I bet you didn’t know that today is Davy Crockett’s
birthday.  So, I went looking for some
story about him that I could connect with relationships, gender communication, or with personal growth
or anything in my areas of specialization. 
But I could find nothing.  So, I’ll
just leave it that way: Today is Davy Crockett’s birthday.

This is one tiny example of how you can have a great idea
but nothing comes from it.  Do you get
down on yourself, “I should be able to think of a way to connect Davy to my
work”?  Or, do you make up a connection,
regardless how tangential, “Davy was a man and he had a wife and children”?  Or do you beat yourself up with how stupid
you were to have thought you could make a connection?

Or, do you say, “Nice try, but no bananas,” let go of the
idea and move on to something else?

I’m going to take the last route.

Happy Davy Crockett birthday, and I’ll write about something
else more relevant later!