A few years back I read a blog post by a famous megachurch pastor who wrote a post pontificating some brilliant insight he offered his staff. (Yes, I mean that sarcastically.)
It went something like this: “I told my staff that if they ever doubted, even for a minute, that they were supposed to be on staff at this church that they should tell me and we’d treat them right… I’d pay them a good severance… but they should leave immediately.”
Kristen and I were fortunate enough to spend a couple days in Wonder Valley, near Joshua Tree National Park this week. It was a great way to recuperate together from the insanity of fall’s busyness. Specifically, it’s so important for us to spend time as a couple away from the kids. Since we don’t have family around it’s pretty tough… so we were thankful that Kristen’s parents were willing to give us these couple days away as our Christmas gift.
We booked our place via Airbnb. If you haven’t tried it yet, totally recommend Airbnb for finding unique and affordable places to stay all around the world.
Just a quick PSA before Kristen and I disappear to Joshua Tree for a couple of days.
Amazon is having a little sale with Cartel books on the Kindle.
Each of our 6 titles on Kindle are $.99 each.
The kids try not to think about it.
But there is a growing pile of things under the Christmas tree with their names on it.
That pile calls out to them.
Option 1: I’m right and you’re wrong and that’s that.
Option 2: We’re all right in our own opinion and that’s that, let’s just get along anyway.
These are the two options most of us see when engaging in our society. You’re either pro-choice or pro-life. You’re either anti-gun or pro-gun ownership. You’re for gay marriage or you’re against it. You’re either FoxNews or HufffPo.
It’s exhausting and most people seem to teeter-totter between engaging in the topic du jour and ignoring it. They are exhausted by it because it lacks productivity. Few people can argue another person into change. But we seem to live in an age where winning is more important than virtue.
A few weeks back I wrote a post, Blogging 101, and talked about 5 things you should do before you start a blog.
Marko and I are spending the next two days together at a little offsite retreat in Carlsbad.
Believe it or not, it’s taken about 6 months to get this on the calendar. We’ve needed to do it but just been too busy. Heck, we’re not in the same place for 2 days very often without a heavy to do list. So it’s not been for lack of need or desire. It just took this long.
It’s 2-days to not work on day-to-day stuff. We meet fairly regularly to do that. Those are “who’s got what” meetings. They are high function and typically looking at things that are happening right now.
This is what I’m calling the Phase 3 meeting.
All this technology is making us antisocial. pic.twitter.com/k4j7lOSUeh
— Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) December 15, 2013
This picture got retweeted a bunch yesterday. The sarcasm of it is clear. People have correlated technology with the advancement of societal ill for a long, long time.
Today’s whipping boy is the smartphone. The point of the tweet above seems to be that people used to look at newspapers the same way people look at their phones today.
If college football had a tournament based on the final BCS polls, this is what the bowl season could have looked like.
College football fans want games that matter. We want to see see the best teams advance. And we want to see a true champion like in every other NCAA sport. We want a college football tournament that culminates the weekend between the AFC/NFC Championship and the Super Bowl.
If you agree, share this on social media.
But what about the other teams & bowls? Let teams that don’t make the top 16 in the final polls fill up the rest of the bowl games.