I mean, I think so? It’s hard to say anymore, you know, I get into things and next thing you know, there I am again saying, “Now that was genius, why did you do that again.” I guess, if you don’t succeed try again. Perhaps you all have had a similar experience recently. I say recent because we all have had it I think, but if it was recent, like it was for me, then you know you’re still doing it! I’m looking back on a real estate deal I’m in the middle of asking myself this question. It’s not a bad deal, it’s not going to end poorly, it should work out to be a pretty good deal. You ask so “what’s the beef.” Well, I don’t want be in the situation of stretching my life, waiting on others, or stressing about who’s not doing what.
My daughter calls me a freight train, slogging my way through life plowing through everything on the track. But now I older, tireder and worn down. So why do I keep getting myself into these good situations? Bad habit! Maybe more than one. For sure it is the habit of looking at an opportunity and saying, “that’ll work” and charging into it headlong and looking up only long enough to make sure the direction is good.
What I’m realizing is that I’m not learning to be old too well. I don’t need to do this, I told myself I don’t want to do it anymore, but then here I am. I realized that the problem is that it has always worked before and who wouldn’t want to do something that works and turns out well? Especially if you can do it in your sleep. Right? It turns out that “having” a requirement to do something for a guy like me turns into the bad habit of doing it just because it “works.”
Having learned this now, I’m going to go off and get into something I have no idea about how it works, if will work out or if it will be any good! I’m going to break my bad habit of doing things that work and go looking for something that doesn’t! I’ve always like looking for new things. So, here’s to things that don’t work and learning how to do them!
Be GREAT to someone you know,
Greg