OJ Pod: EPI-36: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

There’s a metaphor and a literalization embedded in today’s title!

Across the last 4 days, I’ve been locked inside a whirlwind of technical chaos.

Most of this has turned out well, so far. Some is still settling out.

In the process, I attempted to start something new to help fund the creation of the rest.

That thing is still moving forward but not in the way I’d envisioned a few weeks ago when I kicked it off.

That’s par for my course.

I get locked into a struggle with some thing or many things, and I figure a way to bust out and move forward again.

My success rate with these bust-outs is never 100%

Not even sure if it’s 50%.

And the ones that fail cause me untold amounts of grief in the forms of fatigue and stress.

And again.

Regardless of cost. Regardless of sacrifice.

With my eyes always on the prize.

Well, for you? Maybe not.

For me? Seems unavoidable.

And I’m aware that this is attributable, at least in part, to a story I tell myself.

A story I’m free to walk away from at any moment.

Hard to say which part is which at any given time.

But I do my best to live in both those worlds, while seeking ways to switch out the one and improve the second.

I can change my story.
I can do better with what I have.

And in the midst of all this, one of my oldest friends and Marine Brother even mailed me an ancient copy of a classic.

That’s where the picture above came from!

(Thanks Brother Sam! And Semper Fi!)

Regardless, it’s up to me to never quit, no matter how painful the walk becomes.

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OJ Pod: EPI-36: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland