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March 1, 2007

In this issue:
Choices Net Transformations
DIAPER PAIL UPDATE

Choices Net Transformations
We make decisions everyday based on the best available information for that given circumstance.  Sometimes our decision making doesn’t stand up to hindsight.  After the fact, we can look back and we might say, why would I have ever thought of doing it that way?  So what do you do now?  Re-evaluate, of course!  Learn from what you did, create a new perspective, and above all be gentle with yourself.  I am human and I make mistakes.  I can look at a mistake and beat myself up and tell myself over and over how wrong I was, wallow in it and never move on.  OR, I can look at a mistake as an opportunity, a gift, a chance to learn and grow and I’ll be better for it.  It’s what I do AFTER I make a mistake that builds upon my wisdom, my character and my confidence. 

I must say I make mistakes all the time.  I’m a parent.  It happens.  I made a real doozey of a mistake recently, at work no less.  I started to walk down a negative path with it.  It didn’t feel very good.  Pretty quickly I realized that the negative path wouldn’t bring me any joy or most importantly any peace.  So I decided to go the other direction.  I chose to look at the situation from a completely different perspective.  I started the ball rolling by asking myself “What can I learn from this?”, “How can I make this right?”, “How can I work with others to get through the situation?”  It’s been on a marvelous journey ever since. 

We all make mistakes, each and every one of us.  And we should.  When was the first time you heard “We learn from out mistakes”?  It’s one of the greatest truths there is.  I hear it all the time lately.  My kids love the Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole - books, DVDs, CD-Rom, the whole gamut.  It’s about an incredible teacher, a magic school bus and some really amazing kids.  The teacher, Ms. Frizzle, is always cheering the children on with the phrase “Ask questions!  Get messy!  Make mistakes!”  Ah, so simple and so brilliant.  Mistakes can be messy, but so can finger painting and gardening and baking and all the other fun things in life. 

So go make some mistakes.  I urge you, encourage you and hope to inspire you to make some more.  To make a mistake is to make an effort to do something.  To learn from the is mistake is to make it meaningful.  It may not come out right the first time or the 1000th time, but it will eventually come out right.  It took Edison something like 20,000 tries to make the light bulb.  I’m paraphrasing here, but, he was asked once how does it feel to fail to make a light bulb 20,000 times.  He said an amazing thing to the effect of I learned 20,000 ways of how not to make a light bulb.  Those were some valuable lessons.  Thanks for your mistakes Tom.  I appreciate your efforts. 

And I most especially appreciate all the efforts of every parent in the world.  It’s no easy road and so often we don’t know what we’re doing.  If you put in your best effort, if you jump into the muck with the best of intentions, you’ll do great things!  And if you make a mistake, you and your children will no doubt be the better for it!

DIAPER PAIL UPDATE
I’ve been sending messages to my supplier for a few weeks now and haven’t heard any response.  So, it appears that I will not be able to get the 7 gallon pail back in stock.  I do have the 14 gallon pails in stock and ready to ship.  Now is the time to buy, they won’t last long.  I will keep sending messages and calling my supplier in the hopes they will send some more pails.  When that happens, you’ll be the first to know!

And that my friends, is THE INSIDE POOP!

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