A Message from the CEO - July 2025

My friend was commenting the other day that it’s been forever since we’ve had time for coffee and catch-up on life.  I told her that I really didn’t think anything in my life had changed significantly, but I feel like I’m so much busier this year. Hmmm … Is life busier, or am I seeing things differently? 

Life is smoother when I make lists.  Lists comfort me and alleviate my anxiety.  But they also raise my awareness of what’s going on.  A friend used to talk to me about “tolerations”.  She said that we all have that project that has been staring us in the face for the past several days (months, years, decades).  It could be an undone project or a messy desk, but we’ve seen it so much - we just ignore it now.  It becomes part of our “tolerations” … our pile of stuff we know we should focus on but we ignore because it's just too much.  Pretty soon, we’re hoarders or messy or unhealthy or worse, because we’ve ignored our “issues”. 

There was this movie “Click” years ago.  The main character used his magic TV remote to click ahead in his life (skipping the boring parts), and soon he was old and figured out he missed a lot of his life.  I think about this all the time.  If I’m not paying attention - life will pass me by and I’ll have just gone through the motions and ignored the high points.* 

Paying attention is work.  Ask anyone playing on their phone during a movie what the plot is -- they’ll have no clue.  With everything in life - are you paying attention?  All the time, not just when you really have to.  Do the lists, complete your tolerations, put down the phone - TikTok and social media will still be there.  Time will pass, and the worst thing would be looking back in time and thinking you should have been more involved.