Words To Live By

Step 1: Secure the Goat

You know, reading this has changed my life. The first thing I’m going to tell myself when I get up in the morning is Today, we will first secure the goat. Me, I will use that royal ‘we’ inside my own head because goat-securing sounds like a two-person job, even metaphorically.

When someone lets me down, I will express my disappointment by telling that person that he did not secure the goat.

And I will ask myself as I lie in bed, going to sleep (or staring at the ceiling, depending upon what I think the answer will be): Did I secure the goat today?

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1 thought on “Words To Live By

  1. Just as “Shaka, when the walls fell” came to represent an admission of failure to the Tamarians on Star Trek:TNG, let “I did not secure the goat” express a lack of preparation for a task or duty.

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