Aircheck: psychology

09 March 2011

Winning!

Boy, did I pick the wrong time to take a month off writing Aircheck. I refuse to give the insanity of the last 30 days any more publicity. But, the media coverage of this whack job actor and his slow deliberate career suicide live 24/7 is hard to ignore. An inescapable joke heard recently on the radio sums up the mess: “Did you hear about Charlie Sheen’s new show called Two and a Half…Personalities?”

Stay tuned

12 November 2010

Jack Wagon

Here is a commercial from Geico Insurance that I love. It reminds me of the Eagles song Get Over It, especially the line: “I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little a—”

But I digress. The anti-psychobabble sentiment of this ad is the same.

R. Lee Ermey Geico Commercial

Stay tuned.

02 January 2010

The Holiday Road (to recovery)

Happy new year my friends! Wow, twenty ten; that just sounds nice and futuristic. Seeing that I have always been an early adopter of all things new this year has a good vibe to it.

My wife Angie and I have had a blessed 2009 and look forward to the good things in store for 2010. 2009, what a great year it was: Angie got a fantastic new full time job she loves while I was allowed the privilege of becoming Mr. Mom with my proudest achievement, my family. We all enjoyed a Myrtle Beach vacation with Angie’s mother and my brother-in-law and his crew. The ‘09 holiday season has been my all time favorite. Thanksgiving was a blast; then Christmas Eve at my house with my sisters, my mom, the nieces and nephews joining my gang at our house; another celebration in north Georgia with my dad’s sisters on Sunday and yesterday, New Year’s Day, we opened gifts at my mother-in-law’s. Whew! What fun we all had.

The Turning Point

Through a process that has taken about 2 years to fulfill I have discovered with self-taught study of the human psyche that I fit into a melancholy temperament. I have fought deep depression my whole adult live through introspection and will. I have not been very successful, especially in the will department. Introspection has been a heavy burden because I have had my head stuck in an unremarkable past thinking this was truly therapeutic. I was dead wrong. One day recently, during the holiday season, I had an aha moment. I had been going through the motions letting one day melt into another when I realized that have so much to be thankful for here and now. I have a wonderful wife and great kids. They are what I have always wanted. Angie is a companion in the truest sense of the word, she is the model wife. My kids are my most valuable education; I have learned far more from them than they have from me. And I continue to evolve personally and desire a more positive forward thinking outlook. Now I have a more keen since of purpose that I feel was lacking before. A new focus on the present has emerged and our hope is for a brighter future.