What's in your tool box
Have you ever tried to hammer a nail with a screw driver? How about accurately measure a length of woof using a hammer, or maybe change a flat tyre using a can opener? It doesn't work so well does it? (Note: If you say yes here you need some serious help.)
I think it's fair to say that using the right tool for the job at hand is quite important; It saves time, potential damage and simply completes the job correctly. It's the same with us, humans I mean, and having the right tools in our personal tool boxes and knowing when to use each one is critically important to productivity in life, efficiency and I suppose overall success too.
I've been given a lot of advice in my life, some I've taken, some I've discarded and some I have adapted to suit my life, ethos and morals. I see advice like tools, something I can use to perform a job, bring out of the tool box at the appropriate time, use to good effect and replace when done.
I can't select what I consider to be the best piece of advice I've been given but I can list a few that I keep with me at all times:
- The best way to increase your own self-esteem is to increase someone else's.
- Always be humble, courteous and kind.
- Love is like a butterfly, hold on too loose and it may fly away, hold on too tight and you may crush it. (Mum said this to me not long before she passed away.)
- Failure brings you closer to being ready to accept success. (Thanks for this one dad.)
These, along with many other things I've been told and have read, sit within my tool box to be called upon when required and I put them to good use, often.
Yesterday I counselled someone at work who was not performing well from a personal or work perspective and I gave them some advice. I won't go into it here but it made me think about all the bits and pieces of advice we've been given along the way and what value they may have to us.
It gave me an idea to come here and ask you guys about what you may have in your own tool boxes, and if you would be kind enough to share some with me.
So, if you want to play along please feel free to drop someting into the comments or do your own post tagging #mytoolbox so I can find it. You don't have to share anything personal and it can be something you've been told, have read or learned somewhere, or that you tell others. There's no right or wrong answers here, just your advice which may help me, or someone else in some small way.
I'll leave you with the most important phrase I have in my tool box, the driving factor behind everything I do in life, indeed how I think in life...You know what I'm going to write because I end my posts with it but I'll say it again..."Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default."
So, please join in, I think it could be cool to see what you guys have in your life-tool-boxes.
Tomorrow isn't promised - Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default
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Pictured is a Lego tool designed to halp connect and pull-apart Lego peices...It's not in my life tool box, but certainly is part of my Lego tool box which...Well, only has one tool in it.
Hey, I love my hammer/side cutters.
I think my post was more about a person's personal tool box of advice and ethos than actual tools but a hammer is ok too I guess.
Danget! I should’ve tagged #satire, huh? Shoot! 👍🏿
Alright, to prove myself not always the condescending type (that’s a lie, I always am), I’ll share a few that have resonated with me, @galenkp.
In my toolbox, a few tools amongst many:
Over 20 years ago when I got married the first time, my grandmother told me “the sooner you can accept no two people are the same the sooner you can be happy.”
Also, another one regarding marriage. One of my mentor’s, Philly, told me “marriage is a matrimony that defies the realm of friendship, over time, you acquire each other’s karma.”
And, lastly, “if you can’t fix it with a hammer—it ain’t broke!” <— that’s my own (you’re welcome to use it).
Ah ok, I had a fairly hectic day so maybe by satire-o-meter is not working properly tonight. All good.
I love this one! I've been married for 26 years and we've been together for 32...So, we must have acquired each other's karma...Or will soon I hope. Lol.
carefull there, they say karma is a bitch
Haha...Some say I am too...But what they really mean is rockstar.
Yes! I mean, not yes to your hectic day but “yes!” as in I’m not in this alone!
Ok, I’m back. Just surpassed year 4. My First one lasted 13 months so I’d say I’m off to a great start! It only required a 14n1/2 year gap in between the two but I like where the wait landed me.
I liked your downvote post, too. I receive so many downvotes, between 30-40 per article, I had to turn off my notifications on esteemapp and I can’t even think of the last time I signed into steempeak.
Buncha maggots.
I was going to write that we work hard at our marriage but it really hasn't been all that hard. We just apply some give and take, a little understanding and it seems to work. 🙂
I don't give a shit about the downvotes...Makes zero difference to what I do and in fact has increased what I earn by at least double so...yeah...They can keep it coming.
I’ll let you know if and when my rewards double and it probably won’t read like this: They annoy the ish outta me! Actually caused me to shop around other platforms even.
Dude, since we’ve been traveliving like this, other than my gym time, we’re pretty much together the remainder of the time and we’re only talking ‘about’ three hours apart during the day. We both actually comment to each other occasionally how impressed we are with just genuinely being happy in each other’s presence. Very rarely, if ever, will we disagree on something and it’s usually some as ridiculous as ‘left or right’ when we cross a suspension bridge.
“We always go your way, let’s go my way this time.” Something like that. 👍🏿 Always a pleasure, @glanekp.
Understanding is required in a relationship, the understanding of many things, and as soon as a couple find that, or the ability to get to it, the understanding part quickly most issues can be resolved. There's more to it than that of course however I feel that that is a large part of it. Seems like you and Pura are on the right track.
One that I use on a regular basis at work "the standard you walk past, is the standard you accept" - basically, if something isn't right, it's my problem to make sure it gets corrected.
That's a really good one, especially in this day and age when near enough is good enough most often than not. It's like the behaviour we accept, customer service for example. If we accept sub-standard service then that's what becomes the norm. Good one Brad!
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