Push the toy car
Oh, hi friends!
At the end of my run yesterday I saw a toy car.
It was small, plastic, cheap. It had snuck under a chainlink fence, away and out of reach from a group of young kids playing on the other side.
They weren’t looking for their toy. I don’t think they even noticed it was gone.
So I kept running.
Then after about 20 feet, I stopped. Turned. Ran back to the car and gently pushed it under the fence towards the kids.
They didn’t notice.
I kept running.
And three things came to mind, for life/work/projects/etc.
— You can see the car and ignore it.
— You can see the car and wait for someone to ask you to push it.
— Or you can see the car and push it first, without waiting for the ask.
Five minutes later, I walked along the fence to cool down. The toy car wasn’t there.
The kids had it now.
**I originally wrote this last summer, but a friend recently mentioned it, so I wanted to give it a second life.
"Don't major in the minors."
New favorite phrase! One of my favorite fitness Instagram guys said it—he’s @syattfitness if you wanna follow—and I’m going to pretend he wasn’t talking about deadlifts or calories, and apply it to every tiny thing I obsess over that doesn’t matter.
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DEED is an app that finds and connects you to high-impact volunteering opportunities in your community. It’s SUPER EASY. You search, click, go. (I heard about DEED at CreativeMornings, the inspiring breakfast lecture series that’s probably in a city near you.)
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara