The NFL has cracked down on celebrations in the end zone after touchdowns. If you ask me, we don't celebrate enough. (At least in the non-football world.) We are very good at beating ourselves up when things go wrong. We need to make sure we are spiking the ball (or popping the cork) when things go great.
On Saturday, a friend of mine called and asked if I would like to go skydiving with him this summer. I have never jumped out a perfectly good airplane before (or any airplane for that matter). I have always thought it would be fun to do a tandem jump; strapping on to somebody that knows what the heck they're doing, but of course that's not what he had in mind.
Victims want more luck. Victors want more hours in a day.
Victims show up late because the roads were bad. Victors leave early to give themselves plenty of time to get there.
Victims hope, want, and wish. Victors set goals, plan, and achieve.
Seems like more and more people are on street corners in town with cardboard signs asking for help and money. My first thought is that business must be good. My next (and likely correct) thought is that more people must need help and money. I know there are lots of reasons that a person ends up on a corner holding cardboard, and those reasons don't really matter to me.
February 7, 2011 Because Permits are required for private floats on this majestic site don't wait too long or you may miss your chance. Information inside.
Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers. (As a Vikings fan, saying those words does not come easy.) The NFL season is long, difficult, and trying. Training camp starts in July, but make no mistake, there aren't any weeks off for a player (not one that wants to be great). Ending the run as Super Bowl Champions really says something about the team and the individuals.
February 6, 2011 Small town Montana goes global, again. Finding these stories about locally made Montana products always brings a smile to my face.
I was diagnosed with stage-3 colon cancer eight years ago. Like most everyone else who is dealt the same hand; I experienced surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Good days and bad days. Ups and downs. Life is one big roller coaster ride, and everyone's track has a different layout. That was part of mine.
If what we think about expands, then we want to focus on thinking about good, positive stuff right? That's what we want to see growing in our lives. If we think about negative things, then that is what we will see happening around us. Not good. Now if our own negative thoughts can have that kind of effect on us, what happens if we spread it around to others?
We have been doing some staff training the past few weeks. We spent a good part of yesterday in a session out of the office. Good stuff. It is training and learning about things we have been doing for a long time. It's not that we haven't been successful at what we have been doing, but who wouldn't want to get better? To grow? To learn a new trick?
What's the best way to insulate yourself from ridicule, being unfairly judged, and being gossiped about? Ok, let me rephrase that because there's no way to stop ridicule, judgment, and gossip in the world. So, what's the best way to insulate yourself from caring about being ridiculed, being unfairly judged, and being gossiped about?
February 2, 2011 Bozeman motorists are notorious for not fully preparing their cars in the morning for the commute during the winter. How many times have you seen the "one side of the windshield brush off" driving down the street?
