Nothing to say

Ok, the whole husband status is still kind of new for me.  There are still firsts.  Like right now is the first multi-day absence I’ve had from my wife (not counting the extra week she stayed in Central America after the wedding).  I’m lonely.

I dropped her off at like 5 this morning, and ended up taking too long of a nap after I got home.  Now it’s a quarter after 4 and I’m still up.  That’s just silly.

I’ve been thinking a lot about focus tonight.  It’s funny that Rob and Big could cause me to be so introspective, but it’s a thoughtful show, and Rob clearly live his life with both drive and purpose.  See, Rob Dyrdek
is a master of living life to the fullest.  He has become somewhat of a role model to me.  I don’t necessarily with to be like him, but there is much I could learn from him.

He is a skateboarder.  This is a vocation that he attacks with purpose, and one at which he is immensely successful.  In one episode tonight, Rob broke 21 Guinness world records, all under the heading of skateboarding.  Long grinds, multiple tricks, etc.  The man is a machine.

Yet he lives like a child.  His second vocation, which he attacks with equal purpose, and at which he is equally successful, is play.  On a road trip to a mini-horse show, where one could only assume his completely untrained horse was going to bomb, they stopped on a random beach, paid a woman $100 to watch the mini horse and his bulldog for half an hour while they rode sand rails around the dunes.  God knows how long later, after the sun had completely set, and the moon was high and bright, they returned to find the woman patiently waiting in the same spot.  That’s the way Rob plays.  And it always works out.  They even managed to place in the horse competition.   After absolutely no planning or preparation.

The problem I have that Rob completely lacks, is wanting to do it all, instead of just focusing on the handfull of things I’m immensely good at and doing those.  He shows me that if I were to focus on doing those things at which I’m best, I could spend the rest of my time having a complete blast with life.

Ok, so there are two lessons in there: focus and confidence.  I never would have tried to show that horse, let alone gotten one in the first place.

He’s relentless.