Expectations Revisited

I think I've mentioned this before, but if I can, at some point I'd like to make a youtube video showing the mathematical impossibility of living up to all the expectations you hear from advice experts.  Sleep eight hours a day, brush after every meal, exercise an hour a day, go to all your kids little league games and involve them in every sport and extracurricular activity imaginable, pick a job you like and get a PHD in that field, be the last one to leave at work every day, spend quality time with your family, get a part time job for extra money, give 10% of your money to your regular savings, 10% to the church, 10% to charity, remodel your house, pay all of your kids tuition, pay for your parents long term care, save up 10% of your income for your retirement, get the newest i-phone whenever it comes out, read 30 minutes a day, go to church twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday, go to every PTO meeting, get involved politically and volunteer for campaigns, diversify your investments and pay close attention to each one of them daily, learn a new language, write hand-written letters to all of your distant friends to keep in touch, sponsor a child living in a foreign country, read every word of every obscenely long legal document you're given before signing it, listen attentively to every jabroni that crosses your path and give them a big friendly smile, update your will once every year.  Who has the time or money to do it all?  You just got to prioritize as best as you're able with the limited resources you have.  You can't let all this stuff drive you nuts, and some of it you're just going to have to cut out.

Spoiling

Spoiling somebody is giving them whatever they want exactly when they want it.  If you give them whatever they want but not when they want it, you're not spoiling them.