Teamwork

 A team is not a group of people who work together, a team is a group of people who trust each other.

Valentine's Dedication

S shared this one with me today.  I'm a lucky lady.   To my partner, for making the day to day the best place to live.  

(art by Kerri Rosenthal)

Busy Phillipps on Michelle Williams

 

What a love letter to a friend.   

Mary Karr

Stumbled into a fantastic podcast with the, unknown to me, poet Mary Karr which led me to the rabbit hole of reading more about her.   In the spirit of a day filled with much to-do, I will leave this line of hers right here and hope to come back for more later. 

“Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.” - Mary Karr.

Stutz

 Netflix has a documentary style movie starring therapist Phil Stutz.  Though I wanted more of the special, one piece stayed with me.  I'm paraphrasing here but something like: 

True confidence is living with uncertainty and moving forward.  The winner is not the one who makes the best decisions or looks the best, the winner is the one who works that cycle....

I believe that something missing from today's youth is a comfort level with being wrong and persevering.  It's ok to be wrong.  In fact, if you're not wrong often, you're not playing high enough stakes. 

Feeling motivated

 We've all heard the expression, people will overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year.  I'm starting this 2023 season with more clarity than years before, perhaps because we have been derailed by COVID for a few years and we finally seem back to normal and I'm not spending energy trying to get masks off children in school and other unfortunate political dramas.  

In any case, I'm motivated this year to read more, write more and work a bit harder and with more focus to get things accomplished.   

"People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe."
 Simon Sinek 

Back to closing rings

 I don't remember when I took off my apple watch.  I know it had something to do with the hassle of remembering to charge it.   I bought a Garmin, I do prefer the look but as since I am so analog and tech-uninterested, learning a new operating system was just never in my scope. 

So today I'm powering back the ol' Apple Watch.  Hoping to stay accountable for to steps and heart rate and other things that make us healthier.   There is some gratification in the closing of those rings!