Share In His Wonderful Life's Journey
Knowing I didn't have anything pressing early this morning, I decided to spend another couple of hours getting the weeds in my garden under control. After having finally come up with a now tried and true way to keep the weed population down year over year, pretty much all I have to do is go after those germinated weed seeds which managed to survive the winter. I fully-well knew the expansion of my existing garden was gonna have a 1st year weed problem, and that's exactly what I've had to focus on the most. As long as I can keep that new section weed-free this season, I'll be clear sailing next year.
Truth be told, it wasn't a hectic Friday, but I managed to keep busy enough with phone calls to clients and customers, real estate research, calls to several banks, along with placing calls to tree surgeons and excavators. Luckily I was able to get my questions answered and ball-park prices on work a future client of mine will be needing done.
I had a very soulful conversation with one of my long-term clients today who for the first time, mentioned how freely and willingly he's paid for strangers' meals in restaurants, and sometimes even paying for all those who were still seated, along with a number of other little self-less acts of kindness which always end up giving him a deep and lasting good feeling.
We both had to laugh about how some for whom we freely do things, end up taking our acts of kindness as being part of some sort of hidden agenda, which at times would cause me to get a little sassy by saying, “I don't freely do things for people unless I want to, and please don't think I've got any sort of grand plan to take advantage of you in the future, or expect something in return other than a simple thank you.” There've been a handful of those I've given to, whom I'll never gift again, and only because they were the ones with hidden agendas, and the bulk of them being either long-time colleagues or blood relatives, and in spite of their kicking-back on me, I've simply chalked it all up as hard lessons learned.
You can bet I was given a lift after hearing his gifting stories, because it's offered me hope that there'll continue to be more people coming to the realization that it's indeed NOT all about them, and as I've said a number of times, it's not all about me, and not all about you, but rather all about we, and if we don't take care of each other, we'll all end up in the abyss.
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My afternoon appointment which took me out of town, ended up being a good 'first encounter' with a seller who's finally decided it's time to unload a home that he's owned for a number of years, and in spite of the amount of work it's needing, underneath all of those distracting visuals, I discovered it still has some darned good bones, so once it's fully cleaned-out, I'm sure there'll be a do-it-yourselfer or investor who'll snap it up because of its square footage, lot size and location. In spite of never knowing exactly what a home will bring, I gave him a conservative ball-park figure of what I believe it'll sell for. If I were looking for a home to 'flip', I'd be jumping on that one for sure. I still can't get out of my mind, that rickety bucket of bones that was lipsticked and then ended up selling for well over $150K several years ago. To this day, every time I drive past it, I shake my head in disbelief.
Since I decided to take the long way home, I came in from the south on Eisenhower, and for whatever reason, my eyes began focusing on the Legacy Country Club, and the closer I got to it, the more dead trees I was seeing, and just to make sure I wasn't just seeing things, I purposely turned and drove down Country Club Drive, and then back around. Oh my gosh! They're gonna be paying some big bucks to get all those dead and dying Ash trees removed. Until today, I never would've considered them having Ash trees growing in the Country Club. Oh well, they're continuing to spend money right and left, so I doubt the cost of removing a 'few' trees gonna make any sort of difference?
For whatever reason, I still can't get my brain wrapped-around the concept of spending millions up millions of dollars on a privately-held golf course in a blue-collar city which has a declining population. Evidently there's absolutely no consideration regarding any sort of return on equity in a generation or two, so perhaps the owner's just wanting us to share in his wonderful life's journey. Oh well, if a 60 year old person's net worth is that high, then who cares, because as we all come to realize more later than sooner, we can't take it with us. Right?
Tonight's One-liner is: It's easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.