My wife got our baby dressed all cute this morning.
An hour later, she had a diaper blowout.
My baby didn’t care though; she gladly put on some random clothes I found in her drawer.
đź’© happens. Move forward.
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Grocery Store Reflections
Today, while at the grocery store, I was picking out some eggs, and an old man came over to me asking to confirm the price of the eggs he wanted. Once I confirmed the price, he simply took a carton of eggs and put them in his car, then left. He didn’t open the carton to check if all the eggs were still intact or cracked.
That was crazy to me because I can’t buy eggs without checking every single one of them first. For me, it’s all about attention to detail and making sure all my eggs are intact before I go home and try to cook them days later, only to realize a few are cracked.
Maybe the old man’s method is better. Perhaps he just trusts that the grocery store will package the eggs correctly, saving him time from having to check them himself. It’s like Schrödinger’s cat, the thought experiment illustrating quantum superposition where a cat in a box is both alive and dead until observed. Maybe the eggs are both cracked and not cracked until observed.
Alternatively, maybe having a cracked egg or two isn’t as bad as I think, and they are salvageable. People have different perspectives and approaches to even the simplest tasks, and there is no one correct way to do things.
Thank God for chickens and eggs, though.
Considerate Parking
I hate it when I’m looking for a parking spot, then I finally see one, and when I get to it, I notice the person parked next to the empty spot parked their car crooked, making it hard for anyone to park next to them.
Or when I park in a spot correctly, then I come back to my car and I can barely open my door to get in my car because someone else parked too close to me.
It’s simple things like that that show how much we depend on each other to do things correctly in order for things to function properly.
Those white painted parking lines help us park efficiently, and they also show how considerate of others we are.
I know parking is something minute, but how you do anything is how you do everything.
Taking Ownership: The Accountability Factor
Accountability goes a long way.
It can save a lot of time, help avoid many problems, and improve productivity. It’s something you should want for yourself and for others.
No matter the situation, things may not go as planned. Problems or errors will arise. If accountability is established, you can get past that problem. You can learn and improve. If accountability is not established, you can create even more problems. It’s hard to move forward with anything without accountability.
Start by holding yourself accountable, then be okay with others holding you accountable, and then hold others accountable.
Self-Critique and Motivation
You have to be your own worst critic and your biggest motivator.
You have to be brutally honest with yourself, but also loving and understanding towards yourself.
Sometimes, adjustments from our errors don’t come until we’re the ones to point them out ourselves.
Sometimes, you aren’t as motivated until you believe in yourself and your ability to carry out a plan.
Adaptation Over Time
Nowadays, I have to stretch every morning and every night. When I don’t do so, I can definitely feel the difference. This helps keep me loose and nimble.
I have to stretch even more before partaking in a physical activity. There was a time when I could just jump into an activity without even warming up and be just fine. I might hurt myself if I do that now. The body changes over time, so I now must do more in order to perform the same way I did in my youth.
I’m glad I know this, because the same applies to life. Sometimes we have to give more or do more than we did in the past to get the same results or better results. I can’t expect to do the same exact things I was doing in 2023 and get 2024 or 2025 results. I must adapt.
I might have to do even more now, the same way I have to stretch more nowadays. So maybe you’re going in the right direction with your action, you might just have to do more.
Reconnecting with Childhood
People often say they miss being a kid because childhood represents a time of innocence, freedom, and a more carefree existence compared to the responsibilities of adulthood.
I think it’s all relative though. Kids may not pay bills or make adult decisions, but they do work hard and have characteristics that we can still model after even as adults.
Kids learn a lot. They learn multiple subjects every day. That’s something I miss about childhood and something I still try to do. Kids are very active also. They play a lot of sports and have a lot of extracurricular activities. For a lot of people that’s the most active that they have been in their lives.
We might still need a “recess” as adults, or just 30 min of some physical activity. Kids dream big and have a big imagination, both of which can be helpful to have as an adult.
So we can miss being a kid but at the same time, we can still learn from kids or even our childhood and implement some of those things into our current life.
365 Days of Growth
Today marks one year that I’ve written and posted a blog every day.
Wow, where did time go? 365 blog posts in a row. The high schooler version of myself would be shocked and impressed. I never thought I’d voluntarily write something every day, but things change.
What seems out of reach is often very possible. I now know I can make a commitment to do something and follow through on it. I now know we have enough time in the day to do all the things that we need to do. It’s often not a lack of time that’s the issue, it’s the lack of effort or energy that can hold us back.
Writing a blog every day for a year has been a cool experience though. I’ve learned to better express myself. I’ve learned how to write no matter my mood. I’ve connected with people that I may not have connected with if I didn’t write a blog every day. Hopefully, I’ve inspired others to do something they love to do also.
Most importantly, I’ve raised the bar on what I can do. Any idea that I have, or goal or challenge I’d like to complete, I must do it, for I know it’s possible and that happiness and opportunities wait for me once action is taken.
I challenge you to do something that you like often, if every day is not yet an option. Don’t have self-limiting beliefs. Know that sometimes it’s nothing to it but to do it.
Awakening to Alarms
Last night, the fire alarm went off in our apartment.
It’s a loud alarm that makes noises and talks. It’s not the ideal thing you want to hear at like 4 in the morning when you’re trying to sleep. So I did what most would do in that situation; I lay there in bed, annoyed, until the alarms finally stopped after a few minutes, and I went back to sleep.
Luckily, there wasn’t a dangerous fire actually happening in my building, or I would have been out of luck.
Sometimes God might send us signs or “alarms” in our lives, and we ignore them or aren’t fully aware of them, the same way I treated that fire alarm.
I’ll make sure I’m truly listening to God and all of His ways of talking to me. I’ll work on evacuating the building in the middle of the night when I hear the fire alarm too. One may be easier than the other though, and it’s not the latter.
Commitment and Progress
So far this year, there have been a few things that I said I’d do, but I haven’t done yet. I still have time to do them, so it’s fine.
There are also things this year that I said I wouldn’t do, that I haven’t done. That’s the best feeling.
Now I just have to continue not to do the things I said I wouldn’t do this year, and make more of an effort to do all the things I said I’d do this year, and I’ll be all set.
FLY, BLACK BOY 