Information Dump

Here are some random thoughts I have collected over the past couple of weeks:

• In the end, for me it not about following all of the rules, but more importantly learning who I am and being happy and aware of the choices I have made in my life.  Nobody is perfect and U need to treat myself with the same respect that I give everyone else.  Just continue to try to be a better person.
• I tend to overthink these days but in this age most men are taught to overthink to look over there lives to be sure that all of the decisions they made in the past adhered to the new enlightened rules of the present. Guys are very nervous that any of the previous actions, even thought they were decent guys, might come back to haunt them in an age where the rules now change so quickly.  As a result, I have been trained to think before I speak which then give the appearance that I am overthinking every detail.  I am hopeful for a time when we are able to move past this.
• One of the biggest problems in the world is that people think that they're the only one going through something and most of the time they're not but we are so reluctant to share our experiences because It embarrasses us so that we hold on to them
• Some of the best things that I've done in my life have been inadvertent
• "At 69 I was 17" - Jackson Browne
• "If love is everything, then love is pain" - East Pointers, Wintergreen
• Calling movies, TV, media, and news CONTENT  can have the effect of diminishing the value of information on its own.  It is now part of an endless streaming circuit as opposed to a specific show/movie/news with a particular message.  Starting to sound like Marshall MacLuhan here, but the medium is the message.  People don't just watch a show.  They turn on content.
• Try whenever talking to use "I' instead of "you" to really understand the message being conveyed.  It is not only less antagonistic, but it gives the speaker a truer sense of how the message is being received.
• Great title for a book/article - The art of the pivot. Changing your life to feed your soul.
• I might be a walking stereotype now but it is much better than many of the previous stereotypes i have been.
• As our society gets older and people start dying with corporate family knowledge those with a fulsome picture of the puzzle become an essential link to the past.  
• I am able to work nimbly as I understand how to move from thing to thing without getting caught in the rabbit holes 
• Song lyric - Its like you're turned off baby and I can't seem to turn you on.
• A life of leisure is considered a luxury, but I submit that most of us deep down strive for it.  It comes down to when you feel the need to step back and see it. 
• We have created a generation with all of the benefits that we did not have as kids and expect them to be as grateful as we would have been had someone done this for us.  The circle keeps going round in that they don't understand how hard we worked to get to this point.  And on the flip side, the next generation beyond this one, will probably be quite pragmatic as they will have been raised by a very entitled generation.  
• We have much more longer and deeper meaningful conversations with our kids than I ever did with my parents.   

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