Always Reforming

Everything you choose to do is also something you are choosing not to do. Everything you buy is at the expense of something you will  not  be able to buy. Every hour you spend doing something is an hour you cannot spend doing something else. Every decision you make excludes a million other possibilities. Every choice is a trade-off . Your resources are finite. You are finite. Find your passion. Focus your passion. Recognize value. Redeem the time. Celebrate the excellent. Invest in the eternal. Leave a legacy .

Millennials.  We're the worst, aren't we? People are always ragging on us.  We're lazy.  We're stupid.  We're spoiled.  We're the scum of the earth and everything that ever happens is our fault. While we can laugh off many of these complaints as the bitter ravings of old people who don't know where else to aim their vitriol, it would do us well to consider their criticism and examine our hearts. One area that is a major weakness for our generation is our obsession with entertainment.  This is certainly not a universal issue, nor is it one upon which our generation has a monopoly.  We are our parents' children. Generally speaking though, we live for entertainment. We worship entertainment.  Even when we worship, we want entertainment. We have more free time than most people in the history of the world, so we exhaust it by entertaining ourselves. We have more money than most people in the history of the world, so we finance multibillion ...

Millennials aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be.  Allow me to rephrase that. Millennials aren't as uniquely bad as people make them out to be.  They are materialistic.  They are shallow.  They are morally relative and don't know how to use a broom or a mop (trust me...I see it all the time).  They use language in a barbaric and annoying manner.  These things are not, however, unique to this generation.  I'm pretty sure the boomers were saying these same things about the Generation X'ers.  The boomers, in turn, we largely decried by the "greatest" generation, the World War 2 generation that worked their butts off for everything they had. The one awful thing that I have found about Millennials, however, is our priorities.  Let's face it, our priorities are pretty questionable.  We spend way, way too much time on he internet (irony noted).  We do things like texting while driving.  We spend an inordinate amount o...