I have been working on a mini series of blog posts but it’s a bigger effort to organize than single blog posts and it’s not ready yet. So what ends up happening is that it keeps getting pushed back because it’s bigger, and the smaller single posts, like this one, get posted before it. This …
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Follow through
I watched an interview of a man who invented a plastic plate that holds a drink. He said it was an idea that many people had had before. When he went to file a patent, he said there were 1,700 provisional patents filed before but they had all expired without being converted into a non-provisional …
How much time do you have left?
The other day my friend asked me how much longer I had left on my year-long blog project. I said, “Four months.” And then I had a mix of emotions. Am I waiting for it to be over because it takes some time and effort every day? Or am I wishing it were longer, so …
The day is long, the baguette is not
Fresh baguettes are always good on the day they are baked. I try to buy ones that will be okay the next day too, in case I don’t finish it all on the first day. Yesterday, I was eating a day-old baguette. I made a sandwich with part of it for lunch and it was …
Behind the fog
Sometimes, behind the fog, what you can’t see, is there. If you see patterns or have experiences that give you reason to believe that something is there—even though you can’t see it yet, then: Keep driving forward.
Commitment
Last night at 11:53pm I was lying in bed when I realized I hadn’t written a blog post for the day yet. Because I committed to writing a blog post everyday in 2020, I got out of bed and wrote a blog post. If you want to do something, the first thing to do is …
People are different
Tonight my 2-year-old girl splashed water into my 5-year-old boy’s face in the bathtub. She likes water on her face, but he doesn’t. It didn’t end well. It ended with me explaining to her that not everyone likes having their face splashed with water. People are different. What assumptions are you making about other people …
What needs to be perfect?
The other day my 5-year-old son was practicing his letters and he brought them over to me, A-Z, and I told him that it was pretty good but that the J and the Z were backwards. Then he says, “Oh whatever, it doesn’t have to be perfect.” That made me laugh, and although I’m not …
Spinning your wheels
We had our car tires rotated today and as I saw the car’s tires lift off the ground and go up into the air, that phrase came to mind—“spinning your wheels”. All that power, dangling—doing nothing without the friction it needs to drive something forward. Is the effort that you’re putting in making a difference? …
You might disagree with everyone
We were at a hotel recently and I told my five-year-old son to try to straddle the drain in the shower rather than stand with his feet on the drain. I said it’s so weird that they put the drain right in the middle of the shower and he said, “What do you mean? Our …