Where will you leave...

Or have left...Your Footprint in History?

Have you already done your best? Or is the best yet to come?

Even if we think we have done our best, we may just be able to top our
past accomplishments, even if we think it could never be outdone. It's
OK to attempt higher, as we will still have our original accomplishment
to softly fall back on, if we miss.

We never really know when our great footprint is made...but we do
know that there is always someone bigger, faster, and smarter...and
who's to say that "someone" isn't you?

Yours in "Reaching" - Coach

Every Ten Generations...

A hero is born.

And once in a lifetime, there is a change in the path of history.

Those who have been a part of the change, must celebrate. There is no time to wait, for it is our time.

We have been part of what may have started as the absence of beauty, or
may of not been the center piece of virtue, but time proved
otherwise...and it became the high water mark for the future, for us to
step up from.

So let's celebrate...what has been put into motion, and for us to continue.

Yours in "Let's Celebrate...Our 10th Anniversary" - Coach

Keep doing the "Right" things...

Because character is built over time.

The easy route and shortcuts are for the lazy, and are the wrecking
ball of character.

So keep at it, and over time, character is also what makes History.

Yours in "Making History" - Coach

This is the inevitable posting of day 666...

Yikes - The number of the Beast!

Most people stay away from 3 consecutive 6's because of certain
beliefs that have come down with history, I was included, when I joined
a country club where my club number was 666.

Initially, I was suspect on where and when my golf game would implode,
because of my number. But once I decided to have my beliefs trump the
beliefs of history, things got better, much better - had a lot of fun
and won some good dough on that track - even though I was tagged with
666.

I know others that have 3 consecutive 6's that identify them in some
way, in their address and even in their phone numbers - and they are doing pretty good too.

Know this: Your beliefs are stronger than the beliefs of history, myths
or others.

Yours in "Believe" - Coach

There is a saying..

"Those who don't read history, are condemned to repeat it".

But more precisely, cycles in history, life and nature, are what we need to understand.

Most everything is cyclical - if viewed with enough time.

The cycle that spans the human life are birth, growth, receding, death,
and in ancient history they represent it as a unit of time called a
saeculum.

There is a cyclical pattern in organic nature - in the seasons, in
tides, in night and day, maybe early or late, but winter always comes.

War, depressions, inflations also are regular, and may also come
earlier or later, but the cycles roll on, and they lie deep in the
natural life of humanity.

Understanding cycles can allow us to be prepared for what comes next - pretty sweet.

Yours in "Understanding" - Coach

The government stated our...

Recession.started in December 2007.

Economics: a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited in scope or duration as compared to a depression.

Wikipedia:

"Recessions or Crises since the Great Depression":

There were 6.

3 lasted 2 years - and 3 lasted 1 year...so in doing the math,
looks like they last an average of 1 1/2 years.

And the average time in between recessions or crises: 12 years

Things happen, over and over in history, no big surprise - until it
happens.

Yours in "Perspective" - Coach

Fired Up?

You bet!

I've been talking to a lot of people lately and their vocabulary has
been changing.

From last years defensive talk of putting their helmets on and
attempting to fend off the blows that the recession have been dolling
out, to "enough is enough" and switching their mindsets, to that of
going on the offensive - and making plans to charge ahead.

History has shown us that the times of greatest resistance has brought
about the greatest opportunity, and the resilience of humanity has
always fought back after the initial shock has sunk in, which has
always turned things around...for the better.

I wonder if the recession had a conscious, it would have known that it
"Poked the Bear" one too many times?

Yours in "Fired Up" - Coach