4/30/21 The unexpected cc

The unexpected

Lurks gleefully

In every instant

The same old thing keeps coming up

Sudden-death or just a broken cup

I stumble around in my last days

In the same old self-deluded hays

Life has never been this good

Because I never understood

It's not what happens that makes the day

But how I react and what I say

So from now on I'll pay attention

And give up all my apprehension

The unexpected

Lurks gleefully

In every instant

4/30/21 day 29,764

4/21/21 Never in doubt cc

Often wrong  

Never

In doubt

If I'm going to try I must believe

That the plan will work as it was conceived

Quell my doubts and charge right in

Only think about the win

As time passes things will change

And I'll see what too rearrange

Sometimes it's time to start a new

And keep on trying as my skills accrue

Often wrong  

Never

In doubt

4/21/21 day 29768

How-- why 4/15/21

How why?

I came to earth no one knows why

It took 80 years to be sure I'd die

In light of that how should I spend my time

Study read and spin a rhyme

Exercise and grow healthy food

Weed and harvest in the nude 

Read the classics dine with friends

Be kind and grateful until it ends

How why?

Nobody going nowhere 4/12/21 cc

I'm nobody all 

Packed up to

Go nowhere

I make such a big deal

About all that I feel

Then time sweeps it away

Like a snowstorm in May

So be of good cheer

The end is quite near

I'm nobody all

Packed up to

Go nowhere

4/8/21 Goodwill capital

Goodwill capital

 

Over 50 years ago I read

Think and grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

This one line has had a very large impact on my career

“Give more than you get and get more than you give”

Forget about 50-50 when ever you setting up any kind of a transaction 

I never looked to get more than 45% or sometimes even 40%

That extra five or 10% is what I call 

Goodwill capital

And quite often it can turn out to be the

Most valuable part of the exchange

People go out of their way to do business with you 

And refer you to their friends and associates 

Any kind of dispute or misunderstanding 

Gets resolved in a friendly manner

When ever I have needed help or advice 

My customers were always available  

The power of 

Goodwill Capital 

Goes way beyond the people you  actually deal with

It seems to have a universal power

Whenever I have been in need of something 

Someone would show up with the answer

Until lately I would attributed it to dumb luck

But from the high ground of my 81st year 

I see a pattern 

Go out of your way to give people extra value 

And watch the magic work 

Something as simple as a sign in a store window 

Our bathrooms are open to the public  

Can generate an enormous amount of Goodwill 

“Give more than you get it and get more than you give”

And always feel compassion for the greedy small minded people 

That try to get more than their fair share

   

Goodwill capital

4/3/21 there's never anything to just "get through" cc

There is never anything

"To get through"

It's just more practice

A building block in my

Growing repertoire of

Skillful responses

The greatest gift that time has given

Is to be grateful and never driven

Sometimes life's road gets really steep

A chance to learn and grow a heap

Or get depressed and just complain

But that only brings on more of the same

No one lives a perfect life

There will always be some kind of strife

Freedom lies in our reaction

So find the good and give it traction

There is never anything

"To get through"

It's just more practice

A building block in my

Growing repertoire of

Skillful responses