An interview with Dad

On Sunday January 13, 2019 I sat down at mom & dad's dinner table at their house in Calico Rock and recorded our first StoryCorp conversation. It really was intended to be a practice run to see how well my iPhone 8 would perform as a recorder. I also was interested in learning more about how to use the StoryCorp app on my phone. The final product exceeded my expectation. Take a few minutes and listen to our conversation.

Do Stuff

This reminds me of a couple of my Leadership/Life Maxims:

Pay backs are hell

Going to add this passage from 1 Thessalonians as a new Leadership/Life maxim

"Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else."

‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5:15‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/111/1th.5.15.niv

Over achiever

Quote of the day

By Shelby Metcalf, Texas A&M BB coach, to a player who received one D and four Fs -

"Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."






Steven R Perryman CPA

A road less traveled

Adding a new Leadership/Life Maxim this morning:

"Don't think you are on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path."  - Author unknown. 

I picked this up from the book Uncommon: Finding your path to significance by Tony Dungy

It is similar to Robert Frost famous poem The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Teach them to dream

"If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let it go