Absurd Excuses and Earthquakes #1600

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading the Phoenix Business Journal the other day and there was this article about the year's most absurd excuses used when calling in sick.  As I'm writing this, we just had a minor earthquake here in Phoenix.  It was just a jolt, I'm guessing about a 2.9 or a 3.0 on the Richter scale,(it was actually a 4.1 about 35 miles away from Phoenix) not the rolling kind and it reminded me about Emerson's quote about knowing that every day is Doomsday.  After living through hundreds of earthquakes in California it was sharp reminder!

Back to the absurd excuses, here are my favorites:
Employee claimed his grandmother poisoned him with ham.
Employee was stuck under the bed.
Employee said his wife put all his underwear in the washer.
Employee said he hurt his eye sleeping wrong on it.

Are you under the illusions that the present hour is not critical? We have a twisted sense of time and sometimes we really value time and sometimes we just waste our time, causally and without thought. Be present!!

Do you view every hour as critical? Why not? Tomorrow is promised to no one, so we need to view every hour as critical...to us. How often do you just blow off an hour or two and use the excuse that you needed to veg. I know that I have. The challenge is to continue to be productive!

This is my 1600th blog post and boy have things changed in the time that has past from start to now!
The earthquakes haven't though...

Know.  Be Known.  Make A Difference!

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”