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Have you ever had one of those moments in your everyday routine that all of a sudden hits you like a ton of bricks and becomes a life lesson?  Well, I just had one of those.  The light in our closet burned out.  It was quite dark in there.  I've never really liked the lighting in our closet.  It's too dark.  After the light burned out I was a little miffed, because I could swear that I replaced it with a CFL just a few months ago.  I thought to myself, "See if I buy those lights again.  Five years my !&%…."  Needless to say as I unscrewed the ballast and noticed that there was not only one light, but two lights that were burnt out I knew why it was so dark.  Hmm, I thought, no wonder it was so dark.  It was at this point that our Divine Maker gently tapped me on the shoulder and as I turned around smacked me upside the head.  It wasn't a mean smack more like a "Man, why did you assume?  You know where that gets you" kind of smack.  All too often, as least I, assume things are one way only to find out something completely different.  How often do we miss opportunities in life because we were sure it was "A" and it was really "Z" and had we taken the time to slow down and not assume things we would have been so much better off.

Just some food for thought.  Do you have one of those "assuming" stories?  Share it here and lets talk.

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Mat is a husband and father. He loves outdoor adventures including summiting several 14ers, running the Pikes Peak Ascent 3 times and riding his hard tail down Porcupine Rim at over 40mph. Not being afraid of the kitchen, he swears he's a pretty great cook too. Mat has been successfully involved in leading marketing, strategy and business growth efforts in such diverse environments as start ups to Fortune 50 companies. He has been involved in online and social media since 1998, long before it was even called social media. This is his personal blog and just like life it may include topics that range from Star Trek, Formula 1, movies, sports, business and his family. It will likely not include many references to politics and his relationship with God, both of which he is very passionate about, but you never know something may slip out (just a warning).

Discussion

  1. Jack Gilstrap  November 9, 2010

    Hey, Mat, I thought I would check out your blog this afternoon. I had to laugh when I read this article. Very well put. I had something like that happen the other day. It had to do with video editing. My equipment and software is sub-par, and so rather unpredictable. Will it work this time? Or not? Very often it’s not. So I thought that something had gone wrong, and I already had spent a lot of time on the project. I was really frustrated, and started getting really angry. All needlessly, as it turned out, because when I started exploring further, I realized that the breakdown I thought had happened HADN’T. So much wasted emotional energy, bad stress created, not to mention not very Christlike behavior–all because of assuming.

  2. Mat Maynor  November 10, 2010

    Thanks for the comment Jack. Man, that’s so true about the emotional energy and unfortunately that emotional energy really zaps physical energy too. Vicious circle.

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