It’s Monday, so I want to help you get back on your grind and make sure you got your mind right…

Somone sent me the question in this subject line recently.

He didn’t know it was his lucky day but things took an interesting twist.

I’m just going to come out and say it…

Your years of experience isn’t as impressive as you think it is.

At least not the way you probably current pitch it.

Let me show you what I mean.

I need to ask you a serious question.

Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

That question might look familiar to you if you’ve ever seen the cartoon show Animaniacs (I think they just removed it from Netflix :/ ). They had a mini show within the show called Pinky and the Brain.

The show was named after two mice — one a genius (Brain, just to be clear) and the other insane based on how the theme song describes them. And every episode Brain would turn to Pink with thoughts of world domination and ask Pinky…

“Are you pondering what I’m pondering?”

And without fail, Pinky would miss the mark by a country mile with a reply like “I think so Brain, but if you replace the ‘P’ with an ‘O’, my name would be Oinky, wouldn’t it?”

And Brain would have to set him straight that his mind was on taking over the world (again). Classic.

Anyway, here’s why this is important.

Right after the original Frozen came out, I remember having a conversation with my daughter.

She was around 5 at that time.

We went to see it in the theatre and like a lot of the kid movies we see, we ended up talking about our favorite songs.

Hers was Let it Go (of course) but i went a different route. My favorite song was Love is an Open Door. I mean how can you resist a duet with such harmony? That’s what I thought, but when I said it, she looked at me completely mortified and said…