What Matters Now

Hello Friends! My friend, Dino Lagattolla, told me about Seth Godin’s free ebook, What Matters Now. It’s a quick and entertaining read, and it includes many ideas that will cause you to think or act differently, and maybe even change your life. Visit Seth Godin’s Blog or download What Matters Now.
In the spirit of What Matters Now, here’s my own little riff on bowling and when it matters (from the essay “Unwrapping Our Gifts” in Wise Men and Other Stories):
We are funny creatures. We usually know what’s important, but those things seem so weighty and imposing that we are easily distracted. We go bowling when we know in our hearts and souls that we should be spending time with our children. Or we don’t go bowling when we know in our hearts and souls that we need time to relax and be with friends. I think it was Aristophanes who first said that many of life’s mysteries would be solved if there were only some magic formula to accurately determine whether it is the right time or the wrong time in one’s life to go bowling.