.

Could we do it quietly? Apparently not.

 

Old Man Look At My Life I’m A Lot Like You

Once we age up things are supposed to come into better focus.

At least that’s what I read somewhere.

Do boomers have better focus now than they did in their youth? Do you?

I remember hearing that the young people in the 70’s would never match their parent’s lifestyle.

Millennials are hearing it now.

Maybe it’s a motivational thing?

More likely it’s a choice.

Who really wants to duplicate their parent’s lifestyle?

Our parents were Great Depression kids.

Did they want their parents hardscrabble life? Noooo.

My parents, along with my wife’s, didn’t want anything to do with living that life.

The old man moved out of the blue collar life he grew up in to a white collar career with a company car.

My in-laws were English and served in the Royal Navy during WWII.

Their prospect afterwards found them leaving their homeland for better opportunities.

And they found them, first in Canada, then Ohio before moving to California after one winter.

No matter where you are in life, take a hard look.

Would education make a difference? It did for my dad.

Would moving to the other side of the world make a difference? It did for my in-laws.

What’s your play? Do something, do nothing, or just enjoy the day?

 

PS:

If you’re a do nothing person, is the day as enjoyable?

How about if you’re maxed out and over-scheduled? Still having a good day?

Where’s the sweet spot?

 

PSS:

There’s always something to do. Your attitude toward doing or not is the big difference.

Why not now? Why not you?

Go ahead and choke down the fear and worry and go for it, unless it’s a lifelong dream of bungee jumping or skydiving.

You’re going to do that with the fear and worry and still be fine?

Take your chances, daredevil. (Hey Al)