Month: July 2023

We have attached a number to everything you can think of:

Anniversaries.

Car miles.

The number of heart emojis.

Your bank account.

Quarterlies.

The number of votes.

We do this because humans like to play games and we need ways to measure.

But what we haven’t done is stop and ask, Is this a game we even want to play?

Because when equal rights are honored, you are rewarded with the feeling of dignity and value.

You feel like you are somebody in the world and have the same worth.

That each of us belongs.

One becomes a better parent when one remembers to let kids be kids.

Because kids know how to be kids better than adults do.

When we are in service of this idea, kids begin to thrive.

So, the question becomes, how can we give them the right environment to have the most advantageous experience of living in harmony with all their purpose?

We live in a world that grinds people down to simple cogs in a machine. Interchangeable parts in a replaceable system. This works great in a marketplace when you order a lawn mower from Amazon, with parts manufactured in China, assembled in Vietnam, shipped overseas into a warehouse, where a robot pulls it, and then shipped to a regional office, which is then delivered to your door. It’s incredible the cooperation if you think about it.

However, in our chase for efficiency and profits, we have become less human-centric in how we think/act/talk to other people. It is at the root of many of our problems today. And yet, we keep finding ways to continue to appease the marketplace.

People are not here to serve capitalism. Capitalism is here to serve us. When we become so narrow in our way of thinking, when we treat people like cogs–it ultimately changes our thinking. In the end, we lose site why we are here and what it is we are capable of doing.

The banker, entrepreneur, just a kid…

More importantly, how often do we demand from ourselves to create?

No matter your status, when we create we feel better about ourselves and the world around us.

Doesn’t matter how windy the road is.

What matters is the direction you are going.

And if it’s the “wrong” direction, you simply can turn around and head the other way.

But that’s the thing about life.

There is no “right” way to go.

There will always be noise being made when you are making change happen.

Someone from somewhere will be upset in some tower.

But no matter.

What you are chasing is the signal.

Some think this is where creativity is born.

I think this is where we go to make something out of nothing.

We make the future.

At least we believe we do.

As a result, it shifts our power into our hands.

When you have power, you also must handle the responsibility.

Responsibility is a delegate thing.

Some run away from that.

Others will run with it.

I’m sad because I was expecting something else.

I’m disappointed because how my boss treated me. I though we had a better relationship than this.

I’m annoyed at the how slow the check out person is at Costco. After all I have a game to catch.

You get the point. Expectations are the killer of joy.

When you lose the love of who you are you tend to be lost in regret.

When you realize, however, that you can change then you see the future as an opportunity.