Nightcap 21

If this is a nightcap to Friday night, I must be having one exceptional Friday night. 

The plumber isn’t worried about his plumbers butt like you are because he’s busy fixing your sink.

Getting a little more gas in at the end just isn’t worth it anymore.

It’s a whole other level, not a whole nother level.

The best thing about bowling is that walk back.

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Dessert First

Offering dessert isn’t out of the ordinary.

Offering dessert at the beginning is out of the ordinary. It’s strange…yet welcomed.

Dinner is going to start off a little bit better when there’s a little something sweet for everyone FIRST!

Offering dessert first is a little twist, a little finesse. And a little finesse goes a long way.

***Go ahead have eleven cookies.

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Table Making Factory

The summer after I graduated from high school, I worked at a cafeteria table making factory in Minneapolis. A bunch of friends and I were doing it since the job paid well and we all needed the cash for college

There were two sides of the factory: making the parts and assembling the parts.

I was on the making the parts side.

So I would show up everyday and there would be a bin of thousand pipes that needed to be bent thirty-three degrees. Or a bin of fifteen hundred metal discs that all needed a hole punched in the middle.

Every day I showed up and every time I looked at these giant piles I thought there is no way on earth I’m ever going to make it through that entire pile.

And you know what…every time I was wrong.

I made it through all of them.

My eyes and brain thought I would never make it through, and I made through every time.


Just because I couldn’t see the success happening didn’t stop the success from happening as long as I kept working.

Sometimes you can’t see your way so you have to stop and wait for the fog to lift.

Sometimes you can’t see your way so you sprint as fast as you can until you’re not in the fog anymore.

The second one is takes a lot longer to learn and discern.

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What A Good Book Is For

A couple years ago I got really hung up that I wasn’t remembering more from the books I was reading.

I wanted to remember and recall all the details and facts and metaphors and insights, but I was only remembering maybe a handful.

But here’s the thing about a good book…

It’s meant to change you.

Memorization pales in comparison to transformation.

And this is true about great music shows or comedy shows. We don’t remember each moment of the show, but we were changed…even ever so slightly…so when we think back on it our attitude changes and the tension in our shoulders releases and we remember the experience, not the bullet points that made up the experience.

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Keep The Good Ones Around

The people who light you up, who cause you to dig deeper and work harder on the right stuff…the people who boost the room and you’re glad you worked with even when it fails…

Keep those people around. Go to great lengths to keep those people around.

It’s a gift. And it’s rare.

True, you’ll probably ok with out them…it’s just that you are better with them, and they you.

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The Glass

As the metaphor goes…the glass is half empty or half full?

If it were that simple, you would only have to learn to consider one other type of person who doesn’t see it like you.

But the glass could be…

not full enough

almost full enough

ugly

too elegant

too clear

not clear enough

filled with the wrong thing

where did the glass come from?

is the water from the tap or bottled?

did anyone put anything in the water?

who gets to drink the water?

what are we going to do with the glass?

if we cut the glass in half now we have a full glass

and the list goes on…

There’s too many ways to look at the glass to be able to consider (much less understand) them all.

The trick is trick is simply to remember that there are many. And if we learn to be quick enough in remembering that there are many, we will become quicker to be curious instead of angry. Learn instead of judge. Connect instead of erode.

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