Today is a great day! A day to be Thankful for all the blessings in our life. To think of those things that make our life Super-Fantastic. Today is a special day for me as well. November 27, 1993 I made the best decision of my life. On that day I said "I DO" to my lovely bride of 15 years today.
The journey has been filled with many great adventures. She has always been there by my side, supporting me through all my endeavors. She has built for us a loving family, a happy home and keeps smiling through all of lifes little challenges.
Today, I am thankful that I found my soul mate in February of 1990 and that everyday has been blessed with her in my life since.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Gas Pump of Life
We have a choice between positive energy and negative energy. Positive energy is high octane fuel for the ride of your life while negative energy causes sludge to accumulate in your energy pipeline.
With high gas prices, I know that we are all used to going to the pump with the cheapest gas. Yes we could splurge and buy a tank of high octane gas for our car, but we pull up and fill up with good old regular gasoline. Our car survives on regular gas, it gets us from point a to point b, right.
This may work well for my car, but when it comes to my attitude I have to believe that I am worth the very best octane I can buy. (With a diesel car I understand high fuel cost :) ) My attitude is like that Lexus my friend owns, it requires high octane fuel or you void the warranty. If we can fill our life with positive energy, we will achieve more. We will find the extra spark to tackle a tough problem or to push that last bit to achieve the goal we set.
Sometimes we may need to add a fuel additive to our tank to clean out old deposits, but from now on, I AM BUYING THE HIGH OCTANE FUEL FOR LIFE.
With high gas prices, I know that we are all used to going to the pump with the cheapest gas. Yes we could splurge and buy a tank of high octane gas for our car, but we pull up and fill up with good old regular gasoline. Our car survives on regular gas, it gets us from point a to point b, right.
This may work well for my car, but when it comes to my attitude I have to believe that I am worth the very best octane I can buy. (With a diesel car I understand high fuel cost :) ) My attitude is like that Lexus my friend owns, it requires high octane fuel or you void the warranty. If we can fill our life with positive energy, we will achieve more. We will find the extra spark to tackle a tough problem or to push that last bit to achieve the goal we set.
Sometimes we may need to add a fuel additive to our tank to clean out old deposits, but from now on, I AM BUYING THE HIGH OCTANE FUEL FOR LIFE.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Quote - Taking Action
Every day you've got to get up and play hard.
Jeff Immeit - Ceo: General Motors
This is one of my favorite quotes and I have it posted here above my desk. If we wake up early every day ready to "play hard" to go our and "do our best" then we can accomplish anything that we want to achieve. I believe that it is up to me to get up and make things happens. I make the choice every day to get out of bed and make every day a super-fantastic day.
Jeff Immeit - Ceo: General Motors
This is one of my favorite quotes and I have it posted here above my desk. If we wake up early every day ready to "play hard" to go our and "do our best" then we can accomplish anything that we want to achieve. I believe that it is up to me to get up and make things happens. I make the choice every day to get out of bed and make every day a super-fantastic day.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
A weekend of smiles!
This has been a very nice weekend, full of smiles and happiness.
On Saturday, I got to great all the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts who had qualified as a "Popcorn All Star" in this year's Trail's End popcorn sale. We had a special incentive for every boy who sold to 25 customers. The boys got a free ticket to the Eastern Washington football game. In addition they also got a special " Popcorn All Star" hat with the EWU logo on it.
So on Saturday, I got to work with two other staff members and our trails end representative to pass out hats at the football game. We got to meet all the kids who were top sellers an talk to them about the popcorn sale, it was a great time.
Also on Saturday we had some good friends from our Soccer Team move in just down the street. Tammy and Jasmine helped them move, but because I was working the football game I was not able to help with the moving. I was able to come home and make some great chili and feed the whole crew as my contribution to the group. Everyone was tired and definitely did not want to cook after a day of moving, so I was very happy to help. You can check out the recipe for this great chili recipe at http://yackelsyummies.livejournal.com/
On Sunday, Jasmine and I decided to beat the weather and get the Christmas lights out on the front of the house. We like to put lights on all the leading edges of the house, but with our house design there is one area that you just have to get up on the roof to do. Inevitably it snows before I get out and get it done and then we have trouble getting them out safely. We added some new lights this year that led snowflakes. We think that they are going to look great.
