Yeah, yeah, I've been slacking. Well, actually, I haven't as much as you might think. This has been an extremely busy month for me; and as we meander towards Christmas I fear it may get worse.
So, what's been up?
White water rafting in October - cold, but a lot of fun.
Work is getting busy. I had a fantastic remount show, where I was part of an $18,000 sale. FEMALEATLAS can take credit for the other half. I honestly couldn't have made it as far as I have without her.
My daughter's birthday. She was a princess, (after opening her gifts and finding a Sleeping Beauty dress) as she'll be for Halloween, and forever in her Daddy's eyes. She's four. FOUR! And I can't believe how the time has flown, not to mention the joy she gives me. (Her brother's great too, but I'll go on and on about my son on his own birthday.)
WVU Football game. It never gets old, and I hope it never does. Every time I go there, I have a wonderful time. Win or lose, (though I obviously prefer a win), I always enjoy myself. They beat up on Syracuse, and we had great seats to watch.
I've been sick for a few days and made it to a bachelor party (should have stayed home to get better), and missed a wedding (did stay home to get better - that didn't work - feel guilty for it).
Overall, I keep changing my perspective on things. I believe you need to in order to stay young. There is always a different point to take. Your job is to find out if it's better.
After a discussion the other day I came up with a new thought:
If you haven't failed at anything in life then you probably haven't tried hard enough to succeed at anything in life. If that's the case, then your greatest fear should be that, on your deathbed, you look back and see that everything was a failure because you played not to lose.
Take it for what it's worth, but I thought about it because of me, not because of someone else that may be reading this right now. However, if it applies, and you think it may be the case, then maybe you need a new perspective too.
I realize that all my life I've played not to lose, and it's really time to start playing to win. The beauty of it all is that I can say, without shame, that I'm not a loser, lol, but I'm not exactly a winner either... yet. Time is on my side, for now. Some day, it won't be, but I hope that I'll look back and note how I played to win.
And, with all the experience I have not losing, I can't see how I could be anything less than what I expect of myself.
You may ask why I'm writing this. Sometimes you have to put it out for others to see before even you can understand. So, with this, I'm putting up a counter. Every time I update you'll see a new number. That number will be the number of times I have played to win cumulatively. As of right this second, I'm starting fresh, the number is:
0
This will serve as a reminder to you, and a way to keep score for me.
Take care of yourselves.
-Mo
P.S.
I'd really Love it if someone would come up with a good costume for me before Oct 29th. Post it here, I'm sure everyone will get a laugh.
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B-Mo,
This post is the beau ideal of why I read your blog. "Play to win, not to not-lose." It makes so much sense. To that, I offer this sidebar:
I've gambled here and there in life, and every time I've found myself saying "What DID I get myself into?" But that introspect is what has always driven me to succeed at something new. I turn the question around into a positive: "What CAN I get myself into?"
You see how three letters can turn your whole world around? If you take something away from yourself, think of the opportunity that it opens, not the void that it has left behind. Follow your goal(s) from thereon. Whether you accomplish the goal(s) or not, you've succeeded.
Take care,
Dyer
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