How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!
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YooperDog I am learning too, but I guess I am a slow learner & still have that itch in my back about getting my energy back, no, just half of it. Heck, I would be completely satisfied with 1/4.
calldoctoday I get up early and work late, but now I take a step or two back and enjoy the sunrise and sunset. I have plenty of irons in the fire now as I have in the past but I have started (forcing myself) to enjoy the process. My mom, 84 YO is the same, frustrated that she can’t accomplish everything she wants daily. Maybe it is a genetic thing. I know some that don’t do a thing and are happy campers.
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calldoctoday I get up early and work late, but now I take a step or two back and enjoy the sunrise and sunset. I have plenty of irons in the fire now as I have in the past but I have started (forcing myself) to enjoy the process. My mom, 84 YO is the same, frustrated that she can’t accomplish everything she wants daily. Maybe it is a genetic thing. I know some that don’t do a thing and are happy campers.
YooperDog I understand. I have always seen both as well. Some learn to stop & smell the roses & some still get pricked by the thorns. I have learned to stop & smell them a bit more & enjoy the ride, but still wish I could do a better job of it & eliminate a few more of those pesky thorns too. I guess I am asking for too much, wanting to have the best of both worlds.
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@dennyo If that is they way you want to put it, yes, I got corn poned too. Just trying to move on now for the past just about 10 years doing my own thing & making every effort to do a good job for my customers & give them the very best. It does not pay quite as well, but feels much better. I just cannot afford to retire now with those changes & out the door just before 55. Now some days I don’t know if I ever want to retire & some days I think I should if I can get my younger son completely set up for the future with the business. There is plenty to do around the place that I am way behind on, so I would not be sitting on my laurels. The amazing thing to me is that I used to work at least an 8 hour day & usually much, much more, every day, build or restore our own homes, keep the garden & preserve all we needed, butcher animals & hunt, sometimes work a second or third job, & go to school on some nights or weekends & still have energy left to give. Now, I can some days hardly do one thing, & getting further & further behind my the day. That is depressing just writing it.
calldoctoday So you had health care taken away from you too?
That was my meaning in the previous post.
“OH, NO! Did you get the dried up corn cob in the derriere like GWG8541 ?”Denny O’s-Smokey Bones
I’d rather be sit’in in a boat and thinking about God,
Than sit’n in church and thinking about fish’in! -
calldoctoday So you had health care taken away from you too?
That was my meaning in the previous post.
“OH, NO! Did you get the dried up corn cob in the derriere like GWG8541 ?”@dennyo Health Care & a few other things.
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calldoctoday I feel your pain. I just learned to accept the fact that I will be as productive as I can everyday, but also learn to enjoy everyday. Take time to spell the roses as they say
YooperDog said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
Take time to spell the roses as they say
Amen brother, it took two back surgeries for me to come to that realization, but I will say it is indeed a true statement.
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calldoctoday So you had health care taken away from you too?
That was my meaning in the previous post.
“OH, NO! Did you get the dried up corn cob in the derriere like GWG8541 ?”@dennyo here’s the thing. I don’t work half as hard as I used to and I will never put the job in front if my family. I have always told the new rookies at work, “this is what we do, it’s not who you are”. There’s nothing wrong with hard work, as long as your priorities are in order.
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@dennyo Health Care & a few other things.
calldoctoday , That is so wrong!
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YooperDog said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
Take time to spell the roses as they say
Amen brother, it took two back surgeries for me to come to that realization, but I will say it is indeed a true statement.
mrobisr said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
YooperDog said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
Take time to spell the roses as they say
Amen brother, it took two back surgeries for me to come to that realization, but I will say it is indeed a true statement.
I’ ve been there too, trying to avoid the third one that will lock me up in the federal way!
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@dennyo here’s the thing. I don’t work half as hard as I used to and I will never put the job in front if my family. I have always told the new rookies at work, “this is what we do, it’s not who you are”. There’s nothing wrong with hard work, as long as your priorities are in order.
GWG8541 said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
@dennyo here’s the thing. I don’t work half as hard as I used to and I will never put the job in front if my family. I have always told the new rookies at work, “this is what we do, it’s not who you are”. There’s nothing wrong with hard work, as long as your priorities are in order.
How can I give your comment more than one like?
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mrobisr said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
YooperDog said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
Take time to spell the roses as they say
Amen brother, it took two back surgeries for me to come to that realization, but I will say it is indeed a true statement.
I’ ve been there too, trying to avoid the third one that will lock me up in the federal way!
@dennyo-s said in How Can I Keep Up With You Guys??!:
trying to avoid the third one
Me too, sounds like we are in the same boat.
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