Monthly Archives: June 2012

OK, someday I will win the lottery. Yeah, for me!!!! Someday I will see the 7 wonders of the world with my children…. Someday I will pay off my student loans… SOMEDAY!

So, when is SomeDay anyway?  I know it sounds a lot like sunday, but its not that day I know for sure or yesterday would have been a great day.  When we use the word “someday” we are usually making an excuse, not always, but very often its just an excuse.  I don’t like excuses, but I have used this one quite often through my many years so far.

I wanted to look at ways to help us not make it an excuse and rather make it a plan.  So, someday I will win the lottery!  -  Well, that is a plan, can’t really control winning the lottery, but plan is to buy a ticket for every drawing in hopes that I win.  Someday I will see the 7 wonders of the world with my children… -  This one WILL happen, I don’t know when yet, money is the biggest factor here, so the plan here is a saving account for just that purpose.

Be careful when we use the work someday, if you dont’ make a plan for it, your someday may never come.

Happy Monday,

Build, Inspire, Live

Linden P

Yesterday was fathers day, I hope all of you dads enjoyed your day. I remember when my wife was pregnant with our first child back in 2003..

If you have followed my post, you know I live my life my way, not societies.  The two words don’t much like but have heard a lot over the years are “GROW UP”.  Listen, I have 9 years of college, a doctorate degree and if I want to play and have fun, I will…..    lol

So back to this post.  Becoming a dad for me was a  huge joy, but for some I imagine its a scary thing.  But if you are religious person, god only gives you what you can handle is the saying that comes to mind.  If you aren’t religious, please know that we have parental instincts build into our beings.  Being a dad to me is basically just simple love for them.  Sure, you may have to tone your language and maybe not walk around the house naked all weekend, and there is that fact that you can’t just take your wife whenever the urge to occurs (please don’t let your kids catch you in the “Act”)….

Learning to be a great parent can be a fun experience, but also hard at times, kids will imitate their dad, every change they get when they are young, so be careful what you do.  Arm pit farting, swearing, pinching moms bottom, etc..  Take note, these aren’t good things for your kids to imitate:P  LOL

Just remember, you have the ability inside you to be a great dad, just nuture and build that ability.  Teach your child to make intelligent choices, weight the pros and cons of those choices and to love and respect all creatures.  Simple huh?

Eventually they will grow up and make their own (hopefully) lives and pass along what they have learned from their dads to their children.  My dad (love ya pop), we a lecturer, had a talk for every situation, I hated them as a child, but 30+ years later, I can still hear them and they are part of me and help me make the choices I make.  My dad also gave me choices and consequences so I could make my own decisions.  Thanks Dad…

Build, Inspire, Live

Linden P

I have had many unpleasant jobs in my time here on earth, but never have I thought WOW, this sucks.. Jobs are not who we are, they are what we do to make a living. In my younger years, I stuffed mean ass turkeys into crates, moved people into their home in a blizzard in January in ND, cleaned 1000 lbs of cow poop out of a trailer, etc…
These aren’t who I am, they are what I did to make money to enjoy my life.
I hear people complain everyday about who bad their life is, how unfair things are, how the world is against them, etc.. These are excuses people, thats all.
I like that pic, I still moonlight a bit at the casino, the worst job I have seen is the EVS job there, these poor people have to constantly clean bathrooms of people who are mad, broke and pissed off at the casino. Not a good job by any means, but I see most of them with a smile because they know its only a job.
So please, please don’t make excuses for how your life is going, if you aren’t happy with it, change it. Its not the world that is against you, its your own mind setting limitations, excuses and the such. If you aren’t smart enough, get smarter, if you aren’t skinny enough, get skinny. Its not hard to envision, its just hard to actually do sometimes. But you CAN change your life, you just have to want to enough..
Build, Inspire, Live.
Linden P