My Great Mother.............

Today, I took my mother in to have a regular colonoscopy and complications happened. My mother was admitted into the icu after not being able to breath, a minor heart attack, and a little bit of fluid in her lung. I was told she is going to be there for two nights at the minimum.

 She has sleep apnea, asthma, and other challenges.  I did a lot for her. I wish she would have stopped smoking decades ago along with drinking soft drinks. She knows I want to see her here as long as she able to. 

My mother has been the person in my life who has been a constant in no matter what happened. Yes, we had some disagreements, however we always agreed to come to an agreement. I want to see you come home mom, alive and well.  

Visiting With Family

On Christmas day I went to visit with my grandparents who are in a retirement home. They recently had a fall. My grandmother is 97 and grandpa is 93. We were talking about the great times we have. I told my grandpa, I think about them consistently even though I am not able to visit them very often. I told my grandpa, Thank you for all you have done throughout all these decades, I appreciate everything. He then said, I wish I could have spent more time with you. I said you did what you could in the time you had allowed. I will accept it for what it is and still grateful for all the lessons learned from your life.

Yes, we all wish we could do more then we have in the past. There is nothing you can do about your past since it is over with. Why put your energy in regret. Be grateful for what you have accomplished and use it as a stepping stone to propel you today and to your future. We all have made mistakes. Use them as a building blocks to be better next time. In the long run by torturing yourself, it brings more needless pain by reliving it again many times. Why not make new memories to hold on to.

What are some stories you would like to share and tools you have used to move on to propel yourself?

Grateful For A Quality Chiropractor

I recently fell and hit the back of head on the ice along with my neck, mid back, lower back, and hip. I was in pain and unable to walk without a limp. I got x rays to give to my chiropractor to make sure I didn’t have any broken bones.

Upon before being adjusted, pain was shooting down one of my legs. After being adjusted, I started to walk normally. I understand the first adjustment after a fall and or any accident is not going to fix the issue completely in correcting it, As soon as I felt like myself again being able to function correctly in any shape or form, I was very happy. I am very grateful to have a great chiropractor with much experience and understand my family’s history. With much complexity comes a large challenge. So take the time to pick a high quality chiropractor who graduated from Palmer chiropractic school in Davenport, Iowa. Understand, when you find the right chiropractor, you will feel better and function at a higher level. It is worth the investment in yourself to feel the best you can and having your spin aligned correctly will make your organs function the way they were intended to.

Learning Every Day

I made many mistakes and have learned a lot. By watching and adjusting the environment the outcome will improve over time. Holding in emotions especially negative emotions such as resentment, will eventually blow up in your face over time. I learned this the hard way over the years. I have to catch myself through many situations.

Address the issues as being presented instead of letting them grow into negative emotions. This is one issue I do work through and improve to this day. Knowing when to really say things and when I have to address things in the right way. These days it is so easy to offend anyone. I have to choose to say what I mean and mean what i say. Also I have a hard time asking for help since I have an independent spirit and want to do it all. This is a flaw I have and must work through in order to take my success to the next level.

Do you see your flaws? I’d like to hear your response and connecting stories/

A Tribute To Bruce Grey

I first met Bruce through a good friend of mine, Johnny. We are all fellow visual artists. Bruce is a great man who was always upfront and straight forward. He had a great sense of humor. Bruce first was on the east coast then moved to Los Angeles. Bruce and his metal sculptures have been in Geico commericals, tv shows, and many more scenes. He had been an visual artist for over 30 years.

Earlier this year, he mentioned about having cancer and having aggressive chemotherapy treatments, Bruce is a veteran and was getting treatment from the Va. I thought to he had overcome this cancer. At one point he did have cancer and overcame the cancer for a time and it came back shortly after. Bruce is a celebrity and a legend in my book for the art world and on a personal one on one friendship. Thank you, Bruce for the great quality time, sharing of knowledge, and showing new aspects.

Farewell, Bruce, You will be remembered.

Ask Yourself, What Can I Do For Others?

