Meant To Be

I really think the expression I've heard most in the last 10 years is IT IS WHAT IT IS.

It Is What It Is.

It's Meant To Be.

Meh it is what it is what are you going to do about it?

I believe it too. It's an easy explanation that works for just about everything.

No.

This is wrong.

Ultimately, it's what comes next that's important.

The older you get and the longer you go you truly understand that it's more about perspective.

It is what it is, Jack. Now what are you gonna do about it?

The critical juncture is when you move from:

Meant to be 

-to- 

Moment to Be

🔆

It is what it is 

-to-
 

It Is What I Say It Is

🔆

⏳❓⛪

Life is filled with questions.

In your twenties it's how can I make a name for myself how can I meet someone

How can I start a family maybe

In your thirties it's I'm not a kid anymore I need to take this more seriously

40s are the first time you cross the threshold

Am I on track? Have I accomplished my goals? Is this all there is?

But 50 is when you start asking yourself the big questions.

Why am I here? What is my true purpose?

And then all of that changes when you're faced with a terminal illness.

The news is blue (the news is blue)
Has its own way to get to you (ooh)
What can I do (what can I do?)
I'll not remember my time with you

😕😬😎

Everyone is looking to your reaction, Everyone wants to see how you process things.

So Maybe That's Why I Was Put On This Earth In The First Place

👉😃👈

This is why I choose to be positive.

Choose to be positive.

Make no mistake positivity is a choice, it's work, it doesn't come easy.

You know it don't come easy.

But what do people today, more than ever, want and need? 

Especially from you, as you face the toughest challenge in your life?

They want POSITIVITY

You need it too. It's for them.

And it's for you.

Everyone thinks the time they live in is the worst they've ever seen, and for those of us who've been through Covid and maybe 9/11 we might be right.

It is what it is

💪💓👊

And so friend I say to you:

I am not sad

I am not lost
I am not down

I am filled with joy
I have a purpose
I am lifted up by the love of my friends

Jenny was sweet
She always smiled for the people she'd meet
On trouble and strife
She had another way of looking at life

🚧😷🚧

Chemotherapy is man-made;  As is its only known antidote.

The love of your friends, the support of your family, the bond with your aunt, the selfless sacrifice of your sister, hearing from someone you haven't heard from in a long time, the cascade of little things that suddenly mean everything.

**These are also things (hopefully) that don't cause diarrhea, hair loss, and neuropathy.

💩💩💩

When you start to look at things more positively, you also notice that you get invited to a lot more events.

My second cousin's best friend's ex-girlfriend is having a poker game Saturday night what do you think?

-Everyone really wants to see you you should go.

Doing alright
A little jiving on a Saturday night
And come what may
Gonna dance the day away

Pick up your feet
Just take your place in the driver's seat

💓🙏💪

Chemotherapy training is Tuesday at 3:00.

I already feel like maybe I learned a few things.

my current location below

a bout me

For my sister...I'll always miss you too.

Managing the 4th Quarter

The game is winding down and -suddenly- time is not your friend. 

You may be tempted to deploy a Prevent Defense, or go into a Box-and-One, to try to run out the clock.

This is a common mistake.
(see Buffalo Bills 1993)

Growing up we knew how to play the game. Then, Analytics ushered in a whole new era. 

Looking back on things, you may be thinking replay doesn't lie.

(it can be inconclusive).

--TIMEOUT--

Take a look at your gameplan and make adjustments. 

Could be you had the first 15 or 20 plays scripted.

But Things have changed.

NOW is actually the time to put pressure on the defense. 

OPEN up your playbook.

I am exactly as old as the Super Bowl. 

57     LVII

 

Here are my game notes:

Spend less time

❌  Running out the clock

Spend more time

✅  Dazzling people with your game strategy and innovation

Less time

❌  Finding fault with what people can't do

More time

✅  Celebrating their strengths

Less

❌  Lamenting where things went wrong

More 

✅  Making them right

🏉🏈🏀🎳🏁

❌  Road raging at every moron in the left lane who doesn't know how to drive

✅  Teaching a teenager how to drive

❌  Dwelling

✅  Excelling

❌  Trying to meet someone

✅  Meeting someone

❌  Mindlessly eating

✅  Purposefully eating

❌  Deflating the football

✅  Throwing the football

❌  Acquiring

✅  Experiencing

❌  Wishing your enemies die in a fiery crash

✅  Making time with your friends even though everyone is busy

❌  Holding grudges

✅  Having parties

❌  Living in your head

✅  Leading with your heart

❌  Speeding

✅  Getting where you're going (it seems the trip back is always shorter)

❌  Thinking the earth is flat

✅  Playing ball

❌  Tearing people down

✅  Coaching people up (especially kids)

❌  Hoping and Dreaming

✅  Coping and Redeeming

❌  Burning it down

✅  Lighting it up

Come on Coach you got this...

Tomorrow: You Are Loved

my current location below

a bout me

For my sister...I'll always miss you too.

Sitting in Traffic With Two and-a-Half to Three Years to Live

You're not a mathematician or a 5th grader but you're suddenly FACED 

with this difficult equation:

 😱😰😣😣😣😣😣 

two point five to three up to six

2.5-3^6

or similarly expressed;:X#!

FFFFUUUUUUXWGFTCYHBI&(&^R^F*&O(())

= 0 equals zero 

es igual a cero

2.5-3 max 6

+/- ZERO

minus possible (plus zero)

numerous other iterations

(too tired to look up other iterations also watching the Islanders game ))

There is no X
           *but there are many variables.

Plus + one (dead) certainty.

That's how long you have to live.

1. 1
2. 2
3. 2.5
4. 3
5. ????
6. 
   

2.5-3 might be oh six

Damn you Microsoft solve the equation. Chat GPT?  Sum one?

summon someone

Take a picture, souvenir

But of course we'll need to start at the beginning for the story to be told...

Let's begin again, begin the begin
Let's begin again. 

🔅🔅🔅

The insurgency began and you missed it.

On a more positive note:

Emily Steinberger is 

and will be an incredible journalist you make us all very proud 

enjoy the journey....

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