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I think it's amazing how fast life can change, how one single event can impact someone so deeply that it changes their entire thought process. You can wake up unaware of the changes awaiting you as you drive to work one day, and a single phone call can change it all.

It started out as a typical Monday morning, woke up, ate my oatmeal and drove to work and arrived…

The entire drive home from work all I can think is sitting down and relaxing (I'm sure I'm the only one who thinks this). When you have two kids those moments are few and far in between, but gosh how nice they feel when we do get them am I right? The amazing thing is, kids don't think like this, I have never met a child yet who thought it was time to calm down because daddy had a long day at work.

So here I am tired and ready to calm down for the night and my son just starts skipping…

I don't care how young or old we  are,we all do it. We do things that deep down we know it is with the wrong intentions and we shouldn't do it. Even worse, when this action meets success we then rationalize it saying things like " all things work out for a reason" or " it could have been worse". I guess one might find a reason why this might be ok in some situations, but for most we try to sweep it under the rug and convince ourselves and everyone around us we really meant to do good, it was…

Are you getting paid to do what you were made to do? You see Zig Ziglar explains in his book "Better Than Good" that the only way to live a "better than good life" is to implement the three P's to your life, the three P's are passion, peak performance, and purpose. The sad fact is that most people have no idea what their passion or purpose is, they want to believe that their employer is receiving their peak performance…