THOT 137 - sacrifice

[Todd Galley: Family Chiropractor]

According to the Google groups page, which hosts the web delivery of our ‘THOT of the Week’, this is the 137^th THOT written since we published the first one online 2/4/09.  Although long before ‘The THOT’, we’ve been sharing our thoughts with practice members since opening the doors in ’04.  Our first publication was a double-sided hardcopy of ‘The Chiropractic’ mailed out in stamped envelopes once a month.  That got expensive and also time consuming quite quickly.  We turned ‘The Chiropractic’ into our monthly member newsletter, which we emailed out from a single email address, the one we still use today: to...@toddgalley.com When our email server started rejecting deliveries, marking them as SPAM because we were trying to send a single email to too many people at once, we decided to switch over to the current electronic format with Google groups as the free host.  Since Google keeps track of such things for us, that’s where we began our count from. Today you are receiving THOT #137…  

 

The THOT of the Week is not always easy to write.  We’ve been writing for a long time and coming up with weekly, relevant, original material often presents challenges. Sometimes it is not too hard (usually the days when we’re copying and borrowing from others *we always try to give credit where it is due.)  But, other days it requires more of a sacrifice.  Sacrifice reminds of us of a pretty good scene from a fairly bad movie:  A scene in ‘The Weatherman’ where Michael Caine and Nick Cage are sitting at a table in a restaurant. Caine plays Cage’s father and his lines go like this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfbxD1M5YI4

 

David, sacrifice is...  (still thinking, he pauses and resets)

To get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do...

 ...are usually the same thing?

Nothing that has meaning is easy.

Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life.

 

We’ve all sacrificed things over the years and our reward is what we have now.  Nobody can hold on to everything, but we can choose to give up everything in pursuit of something we deem to be worth the sacrifice.  Thank you to every one of you for the sacrifices you’ve each made for us.  We wouldn’t be where we are today if it weren’t for each and every one of them.  Hope you enjoyed #137