Tag: Advice

Dear Future me

iPhone 7 receipt
Purchased the new iPhone 7 and 7-Plus a few hours ago (Sept 9, 2016). The Cloud is a great place to store “stuff”.

 

Dear Future me,

You will eventually discover that your material possessions aren’t meant for you, they’re meant for the people who follow behind you.

Do your best to cultivate your “material story” in a way that serves as a roadmap for living a life of peace and contentment. Great roadmaps, from actual journeys (not theory nor rhetoric) are rare.

A treasure.

A gift.

Oxygen.

 

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Dear younger me

Mid Life Celebration jeff noel
Photo: Grinnell Glacier overlook August 2016.

 

Dear younger me,

Nothing will prepare you for the heartache you and your future wife will endure on your journey to become parents. Unfortunately, you will both learn that parenting isn’t an entitlement.

This too shall pass and you will see your Son’s 16th birthday – the story will continue to unfold but i can’t reveal the rest of it right now.

PS. Writing that book to him was a gamble. How that one ends is for the road up ahead.

 

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Do the advice givers really care if we improve or get better?

Fixing pool overflow drain pipe
Being well balanced is art, so is fixing things well

 

Do the advice givers really care if we improve or get better?

Probably not, unless they’re our parents or grandparents.

But the really great self-help gurus will be transparent about this.

They’ll tell you the biggest part of helping is not helping – it is in them asking the right questions, repeatedly, and then getting out of the way.

Finding the right questions is art.

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