Here we are sucking up leaves in January.
It almost looks like we're sucking up the whole ground with it!
After the warmest decade on record, we seem to be having the warmest year on record.
It's 52 degrees out, and we've been reaching up into the high 60's so far this month.
Global warming or the big fires in Australia or action with Iran are heating things up here in Washington, D.C. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Sucking It Up
So I learned many valuable lessons when I worked at the U.S. Secret Service--I loved it there!
But one of the lessons that sticks out it that sometimes you have to take a bullet for the President!
This lesson stayed with me and I believe it applies to a lot of other situations in life as well.
Sometimes you take one for the
- Team
- Cause
- Relationship
It's easy to say you are going to preserve you self by "dodging a bullet," but often it's really just the opposite that is needed.
If you take the bullet, you are putting yourself subordinate to a larger cause and what is really important.
Taking one to safeguard the President of the United States is definitely a larger cause.
But also your team, the success of an important cause or project, precious relationships that have been built over time--these can all mean more than taking even a significant hit.
This doesn't mean to be stupid, become anyone's punching bag or just take people's sh*t for nothing.
Rather what it does mean is that you can suck it up sometimes--when the ends justify the means--and jump in front of that bullet to preserve something bigger and more important than just yourself.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Talking The Bullet
