Mar 11, 2023·edited Mar 11, 2023Liked by Sean Patrick Hughes
Sean, I hope your 46th birthday, at the end of the day, was a lot of fun. An addendum to your story, (if I may) - I used this explanation to coach my wife passed her 50th birthday.
It went like this: "Sweetheart, I want to welcome you to a club that you didn't know existed. And it's a club that allows you not to stress out about things either at work or in life. Why? Because by this point in your life you've probably seen everything come and go at least once. And you have a pretty good idea of "what good looks like" coming out on the other side of those experiences. So, the club, of which you are now a member, allows you to "shoot across a circle" (an old fighter pilot maxim). It means you don't have to listen to all the intervening BS and baloney about what's going to happen between the inception and finality, just take you and your team, you and your siblings, you and your husband (me) right to "what good like looks like" without dithering around in the middle."
I think at 46, and having some brief understanding of what your life has been like having followed you for the past five or six years, it allows you to be a member of that club as well and enables you to "shoot across a circle" to what good looks like in most phases of your life going forward. Some even refer to it as acquired wisdom.
Rings true for me and I’m 67. Thanks, it’s good to see in written down.
Sean, I hope your 46th birthday, at the end of the day, was a lot of fun. An addendum to your story, (if I may) - I used this explanation to coach my wife passed her 50th birthday.
It went like this: "Sweetheart, I want to welcome you to a club that you didn't know existed. And it's a club that allows you not to stress out about things either at work or in life. Why? Because by this point in your life you've probably seen everything come and go at least once. And you have a pretty good idea of "what good looks like" coming out on the other side of those experiences. So, the club, of which you are now a member, allows you to "shoot across a circle" (an old fighter pilot maxim). It means you don't have to listen to all the intervening BS and baloney about what's going to happen between the inception and finality, just take you and your team, you and your siblings, you and your husband (me) right to "what good like looks like" without dithering around in the middle."
I think at 46, and having some brief understanding of what your life has been like having followed you for the past five or six years, it allows you to be a member of that club as well and enables you to "shoot across a circle" to what good looks like in most phases of your life going forward. Some even refer to it as acquired wisdom.
Good luck at more "shooting across a circle"
Dave
Have a wonderful birthday! I'm glad you gave yourself the gift of time to write. Lucky us.
Happy Birthday! And as always, thank you. After reading your words, I find a little more space in my heart where light can get in.
And Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, Sean.