A Day in the life of…

How did I get to where I am today? It all started back on December 28, 1980. I was born at 8:04 a.m. in Flint, Michigan. I came out a fat baby at just over 9 pounds. Since then I have lived many places including Flint, Roscommon, Frankenmuth, Clinton Township, Harrison Township, Sterling Heights. To give some insight as to how I became the person I am today, I am going to tell you a little about the people who have made an impact on my life. To the many people that have molded me into the person I am today, I Thank You. First and formost, I would like to thank my mother for all the hard work she put into being a mother. Their isn’t another person in the world that could have done a better job than you did. Next goes to my High School Business teacher Mr. Moutrie. For showing me the ropes of the real world. Teaching me everything I know. You were like a second father to me. If it wasn’t for you I don’t know where I would be. All of the information you filled me with I still use and I will never forget it. You told me to never to put the success of myself into the hands of anyone but my own. To my wife, Jackie, you have made me a better person To all my friends, Brian Gottlieb, Geoff Stanley (Odie), Brian Bukantis (Kage), and to everyone else, Thank You. To my family. Richard, Aletha, Mike, Mom, Ron, all of the rest of you from both sides of the family; Thank You.Lastly, to my Father. Many children follow in the foot steps of their father. I couldn’t do that. How do you walk in someones foot steps if nobody is in front of you. I had to find my own path. You were the unknown shadow in my life. It is because of you I am who I am today. If it wasn’t for you then I might be headed nowhere in my life. If it wasn’t for you, I would have no motivation to succede. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be in college. If it wasn’t for you, I might be lazy, and not care about anything that is important to me. If it wasn’t for you I would amount to nothing in my life. Yes, you have made the biggest impact on my life without even whispering a word. Without even being their. On December 7, 1997, you made the impact on me that has changed my life. This was the last day I talked to you, coming home from a family Christmas Party. It is a shame you don’t know the meaning of the word family. You have made me who I am. One day I decided I was going to be somebody, and that somebody was going to be nothing like you. You have made me who I am and for that I thank you. If it wasn’t for you then I would amount to no more than you. You were my building block. My foundation. I figured if I were to amount to anything, that I would have to be noting like you.

That rule is:
I will live each day as if it will be my last, and remember that ”tomorrow” only appears on the calenders of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All I have. I will make it the best day of the year. The saddest words I could ever utter are, ”If I had my life to live over again. ”Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is my day! Beginning today, I will treat everyone I meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. I wil extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that I can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward, and if you do this, your life will never be the same again.
-Og Mandino 

  And this is true!