WIXY's Gone Bananas

While I was home with my broken leg, a book arrived in the mail called "Up, Down, or Sideways." The author, Mark Sanborn gives advice on how to succeed when things are going good, bad or in between. Sanborn starts out by telling how things were going three years ago. His speaking engagements were fewer, his investments were decreasing, and he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.  During this time, Mark looked within and around and remained proactive to rise above his circumstances. Mark Sanborn is a leadership expert and "Up, Down, or Sideways" is a how to book on taking leadership in your life, helping you ride the waves, no matter how high or how low. I got this book during a time when things were very down for me. I had taken a cut in pay, primarily because when things were going sideways, I became too complacent. Immediately after the pay cut, I went into a downward spiral. I felt like the lowest form of life, a loser. I started looking for ways to regain ...

As I mentioned in my last post, I had to have 2 insulin shots before I had surgery in October. Even though I had lost over 30 pounds before that, this was a real wake up call for me to really take better care of myself. I was diagnosed as being a diabetic in 2005. I'm certain that part of this occurred due to heredity, but I also think that much of this was because of my lifestyle. Matter of fact, diabetes is an epidemic because of lifestyle. And if you don't believe me, go to your local Evil Big Box Store(tm) and look around. Let me ask you. Are you someone who polishes off a pizza, bag of chips, and a 2 liter of your favorite non diet soft drink while watching an episode of "The Biggest Loser"?  As much as I admire the people who succeed in losing weight and keeping it off, I don't think the show inspires as many people as they would like to. I think there needs to be more one on one contact, one loving on another for weight loss to be effective and more perma...

I have one crutch in my house and the other in my car. I used neither today. Felt good to walk into church today under my own power without something to lean on. And I also walked around the sanctuary a couple of times as well. I'm not ready to run any marathons, but then again, I never was ready in the past either. It's been a long two plus months, but I got to learn quite a bit. First, my coworkers are a very considerate group of people. Way more often than not, they would put aside what they were doing and do things such as hold doors open for me. If I would have asked, they would have done more for me. I also learned that all handicapped parking spaces are not necessarily closest to where you need to go. I attended the winter concert performance of the Rittman band this past month as I wanted to say hi to many of the students and their parents. I got off work that day at 6, had to pick up a prescription at the store, then went to the school. The only parking spaces ...