WHAT IF..

What if GOD was one of us? Just a slob like one of us......
Lyrics from a pop song but they raise an interesting question and view point.

What if he was one of us with the ability to be what whom ever he wants?
What if he was that stranger that you saw on the corner or the stranger that you drove by that was looking for help.

What if he had the ability to do that to judge how we did act and if we did help?

What if he was not physically that person BUT he was able to see us and watch how we acted.

Did we help a stranger? Did we comfort someone in need?

At the end of the day and the end of our road isn't that what really matters?

Are the kind acts that we do without looking for pay back the most rewarding?
Do you believe in the pay it forward principle? or what goes around comes around?

I do.

D- DAY

This Wednesday marked 68 years that our brave military landed on Normandy for what would be known as
 D-DAY....


On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany. Though they had been fighting in mainland Italy for some nine months, the Normandy invasion was in a strategically more important region, setting the stage to drive the Germans from France and ultimately destroy the National Socialist regime.


As German counterattacks were thwarted, the Allies poured men and materiel into France. By late July these reinforcements, and constant combat, made possible a break out from the Normandy perimeter. Another landing, in southern France in August, facilitated that nation's liberation. With the Soviets advancing from the east, Hitler's armies were shoved, sometimes haltingly and always bloodily, back toward their homeland. The Second World War had entered its climactic phase.

CLICK THIS LINK FOR MORE...http://www.army.mil/d-day/

Talk a walk

This time of year on the days that everything seems to be a problem call or email and you are half way through the day I find just a brief walk outside helps clear my mind helps.
I usually grab an apple and just take a walk around the warehouse or the building. The fresh air and disconnecting even for that short amount of time can make a difference.

Take a deep breath and take walk.....just remember to go back..

A GOOD FEELING

As difficult as the summer season may be it can also be satisfying.
Trying to figure out how to accomplish something that at first simply looks like a impossibility.

Some times the answer comes to you when you are driving to or from work, sometimes as your exercising or it just comes to you out of no where in the middle of the night.
Those times I have to write it down so I can go back to sleep or continue what I am doing or it stays on my mind. For that reason I have note pads and sticky notes everywhere.
If you switch this and change that and move the other job you may be able to figure it out.

There are so many times that at the end of the week we look back and have no idea how we did it all but we did it.
It takes a lot of cooperation and team work but those are the times that you feel good about what you do,

The same way a driver feels good when he knows that he helped turn a customer around. Perhaps they had a bad move in the past or they simply do not want to move but have, those are the customers that can be apprehensive and difficult at first and those are the customers that when you do win them over you feel the best about.

If it was easy anybody could do it.
 It is the "hard" that makes it special and ultimately what makes you special.

ADVANCE PLANNING

Our biggest path to quality work and doing a quality is job is advance planning.

We all need to stay in front of it. Rather you are a driver, an agent, in operations or sales the one thing we all have in common is the need to plan in advance.

Even more so in the summer. The more ahead of it we are the more brain cells we will save at the end of the day.
It is the old pay me now or pay me later principle.
Either you take the time up front to do the research and plan or you take that much more time on the back end when you trying to rush around to find the answers.

Procrastination will kill you...do it earlier rather than later...then go back and double check BEFORE the dates you are looking at.

PLAN IN ADVANCE

WANT AND NEED

One of our biggest challenges in the present generation and future ones will be separating WANT from NEED.

If you want to know why you can not catch up on your bills, if you want to know why you are stressed because you dislike your job but feel that you are stuck....Look no further than being able to separate WANT from NEED.

As we get frustrated many of us decide to splurge, go out or buy that thing that we know that w cannot afford but we say the heck with it. We deserve it. Knowing dam well that we cannot afford it.
Thus starts the circle.

Our grandparents or in some cases now our great grandparents that lived that great depression realized the difference. That had to, they lived it. They lived wondering if they were going to eat that night. They were satisfied with ham soup and crackers for a snack.
What happened?

We forgot, we got spoiled.

Stop blaming others and looking for handouts and learn the difference between WANT and NEED.

There was a time when the majority of Americans had pride, they helped themselves and they helped their neighbor.

Will we....can we...EVER GET THAT PRIDE BACK ?

BLESSINGS

Dear Mr. Arpin,

I’d like to compliment one of your CREWS, Power Unit 603, in their willingness to help me and my wife during an especially difficult time is something we will never forget.  It takes a very caring person to stop and risk their lives without second guessing and come to the aid of a total stranger.

Recently, while traveling into Missouri on Interstate 44, Catherin and I were traveling when we suddenly noticed that there was smoke coming from the dashboard of our 2012 Chevy Camero.  We immediately pulled over to see what was causing the smoke.  Once I pulled off to a neutral area of the Interstate and opened the hood, the engine compartment became a ball of fire.  Catherin and I did not know what to do, so I closed the hood and we ran away from the car.

Within a few minutes, a big rig with ARPIN on the side of it stopped.  As soon as the rig stopped, 3 guys came running to assist us.  One had a fire extinguisher, another had a furniture pad and the other was putting on a pair of gloves.  They asked no questions, just told us to move.  The one with the gloves opened the door and pulled the latch to release the hood and threw Catherin’s purse and cell phone in the grass along with my Panera Bag.  As one opened the hood, the other began to spray with the fire extinguisher.  Shortly after, the fire was out.

The Responders arrived on scene and secured the area.

I had the pleasure of chatting with the Driver and his Crew.  They are great individuals.  They made my wife and I feel like we were all family.  One of the Crew members got a bottle of water and a folding chair from underneath a large compartment and allowed Catherin to sit so that she could gather herself.

In a time when there is a lot of chaos, one can almost find humor.  The driver went and retrieved our belongings that he had thrown from inside of the car.  When he came up to the area where we were sitting, he gave us our belongings and I let him know that we were blessed for all they had done.  I asked him what happened to the sandwich that was in the Panera Bag, and he said, “when you were busy trying to calm your wife down, I decided to eat it before those ants over on the ground ate it.”  Just when we needed a laugh, we got one.

The crew stayed until they knew we were OK.  They must have been there 45 minutes.  It seemed like forever.  They said they would love to stay but they had to be in Fort Leonard Wood to do a job.  They got into their big rig and disappeared down the Interstate.

I must have seen a billion big rigs pass down the highway, but ARPIN is the only name I will never forget.  Their crews are like angels.  I will pass the ARPIN experience on to everyone that I can and hope they will allow ARPIN to have their business and do something positive in their lives.

I do believe that those 3 guys are COMMITTED TO QUALITY EVERY JOB EVERY DAY.  (This was printed on the guys’ shirts.)

Their thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated.  I am enclosing 3 ($50) gift cards.  Would you please see that my new friends receive this as a token of our sincere appreciation?  I never got to ask their names, but I will call them MY FRIENDS.

Their willingness to help Catherin and myself during an especially difficult time is something I’ll never forget.  Such a commitment to assist a total stranger during their most troublesome moment is to be commended.

TO THE ARPIN FAMILY: Blessings always look small if we just keep them, but if we learn to share them, we realize how great ad precious they are.

THIS WAS A DRIVER FROM LANGE MOVING OUT OF SC- ANTHONY MURRELL

THANK YOU ANTHONY, WE ARE BLESSED TO KNOW YOU AND HAVE YOU IN THE ARPIN FAMILY