foolishnotions.net

hey look! all the stuff that was on the bottom two weeks ago is now on the top… including my calendar. quite a talent don’t you think?

posted from iPhoneSlide.com

this is matt (a.k.a. smatty or hazmat). he is our resident bass player at the rock and star of flipside’s kick me short feature films. he gets the prize for the best lunch room story of the day.

matt: “the other night i put a dollar in my pocket and went home. i took my pants off and set them to the side. and when i got up in the morning, i put those same pants on again, and i looked in the pocket and there was a dollar bill in there.”

(longer than short silent pause)

me: “is that it?”

matt: “yeah, that’s it.”

the best part… he was sincerely sharing an experience that had made his day. we laughed until we cried at lunch today. i love lunch. i love these people.

set them up for success.

this concept has been stuck in my head for weeks. i am a volleyball player, a setter (obviously), albeit on a long sabatical. i really need to fix that this summer. anyway, if a volleyball team doesn’t have a good passer and setter it makes no difference whatsoever how hard your big man can hit. he’ll never have the chance.tonight i skipped to the end of this book i’m reading (i know, i can’t help it – it’s completely involuntary). this is what I found…

“a call for change without clearly defined core beliefs and behaviors is like conducting a job performance evaluation on an employee who has never received a job description. the employee walks away with a semiclear understanding at what failing at his or her job looks like. but no real understanding of what it means to succeed.

it is not enough to communicate, ‘things need to change around here.’ that’s akin to kicking over an ant bed. to get things back on course things must be exceedingly clear.” ::andy stanley, visioneering::

this is good information to have under your belt BEFORE things get off course, don’t you think? this is why I read and this is why I pray. so I don’t unwittingly go around kicking ant hills.

set them up for success.

so this is what has me up tonight. what is keeping you up till the wee hours?

i have been over my blog layout for a while now. but i’ve convinced myself not to touch it until i finish the design for the new rock web site. web design, though on my proverbial plate at the rock, is usually last morsel to be consumed on my priority list.

so, at the very least i have to keep foolishnotions up to date…. right? i updated to the latest version of wordpress. now everything is screwed up. i have funky characters everywhere. anywhere i have posted a video has become a disaster area with posts and videos scattered about the page.

so, if you dig deep enough into my site you will discover the ugly truth of this. but, i’m not touching it. so, in case you are wondering if i have fallen from geekdom…. i have to allow myself not to care. cause i really have to do this other thing.

so, ya’ll just read between the lines for a while…. k? thanks.