The Thought Locker

One of the first things I learned as a trainer was the acronym CASE - Copy And Steal Everything. It's a great way of saying don't spend time reinventing the wheel when a perfectly good one already exists. CASE has become one of the axioms of my daily existence.

So I read a couple of posts where my buddy Justin Bourne blogs about cleaning out the "Thought Locker." It's a nice way to discuss ideas that don't warrant expansion into an entire blog post, but are worth sharing. And JT is a pretty laid back dude, as well as a hockey buddy (yes, I can tie ALMOST everything in my current life to hockey), so I'm sure he won't mind me CASE'ing him.

So without further ado, the contents of my "Thought Locker."

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• Starting a sentence or conversation by telling someone not to take something the wrong way pretty much guarantees you think they WILL take it the wrong way.

• Nothing is more fun than helping someone learn something g new, which is sometimes a case of the blind leading the blind. Tanya and I laughed ourselves silly Friday night figuring out how to log her on to Skype. I'm on the Internet reading help boards on her computer model and trying to figure out where the mic on her laptop is, since I could see but not hear her. She had user manual out. Thank God we're both trainers, so EVENTUALLY we figured it out. I think we giggled for a solid minute once we saw AND heard each other on screen!
  

• Realism is really pessimism in sheep's clothing. Or a way of sitting on the fence and hedging your bets. You're still saying to yourself, "Yeah, it could be awesome but it could also not work, so let's just be ready if it doesn't. Still not unconditional faith in success, hence not optimism.

• Some days, life is like an obstacle course. Last night, I came home from the Kings game and the lobby of my building (and hence access to the elevators) was closed to redo the floor tile. On the way to work the next morning, I had to deal with idiot drivers and dumpsters in right turn lanes - let's just say I did a lot of swerving. Thank God for German engineering.
  

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So that's all I have on the miscellaneous blog post front. The "Thought Locker" may or may not become a recurring topic, but we'll create a tag for it just in case...thanks for letting me CASE Bournie :)