Welcome back Jill Carroll
by Administrator
Anyone following the news knows that Jill Carroll was abducted in Iraq quite some time ago. On multiple occassions, she should have been killed. But she wasn’t.
This is a seriously brave girl. No doubt she had previously seen pretty gruesome tapes of others before her being shot and beheaded. It must be a pretty miserable feeling waking up each morning thinking that you’ve got about a 50% chance of living that day. It really puts life in perspective. I run around spending a lot of time worry about technology and the business of my career. Sometimes I take it too seriously. It just isn’t worth it if it isn’t fun because it isn’t that important. Yet, I’m probably more guilty than anyone when it comes to stress management. And as I think about it right now, I have to admit that I feel a bit silly. Not one single thing that I worried about over the last 30 days was really worth worrying about. The hard part is “untraining” yourself to stop worrying about the 80% of the things that don’t require your worried attention. And the irony of it all is that if I really could retrain myself to be LESS concerned about most of those things I’m certain that I’d be even more effective in every area of my life.
But I digress. Welcome home Jill Carroll!
Comments
I have an employee, 33, doesnt drink, smoke, eat red meat, he works out a few times a week to stay healthy and reduce the stress of working with large databases at a local wireless company.
He had a rash on his arm that he wanted to go get checked out at Swedish. WHile getting the basic look over and expecting to get his perscription and a “dont scratch” for 7 days, the found a heart murrmor during the “take a deap breath, agian, again…” portion of the exam.
He just flew back to India last friday for open heart surgury. he said everything in life seemed perfect and yet the last 10 days since the rash visit has consumed his every waking and sleeping moments. he said he almost wishes he would have just gone to Walgrenes and got a creme and dealt with it.
He is still deciding if it was a good thing, a peice of good news, “caught it just in time” or the begining of a new decreasing chapter in his life.
My thougts are you never know… i would raise your 80% to 90% – 95%. we fill our lives with som much fodder that sometimes it takes looking into the abys and having a true “reality check” step up, slap us, shake us and leave us dangling by a peice of frayed yarn and its up to us to crawl back over the edge and then MAKE SOMETHING of our lives worth meaning.
My two cents, you never know.
Live like you have a rash.
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