1) Life requires an amazing amount of discipline to live well. In other words, success is found in the margins. As someone once pointed out (I think it was this guy) the difference between a .275 hitter and a .325 hitter is 25 more hits per season!
2) On that note, its not whether you ran 10 miles today. It is whether you wanted to quit so badly at 8 miles but pushed it through until 10.
3) On that note, my son's basketball team made no progress during their practice last night for the first hour. The real progress was made the last 1/2 hour. Did you get that? Without the final 33% the practice would have been completely ineffective, but the 33% would not have happened without the first 67%!
4) Shifting gears, http://www.stevenpressfield.com/ has an amazing series of short videos on why the war in Afghanistan is so difficult. Except for a few lame references to evolution, Pressfield is brilliant and completely on the mark. I've read four of his books and loved them all.
5) Speaking of books, yesterday I bought Christopher McDougall's Born to Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen. Inspiring and awesome.
6) I am loving my vacation! It's being spent working on my dissertation at Mokarabia, running in 90-100 temps with humidity, drinking black coffee, eating trail mix from Sprouts and playing wii fit with my kids.
7) I am more in love with my wife than I have ever been in my life. I don't gush online about my wife like some pastors do (i.e., "my wife is a smokin-hot supermodel and let's face it, she's better than your wife"). Really, I don't get that... they must be compensating for the quilted skirt, hair-in-a-bun, plain Jane, sexually repressed image of a pastor's wife that many people are used to. My theory has always been, if you've got a smokin-hot wife, you don't need to tell everyone that she's smokin-hot. They already know. However, if you don't have a smokin-hot wife, they know that too. You're not fooling anyone. :)
8) All that to say, I am more in love with this woman than I can ever remember.
9) I love Facebook and Twitter, I just hope we won't wake up in ten years and realize that we wasted an unbelievable amount of time...
Thursday, July 2
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