When You Act This Way

Age 5 (2005) – along with Dad for Lector practice…

Dear Son, when you use your Faith, rock solid values, creativity, survival skills and a win-win attitude, you can march confidently in the direction of your dreams.

There is a peace that knows no understanding when you act as a Godly man, and at the same time, a manly man.

The humility of the last in line with the power and strength of undeniable fairness.

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Dear Son, Trust Is Everything

Dear Son, trust is everything. Rare. Priceless really. You must extend it if you wish to receive it – beware that you may not get it in return. Just a fact of life.

Lets assume you work for an organization under current usual and customary paradigms. If your organization can not guarantee you will always work there (and they can’t), what’s the smart Plan B option?

Exactly. And pursue your Plan B with the highest level of integrity. Act so you never have to look over your shoulder, because you never took a shortcut.

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Dear Son, Above All

Dear Son, your personal integrity, rooted in your deep spiritual core beliefs, should remain first above all other values.

The testing (temptation) will stop when you die. Not before. Do the right thing.

In preparing a Plan B, years in the making, I launched an LLC in 2009, five years before I could take ‘early’ retirement at 55.

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Dear Son, This Is How It Works

Dear Son, life is pretty straight forward. It will be hard, fun, exciting, tempting, fulfilling, heavy, and if we’re lucky, long.

You will work most of you life. In ‘the old days’, most people got a job with a company that took care of them – regular work for regular pay, benefits, opportunity, etc.

The world you’re headed to is one in which old paradigms are being rewritten or crushed.

Pray for guidance as you move through your ‘career’ and support yourself (at first) and then your Family. The earlier you learn and embrace an entrepreneurial spirit, the sooner you’ll have a plan B.

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Dear Son #13

Dear Son, as you watch me and your Mother today at Church, know that volunteering time to serve others is part of our obligation as believers.

As I Lector this morning, try to remember the story I’ve told you many times, as it was first told to me by another Holy Family volunteer.

You may think you are simply doing “a reading’, but for nearly everyone in the pews, you are the only scripture they will hear all week. Don’t read. Proclaim God’s Holy Word!”

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