I was at the grocery store today with my daughter... As we were leaving I saw a father push his grocery cart into the cart return... on the way back to his car he stopped to push a stray cart to the cart return. His little boy asked, "daddy, why did you do that?!?" His father answered, "because someone did not do what they were suppose to do."
Besides the obvious life lesson he was teaching the little one, there is a message here for the rest of us... the grocery cart is a mere metaphore for a bigger message...
In business and in life how much better would things be if we would all do the things that we are suppose to do? What if we always did the right thing the first time? I don't know about you but I would love to live in that world...
Peace
Rod
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Socrates
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Dads
Next week is fathers day... I think about my dad often. I am reminded of the last time that I was able to speak to my dad while he was still coherent. He was excited because he was seeing a new doctor that advised him that he had been misdiagnosed and that with the new prescription he would be back to normal in a matter of weeks... He sounded better than he had in months!
As we ended the conversation I said, "I love you dad". He responded that, "I am glad to hear you say that son" and then we hung up... Unfortunately the new prescription did not work... and we soon found that the original diagnosis was accurate... You see, my dad was diagnosed with "early onset Alzheimer's" disease... There were good days and bad, the disease takes it's course in about 8 to 10 years... It was not very long after our last conversation that he began to show the more advanced stages of the disease, wandering, fits of anger, frustration... often incoherent... We finally had to admit him into the hospital... My dad past away September 5th, 2002... He was only 66 years old...
I am writing this post because as Father's Day approaches I realize that many of my friends reading this still have your fathers in your life... One of the things that I can cherish for the rest of my life is that while he could still understand I had the opportunity to say, I love you...
Folks, there is nothing in the rules that say you have to wait for Father's day... remember tomorrow is never promised. Tell your dad and all of your loved ones that you love them, and do it every chance that you get... To all of you dad's, Happy Father's Day...
Rod White
In Memory of Farrow White Jr
"I love you Dad"
As we ended the conversation I said, "I love you dad". He responded that, "I am glad to hear you say that son" and then we hung up... Unfortunately the new prescription did not work... and we soon found that the original diagnosis was accurate... You see, my dad was diagnosed with "early onset Alzheimer's" disease... There were good days and bad, the disease takes it's course in about 8 to 10 years... It was not very long after our last conversation that he began to show the more advanced stages of the disease, wandering, fits of anger, frustration... often incoherent... We finally had to admit him into the hospital... My dad past away September 5th, 2002... He was only 66 years old...
I am writing this post because as Father's Day approaches I realize that many of my friends reading this still have your fathers in your life... One of the things that I can cherish for the rest of my life is that while he could still understand I had the opportunity to say, I love you...
Folks, there is nothing in the rules that say you have to wait for Father's day... remember tomorrow is never promised. Tell your dad and all of your loved ones that you love them, and do it every chance that you get... To all of you dad's, Happy Father's Day...
Rod White
In Memory of Farrow White Jr
"I love you Dad"
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