B-Dubs – Below the surface

When I was growing up, one of my favorite things was to play video games. I LOVED to play games, especially once Madden came out with the franchise mode. I still don’t know what it is about that, but the thought of building a winning sports franchise was always appealing. I would pick the worst team and try to create the next big dynasty.

What I found out early as a kid was, in order to have a winning franchise and get the money and the big time players, you had to win. A lot. So in order for me to ensure that my franchise was on top I used the reset button to my advantage. If I got frustrated by the amount of interceptions my quarterback threw… RESET. If I knew there was no way to pull out a win… RESET. The game didn’t count and I could start over… that is until I got bored with that specific team and then, you guessed it… RESET the whole thing and start fresh.

That mentality has really carried over into my adult life. It’s so much easier when things aren’t going the way that you had planned to look for the proverbial reset button to start fresh. After all, it’s so much easier to start over than it is to trudge through all of the crap of your mistakes and failures, right?

But is it the most effective? Isn’t failure healthy? Isn’t it in that failure where we learn the most?

I mean if you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you’ve seen me try several attempts at a blog reset. Either through a design change, just waiting it out til everyone stops reading, or completely pulling out all of my previous posts and starting over… RESET.

I am am focusing on changing this area of my life. My desire to just reset and start over. Because what I’ve found out is that if you continually live in that state of difficulty=reset, all you’re really doing is perpetually living life in that shallow space of novelty. So it’s time to change, but this time not a reset-type change but a pressing on change. It’s finally time for me to advance… to push forth.

It’s time to leave the shallow waters behind, and get deep.