We will wait until the Friday after Thanksgiving, but we are ready to start the holiday celebration.
On Saturday, I got to great all the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts who had qualified as a "Popcorn All Star" in this year's Trail's End popcorn sale. We had a special incentive for every boy who sold to 25 customers. The boys got a free ticket to the Eastern Washington football game. In addition they also got a special " Popcorn All Star" hat with the EWU logo on it.
So on Saturday, I got to work with two other staff members and our trails end representative to pass out hats at the football game. We got to meet all the kids who were top sellers an talk to them about the popcorn sale, it was a great time.
Also on Saturday we had some good friends from our Soccer Team move in just down the street. Tammy and Jasmine helped them move, but because I was working the football game I was not able to help with the moving. I was able to come home and make some great chili and feed the whole crew as my contribution to the group. Everyone was tired and definitely did not want to cook after a day of moving, so I was very happy to help. You can check out the recipe for this great chili recipe at http://yackelsyummies.livejournal.com/
On Sunday, Jasmine and I decided to beat the weather and get the Christmas lights out on the front of the house. We like to put lights on all the leading edges of the house, but with our house design there is one area that you just have to get up on the roof to do. Inevitably it snows before I get out and get it done and then we have trouble getting them out safely. We added some new lights this year that led snowflakes. We think that they are going to look great.
We will wait until the Friday after Thanksgiving, but we are ready to start the holiday celebration.
The Dog Fight
I just started reading a book this evening called The Energy Bus, which you will soon see reviewed in full here. It is a great, fast read and is all about making life full of positive energy, aka being super-fantastic. I am just loving this book because it reinforces so much of what I believe and try to model in my life every day. It is recharging my batteries and reminding me that we each have the key to make decisions to make life Super-Fantastic.
A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man. "I fell like ther are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind and gentle dog and then I have this angy, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." the wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you fee the most, so feed the positive dog."
This just reminds me that everyone has these two dogs and they are constantly in conflict. The way we chose to respond chooses which dog is going to win. If we think about the positive and develop a vision of where we want to go, the positive dog will win. Feed your Positive Dog a good meal every day.
A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man. "I fell like ther are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind and gentle dog and then I have this angy, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." the wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you fee the most, so feed the positive dog."
This just reminds me that everyone has these two dogs and they are constantly in conflict. The way we chose to respond chooses which dog is going to win. If we think about the positive and develop a vision of where we want to go, the positive dog will win. Feed your Positive Dog a good meal every day.
Book Review - Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscottrating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a very thought provoking book, and has many great observations and predictions of where we will be going in the future. My biggest challenge with this book is that I was hoping for a little bit more of a road map of how to implement the theory into the work place.
After listening to the book for a while, I started to get some ideas of ways to build collaboration within my own work space, but now I need to search out and learn how to use some of these technologies. The part near the end of the book about older people just needing to get out and experiment with social networks, blogs, you tube, wikis and other collaborative spots on the web is where I am going to get started.
View all my reviews.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Peter Pan - Christian Youth Theater Spokane
We went to a production of Peter Pan this evening at the Bing Crosby theater in Spokane, WA. Jasmine sings in the Spokane Children's Choir with a young girl who got a roll in the play as one of the Lost Boys chorus.
I thought that the group did a great job with the production and they put together a very nice production. We had seen this show at the Coeur d'Alene summer theater just two years ago, and their production of it was amazing, so I was a little nervous that this one would be hard to sit through. It was not!
There was this one young man in the pirate chorus who could do the funniest things with his face. He was constantly doing something, but everything was appropriate with what was going on around him.
If you live in Spokane there are still three more productions this weekend. Life is Super-Fantastic when you can go to youth theater to this quality right here in Spokane
I thought that the group did a great job with the production and they put together a very nice production. We had seen this show at the Coeur d'Alene summer theater just two years ago, and their production of it was amazing, so I was a little nervous that this one would be hard to sit through. It was not!
There was this one young man in the pirate chorus who could do the funniest things with his face. He was constantly doing something, but everything was appropriate with what was going on around him.
If you live in Spokane there are still three more productions this weekend. Life is Super-Fantastic when you can go to youth theater to this quality right here in Spokane
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