As we go through life we are all faced with the difficulty of making a million different decisions. Every day of my life starts out with a myriad of challenging decision. "Should I get up, or hit the snooze button and get 10 more minutes of sleep?" "What should I wear today?" "Should I stop and grab that Jelly Doughnut I was dreaming about?" These are fairly benign decisions and the consequences rarely have a major impact on my life.
When I get to work the next series of decisions that hit my day are of little more importance to my life. "What should I do about our that data on our daily sales report?" Which customers should I call on for the day?" "What price should I quote this unit at?" These decisions generally have some sort of consequence, some immediate, some occurring later doing the line. Sometimes the consequences are major sometimes minor. Generally speaking though in the grand scheme of these things aren't all that important.
The next type of decisions that we have to make in life don't come around all that often. These are what we call life altering decisions. As I look back on my life I'm guessing I have only had to face these type of decisions about 10 or 12 times. I'm guessing my batting average is about .600. Fantastic for major league baseball but that 40% failure rate leaves for some serious challenges in life. The good news is after a major slump in the late eighties and early nineties I'm on a hitting streak with the big ones.
So why all this talk about big decisions? Well today is the 14th anniversary of the biggest and best decision that I've ever made in life. What was the decision? Marrying Tajee of course.
As I mentioned 14 years ago I was in period of my life where I wasn't make good decisions. I put myself in bad situations, I made choices that limited my options in life, I made choices that kept me from experiencing some wonderful events, and I made decisions that negatively effected many relationships with friends and family. Who would have thought that while I was in the middle of this "decision slump" that I would step up the plate and hit a the Grand Slam of all decisions.
With the kids growing like crazy and life whirring past us at a million miles and hour I've spend a fair amount of time reflecting on life. I look back at how lucky I was to meet Tajee and the incredible difference that she has made in my life. I shudder to thing where I'd be without her and I wanted to publicly let you all know how much I love her and how glad I am that she chose me.
Tajee truly inspires me to be a better man. I work harder because of her. I laugh more because of her. I'm happier because of her. I'm a more committed father because of her. I pray more because of her. I'm more social and outgoing because of her. I have many more opportunities to help others because of her. I try new things because of her. I have a beautiful house because of her. I have to many delicious meals and snacks because of her. I feel loved because of her. I feel safe because of her. I feel needed and important because of her. I have two awesome boys because of her. And most importantly we'll be together as family in happiness and joy forever because of her.
I love you Tajee more that you can imagine. I hope you have a great Anniversary this year. I know I will because I get the perfect present every day. You.
Here are some pictures from my "Grand Slam Day" way back in 1995. Also, sorry for the sports analogy but I couldn't go totally sappy.
She's so HOT!!!
He's pretty studly too!! Check out the sweet hair.
