You Sleep When You Die

You don’t have to be an economist these days to see that there are a whole lot of good people out there in search of a limited number of good jobs. If the experts can be trusted, the economy has cratered, employers are wary of making any new hires, and the outlook for the future continues to be bleak for just about everyone.

Fortunately, the experts are dead wrong.

Too many people judge their level of success in life by the kind of club they belong to. They use some club membership they’ve attained to generate some kind of positive “buzz” about the people they know, the things they have achieved, or the income level they’ve reached. So what? Is that really success?

Lately, I’ve been spending time at a new kind of club — one that has those other clubs beat. These days, my team and I have been getting together at a place called the Carver Ranches Club.

Charles J. Sykes wrote a book called, “50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.” You’ve probably heard or read excerpts from it, whether you realize it or not. I got an email this week from a friend that reminded me just how on-point Sykes is in his book, so I wanted to share.

The signs had been there for awhile, but the announcement finally came last week: Borders filed for bankruptcy. The 40-year old retail giant will be closing 200 of its more than 650 stores and laying off of a large portion of its nearly 20,000 person workforce.

Did anyone NOT see this coming??

If I had to sum up my life in one word, it would be insanity. Yes, INSANITY. Anything else in life is just normal. ‘Insane’ doesn’t have to be a bad word. We’ve been programmed throughout our lives to think ‘insanity’ is a bad thing, but ‘insane’ just means you think different…act different. And in reality, that’s what we should all strive for.