Mom Thinks You're Lazy. Procrastinating for Fun and Profit. Reflect, Review, Re-wind.

Funny how time flies. You get your first bicycle and the next thing you know you're going to the grocery store for Senior Discount Tuesday. I was shocked when I saw that the last blog post was in November. What happened? As always, there's a story there.

To begin with, there was the cancer thing. Then, things got serious. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Had a quick surgery for thyroid cancer. Got that out of the way. (Maybe I'll have more to say about that later, but for now, that's all. Over and out.)

Then, I decided to get really focused on starting another company. If you've never done it, that takes a good deal of time, energy, and attention. There'll be a lot more to say on that subject as well, later. Suffice to say that after almost a year of working on that idea, I decided to move on.

However, during the process of developing that company another interesting tech project came along.  I've been working on it also. Very time consuming and very interesting.

In the middle of all of that, we moved three times. Once, to San Francisco. Once, from one apartment to another in SF. And once, away from SF. I know, I know. Some people never learn.

The point is that life is what happens while you're making other plans (to quote a famous philosopher). It's easy to be too busy to get the important things done. It's easy to get confused about what's important and what's not. It's easy to take the path of least resistance. Duh and DOH! (That's why it's called the Path of Least Resistance. It's science, B****.)

Does that mean that if we're doing something hard, then it must be the important thing? If we're doing the easy thing, then it's unimportant? Hint: see the blog's name.

If you're like me (or, if I'm anything like the rest of the human race), we just do what we do. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it doesn't. Sometimes it's important and sometimes it's trivial. Sometimes we need to pause and re-calibrate. Reflect, review, and re-wind. Expand and contract, so to speak. The "contract" phase is just as much a part of the process as the "expand" phase is.

So, lean in. Work hard. GO!

Also, remember to lean out. Take it easy (sometimes). Hit the PAUSE button.