1    Find something you love and build on it 

Literally.  Work on something with your hands (not always a computer). Planning helps, but building things from scratch (or while scratching your head) can be great too.​​

 

2    Life is to be lived, not controlled

Being caught in a hurricane in the middle of the ocean and being thought as lost at sea for over 20 days made me truly realize that you are just a speck of something greater and that most things are way out of your singular control

 

3    I could push, pull & flip things all day

More physically. Only rarely mentally… 

My father used to call me “Buttons”.  From him, I was fortunate enough to learn a quality of determined curiosity and that if you push the right buttons, pull the correct levers, or flip the right switch, something positive will happen.

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4    You don’t have to be a total maniac to be a great at your job and be successful

I was an assistant to plenty of them.  Most of them burned out or got burned.  Just be consistent, creative, persistent and a valued problem solver.  You’ll do just fine. 

Oh, Qigong helps too…

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5    I don’t like the taste of frogs – not even their legs

But I do like turning them upside down on their back and rubbing their tummy so they go to sleep. 

So curious why they do that. Frogs are cool.