{"id":2329,"date":"2015-05-01T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2015-06-12T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:57:17","slug":"the-terror-of-becoming-insanely-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/the-terror-of-becoming-insanely-average\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terror of Becoming Insanely Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Bookshelf.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2334\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Bookshelf.png?resize=400%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Steve Jobs Bookshelf\" width=\"400\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Bookshelf.png?w=678&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Bookshelf.png?resize=283%2C300&amp;ssl=1 283w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Bookshelf.png?resize=141%2C150&amp;ssl=1 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a huge fan of Steve Jobs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/oh-wow\/\">I&#8217;ve written about him<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/make-a-dent-in-the-universe\/\">before<\/a>. I don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>exactly<\/em> have him on a pedestal&#8230;I realize that he had faults, just like everybody else. But there are aspects of what he\u00a0<em>accomplished<\/em> that speak to me. Several of his catchphrases surface in my words. One that arises amongst members of the Hectic Family is &#8220;insanely great&#8221;. We&#8217;ve used it to describe how we want to be viewed, and how we achieve goals. It&#8217;s a fairly common&#8230;a member of the family sets out on an adventure, and another one\u00a0asks how they&#8217;re going to &#8220;exceed our expectations&#8221;. It&#8217;s our way of asking how the results will be &#8220;insanely great&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I \u00a0was thinking about the idea of being\u00a0<em>insanely great<\/em>. A lot of other things were bouncing around in my head, but I kept gravitating back to this idea. I then asked myself the question: <strong>Am I being\u00a0<em>insanely great<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I concluded\u00a0I&#8217;m not. I listed\u00a0lots of reason: Time, responsibilities, energy levels. You name it, I brought it out, shook off the dust, and examined\u00a0the <em>reasons<\/em>\u00a0in the light of day. In the end, I realized they were <strong>excuses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I dug deeper to understand why I was making excuses. For several hours, I thought about what was going on. I realized I&#8217;m not only failing to achieve\u00a0<em>insanely great<\/em> status, but if I don&#8217;t shake things up I&#8217;m going to end up something much worse. I&#8217;ll be:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Insanely Average<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>That scared me. A lot. I&#8217;ve always been an over-achiever. In school I was always at the top of\u00a0the class. I took a job in a competitive field and rose rapidly through the ranks. I set out from that job and had a pretty good run as a <em>solopreneur<\/em> when that word was still 20 years from being coined.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0started a family and I did a good job of raising the kids. Because of my wife&#8217;s\u00a0demanding schedule, I adapted my lifestyle to be the primary caregiver, transportation, and cheerleader for the kids. Along the way, we everything with gusto. We continually asked each other &#8220;how did you exceed expectations today?&#8221;. Leaving out\u00a0whose expectations they were&#8230;the idea was (and still is) to exceed <em>someone&#8217;s<\/em> expectations. Especially\u00a0your own.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, the family stopped asking that question of me. It&#8217;s frightening to realize that I even stopped asking the question of myself. For years I&#8217;ve barely been meeting my own expectations. It seems nobody has expectations for me. I&#8217;m just\u00a0<em>support<\/em> for everybody else. I do what&#8217;s necessary, but it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve had sufficiently high expectations that anyone would bother to ask how\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m doing<\/em>. The only time it ever comes up is when I fail. Forgetting to pick up a kid after school, missing a bill payment, failing\u00a0to deliver something, returning library books late, letting the family run out of milk. Failing at the lowest common denominator of expectations will lead to a mini-revolt in the Hectic Family. Yet even then, someone will state\u00a0&#8220;Dad has a lot of things on his plate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s an excuse&#8230;not a reason!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The worst thing about that excuse&#8230;it clearly shows how low the bar has been set. Honestly, do you know\u00a0<em>anybody<\/em> who doesn&#8217;t have a lot of things on there plate? Do you know anybody who isn&#8217;t busy? It&#8217;s like saying &#8220;he&#8217;s breathing&#8221;. E<em>verybody<\/em> has a lot on their plates. Maybe it&#8217;s silly stuff that shouldn&#8217;t be there. Maybe it&#8217;s the kind of activities that take a lot of time, but don&#8217;t generate results. In the end, our plates are full and we&#8217;re\u00a0<em>all busy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Being busy means I&#8217;m average. Extra-ordinary. When I\u00a0came to that realization,\u00a0it scared me. It shook\u00a0me to my core.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I don&#8217;t want to be insanely average.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My biggest fear would be to see this on my headstone:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Scary-Headstone.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2331\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Scary-Headstone.jpg?resize=278%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scary Headstone\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Scary-Headstone.jpg?resize=278%2C300&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Scary-Headstone.jpg?resize=139%2C150&amp;ssl=1 139w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Scary-Headstone.jpg?w=632&amp;ssl=1 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fear can do two things, it can cause you to freeze or it can motivate you to move. Naming this fear has provided\u00a0motivation to move from where I am. I realize, there have been a lot of wins lately, but I also know that I&#8217;m not setting the bar high enough. In fact, I&#8217;ve let everybody else ratchet the bar so low that\u00a0<em>anybody<\/em> can clear it. Yet I&#8217;m not\u00a0<em>anybody<\/em>. I&#8217;ve got gifts and talents that I&#8217;ve allowed to languish. Everyday tasks and activities have become all I accomplish. I haven&#8217;t managed to really push past the routine of daily living. Like the proverbial hamster on a wheel, I&#8217;m spinning in place but going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to continue to exist in the realm of\u00a0<em>extra-ordinary<\/em>, I want to be\u00a0<em>extraordinary<\/em>. I want to have high expectations for myself and then go beyond them. I want those around me to expect a lot from me, and then <strong>stun them<\/strong> with my ability to\u00a0<em>exceed their expectations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just about\u00a0<em>wanting<\/em> though. It&#8217;s about\u00a0<em>doing<\/em>. The next ten days are going to be our usual whirlwind of local activities, medium distance travel (at least for the Midwest US), and a combination airline flight-drive. School is getting near the end of the year, so our schedules are absolutely crazy. There is practically no routine\u00a0one day to the next. But that&#8217;s our lives. We&#8217;ve made our choices, now it&#8217;s time to fit everything that I want to accomplish into the spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next ten days I&#8217;m embarking on a journey to exceed my own expectations. I&#8217;m going to seize\u00a0the opportunity of my hectic life to transform my expectations of myself into something greater. Something worth being remembered for.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Something Insanely\u00a0Great!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-dotted\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:3px;border-color:#999999\"><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"The Dad Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedadnetwork.co.uk\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedadnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image-e1423257811431.png?w=900\" alt=\"The Dad Network\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/honestmum.com\/category\/brilliant-blog-posts\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/fJzNWoE.jpg?resize=301%2C189\" alt=\"Brilliant blog posts on HonestMum.com\" width=\"301\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Super Busy Mum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.superbusymum.net\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i1224.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee367\/Tandier\/MMWBH-2.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Super Busy Mum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of Steve Jobs. 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