TODAY'S RAMBLINGS
It has been over 100 days now since Russia invaded Ukraine.
This is a terrible transition. My apologies. I am trying to be more positive.
Because recently, David Brooks published a column in The New York Times where he compiled some famous tips for good living, from a variety of sources. He also added a few of his own.
For your reading and living pleasure, I give you every single one of them here. As someone who often mentors via tired, old-white-man clichés, it's pretty good stuff - and because I know you're interested, I've italicized my favorites and/or ones I've found to be particularly true.
It has been over 100 days now since Russia invaded Ukraine.
This is a terrible transition. My apologies. I am trying to be more positive.
Because recently, David Brooks published a column in The New York Times where he compiled some famous tips for good living, from a variety of sources. He also added a few of his own.
For your reading and living pleasure, I give you every single one of them here. As someone who often mentors via tired, old-white-man clichés, it's pretty good stuff - and because I know you're interested, I've italicized my favorites and/or ones I've found to be particularly true.
- When you have 90 percent of a large project completed, finishing up the final details will take another 90 percent.
- Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.
- Denying or deflecting a compliment is rude. Accept it with thanks.
- Getting cheated occasionally is a small price to pay for trusting the best of everyone, because when you trust the best in others they will treat you the best.
- When you get invited to something in the future, ask yourself, Would I do this tomorrow?
- Purchase a tourist guidebook to your hometown. You’ll learn a lot playing tourist once a year.
- The thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult.
- It’s not an apology if it comes with an excuse.
- Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility.
- Ignore what they are thinking of you because they are not thinking of you.
- If you think you saw a mouse, you did, and if there is one, there are others.
- Something does not need to be perfect to be wonderful, especially weddings.
- The biggest lie we tell ourselves is, “I don’t need to write this down because I will remember it.”
- If you’re not sure you can carry it all, take two trips.
- A friend shares the advice: “Always make the call. If you’re disturbed or confused by something somebody did, always pick up the phone.”
- Job interviews are not really about you. They are about the employer’s needs and how you can fill them.
- If you can’t make up your mind between two options, flip a coin. Don’t decide based on which side of the coin came up. Decide based on your emotional reaction to which side came up.
- Take photos of things your parents do every day. That’s how you’ll want to remember them.
- Build identity capital. In your 20s do three fascinating things that job interviewers and dinner companions will want to ask you about for the rest of your life.
- Marriage is a 50-year conversation. Marry someone you want to talk with for the rest of your life.
- If you’re giving a speech, be vulnerable. Fall on the audience and let them catch you. They will.
- Never be furtive. If you’re doing something you don’t want others to find out about, it’s probably wrong.
- If you’re traveling in a place you’ve never been before, listen to an album you’ve never heard before. Forever after that music will remind you of that place.
- If you’re cutting cake at a birthday party with a bunch of kids howling around you, it’s quicker and easier to cut the cake with dental floss, not a knife. Lay the floss across the cake and firmly press down.
- When you’re beginning a writing project, give yourself permission to write badly. You can’t fix it until it’s down on paper.
- One-off events usually don’t amount to much. Organize gatherings that meet once a month or once a year.
- Make the day; don’t let the day make you. Make sure you are setting your schedule, not just responding to invitations from others.
- If you meet a jerk once a month, you’ve met a jerk. If you meet jerks every day, you’re a jerk.
- Never pass up an opportunity to hang out with musicians.
- Don’t try to figure out what your life is about. It’s too big a question. Just figure out what the next three years are about.
- If you’ve lost your husband (or wife), sleep on his (or her) side of the bed and it won’t feel so empty.
- Don’t ever look up a recent photo of your first great love.
- If you’re trying to figure out what supermarket line is fastest, get behind a single shopper with a full cart over two shoppers each with a half-full cart.
- Low on kitchen counter space? Pull out a drawer and put your cutting board on top of it.
- You can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow.
FROM THE UNWASHED MASSES
And then there's this. Although I don't have children, I can still relate.
Thank you to any one that is reading this newsletter.
KLUF
AWS? I guess I'll have to Wait Until Tomorrow. Here is The Jimi Hendrix Experience and "Axis: Bold as Love".
And then there's this. Although I don't have children, I can still relate.
Thank you to any one that is reading this newsletter.
KLUF
AWS? I guess I'll have to Wait Until Tomorrow. Here is The Jimi Hendrix Experience and "Axis: Bold as Love".