This could be it.
No...I mean it.
Things are getting a bit out of control.
Immigration reform is huge right now. America is a nation of immigrants that gave the finger to the King of England because he was trying to be Boss of us. This topic is a dynamite to anyone who dares to tackle it and I hope the people we hired to run the show can figure out how best to handle it.
Iran wants nuclear energy and is going as fast as their little feet can take them to get it. And they seem to think that no one can or will do anything to stop them.
Energy prices are going through the roof and both of our political parties are blowing wind about how it's the other guy's fault and if you put us in office, blah-blah-blah. In the mean time it costs about a hundred bucks for a family to fill up the SUV.
Here's the kicker. With all this going on, I actually read a quote in a newspaper that was based out of the Northeast in a city that never sleeps that said (and I'm paraphrasing here):
"Not since Jesus has the birth of a child been so anticipated as the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby."
You have got to me kidding me.
With all the important and history making changes that are happening right now, someone thinks that the birth of a child... to people who make pretend for a living...is on the same plane as the birth of a religious figure.
What's wrong with this.
Maybe we all need to step back, turn off the cell phones, junk the e-mail and take a breathe.
Maybe we need to re-think what's important to us. I'm only thirty seven years old.
I found out recently that a guy I work with that's younger than I am, has a possible brain tumor.
Another person I work with has gone through a bout with cancer and lived. He is forty five.
My best friend in the world, who I've know since we were in the sixth grade, recently was diagnosed with Graves Disease and had to take a radio active pill to kill his thyroid, which had gone ballistic on him. He's my age.
Let's get back to the basics. Shut off the phone. Grab your wife, take a three day weekend and go on a road trip with just the two of you.
Take a day off from work and take the kids somewhere. Cook a special meal for that special someone. Chill out.
Grab a good book that you've wanted to read. Secrets of the Shaolin Temple Volume I is a book that I have been reading and re-reading for some time now. Being a martial artist and history nut, it's got everything in it I enjoy in a book.
Every time I read it, I'll pick up a new principle, technique or philosophy. Or I'll be reminded of one I already knew and wasn't applying. You can go see for yourself at www.shaolinsecrets.com.
Give yourself a "Check Up from the Neck Up" and see if you are looking at things from the right perspective.
I got my wife to do it. She has a chronic condition; she's always cold.
It could be seventy degrees out with the window open and if there is slight breeze, she's jumping up and down saying, "It's soooo cold."
Last night she was squeaking that she was cold and I looked at her and said, "Baby, Antarctica is cold. The North Pole...that's cold. Our freezer is cold. It's not cold if it's sixty eight degrees in here."
She laughed and said, "Okay... you got me." We both curled up with a good book and enjoyed being together...and not being cold.
Go to www.shaolinsecrets.com and get Secrets of the Shaolin Temple Volume I and turn the world off for a while.
You'll be glad you did.
Best,
William Huff