Long drives (trips not golf) are about one thing only – can you go the distance? Can you maintain your focus over 5 hours? Can you keep your cool when things go wrong after 10 hours? Can you keep the team on point after 17 hours? Can you take a break when the finish line is close, but not everyone is at their best? Can you, yourself, keep pushing forward, eyes wide open, not kept…
I had my first experience a while back with my GPS saying one thing and the roads saying the other. In this case, the picture on the GPS displayed a highway sign that said “left is south, right is north” on the road ahead – “left is north, right is south”. I would have loved to taken a picture of this juxtaposition but at that point in the road, I had cars behind me during…
They don’t make any vans anymore. We have all these modular vehicles that try to be a van while at the same time trying not to be a van. But when you have young kids, a van was the best vehicle you could have – you never had to worry about how many kids you could hold and how much of their stuff you could take – the answer was always the same – all…
Weather Events happen. Work Events happen. Family Events happen. All types of events that are outside of your control happen and can shift your day on a dime, changing everything you thought your day was going to be about into something else. You can rail against it all, or figure out a way to roll with it. You can’t change a downpour all day when you have planned a picnic (but you can have the…
If you’re not feeling it, if you’re stuck in the mire, if there are currently more questions than answers, that means a few things. You’re asking the questions instead of ignoring them, invariably there will be more. You’re past the excitement phase of “let’s do this” and are now into “let’s work on this” That feeling you have, is because you now see the road ahead of you, it’s clearer than it was before when…