June 29, 2009

Missed out on posting my details from yesterday. So, I will post them this morning. I ended up running 3 miles. It was grueling. It took way longer then it should have and at the end I felt like I was barely going to be able to finish it. But I did. As long as I keep moving forward I always get through the pain and discomfort. The finish line is there. If I start the run it is there, if I sleep in it is there. The finish line is not going anywhere. All I have to do is not quit the run. All I have to do is keep moving forward, left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. If I don't get up to take that run, that distance is still there. It does not go away just because I did not start my run. It does not go away because I quit half-way through. My run ends when I reach that goal. Dream Big, Do Big.

June 28, 2009

This morning I ran about 4 miles. Took me 48 minutes. So, that is 12 minute miles. I really have to cut down my time on those and up my distance. I think the big slow down is the walking I'm doing. I'll have to start cutting that out so I can just get straight runs in. I'm pretty sure that will drop my times back down to 10min miles. Then I just have to up my speed training and I'll be set. I didn't talk to any prospects today, but I did get some reading in on the handbook. Wow, I'd read most of it once before, but now that I'm actually going to use the information in there it makes more sense. Hoping I can get some face time with some couple tomorrow night. Julie works so I'll be flying solo again. Hopefully once her part-time kicks in we can start working together on this. Until then...Dream Big, Do Big.

June 27, 2009

Today was a good day. This morning I got up late, but I still put in my run for the day. I'm pretty sure I did more then 4 miles, but less the 4.5 miles. I'm not really sure because I was pretty delusional there at the end and I just remember ending up at home. It is nice living down in The Fan, there is plenty of tree cover so I can run in the shade a good bit and the roads are vacant enough that running in the road is not to dangerous. This evening I met a new friend. I'm pretty sure he has the stuff to become a millionaire, if he wants to. I don't think he understands the goals we have in mind for our future yet, but if he hangs out with us long enough he just might catch on. Its pretty amazing when a person can go from being scared of picking up the phone and thinking no one really likes him to sitting in a McD's and talking about someones future. Tomorrow I plan on running 4 miles in the morning(a new route down some different streets) and following through with a prospect I talked to on Wednesday night. I'm also looking forward to confronting a couple that has been on our "worried to talk to" list. We're going to make this happen and we are going to take as many people along with us to their goals as we can. Dream Big, Do Big.

Ok, here we go... In 2008 I was able to get a couple things done from my Resolution list.

3. Run a Marathon.
8. Change the way I think.
9. Read books that will change the way I look at the world.
10. Learn to remember people's names.

I did not get to go shark fishing, nor did I manage to make some of the bigger goals. That is ok, because now it is time for 2009. The plan this year is to shorten my list and to get it all done. Also, this list is no longer a set of resolutions, this is my 2009 To Do List. On top of that these are going to be in the present tense, as if I'm completing them.

1. I am crossing the finish line of my second marathon. I made it in under 5 hours.
2. I'm playing the guitar for my wife, in a park.
3. My biblical knowledge has grown because I spend time everyday reading my bible.
4. On top of my daily bible reading, I have also improved my knowledge in the area of finances, relatioships and personal growth by reading books that cause me to change the way I think about life.
5. I have become confident in my skills as a buisness owner, and have helped many people achieve their personal goals and dreams.

There, not to many things to get done in 2009. I'll keep these in the forefront on my mind so I can get my To Do List completed in 2009.

So, my trip to the Grand Caymans went alright. And my trip to a private island in the Bahamas went alright. Now, I'm just waiting for my trip to the Virgin Islands. Of course, between now and then I'm running a marathon. On November 15, I'll be running 26.2 miles. I'm definitely intimidated, but I know I'm going to finish. As a matter of fact, that is really my only goal, to make it to the end. I would like for my time to be under 5 hours(considering I ran a halfy in just under 2:05) but ultimately I just have to not stop and I'll make it to the end.

Well, I normally don't post this often, but I just had a very interesting lunch. So, I go down to the hotel bar/restaurant and I order my lunch. I eat my lunch and I'm waiting for my bill. Well, all this time there is a man sitting at the bar talking up the bartender(a woman). He gets up from his seat and walks over to me and says something along the lines of "We know each other." My response is "Do we?" He then responded with, "My name isn't Dewey." At that point I thought he was just playing some bar game with me, you know, like a word game where he drops little clues to get me to say the key phrase that wins the game. Well, I think I was wrong. It appeared to me that he had been drinking for a while and that he was very upset about his job situation. Anyway, what I want to ask is that people say a prayer for my bar friend. I don't know if he knows what he is going to do with the rest of his life. Based on what he said he had just lost a pretty good job opportunity and now doesn't know what to do. So, anyway, thanks.

This is shaping up to be a very active off season for me. Here I am again, uprooted and moved into another country for a week. I'll get an oppertunity to meet new people and discover a culture that is at this point a mystery. Of course, the whole driving the on the left side of the road is really messing with my mind. I'm glad I didn't end up getting a rental car. Pretty sure that would have ended poorly for everyone involved. So, right now I'm reading this book about the cash flow quadrent. The chapters I'm reading through now are detailing different types of investors. So far the book has been eye opening about some of the ways I think and act with my money. Next week, after I get home, we plan on working out a budget. In the past, every time we have tried to write up a budget the ends have not met. Because of these unbalanced budgets we have mostly just winged it every month and somehow things seem to work out. Well, this is not good enough anymore. When I get home we are definitly going to list out all of our debt and all of our spending. We can't know where we are going if we don't know where we are beggining. Also, we plan on growing our wealth, not just our incomes. This will involve becoming educated investors who understand how growth of assets vs. growth of income. It is going to be long road, but we will be able to give and provide for more and more people all the time. I'll admit I have the selfish ambition of not ending up on the 45year plan and instead am looking forward to the 3-5 year plan. I'll also admit that once our debt is paid off we plan on living inexpensivly and supporting missionaries, orphanages, adult education, along with other things that I don't even know are possible yet. It is going to be an exciting adventure and I'm looking forward to it.