Break The Monotony

Good Morning! A simple greeting that is said out of reflex for most people every single day. I have always tried to say good morning with honesty and sincerity. It is the first impression that you give the people around you every day. I have known many people who just say it out of habit and you really feel like they could care less about giving you a smile and a wish that your morning be good. But I digress.

Ever since being diagnosed with my sleep disorder, I have tried to do things that can keep me from getting sleepy as well as things that wake me up. I have found that waking up is a difficult thing for most everybody. I now understand that the rutt that I find myself in from day to day adds to my feelings of sleepiness. The more routine things become, the more unable to feel awake and alert I become. In order to change things up I try to do something different each day. Today, i am writing this at a way earlier time than I would normally do and I have switched up the order of what I am going to do this morning. Unfortunately, my commute can’t vary all that much.

I also find myself getting frustrated with the routine of the folks around me. It is like clockwork. I get here at about 7am and the guys that get here before me are talking about one thing or the other. They mostly have a negative spin on things and I have to fight to stay positive. Not what i am looking for first thing, but I don’t expect them to motivate me. Here’s the thing, I break things up a little bit everyday and it is working almost as well as the prescription medication I had. Go figure.

Failure Is Not An Option, Really?

Failure is not an option! This is a mantra that many of us have used in the passed. I will not accept anything other than success. It is a motivational thing that kept me and many others on track and for many years i felt that to be true as I worked through school and jobs and marriage and children. On the scale of raising children, being a failure is not acceptable. I will not and cannot fail my kids. On the other hand, the only way to fail as a parent is to not take the time and make the effort. I am not always right and I make wrong decisions but is that failure when I make a decision that doesn’t exactly turn out the way I planned. I am, of course, not considering life and death type decisions. Those decision need to be on a whole other level and thank goodness I have not had to make that many of them.

I have recently come to the realization that our society has taken a motivational saying and changed the entire culture from the top down. Our Education system is being redesigned in order to not allow anyone to fail. The bar is set so low that the system does not have a failure option. The bailouts! How many time have I heard that whatever the industry is to important to fail or to big to fail. That really makes me wonder why the bankruptcy system is even in place.

What I am getting to is that I have changed my mind on the “failure is not an option” mantra. From now on I think I will go by a new mantra and I hope as many people as possible, including businesses and government that make tough decisions every day. Try and remember that those who you are leading are looking to you for guidance and depending on you. In that, I hope we remember –

“Failure is an option, consequences are not.”

Happy MLK Day

At this point I am completely frustrated with everything going on around me. My car is getting a $1700 repair. My wife has sent me to the doghouse. I finally got around to helping my daughter use her iTunes card and of course I have to convert the format into mp3.

But then I remember. Today I am not at work, which in itself gives it all a positive taste. It is also the day we celebrate a great man who led to a more equitable society, I think. All I know is that I got the day off and instead of honoring two of the greatest men in American history, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, as we did when I was in school we get to honor a civil rights activist that gave a really good speech. I am not trying to diminish the accomplishments of the civil rights movement. I am just wondering if this PC Holiday needs to be reconsidered as fairness day or everybody gets to share in everything equally day. Maybe it is because that day has not come yet.

I am a white guy who really wants the African American community to look at itself and fix what is wrong just like the rest of the country did thanks to Martin Luther King Jr. and the rest of the civil rights activists no matter what race, creed, color, or religion.

Happy New Year?

I have been hiding of late. I have not posted anything to any blogs recently. Here’s my reasoning. I was tired. I ust didn’t have the energy to spend on writing stuff down that people may or may not care to read so I just kept it to myself.

I was not out of touch though. I have been more active on twitter, plurk,and facebook do to the increase in folks that I know that are on those services. I truly enjoy interacting that way.

Here are some of the things I have been working on. The 2008 review and 2009 preview for FTH3T. I am thinking about video blogging those since It may be a little easier on me to produce and on those who wish to check it out. We will get a great show up and running this season, and maybe even some others. Ok, so I am back in the swing of things and the holidays are over. Talk to you more later.