Living It Daily

From Living It Daily This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify It was a typical long day working my service business, and it was also one that was busier than usual. Of course, it was my busy season, so it was to be expected, but there seemed to be more people than usual, too. On top of all that, the traffic was heavier than usual. I was working in my usual service area, Fort Myers B...

From Living It Daily Maybe I’m just paying closer attention this year. Maybe I’m just in a reflective mood. Maybe I’m just getting older and contemplating a lot of things from my past that I appreciate or regret. Whatever the case, there just seems to be more being said about fathers this year as we approach the day set aside to recognize and/or celebrate fathers. Honestly, I don’t watch that much...

from Living It Daily In usual fashion, my mind took a turn back to a song from my younger days, but it isn’t a song that is not relevant today. In fact, I find it to be even more relevant in these days than it possibly was in the days it was written. With all the things going on in the world today, there is a song written a while ago, probably in the early eighties, titled ‘Be Ye Glad’ written by...

Choosing to Encourage, Motivate, and Inspire In a world filled with so much rage, chaos, and uncertainty, it’s sometimes difficult to face the day-to-day situations we encounter on a continuing basis. Fortunately, we don’t have to bow to the pressures of the world around us and join their chorus of negativity and criticism — whether at home or in the workplace. We can do something totally foreign...

From Living It Daily The Other Option by Rusty Norman My mind has a habit of wandering off on its own — sometimes to places I never planned to go. I’ve made peace with that over the years. More often than not, the journey turns out to be worth taking, even when I couldn’t have told you where it was headed. And every now and then, it leads somewhere that sticks with you — something you...

Learning From Life’s Warning Signs by Rusty Norman Several years ago, I wrote an article for a newsletter — one that eventually found its way into my first book, “Living Life Notes – Insights From Traveling the Highway of Life.” That article was titled “Skid Marks,” and ever since it was published, I have carried with me the intention of writing this follow-up. That time has come. For those who ma...

Resilience through the storms There’s a Gold Tree in my front yard that I’ve been watching for more than forty years. It started as a seedling — taken from a tree my mom and dad had in their yard. We brought it here in Southwest Florida, put it in the ground, and watched it grow. That tree out there now, the one I can see from my window right this moment, is living proof that sometimes...

What we believe shapes our world — but what if what we believe is completely wrong? Let me ask you something before we get into the deep end here. Have you ever thought you knew what a word meant — really knew it — only to find out later that what you believed and what was actually true were worlds apart? Maybe you haven’t had that particular experience. I sure have. And I’m a little embarrassed t...

E O L End Of Life — The Cycle That Touches Everything The Three Letters That Define a Threshold In the world of electronics and manufacturing, three letters carry enormous weight: E-O-L. End Of Life. It is the point at which a product, a device, or a system crosses an invisible threshold — the moment when its maker steps back, withdraws support, and signals to the world that its useful chapter has...

A Living It Daily Perspective The Quiet Power of Common Sense Common sense doesn’t shout. It doesn’t try to impress anyone. It’s the steady wisdom that helps us make sound decisions based on what’s right in front of us. In a world full of noise, complexity, and constant pressure to react, common sense brings us back to center. Common sense is one of those rare qualities everyone values, but few ca...

from Living It Daily Secrets — We all carry them. Some weigh heavy as stones in our pockets, while others flutter like moths in the corners of our consciousness—those thoughts, experiences, and yearnings we’d rather keep hidden from the world. The question isn’t whether we have secrets, but rather what we do with them and how they shape the landscape of our lives. Do we all have...

A while back, I said something to a friend that stuck with me: “My life is like my garage.” At the time, those words carried the weight of confession—an admission that things had become cluttered, disorganized, and overwhelming. Today, as I stand in that same garage, now considerably cleaner and more organized, I’ve learned something unexpected: a clean garage doesn’t autom...

from Living It Daily Letters From Home audio from Living It Daily I remember several years ago having a conversation with a friend about his service in the Air Force. We were sitting on his back porch, cold drinks in hand, when I asked him what really made the biggest difference during his deployments and the various conflicts he’d faced overseas. I expected to hear about superior equipment,...

Living it daily Living It Daily – audio read from podcastnorm dot com Some days I find my mind wandering hither and yon. Today is one of those days and I found myself thinking about many things. Although I don’t aways spend my time thinking about the past, sometimes those memories from days past are well worth the journey back in time. This time, the journey led me back to a time sever...