Persistence like a sledgehammer

Thought of the Day:


“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
Alfred Adler quotes


I was watching a wrecking crew the other day take down an old building. A guy with a huge sledge hammer was swinging the tool in an effort to bring down a wall.

First swing… nothing happened… just a small indentation in the wall…Another swing brought about a crack in the wall…. A couple of swings later… a small hole in the wall…. He could now see the other side of the wall…. A couple of minutes later, the wall which once stood proudly has been reduced to a rubble of bricks and mortar.

The guy scrambles over the pile of rubble that was once a wall and gets set to bring down four more walls.

It made me think as I looked out of my room window pondering the sight below. Surely, this is the way to meet the problems in life ... with a sledge hammer in hand….

I’m not suggesting that you walk around with one…. I’m saying… have an imaginary one in hand.
Sure…. problems can take time to resolve…. But keep swinging. There is no “15 minutes or it’s free” guarantee in solving life’s problems. It takes something called determination. It takes mental fortitude.

As exemplified by the man with the sledge hammer, a once strong concrete wall that once supported the structure of a home can become a pile of landfill.

It takes time.
It takes effort.
It takes working at it.

Attack your problems with the same mindset. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Hey…it will take time but your problem, like the wall…. will soon be nothing more than rubble.
thought du jour

Note about the photo:


Canyon lands out in Utah. You should have been there on the drive. It was magnifent.




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I thought you said that you did love me?

Thought of the Day:

“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”
Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes (Dalai Lama, b.1935)

What do you do when you’ve spent your life trying to do the right thing, only to find out that you were wrong all the while? (It’s an open ended question so feel free to respond)

What do you do when you’ve been alone for so long that your skin just screams out that it’s had enough of being alone/

My skin and soul need a nice cool breeze to blow over the hot desert sand here in Las Vegas. I’ve spent enough time building fences around me heart until I figured that fences were not strong enough…. So I started building a fortress wall and felt quite satisfied until the fortress wall got breached and my heart got broken again….so I built a moat around the exterior of that wall, I built a castle and started wearing full body armor.

Up here behind the secure walls of my castle, I cast a watchful eye for the enemy but it gets lonely sitting here looking out into the far yonder.

As I survey the enemy territory looking for the next possible attack, I lose some resolution….

It’s lonely up here in my lonely tower and I’m considering lowering down the guard door and letting the enemy in.thought du jour




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Looking into my crystal ball…

Thought of the Day:

“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”


So there’s a girl in my new office that looks just like this girl that I talk about in my blog from time to time during my "better days". The same height, the same body…. She's almost a body double. Just my luck!

It made me think of what I used to call “the better days”.

It also made me re-think my definition of “better days”.

Have my better days all already happened?

Are there no more "better days" that I can look forward to?

The reality is that our “better days” have not been spent like a box of Kleenex tissues. Being wistful about the past or hopeful about the future can sometimes be counter productive.

Why?

Well, we all “hope” to be happier in the future. “Tomorrow will be a better day” we say…

Lest we forget, while hope IS a good thing…. Hope also leads us to believe that the “now” is not as great as what might happen in the future.

One thing is for sure… you have today. You might not have tomorrow.

So chickie pop’s in and introduces herself to me…. “Hi… I’m XXX.. what’s your name?”

I smile because I’m thinking about the present. It looks to be pretty promising.

thought du jour

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I visited Paris tonight....

Thought of the Day:

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. Willa Cather

The more I travel the more I realize how little I know. My pre-conceived notions about the world around me has been created while I have been in a "mental Galapagos".

As I look around Las Vegas and the canyons around, I realize that the world that I live in is huge.

I realize how small I am in comparison to the physical formations all around me. They have been here for MILLIONS of years. I will live probably only to an age of 70. My life is a drop in the bucket compared to these grand, majestic formations.

In a few decades, those of you who read what I write today will be nothing more than dust. Do you have an urge like me to leave your little mark on the world today?

What will you do?

thought du jour

Note about the photo:

This is Paris, Las Vegas... ;-) Had a great time tonight.

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Pictures from my journey

Thought of the Day:

“I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?”

The desert is a wonderful place. It’s barren and “seemingly” devoid of life. The dictionary definition of a desert is “ “. As I drove past the deserts in Utah, I could not help but feel wonder and amazement for this beautiful landscape.

You know, Utah was one of the last places to be inhabited in the United States. It was Brigham Young who moved his people to the West to claim this land. Claim land that no one else wanted. What a wise move…to take what no one else wanted. To see beauty in what other people don’t bother casting more than a glance.

To look past the obvious.... When was the last time any of us looked past the obvious…? In our hurried, modern day life…. We rush from place to place.

Some of us will spend an eternity looking for Mr. Right or Mrs. Right…..

But what happens if….

Mrs. Right was sitting right next to me this morning in the subway on the way to work but I didn’t pay any attention?




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