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[LITB]

LITB, I like your marble analogy. Makes sense.

I’m glad that you like it JKS. I can’t take credit for it. Only for sharing it.

I believe that it was received in a “All Pro Dad” email. The analogy was a little different, however it can be applied to most areas of our lives.

If I remember correctly, the marbles represented every Saturday that we spend with our children. After each Saturday, a marble has to be removed. The point of the analogy was to maximize the time we have with them.

I can tell my presence there helped him enjoy himself even more :-) (but there's that negativity about not being invited to the parties that's really gnawing at me...)

This ^^^ made me think of the positive dog and negative dog story that my DB coach told me. So I googled it and discovered that there is a book regarding this. Now I have to read it. I digress.

We all have two dogs inside of us. One dog is positive, happy, optimistic, and hopeful. The other dog is negative, mad, sad, pessimistic, and fearful. These two dogs often fight inside us, but guess who wins the fight? The one you feed the most.

Don't feed the negative, gnawing dog.