Don't Play Poker and Eat Potato Chips

Minds are amazing talented things, but get them off track and they are liable to get a little turned around. I think it was a line in some movie that it is not a good idea to play poker and eat potato chips. The logic behind this claim is quite simple. You end up betting potatoes and putting plastic in your mouth. Not too yummy.

Lives need to have clear rules and regulations or they tend to lose their functionality a little bit at a time. When two aspects of a person’s life get mixed together, there is usually confusion for not only the person who has confused the bits of their life, but also for all the people around them.

Take for example the following hypothetical situation; a father who has a very stressful day at work comes home in a terrible mood. His son runs up to him and says, “I made the winning play in my baseball game today and I got an A on my math test!” The father brushes him aside with an “uh huh, that’s great son,” and goes off to sit on the couch in front of the TV to relax. The father in this situation has sacrificed a wonderful moment with his son because he could not forget about how bad his day was for the few minutes his son wanted to talk to him.