The stove, metaphor for my life. Four burners equals four priorities: Children, wife, work. Wait, that's only three? The fourth burner is for everything else: my elderly parents, the Lions club I serve community thru, my extended family, my friends. Sometimes one of the first three get moved off, but I try not to let …
Author: jeff lud
Dad x3. Writer. Lion. @pacbio SCM. One Mission: Make it GOOD | Optimism | Resilience | Fam/Life/Biz | #halffullallgood #goodstuff
Bicycle Race
I heard this song when it first came out in 1978. I listened to it a lot. All this time later, I'm still not quite sure what it's really about. But I still love it. Thank You, Freddie Mercury. "Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my …
Come Together
So many things have to come together for the nighttime routine to stay on course and keep to schedule. When we come together we all pull in the same direction, we get along, we feel good about ourselves and each other. Come together every day. Especially at the day's end. It's GOOD.
Stop Terrorism
Easier said than done, comes to mind immediately. So much focus in the last fifteen years in the "West" on Jihadists, extremists, Muslims, Wahhabism ~ but it's just not that simple. At war for sure, but it's more nuanced. There are clean and clear lines in some cases, but there's often more grey than black …
Let Them Know
Our humanity depends on love. Love starts with those closest to us.Today, right now, let the people you love know.Make that your daily practice. You'll be better off. So will those around you.
Blue Bikes and Buses
My company is pretty close to the facebook headquarters. As such, we see these bikes everywhere. The facebook employees use these bikes to ride around between the many buildings of their expanding campus. Google has similar bikes all over it's sprawling campus to the south as well.There are big coach buses running around the …
Rely On Yourself
My mobile phone situation has been giving me increasing amounts of grief lately.First it was not enough memory. I had pretty well stripped down the apps on the device, but the phone's memory just wasn't sufficient for the phone to run smoothly. Thanks to a good friend, I was able to upgrade to another model, …
Take The High Ground
Sometimes this phrase is used in a military context. Other times it's used more to refer to a moral position on something. Either way it means taking a decision that will make you stronger. It means putting yourself above the fray, real or imagined. It means choosing the path that will hopefully give you some …
Yes It Is.
Let it be so. Let it be GOOD. Choose to be happy. Recharge. Reset. Do what YOU need to do. Soak up the feeling. The GOOD feelings. Try something new. Read something fun for an hour. Go for a walk with your wife, your husband, your kids. Enjoy the breeze, the sunshine, the chill, …
Pace
[Image courtesy of Cycling News, Jens Voigt] How to go faster? How to get faster? Is faster always better? Lately I've been thinking a lot about pace. A few central ideas come to mind. These ideas aren't only applicable to racing; they apply to anything we want or need to do in a sustained way: …
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