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If you want to be effective, start affecting what you can affect–or become a freak by freaking out about what you consider freaky.
The rule of croak–it’s very simple:
If it goes on after I die, I will stop worrying about it while I live.
I have sons with wives and I have grandchildren. They have lives of their own and will do just fine after I escape this mortal portal. All that will be left of me is a memory, so I should be about the business of making memories.
I know it is popular to believe that life is hard. I suppose if you decide to complicate it by involving yourself in matters that do not directly pertain to your field of activity and scope of influence…well, perhaps it becomes twisted.
But it is elementary when you school yourself on your field of expertise and you know exactly what makes you unique to life as we know it.
- My family will go on without me.
- The Dow Jones will not lose a point upon hearing of my death.
- CNN and FOX News will have no controversy concerning my demise.
What will be affected are my writings, my music, my traveling, my heart, my humor, my ideas, my wit, my whimsy, and probably my business partner, who’s been working with me for eighteen years and may notice for a season that the “oom-pah” of her life has lost some “oom.”
So since this is directly in my field of play, it is what I will pursue.
It reminds me of the time when someone asked me if I wanted to play hardball or softball. When I examined the two balls, I saw that both would be rather hard if they hit you. What makes softball more pleasing is that it is pitched your way underhanded, it’s slower and it’s bigger, and therefore easier to hit.
There you go.
The rule of croak is like the game of softball–finding the pitches that come your way, keeping your eye on that big ball and doing your best to hit it out of the park.
True pride and vanity is any notion that we have power, influence or even consideration in any matters other than those directly linked to us.
I reject that vanity.
So to my children, friends, the US government and the rest of Planet Earth, let me tell you that I will give you a blessing–and myself one as well:
I will stay out of your business unless I know I have something that will help, and I will focus on what I can do and keep doing it better and better … until I’m no longer allowed to hop around.
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