Seemed appropriate for today.
My friend Steve Best on breathing new life into an old iMac. What we believe in.
Today: Painting the hallway and stairwell.
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
— John Ruskin
Today’s stay at home activity: Ceiling paint in the stairwell and hallway.
The Influencers — Shawn Mihalik
My friend Shawn has a new book out today. I’ve loved everything I’ve read of his so far and have no doubt I’ll love this too. So excited!
(P.S. Particles is my personal fave of his)
My wife with a gentle reminder to the finger pointers: The Problem Might Not Be the Person You Think It Is
In these times, with polls and statistics being thrown around like beads and boobs on Mardi Gras Day, here’s a reminder about the numbers
TL;DR: Numbers given without full and complete transparency are propaganda.
Annie Mueller with some good advice: 18 things to remember when your income disappears
To Help and Be Helped
I’m one of those people who loves to help others. It fills me with a sense of satisfaction and usefulness. Therefore, I enjoy when people reach out and ask for my help with a problem I can solve. It feels really good to meet a real need.
Paradoxically, I’m terrible at asking for help when I need it. I feel guilty and ashamed. I feel like I’m asking for something I don’t deserve. But, when I do humbly accept and receive help I really needed, it feels so good.
I was last night years old when it occurred to me that in asking for help I’m likely opening the opportunity for those, like myself, that really are filled up by helping. It is a gift for them as much as it is a blessing for me. That by being vulnerable I’m allowing others to use their strengths. Also, I’m making it easier for them to ask of me in the future. Not because we consider a favor owed but because we have an understanding of the symbiosis between the helper and the helped. We’ve humbled ourselves and have been seen vulnerable and thus communicate to the other that it is safe to do so with us.