Friday, November 23, 2012

Sweet Spots and Goat Farming...

Someone shared an expression with me recently: you can't ride two horses with one butt. I have tried, sometimes even attempting to ride three or four at once. It begs the question, are any of the horses being ridden as they were intended?

I've been feeling ineffective lately... In case you weren't aware, I retired from job (horse?) number one on October 20th, 2012. Since that time, I've been steadily busy with horses two and three, and often find myself wondering where on Earth I even had time for horse one to begin with! Rather, I've been slowly trying to find what baseball players call "The Sweet Spot".

Granted, I'm not a baseball fan, but growing up in a big baseball town, even I know what the sweet spot is. It's the area on a bat where the ball makes the most effective contact, and goes the farthest