10 min AMRAP
5 DB Thrusters (#45)
200 meter SPRINT
10 One-Arm DB Power Snatches (#45)
Almost every kid I know wants to grow up and be rich. The thinking goes, if I'm rich I can do and buy anything I want and as a result will live a very happy life. Afterall is it the quintessential "American Dream." A big house, nice cars, nice family, lots of money in the bank, vacations, travel, fine dining, a beach house....it doesn't get much better than that....so they say.
....or does it? While these are all nice "things" to have and with enough hard work, preservance and some luck many people have the priviledge to afford these luxuries in life, but let's understand all these material possessions do not guarantee one's happiness. There are many rich people in the world who are quite unhappy and depressed in their lives. Just turn on the nightly news and witness all the rich celebrities going through divorces, drug problems and a bunch of other issues.
What guarantees one's happiness better than anything else is having a sense of purpose here on Earth and contributing to this world in some positive way or another. This could mean being a coach, a scientist, a teacher, a hot dog vendor, a janitor...no matter what you do just have a sense of worth and satisfaction to know you are helping someone or something in one way or another. I think this is really one of the biggest driving factors to truly living a happy and fullfilling life.
Another determinant to being truly happy is to surround yourself with people you like to be around and spend a lot of time with family and friends who truly care about you.
Pursue your passion rigorously, love your family and friends...and the rewards of your labor are only bonus checks (not to be counted on for your happiness) and you will be on the path to true bliss.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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