Hey, everybody..... Just a quick note today. I have been away quite awhile. I took the better part of the last three years to be mommy, daddy and granpa to a now 3 1/2 year old grandson. It has been a rewarding journey and the saga continues....but the ground work has been laid. He is 3 going on 13 and the challenges are a little different now than making bottles and changing diapers.

So.... "I'm back....." I will be moving the blog to a Wordpress platform soon but will get this pony on the trail and make the adjustments as they begin to take place.

Suffice it to say, I'm ready to run with this thing again and my focus hasn't changed.

There is a big, bright beautiful future out there for those who dare to dream and it's 'always too damned soon to quit' on achieving them!!

With that in mind.... I bring to you a Facebook post from, highly successful network marketer Mr. Bob Crisp. I don't know how many of you had a chance to see it but the post was a classic:

DEMOGRAPHICS... funny how we Baby-boomers have been shoved aside lately... like we are done? Finished... kaput... overthehill... sitting in a retirement community called "The Villages" in central Florida where my mom now lives... and everyone owns a golf cart to get around in... I kid you not... and these old folks can be brutal... so many angry people... and I'm sitting here wondering why? So here's my take... I think the most prolific/productive generation (That'd be us boomers) ever in history cannot believe we are over... done... through... cast aside forever... I guess most of us thought that "Retirement" was nirvana... play golf, lay in the sun, travel a bit... play bridge or parchessi... eat dinner at 5 pm... watch the evening news and go to bed at 8 pm... "The Good Life" they call it... well, I think we bought a pig in a poke... this retirement horse is lame... swayback mule... no Kentucky Derby Winners... just hayburners being put out to pasture... or sent to the dog food makers... well I didn't sign up for that kind of ending... did you? I still have a fire in my belly, some nitro fuel left in the tank... a go for it mentality... still get my juices flowing when the firebell rings... run toward the sound of the shots... and yes, I do get angry when I feel shunted aside... "Society may predict but only I can determine my destiny" never understood why the ugly guys got the pretty girls... still don't... talked to my old upline Diamond the other day... he said he was tired but that he'd just driven 500 miles that day to do a meeting... fired me up... I use to call him at 2 a.m. from some dark country road in Oklahoma or Texas... and just asked him "Are you still in?" he'd affirm he was... and asked me if that was all I said yep... that's all I needed to know because I needed a lead dog to follow... and he was it... hey,. if you're looking for a lead dog... (and who doesn't?) know that I'll never give up or give in... it just ain't in me.... but it was reassuring to hear a guy my age saying his butlt was dragging his tracks out... mine too Rick... mine too... just can't imagine why anyone would retire from networking... Dexter Yager used to say he'd always be ahead of us... because we were doing the business to do something else we loved more... but he said I do this because I love it most... took me a while to come around to that way of thinking... society had indoctrinated me into a "Someday" mentality and I thought there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow... now I know the pot of gold was in my heart all along... just sayin 

Thanks for the thoughts, Bob! I have never had the pleasure of working with Bob but I sure agree with his thinking. Do you have that fire in your belly he speaks of? Are you not ready to be put out to pasture? Are you ready to run...to still accomplish that grandest of goals?

Then....lets make it happen! It's too soon to quit!! Isn't it? Can you imagine just 'hanging out'... til the lights go out?