Sunday, December 26, 2010
Big Brother
The amount of information available bewilders me...It blows my mind that I can look and see where in the world people are reading this, how they got here, and that they are reading it on their iPhone...
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Taking the day
2010 was not my favorite year; and I have already taken into account that ranking years is a little Obsessive Compulsive, even for me. I do have some good years, I liked '95 (49ers last Superbowl Win) '03 (Senior Year of Highschool. Awesome.) '08 (Senior year of college, not a moment too soon!), and in all honesty life in general has been pretty good. But 2010 was a particular brand I just didn't enjoy.
2010, however, is coming to a close. And while part of me breathes a sigh of relief, I am still wishing I could take another crack at the year and see if we can pull something out of it that could turn everything around. I wish and had made a few different business/career moves that would have allowed me to side-step the economic demise of an entire industry that catapulted me into managing a Footlocker instead of carving out a little slice of the world. I wish I would have re-arranged my schedule in 2010 so I could have enjoyed more time with family both near and far. I wish I would have taken more strokes off my game and spent at least one round on a course with my uncle Steve. More than anything, 2010 felt panicked, rushed and stressful; Three attributes to life I can very easily live without.
The past two days, however, have been anything but. Life just slowed down for a bit. Yesterday alone was a gift that allowed me to just sit and watch time pass by with no care or worries about where it was passing to. I watched my daughter play with her new pet; a little dog that barks at her...and then she barks back, I played games with my wife, and just enjoyed life for the day.
Tomorrow we get back to it, but I am determined to take the peace of Christmas with me in the days to come. Not so much the warm thoughts and being nice to other people (not that those are bad things; but I am a realist here - those won't last)but the peace I found with my family that day; the joys of the simple things in life that are so easily missed when time is moving just a little too fast. 2010 wasn't all that great because I forgot to dwell on those little moments that make life great. And I am going to make sure that 2011 is awesome.
-Little moment of the day: My daughter just got annoyed with my wife because she was giving her kisses and blocking the line of sight to the laptop. Great, she's got her mother's attitude!
2010, however, is coming to a close. And while part of me breathes a sigh of relief, I am still wishing I could take another crack at the year and see if we can pull something out of it that could turn everything around. I wish and had made a few different business/career moves that would have allowed me to side-step the economic demise of an entire industry that catapulted me into managing a Footlocker instead of carving out a little slice of the world. I wish I would have re-arranged my schedule in 2010 so I could have enjoyed more time with family both near and far. I wish I would have taken more strokes off my game and spent at least one round on a course with my uncle Steve. More than anything, 2010 felt panicked, rushed and stressful; Three attributes to life I can very easily live without.
The past two days, however, have been anything but. Life just slowed down for a bit. Yesterday alone was a gift that allowed me to just sit and watch time pass by with no care or worries about where it was passing to. I watched my daughter play with her new pet; a little dog that barks at her...and then she barks back, I played games with my wife, and just enjoyed life for the day.
Tomorrow we get back to it, but I am determined to take the peace of Christmas with me in the days to come. Not so much the warm thoughts and being nice to other people (not that those are bad things; but I am a realist here - those won't last)but the peace I found with my family that day; the joys of the simple things in life that are so easily missed when time is moving just a little too fast. 2010 wasn't all that great because I forgot to dwell on those little moments that make life great. And I am going to make sure that 2011 is awesome.
-Little moment of the day: My daughter just got annoyed with my wife because she was giving her kisses and blocking the line of sight to the laptop. Great, she's got her mother's attitude!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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