Yesterday’s post was weak. Seriously, how difficult of a literary chore is compiling a list? If you quick-responded a variant of ‘not very’, you win. But you also lose. This is due to the data suggesting that as easy as lists are to assemble, literally on any subject, they are also fun to read. We love lists. Give me your top ten on anything and I will guarantee an audience. Some in that readership even motivated to comment, augment or like. The only thing keeping a good list from being a great one is subject matter. Here we see the sage advice of ‘knowing your audience’, to be as sure a thing as Vegas allows.
Let’s roll with that.
My top ten sure things (done Letterman style):
- 10) The sun will shine tomorrow. (Unless you happen to live in Seattle where the odds are pretty much 50/50 every day of the year)
- 9) Shit will happen. (Or quoting the legendary life-coach Stella Adler, “Life interludes.”
- 8) Your passion, meaning and purpose must be a life or death issue. (If you are not yet sure of this curtail everything right now, slam the ABS brakes full-stop and find out).
- 7) It is absolutely essential that three elements highlight your personal quality of life combination: Diet, exercise and stress management. (Nothing more needs be said).
- 6) Do no harm is a sure thing when it comes to religious ideology. (Golden Rule as a sure thing).
- 5) If you plant ice you’re gonna harvest wind. (Franklin’s Tower, Blues for Allah, Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead, 1977).
- 4) If you are looking for sure things do NOT watch or bet on College Football. (Unless your mortgage is paid).
- 3) Your response to any circumstance, situation or conversation is what makes you you. (surely).
- 2) It is more important to appreciate the present path than to arrive at whatever place you once called the destination. (Or, the road is the goal).
- 1) There are no sure things. (Keep your head up, nose clean and eyes open).
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