Happy Halloween

This is one of my favorite family pictures we've taken so far. I love this time of year and I hope you have a great Fall.

Come What May, And Love It

Yesterday I shared some of the adversity I'm dealing with. I am very grateful for some words of encouragement that was shared by friends around the globe. Thank you. I was up late dealing with some of the business items that needed attention and decided to search the web for some encouragement and found this link. Youtube had part of this message on video, and I found it very inspirational.



This poem also comes to mind:


"When Things Go Wrong"

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but do not quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.

And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

anon

So, whatever it is that you are going through (because we all have our own challenges right now) stand tall and stick to the fight.

Finishing the race

I usually blog with good news, and this one will end that way too. It's been a tough season for me. A company that I had worked so hard to help build closed it's doors last month. It's never pleasant to see a company close, and it's hard when I had to talk to so many employees about the end of the road. These aren't the friendliest of job searching environments and I wish I could find jobs for each of the amazing people that worked with me. Additionally there is also the financial wake that is left behind to clean up when a company closes. My Father knows how hard its been on me and emailed me this today.



It's painful, but with the help from the Almighty and caring family and friends the race can still be finished.

Multitasking

Turns out most people aren't that good at multitasking. I took this picture while I was in Africa as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These ladies knew how to multitask. I had to have them stop walking and talking for a brief moment so I could capture the shot.

Traditions

I mentioned a while back that I grew up hiking and camping with my Dad. We made it a 3 generation event this weekend with an overnighter to Wrightwood, CA. We made camp at Guffy and cooked hot dogs on the camp fire.


In the morning we took a nice 4x4 trail down to Lupine and took these great pictures.


We're looking forward to a lot more hikes and camp outs like this one.

Outsourcing

My Father sent me this number and told me to call. 267-436-5123.

Give it a call.

My Kindergarten Girl

Where does the time go? My oldest daughter starts kindergarten
tomorrow. Today was her orientation and she did fantastic. Pretty
soon she'll be driving.

From the Rock

My Father shared this quote with me a short time back:

John D. Rockefeller said that "These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93 years of my life, depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned and will again."

Although this wasn't written about today, it certainly seems relevant.

Another quote from Rockefeller is this poem he penned when he was 86:

I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me everyday.

It is my aim to have a similar reflection when I am 86.

Commercial

One fun thing about running a company is the opportunity to be creative. We are getting ready to run some commercials for our sister company and just got this in:

We're preparing to increase our marketing quite a bit and so Time Warner invited us down to the ESPN Zone to meet Trent Dilfer a Superbowl winning quarterback. His speech was on being yourself and was very well delivered. Afterward they did a raffle and I won a grill, which I traded some guy for his iSound. It seemed like a good trade as I was lugging the 80 pound grill on my shoulder through the scorching heat and he was strolling along with his 1 pound prize.

Arena, Stadium, etc

Within a 15 minutes drive from my house, first this:

And now this:
Awesome!