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What good can come of this? hopefully it stirs your soul, uncovers small truths and in time... awakens love.
Thursday, August 26, 2021
crushed bike.
I'm almost positive that it is not my nature to be an asshole, but it would be hard to argue that I don't possess tendencies.
There may or may not have been an incident where a bicycle was run over in my driveway by a vehicle I was driving. But I think it was settled satisfactorily.
Meanwhile, I'm clearly still a work in progress. 🤷
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Necessity of Adaptation
Everyone seems to want to talk about growth and it's critical role in the success of a business. Fundementally it makes a lot of sense. If you want to increase profits, the most obvious way to achieve that is to sell more. Couple that with cost-saving measures and an intelligent pricing structure and you are creating a strong recipe for success. However, none of it is possible or sustainable without creating a plan of adaptability, which is what is what I see sinking business in 2021. With the entanglement of the global supply chain, the old adage of "if do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten" can be pushed aside for now.
It is astonishing to me how often in conversation with owners of successful pool companies that I hear they are losing clients because of the inability to acquire tabs and shock. Some even deflect blame to me, their supplier, entirely ignoring that my livelihood is predicated on selling the exact same product. However, where we continue to thrive is in our ability to adapt to sell alternative products that will create the same end result. Guys get so caught up in the routine that they have allowed themselves to believe they are getting paid for dropping the same amount of chemicals in a pool each week at the same time and leaving.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Priorities amongst different economical groups... A potential psychological study?
I think an interesting psychological study would be to ask like 50-100 questions dealing with daily priorities, including categories of basic human needs, career progression, education, consumer products, and luxuries. It would be prefaced with a demographic survey of education, income, tenure at current job, 1y, 5y and 12y outlooks.
I think it would prove that most people who are stuck in a low wage, low rent, overall poor situation are stuck in a rut of prioritizing baby-mama drama and stuff that doesn't matter like that over actually trying to progress themselves at all.
What got me thinking about this is the covid vaccine with coworkers and clients who, frankly, are just dealing with juvenile shit all the time and feel like they don't have time to do anything. They don't understand processes or planning anything ever. If you don't think you have time to do what you think you need to do, how could you ever expect yourself to do anything more?
I believe there is a very specific correlation between these things.
Thursday, August 19, 2021
what is authenticity? is it still relevant?
Saturday, August 07, 2021
subtle differences: coefficient of happiness
When I was about 20, I tried to make the world a better place and was often frustrated with my progress.
At about 30, I shifted my effort to making the world around me a better place and was sometimes frustrated with my progress.
At about 35, I shifted my effort to making the world around me a better place for myself and I was generally satisfied with my progress.
At about 40, I shifted my effort to making the world around me a better place for myself and my family and have been greatly satisfied with our progress.
At 45...
At 50...
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Friday, August 06, 2021
ISO:. Something Beautiful
I've possessed the ability to see beauty in ordinary things for as long as I can remember, even well before I knew I did. As a result of what I think qualifies of a mild case of burnout, brought on by a bit more work-stress, some disruption in routine and early stages of boredom, brought on by nearly two years of not leaving the Houston area at all, because of covid and more recently the birth of our child, I'm finding myself with such a need to see something beautiful that I stare at things like the grain on my wood-look desk, the mismatched paint in the hallway or the colorful shipping labels, in near perfect alignment on boxes in my warehouse. While I definitely have a certain sense of wonderment, bordering on admiration at times, when I see my wife and daughter, what I think my brain may be lacking is something I haven't seen, or at least seen lately. Beautiful but different. Unusual. Out of the ordinary. Then I keep talking about the end of Summer and the opportunities of Fall, but the truth is becoming more evident that whatever I ultimately find to satisfy the need, probably needs to be found quickly, or it's going to start impacting my attitude.
Thursday, August 05, 2021
chasing printed pages and dreams
Looking back now at the last 12 years, 9 months and 10 days, I realize how much time I've wasted looking around everywhere and asking my coworkers who took off with the page(s) I just printed, always to find them in a random pile somewhere, if not in the trash, or even ever finding them at all, before reprinting and running to the printer before maliced hands could snatch it again. Then, of course the refresher course of a kindergarten lecture of keeping your hands off of things that don't belong to you, which has clearly become an excercise in futility that I'll probably keep doing, if not for hope of actionable change, the peace of knowing I tried.
