Vulnerability

Living a Limitless Life

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to keep it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
— C.S. Lewis

Hey there, good morning; we got another 8 inches up here.  My meeting in Golden is now moved to virtual; I’ll miss that hour drive there and back; I might use that to prospect a little.  It’s 5:33 here; the FBS coffee is rich, dark, and wonderful.  The fireplace is an excellent addition to my right; PVHT just finished breakfast and headed back up to lay with my Queen.

We worked from home until 2:15; we headed to SQL Health to get our first shot.   We got the German one, Pfizer, I think they called it.  We had set up our appointments at the same time.  We arrived, and my Queen said, “where the hell are we?” I said, “that was the address on my appointment.  She said, “mine shows a different location. 

We entered the facility, something out of the television show MASH.  A warehouse-type building that they had up to a makeshift clinic.  The people were friendly and helpful. After a few moments of conversation, my Queen was able to get an appointment, and we sat side by side and got our shots.

After the shot, we had to sit and wait 15 minutes to make sure it did not kill us.  We left the clinic at the start of a snowstorm and drove the hour back home in some dicey weather.  Our road to the house is not a fun trip when the roads are covered in snow, one misstep, and you are rolling down the mountain.  We made it home; my Queen made a garbanzo bean salad with Gyros. Neither of us reacted to the shot; this morning, my right arm is sore to the touch, but overall no side effects.  We will get our second shot in Indiana and mark this life event off our list.

I’ve got my monthly board meeting today.  That’s the one that I was going to drive to, but now due to the weather, I’ll hang out from the confines of our home.  We will head down the hill; we seem to have the same spot on our backs; it looks like skin cancer.  We will get our backs looked at, and if they need to scoop, we’ll get the ice cream scooper.  We both had a spot on our nose a few years ago, exact location, same cancer,  we had surgery, I don’t think we will need plastic surgery on our backs.  At our age, we expect some skin cancer.   We don’t shy away from the sun.

Life is meant to be lived, and when you live, you will have things that result from your whole life—a reminder of Uncle Hunter’s famous quote. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

And what a ride it has been and for the foreseeable future will be.  One of my students is coming into town from Texas; we have dinner with him and his wife.  I picked the steak house midway between Denver and our home.  They have the best martini’s, but alas, I’m going booze-free with some friends for a couple of weeks.  One of my friends realized he was sipping too much asked for some support and most of the group said, “I’m in.” It’s nice to have friends jump in when you see troubled waters. 

I slept well last night; we started a new series, the man in the high castle.  A creative premise, decent acting, lavish sets, 40 hours of content, so far, so good.  I started a book yesterday; I find when I take sabbaticals from drinking, I read more.  The sunrise is just beginning to come up; the band of orange is filling the sky.  Soon, my friend, the sun will show her beautiful face and reveal a snow-covered paradise.

My Queen has some larger accounts in the works; she’s running appointments in a new niche that we have an excellent pipeline flowing.  I’m happy with our Q1 results; our team is gelling, we are looking to add a couple more teammates.  If you are a customer service agent living in the U.S. of A. and your current agency asks you to go to their agency, we will allow you to work from the comfort of your home.  Send me a message, and I’ll connect you with our operations manager. 

I’ve been making some small investments in my new company. I am choosing vendors that can help me expand my reach, find people who need what I have, and pay to learn and grow.  I’ve hired Bay for 3 hours a week to help me keep things moving and in order.  She’s my detail; I’ll just provide vision and teach.  Our trek up the second mountain has begun.

My Indiana dance card has begun to fill up; I’m able to look out and plan my days.  A couple of days a week, I set aside for my BPC and northern clients; the other three days, I tend to stay in Indianapolis, serve my clients there, and connect with my referral network.  My Indianapolis referral network continues to grow and thrive.  I meet a few new people virtually per week and then pick the people I meet in person when home.  I’m growing my network out west as well, it’s a few spinning plates, but I would live my life no other way.

And from my anything is possible cabinet.  I ran a call with my new friend Brandon yesterday.  His assistant, his Bay, is traveling across the country in a pull-behind trailer.  She worked from her tiny home and was in AZ yesterday.  Many jobs no longer require you to be in an office; you can mobilize yourself and your life and contribute to society.  Imagine working from a beach, a mountain, or a rain forest.  Anything is possible if you put your mind to it.  We invited her to stop by when heading back east.  We might have made a new friend.

Well, there you go, words from a man with a kind heart, a good work ethic, a mindset of success and abundance.   These features and benefits have allowed me and my wife to live a life of wonder and excitement.  I hope you too are living your best life, and if not, why?  What is stopping you from achieving daily bliss in your life?  I will share that ever is blocking; you can be overcome with some determination and hard work. Life has no limitations; limitations are head trash.

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to keep it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
— C.S. Lewis