"Don't Let Anybody Poop on Your Ice cream!" ~Thomas Gould

~Thomas Gould

PRELUDE

At every junction of your life you have a choice.

• When your alarm goes off in the morning do you get up or hit the snooze. 
• If you hit the snooze then you are greeted with that same choice all over again. 

Each decision has benefits and consequences that you have to weigh when you make your decision.

• If you hit the snooze 
• get a few more minutes of sleep
• no time for the three "S's" Shower, Shave, and Poo

• If you do not hit the snooze 
• lose precious minutes of sleep 
• don't smell like booty at work (this is not the kinda booty you find in a pirates chest)

Every decision you make boils down at some point to a true or false statement
in our snooze button example it is complicated yet easy:

• Do I hit snooze? Yes/No - Easy but complicated by other questions
• Did I get enough sleep? Yes/No - Easy but again complicated but by a definition or another question
• Definition: How much sleep is enough sleep - answer may be as simple as a predefined constant 8 hours. Then - did I get that much sleep? Yes/No
• Question: Am I still tired? Yes/No - Again a yes or no question (starting to see the pattern.)

Not all decisions are as easy to break down into a intelligent yes or no answer. example:

• Do I love my girlfriend/boyfriend? Yes/No - You may be able to answer the question but not the why of the answer - this a place a lot of fights start.
• Does (s)he have the right color hair
• Is (s)he in the right age range
• Is (s)he mature enough
• does (s)he have/make enough money - this is a question a lot of people ask themselves

THE POINT

Everyday you meet hundreds of people.

You pass them in the street as you walk or stand behind them in line. No matter the case they all have an affect on your life

YOU have to decide how you will let those people affect you.

Do you risk a bad day on that turd in the grocery store, or do you pretend he does not exist and have a happy day?

Do you let the fight that your spouse started over breakfast this morning take over your day, or do you resolve the fight and put it out of your mind?

In every minute of your life you have to decide how to deal with what has come, is upon you, or will come. How you have dealt with what has come or how you deal with what is upon you may affect how you deal with what is to come.

Example:

Your boss is a jerk and you feel over worked, underpaid, and underappreciated. Your boss just spent the last two hours lecturing your team for missing a deadline and your team leader blames you. Now your boss wants to see you in private. He begins to yell at you for your portion of the project not being completed and then pauses for a response.

You have some choices at your disposal and each one has benefits and consequences that need to be included in the decision making process. I am not here to say which one of the choices is better or worse because in each situation that options may not have the same effect.

1. Apologize for your portion being late and if possible give an estimate of completion.
• Benefit: you MAY not get shouted at anymore
• Consequence: You are accepting responsibility for a project being late.
2. Point the blame somewhere else (the team leader is always a popular choice)
• Benefit: You are no longer solely responsible for the failure
• Consequence: Making excuses is frowned upon by most management and will probably not get you into the team leader position in the future.
3. Call your boss out saying that it was impossible to meet the deadline
• Benefit: You feel better (for now) because you got your frustrations out
• Consequence: if you are the only on the team that feels this way then you may not have a job in the near future.
4. Quit! I don't need this turd
• Benefit: You no longer have a project to complete, boss to deal with, co-workers to compete with.
• Consequences: YOU DO NOT HAVE A PAYCHECK (seems like I made that into a bad option, huh? - not so... rich people do not need to keep menial jobs)
5. Say Nothing <- DO NOT DO THIS
• Benefits: Hopefully you are having a stroke and you probably won't need this job in a few minutes anyway
• Consequences: You will look like an incompetent ass and assuming you're not having a stroke you should start looking for another job because (if you do not get fired) your boss is going to be on you like dirt on the ground
• Yes that is a horrible decision, you should never not say anything (Unless you are having a stroke)

The point of the point is that no matter what you do in life (even if it is to have a stroke in a meeting with your angry boss) you have to do what will make you happy yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sometimes that decision is to just do what you have to while you look for something better.

THE SUMMARY

Live life in a way that will make you happy. Do not let other people do the things they do that creates a poop on your ice cream. Finally try not to have a stroke while discussing your failures with your boss... there are much better times to have a stroke... in an ambulance or hospital, in front of a paramedic or doctor, or on the toilet... to name a few.

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"Don't let anybody poop on your ice cream!" ~ Thomas Gould
"Don't poop on other people's ice cream!" ~ Thomas Gould

Thomas Gould