Only focusing on what you are getting out of a relationship especially with growing a business is a recipe for failure. Think about it if everyone is coming up to you and asking for something for nothing in every interaction, wouldn’t it push you away? With all of the highly successful people others are throwing themselves at them trying to get their business. It is like asking someone to marry you when you only met a few minutes ago.

Take time to get to know people and understand who they are. Once you get to know who they are, in due time, you will be able to help them on a personal level and have their contacts in the right moment after trust and rapport is built. Picture yourself as being highly successful and in their shoes, would you give away all of your contacts for nothing after you worked years to decades to acquire them. No, there is no way, you’d give away all of the countless hours of work to get to where you are at. It is about earning and building trust over time. Be patient, realize these are humans like yourself. In the end, everyone will benefit. Make sure everyone benefits and you will have repeat business with long term growth.

Value Yourself/ In Due Time Others Will Too

Many people don’t value who they are nor ask the right questions to discover who they are. In the daily grind, most are mentally stuck in only surviving. Why not do more then what is asked? Do you want to be forgotten just like the services you have received in your past? Would you want to be given an experience of low quality when it all falls apart or are you going to decide to give what you want to receive? Do you want to be proud of what you have done?

Asking the right questions to yourself and others who are around you is critical to doing better then other businesses around. Decide to make your connection worth having by showing the upfront and long term benefits. Another is even if you can’t use a certain business services, maybe someone else in your network and or another who you come across will. With giving quality referrals, your value will gain higher value over time and from this you will have much more referrals. What matters is building relationships, confidence, and longer list of referrals over time to be the asset everyone seeks after.

Part TIme Or Full Time?

I have been asked countless of times when presenting my work this question. The right question is how can I help you and benefit you. Too many people like to label everything in their perspective then actually challenging their value system. People say, I can’t afford this or that or the other. Why not ask, what do I have to do in order to afford is being seeked. Everyone has a point of transition in beliefs and or perception changes over the decades. As you honestly look at the difference among people.

Why ask a self lmiting question to yourself and or to others? In fact, why not question the questions you are asking. The quality of your questions will become the answer you find. Instead of only looking at the hours you work and or dedicate to your mission why not ask the question of, how many people did I impact. Also the better you do, the more trolls you will come across. i found this out personally. Don’y feed the trolls to get a rise out of you when you are putting in your best work and effort with doing the life’s mission.

Remember where you came from and to never go back as a force tp push you forward.

Put In Your Best Effort

At certain times of when no matter how hard you work it falls apart. You have to roll with the punches. Learn the most you can where you are and the mistakes made. I have had my far share of mistakes. It is ok to make mistakes, just be open to taking ownership of yourself in good and bad. People have to understand there are high and low points for a reason. The honest test is to test who we are and the process of going through challenges.

One thing I learned is to not expect everyone to support me. It is not a good idea to wait for support when you have to build it up and over time you will have the long term support you seek. Too many people are focused on what can they receive vs. what can they give. The producer mentality is superior to the consumer mentality. North american made a huge mistake in thinking we are so much further ahead of other countries to then become relaxed in allowing other countries to surpass the usa. I know with all of us working together we can become a much better society and start being a producer instead of only a consumer.

Choose To Be With Quality People

Those are driven, willing to help people as muchas they can are those who you want to be in your circle. At the same time choose to be the one who is willing to help others as much as you can. Years later, after you are remembered by the service and or helping another person, it will come back. Either way, it is the character in which matters. Choose to model the person you want to be around. Those quality people will arrive in your life in due time.

Earlier today, I was talking to this young man and said to him. Make sure you take great care of your clients, expecially new clients. Never be stingy or even give the sense of being stingy. If the client feels this way, this will be their one and only transaction with you. Show you honestly care about who you are taking care of. People can see it a mile away if you are being real or don’t back it up. Only say what you are willing to back up. You want the trust to build over time. It takes years of work to build the trust and ruining it in a certain is not worth it. In a bad situation, with your client if you don’t take the time to fix it the best you can, your client will tell everyone else. You want to give your best every time.