I am who I say I am...

It has been an interesting time for us this summer, busy with trying to sell the home and continue on the path toward our dreams and goals. It seems that buying a home is much easier than selling. Of course we could low ball ourselves and not accomplish what we want to out of this or we could just not sell but neihter of those are really options for us in the plan of things. Not because we can't but because they don't fit in with what we want to accomplish in life.

In life we often make rash decisions that tend to lead to more rash decisions and each time we make these decisions we are making them with emotional forces, thsu the rational side of things or our rational reasoning is then pushed asside for what we ant emotionally. Most of the people in the world work of off two emotions FEAR and GREED. FEAR is what keeps us from accomplishing great things in our lives, the fear of change, the fear of having to learn new things, the fear of the unknown. Then GREED takes over when we actually get a little freedom or a little money and instead of evaluating what is worth doing we let GREED take over and do what we have always done and thus the cycle continues. It has been a very interesting thought process in changing these own emotions in my life and the life of our family.

I see our kid today, and not just my own but all those around us in the neighborhood and a thte school, wherever I look and kids allowed to be lazyand content with where they are in life, that to just accept what life is giving them and yet told to do the best they can. How can a child do the best they can when after we tell the to do their best we then turn around and hold them back or allow them to not follow thru with what they said they were going to do.

This is not as easy as it may seem, it takes time and effort on both the part of the parents but also of the children. It is easy to tell someone what to do, but takes more time and effort to show them what to do. The real problem is that many of us ourselves don't know exactly how to accomplish our goals as well. Many of us set New Years goals and yet many of the goals end up being forgotten and become unrealized.

Michael JOrdan made a quote when he was asked why he would risk his hall of fame basketball career lustre to go into baseball and make what others seemed to be a fool of his abilities andhimself. To this he responded..."I can accept failure... but what I cannot accept is not even trying..." Unfortunately there are very few of us who even try, the majority of the world just accepts where they are as the reality and that no matter what they do they will be unable to change it.

I was told in my years after my mission that I needed to stay around here and get a good job, go to school do all the things that the majority of the population do so that I could be just like everyone else...guess what I did, I went to school go a good job, go two degrees in good fields that have some use to them, yet in the end I was still no better off than when I started. I am not saying that school was not worth the education, but that is as far as it goes and education. School did not teach me anything aboutlife, nor about how to become successful in life, that I am learning now.

Yes I had opportunities to do manythings in my life, in fact after talking with many people over the past few years I realize that I had an above average life growing up, was around successful people and hard working people. Some of these people went on to be very wealthy others did not, all were happy but not all were free. I was tought to strive for what everyone else was doing and not what the trully free were doing, there have been a few regrets in my life, not going back to wisconsin to goto school and play ball, not taking a chance on this or that. But now looking back on these experiences I have found that they were growing experiences for me, for the best teachers we can have are our own past experiences. We must learn to look at them and discover what life was trying to teach us and then follow the guidance that was given from the right teachers...LIFE!

Be well...Live long and prosper inspiring words that many of us just pass over as cute phrases that we once heard in a movie line or TV program, yet we tend to miss the true meaning of such words. maybe that is another conversation for another time.

So for now I wish all of you who are out there the best in life and that true happiniess may find you or better yet that you may find true happiness and freedom in your life.