I’ve often heard the phrase “don’t write a check your ‘body’ can’t cash” in the context of something physical or challenging that exceeds one’s perceived capability. But what if the demands faced are more cerebral? Replace ‘body’ with ‘mind’ and reread it. The same principle applies for the most part, but now the ‘heart’ becomes the guilty party, manufacturing emotional ideas and commitments to execute, regardless of what the ‘mind‘ might think. Well, it happened to me.
I saw a posted advertisement for an Open-Mic Night this Thursday, Dec. 4th, from 6-8 PM at Amack’s Well Coffee House, downtown Batesville.
That’s when the battle between ‘heart‘ and ‘mind‘ began, back and forth, making references to writing bad checks, yada, yada, yada… ‘Heart‘ won.
The family-friendly, HR-appropriate story I plan to share Thursday is from an unforgettable Christmas memory long ago, where a toxic combination of 276 pounds of a 40-something man, top-end roller blades, 200-yard-long stretch of smooth asphalt with a 5-to-7% incline, and gravity, all come together in the perfect storm to create a memory I’ve entitled “Fat Man’s Dilemma.”
How far into the story will I get? Who knows..could be all the way to the scene of spontaneous self-combustion, the end of the story, or whichever comes first.
Yeah…at least my bucket list will be one chit lighter…
Wish me luck!
Peace! G.