Disconnect Your Oughta-Pilot(tm) » Career Choices http://www.oughtapilotgone.com Are you living your life or someone else's? Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Oughta-Pilots Are Rather Like Fleas http://www.oughtapilotgone.com/oughta-pilots-are-rather-like-fleas/ http://www.oughtapilotgone.com/oughta-pilots-are-rather-like-fleas/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:54:14 +0000 DeBorah Beatty http://www.oughtapilotgone.com/?p=38 My poor little (?) doggie, Hobo, had fleas.  We’re in the final stages of erradication (I hope).  But as I was spraying under and over his bed in our room once again, it occurred to me that fleas are very much like Oughta-Pilots(TM) in that just when you think you have them controlled and gone, one or two will pop back up and bite you!

hobo1I’d wash him and his bedding, air out the rattan basket, vacuum and spray the rug under the basket and any place he’d been laying and he’d get into his basket, ready for a nap (he does that very well, by the way) and just when he was relaxed and drowsing off, he’d suddenly jump up and out of the basket and start scratching and biting at himself. Poor thing.

He caught fleas last Thanksgiving when we visited my daughter and stayed at the Travelodge near the Portland Airport (don’t ever stay there with a pet). i-hate-winterHe’s one of those dogs allergic to fleabites so we almost lost him. But the battle sure has made me think.

How many times have we thought that we’d handled an issue, a problem, a test or a challenge and thought we were finished with it? So we relax and go about our merry way until it shows back up and smacks us in the face once again?

I woke up with a start the other evening, with three little words going around and around in my brain -

ATTENTION TO INTENTION

I’d be really interested to hear what those three words mean to you.  Next post, I’ll discuss what they mean to me.


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