Comments on: Connecting the Dots http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/connecting-the-dots/ Create your future. Solve problems. Impact eternity. Live - really live - today. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: kenSwitzer http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/connecting-the-dots/comment-page-1/#comment-454 kenSwitzer Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:12:22 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/22/connecting-the-dots/#comment-454 I think Tree Newt made a very important, yet well hidden, statement. "how much better prepared would I be for each day?" OK, I guess that is a question not a statement, but you get the idea. I am very good under pressure. I practice very hard for the times that I HAVE to step up or something bad might happen. This is in everything that I do. At work, I love deadline day. We get so much work put out that it always amazes me. I have often thought that I would like to be a cop. However, after knowing several over the years, I think the mundane time would put me over the edge. Repeated calls about the same thing and the same people not wanting anything done about it, except to have me show up and wave my gun around. Alright, but I am shooting someone or something. OK, the next thing is Air Traffic Control in a very large market. That would be fun...for a while. Back on topic I train myself to be put into the hard spots so that I know how I will react to every situation that could arise as an emergency. I don't, however, train myself for the times that nothing big happens. You know, those days that you get up, go to work, come home, see the family and go to bed. I need more training in how to handle those days. I do not know how to live, love and BE normal. Normal has been a four letter word in my world for a long time. How can I make the best use of my time on those days? How can I remind my family that I love them if I am not risking my life pulling them from a burning building while my hair is on fire. If I become normal am I a failure? Will I not remember how to react in an emergency? How can I train for normal? Do I "need" to train for normal? If you are still reading this and looking for the answers to the previous questions, I am sorry. Hopefully, someone Andy will respond with some brilliant nuggets of wisdom. kenSwitzer I think Tree Newt made a very important, yet well hidden, statement.
“how much better prepared would I be for each day?”
OK, I guess that is a question not a statement, but you get the idea.

I am very good under pressure. I practice very hard for the times that I HAVE to step up or something bad might happen. This is in everything that I do. At work, I love deadline day. We get so much work put out that it always amazes me. I have often thought that I would like to be a cop. However, after knowing several over the years, I think the mundane time would put me over the edge. Repeated calls about the same thing and the same people not wanting anything done about it, except to have me show up and wave my gun around. Alright, but I am shooting someone or something. OK, the next thing is Air Traffic Control in a very large market. That would be fun…for a while.

Back on topic

I train myself to be put into the hard spots so that I know how I will react to every situation that could arise as an emergency. I don’t, however, train myself for the times that nothing big happens. You know, those days that you get up, go to work, come home, see the family and go to bed. I need more training in how to handle those days. I do not know how to live, love and BE normal. Normal has been a four letter word in my world for a long time.

How can I make the best use of my time on those days?
How can I remind my family that I love them if I am not risking my life pulling them from a burning building while my hair is on fire.
If I become normal am I a failure?
Will I not remember how to react in an emergency?
How can I train for normal?
Do I “need” to train for normal?

If you are still reading this and looking for the answers to the previous questions, I am sorry. Hopefully, someone Andy will respond with some brilliant nuggets of wisdom.

kenSwitzer

]]> By: Andy Wood http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/connecting-the-dots/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Andy Wood Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:35:52 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/22/connecting-the-dots/#comment-453 Yep. My father-in-law is a surgeon and avid runner. He told me that aerobic exercise is good for 48 hours, and that's about - it has to be repeated. A good analogy, I think. Another idea that SOUNDS great, if I do it, is to pray when things aren't urgent so that we have strength and insight when they are. Yep. My father-in-law is a surgeon and avid runner. He told me that aerobic exercise is good for 48 hours, and that’s about – it has to be repeated. A good analogy, I think.

Another idea that SOUNDS great, if I do it, is to pray when things aren’t urgent so that we have strength and insight when they are.

]]> By: Tree Newt http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/connecting-the-dots/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Tree Newt Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:23:15 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/22/connecting-the-dots/#comment-452 In Boy Scouts, we constantly recited the motto "Be prepared!" It's so simple, yet how many of us do it? I think I go through life reacting to events, rather than taking the time to train myself long before the events ever take place. But, I can look back and see how, even in my missteps and such that God has used even things that I wasn't prepared for to make me ready for what was coming down the road. Yet, If I had spent a bit more time in prayer and in the Word, how much better prepared would I be for each day? I think the answer to that is akin to a term from the financial world: compound interest! Great post, Andy! In Boy Scouts, we constantly recited the motto “Be prepared!” It’s so simple, yet how many of us do it? I think I go through life reacting to events, rather than taking the time to train myself long before the events ever take place. But, I can look back and see how, even in my missteps and such that God has used even things that I wasn’t prepared for to make me ready for what was coming down the road.

Yet, If I had spent a bit more time in prayer and in the Word, how much better prepared would I be for each day? I think the answer to that is akin to a term from the financial world: compound interest!

Great post, Andy!

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