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Brett Favre is a Master at the game. He plays with great skill, cunning, meticulous, well-planned-out game plan, and he plays with the end result in mind.
He knows that a well-timed move gets excellent results. He knows how long to wait so that at just the right time…his play will have maximum effect.
He can look at the big picutre and can see where his team is in relation to where the other team is and seems to make the right decision MOST of the time.
He ALSO is a pretty good football quarterback, too…..
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In my day job, I work with the public. Many times I find myself engaged in conversation with people, both customers and co-workers. In these conversations, whether I am participating in them or observing them, I notice that people have a HUGE tendancy to interrupt or ignore other people in the conversation….myself included.
One book I have enjoyed reading over the years is Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” In it, he includes a chapter on getting people to like you through listening to them. And yet, when I am in a public setting, I am amazed with the amount of people who don’t practice basic, fundamental conversational techniques! They just talk and talk and talk, thinking that they are somehow “influencing” other people. Many times, all they are doing is creating noise.
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Tonight I attended my oldest daughter’s high school graduation. I have attended many Commencement/Graduation ceremonies in my life. I have conducted the band at 10 of them, participated in 2 of my own, been to my siblings’ ceremonies, but never in my life have I felt so nostalgic as I did this morning when I woke up. It was such a different feeling for me.
I haven’t lived with my kids since January 2003 when their mother and I split up, so I haven’t had the influence on my kids’ lives that I would have wanted to, but I am trying to make more of an effort these days than I have in the past. I guess we all go through unpleasant things in our lives that we wish we wouldn’t have gone through, but since we have, they become a part of who we are. I do what I can, realizing that I can only do what I can with the lot I have in life right now.
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I love the old saying that says, “Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.” It’s a cute little cliche’, but it makes a very good point.
I frequetly share with people this concept. Don’t worry about things you can’t control. Focus on the things that you CAN control. Can you control other people? For the most part, no. Can you control what other people do? No. You may have INFLUENCE on others, but you can’t control what they do. The only person you can control is….
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At the end of this past July, my wife, Carrie, and I took a 4 day trip to Niagara Falls, NY. We called it our Honeymoon, as we didn’t really have one after we got married on New Year’s Eve.
Leading up to the trip, both Carrie and I were talking with our coworkers and friends about the trip. They all had suggestions about what to see and do. Many recommended that we take the boat tour. Most asked if we were going to the Canadian side of the Falls. Some suggested that we watch the movie of the history of the Falls.
Our trip was a relatively short one. We left from work on Thursday night, July 30th and were back on Monday night, August 3rd. We decided to drive, because we wanted the time together in the car, and we wanted control of where to go and when to go there.
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My daughter, Elizabeth, has been visiting colleges lately to help her decide where she should go for her degree. I don’t always get much time to spend with her, as she does not live with me. I am divorced and remarried, and she lives with her mother. So when we talk, a lot of times it is in a car travelling to and fro.
Elizabeth has some very clear ideas on how her life will go once she gets her bachelor’s degree. I won’t detail that here, as it is not relevant to my topic. But suffice to say, she is very idealistic. She wants to make the very BEST decision in choosing the right college/university for herself. I support her in that endeavor. Earlier today, I took her to one of the local universities for a visit. Next week, I will be taking her to another university. Sometimes, though, as her father, I feel the need to give her some advice regarding the future. What she does with it is up to her, but I feel that it is my responsibility to at least tell her my thoughts.
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Have you ever had someone come up to you, angry, and just ready to “let you have it”? In your place of work, have you ever encountered people who are upset with an issue and verbally attack you personally, even though you did not create the problem, are not part of the problem, and were not even aware of the problem 5 seconds prior to them approaching you?
As I have mentioned before, I taught school for 13 years and have been in sales professionally for 6 years. Being in these two professions for as long as I have has taught me some valuable lessons. People have problems. And as long as people have problems, people will blame others for their problems. And as long as people blame others for their problems, people will blame YOU for their problems. And yet, you did not create the problem, you were not aware of the problem, but you may have to end up solving the problem.
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As I write this, I am sitting in a hospital room, using my Blackberry as my modem, watching and listening while my daughter recovers from surgery.
Elizabeth was born with a cleft lip and palate. She has had multiple surgeries over the course of her lifetime to repair the cleft, with the first one being when she was 2 months old.
This past Tuesday, she started the final round of surgery. At the moment, she has her lips sewn shut. They will fix this part of it later this month.
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This morning at my church, we had a guest speaker. Our pastor is out of town, and we have known this for several weeks. Last week, we even got a little video preview of who the speaker is and what he preaches about.
After our singing time, the Worship Pastor introduced the guest speaker and mentioned what his area of focus is. I thought that our church did a very good job of prepping us of what he was going to speak on.
The guest speaker came up to the platform with his Bible and 3 other books in his hand. When some of the ushers went to move a pulpit to the platform for him to use, he declined and said he would rather not use it. The ushers sat down.
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As I write this, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. There are many pictures that come to mind.
- Family
- Food
- Football
- Freedom
Then the next day, Friday, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest day in retail. Stores all over the country will open early. VERY early. Some stores will open at 4am.
4am?
I remember in 2001, I woke up at around 5:30am to go to Wal-Mart for something that was only on sale from 6:00-11:00am. I watched as the employees surrounded a number of wrapped pallets in the aisles between grocery and clothing. The store was FLOODED with customers waiting for that big announcement.
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