Monday, June 06, 2005
Making lemonade
What a bad day for our only car to die. My youngest son Joel was graduating from high school and we had planned a dinner out afterwards to celebrate his graduation and older brother Ben's 20th birthday last Thursday.
But as we headed to church, the alternator light came on and the car quickly died. We got a jump and headed toward our car repair, but that got us only eight blocks. So while I got it towed to the shop, the rest of the family got creative and found another way to get at least Joel, my wife Joanne, and me to the graduation.
Dinner out turned into delivery pizza and a video (in my opinion, one of the funniest ever made—Cat Ballou) with the possibility of still having our dinner out later this week. Yet with all that went wrong today, including at one point needed to push the stalled car up a hill to
get it out of an intersection, I feel great about the day. Tired, but great. It was nice to have challenges—both physical and mental—and succeed at them. And it was nice to overcome them as a family. Now to apply that mindset to business!
Jeff
What a bad day for our only car to die. My youngest son Joel was graduating from high school and we had planned a dinner out afterwards to celebrate his graduation and older brother Ben's 20th birthday last Thursday.
But as we headed to church, the alternator light came on and the car quickly died. We got a jump and headed toward our car repair, but that got us only eight blocks. So while I got it towed to the shop, the rest of the family got creative and found another way to get at least Joel, my wife Joanne, and me to the graduation.
Dinner out turned into delivery pizza and a video (in my opinion, one of the funniest ever made—Cat Ballou) with the possibility of still having our dinner out later this week. Yet with all that went wrong today, including at one point needed to push the stalled car up a hill to
get it out of an intersection, I feel great about the day. Tired, but great. It was nice to have challenges—both physical and mental—and succeed at them. And it was nice to overcome them as a family. Now to apply that mindset to business!
Jeff
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