Today’s Resolution: Call or Visit an Elderly Relative
Pat’s grandma recently had a fall and has been spending some time in rehab — on her birthday! So while I stayed home with the flu and a rockin’ fever (so as not to kill all the old people), he went to visit for hugs and kisses that only a 98 year-old grandma can provide! And me? I called my Grandfather and made more solid plans about our upcoming trip to Florida where he’s renting us a house.
Today’s Resolution: Take the Stairs
Today we went to Chinatown in Boston and although we accidentally took an elevator once only because there was no other choice, we did take the stairs a bunch of times. Seek proof in the below video of our trip to Chinatown!
Today’s Resolution: Do Something That Terrifies You
Even though I do it often and get praised each time that I do it, public speaking is still pretty terrifying. You’d never know it once I start speaking, but the days and minutes leading up to those hours at the podium make me restless, and until recently I thought I was the only one until a well-known speaker told me that he’s just as terrified as the rest of us. Public speaking is something like the #1 most feared thing to do, and for me, I’d be nervous if I was at a podium talking about my favorite color, so presenting for three, to five, to eight hours takes some time preparing your nerves for the adrenaline.
In any case, I talked social media at the Mequoda Summit for the something-th time today, and as usual, once I got started I couldn’t shut up.
Today’s Resolution: Do Something That Takes Your Breath Away
Oh hey, we’re in Colorado! How easy is it to have your breath taken away here? Pretty easy. Today we went to see “The Garden of the Gods” in Colorado Springs and it was amazing.
Today’s Resolution: Share a Photo From Your Perspective
We spent most of the day today traveling. First in lines of thousands of people at the airport (TSA opened an hour late) and then on the plane, and then driving to Denver, Colorado. Did I mention it’s only 4 hours to Colorado? I already want to come back and I only just got here.
Resolution: Draw a Comic About Your Day
I hate listening to complainers, and today wasn’t a bad day, but it was a lot of cramming all of our priorities into one morning, afternoon and night that barely fit. So my admittedly poorly drawn, extremely shallow, unemotional, barely abstract comic basically just admits that any day can be solved with a taco and two bowls of lucky charms even when you’re running a way-more-than-full-time business while taking care of the hiccups of life too.
Resolution: Eat Your Daily Servings of Fruit
I’ll admit that I was ill-prepared for this one. In fact, the only fruit available in the house today (and we were too busy to go shopping) were these tiny bouncy-ball sized oranges and I must have eaten twelve of them. I also ate a frozen banana. Other than that, the Edible Arrangement my mom got me a couple weeks ago would have been a welcome delivery today.