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What can you do? I have had many conversations over the years with those who attend work for a living. Meaning they earn a pay check from someone else for a service rendered. Are you for sale? It seems in life we tend to live our priorities when it is convenient or relevant instead of always. I know that I am guilty of that. I look at the business we have built and now realize what true business and life can be like. Lets just look at some things....                           JOBS                                BUSINESS SYSTEMS OWNERS Time                 Usually given      ...

Make no mistake, I have no lack of interest in firearms. I enjoy all of their possibilities. Where I live, its not unheard of to have a "shooting" get together. I look forward to these not only to support the constitutional right, but to also responsibility represent a choice of protection and procurement of food. It makes no difference to me what your thoughts on guns are, but it does make a difference to others. Sometime this month is the big yard sale, its a time to get the house cleaned out for all the junk. My wife calls it the purge. A systematic selling of everything that we haven't touched in 6 months. I find it interesting as the process begins, how attached we become to things that we don't use. It makes no sense to keep or store many of the things that weigh us down in our lives. On another note, my wife started a process called once-a-month cooking. Yes it does save us time. No the meals don't taste like cardboard. No you won't find me in an ap...

I have loved the game of basketball my entire life. I remember as a young boy bouncing the ball on a bed of pea gravel practicing desperately until eventually mastering the follow through on a lofty shot toward the beat up fiber glass board holding my bent up hoop down the farm. Its hard to recall some of my experiences, but I will never forget the release from my hand and the sound of the net when connecting with a long range jump shot. It is one of the sweetest experiences that I have ever had. Thus my addiction, you might say, began. It is the sport of basketball that taught me one of the hardest lessons about success. My junior year of high school, I quit the team due to selfish reasons that should have been overcome. My parents let me make the mistake. For that, I am forever grateful. Without the experience of feeling like I had given up on the team and realizing that I could do more led me to a commitment that I have kept ever since. DON'T QUIT WHAT ...

This interview with Will Smith is a great perspective on greatness vs talent or skill. Where do you excel? WORK ETHIC Make it your work ethic that leads you to victory!

No matter how sick or tired I was...... Play to win, lead to succeed, and take your team to the limit. Everyone can hit a new gear, everyone can do more, everyone can make a difference, so DO IT ANYWAY!

I appreciate this excerpt of a speech so much especially when faced with those slow to act and confrontationists. It's not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errors and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt We watch movie after movie of entertaining lives of those who have dared to enter the arena in whatever form you want to talk about. I feel it is...