Exotic Cars
When people purchase exotic cars, they are sometimes hit with something called deferred maintenance. As with many car buyers, they see the value of purchasing a car used. The positive of that is that they get a car they want at a dramatically reduced price. The downside is sometimes that they hadn’t considered there might be deferred maintenance.
Oops! There’s Deferred Maintenance
With really expensive cars comes really expensive maintenance even down to just something as simple as oil changes and tire rotations can be shockingly expensive for those who have never owned an exotic car. And sometimes people own exotic cars, and realize they’ve spent the majority of their money on the car itself and don’t have a lot left over for the really expensive maintenance.
So they skip it. And when they do that, the maintenance is deferred to the next person, which of course is the person purchasing it.
All that time and they didn’t do it… 👀
Gratitude
As I’ve mentioned in other episodes, gratitude is one of those rare things in life that really access an antidote to a lot of negativity. It’s the last thing you would think would work and yet it does. When you have times of sadness or hopelessness or things aren’t going your way or you feel that life is unfair, the last thing you think you should do is just become grateful for what you do have. It seems like a copout, but it’s not. It’s exactly what acts as a remedy in those cases.
I rarely use this word because so many people do, but I find it to be quite powerful.
A tree falling…
If a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one there to hear it does it still make a sound?
Well yeah that’s not how sound works.
If you feel gratitude for someone does it still count?
Of course it does. However, it has even more meaning if you share that gratitude with the person you have it for.
A license to be grateful
As I said in a number of episodes, you need to give yourself a license to write and be creative, instead of preventing yourself from doing so. The same applies to gratitude. We feel we have to wait for birthdays, Christmas Thanksgiving, or… worse.
We don’t. We shouldn’t.
I’m grateful for you—the person reading this or listening to my podcast. You spend your valuable time doing so. I’m grateful for those that give me feedback—whether its a review, or a comment, or a shoutout here or there.
I’m grateful for a lot of things that I could share with you here but instead, you probably want to think of what you’re grateful for.
Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate, wherever you are!
Cheers!
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Mark Bradford is the author of nine books, both fiction and nonfiction, including the clinical psychologist-endorsed Three Voices as well as the award-winning trilogy The Sword and the Sunflower.
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