…”The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. I had earlier watched his hour long lecture, but the book has more details and also parts about his r/s with his wife that he didn’t dare talk about in his last lecture due his not being able to handle the emotional trauma on stage. Parts or stuff I like that we can all learn from:

I am a spreader. My clothes, clean and dirty are spread around the bedroom, and my bathroom sink is cluttered. It drives Jai crazy. Before I got sick, she’d say something. But Dr. Reiss has advised her not to let small things trip us up. Obviously I ought to be neater. I owe Jai many apologies. But she has stopped telling me about the minor stuff that bugs her. do we really want to spend our last months together arguing that I haven’t hung up my khakis? We do no. So now Jai kicks my clothes into a corner and moves on. 

I think many of us live with situations like the above…and this is reminder to us to not sweat the small stuff I guess.

When we send our kids to play organized sports-football, soccer, swimming, whatever-for most of us, it’s not because we’re desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, preseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity.

I totally agree with the above statement and the experience of my own days with an organized sports stays with me indelibly. I too hope one day, when I have kids to be able to expose, give them the opportunity and support them in some kind of sporting activity.

Take time out-…time is all you have. and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

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One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about because I have a plan in place if they do.

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Make a decision: Tigger or Eeyore