Bob's Goals:
- More time with grandkids in Kearney, NE.
- More contact and time with sibs.
- Finish the “Full Grassley”, i.e, visit all 99 counties in Iowa.
- Be more reflective and appreciative.
- Pass the general test to upgrade my amateur radio license.
- Continue to improve the agency and the Plan and make both independent of time and location.
- Gracefully exit groups and committees where I no longer have a great passion for their mission or I am doing too much of the work.
- Improve my work/life balance.
Debbie's Goals:
- Work less
- Look for a vacation home
- Travel more with my hubby
- Always lead with love.
- Self-actualized people can spot each other in a crowded room.
- Do you want my assessment of your unsolicited advice or shall I spare your feelings?
- If the other party in a discussion leads with their feelings leave the discussion with good-mannered expediency.
- Productivity equals self-esteem while a lack of productivity equals death of the human spirit.
- No government sponsored social program has ever created self-esteem.
- You are unique, just like everyone else.
- Expectations are critical: too low and your abilities are squandered; too high and your happiness is impossible.
- Apparently, every society has to try progressivism/socialism/communism at least once to see if it might work this time.
Our immediate gratification, consumption-driven culture never ceases to amaze me.
Apparently, somebody has statistics to show that a good marriage is built on a solid foundation of debt. Oh, and they are in the loan business.
"Big hat, no cattle" is a scenario for a doomed marriage.
- You can never save enough on a want to rationalize the purchase on price alone.
- What does the early bird do with all of those worms?
- Happiness takes effort and without effort the default is misery.
- Isolation and apathy are poor substitutes for contentment.
- When making plans the best tactic is to be flexible.
- If a task is not worth a 100% effort then give it none.
- Proficiency at prioritization is a prerequisite for progress.
- When in doubt use logic instead of emotion.
- Faith can be more powerful than logic but it comes with a price.
- Show me a broke person and I’ll show you a person without a life plan that has poor budgeting skills and a victim’s mentality.
- Our ability to rationalize a poor decision is both a virtue and a curse.
While driving on 1-35 I noticed Pyro City Fireworks in Eagleville, MO. It is a gas station that sells BBQ in the front and a fireworks store in the back.
They do have a no-smoking sign on the building. I hope people pay attention to it!
