What is your goal in Life ??
I was once in a management meeting and that question was put out there- “ What is your goal in life”? and one of the VP’s said his goal was to make as much money as humanly possible...
Wow.. there was silence in the room for a minute... really.. that’s your goal ? In life?
Money has never been a motivator for me or my ultimate goal, Money is something I need to pay the bills and help raise my family but it certainly is not my goal in life.
When they throw dirt on you is that what you want to be remembered for?
Do you want to spend most of your waking hours chasing and bowing down to the almighty dollar?
Not me.
Life is short and you cannot put a dollar figure on the smile of your kids or that hug from your grandchildren.
There is so much beauty around us that is completely free but if we spend all of our time stressed about buying that big house and the toys and whatever you deem as important you will never enjoy what is free... watching your kids grow or sitting on a rock near a brook in the woods with your wife or husband or feeling the reward of service. Service to those in need, in your community and in your family.
That is all free and all around you every day.
Is money really your ultimate goal ?
Friday, March 9, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Sacrifice
Look around you... there are people who sacrifice every day.
Professional drivers that are away from home for days or weeks and sometimes months at a time so they can provide for their families.
Single moms that have to wear many hats, they need to get their kids up and fed and off for the day and get themselves ready for work and come home and be sure that there is food for the family and clean cloths and dishes and to hopefully have time to listen to their children and most important to hug them.
Same with single dads or even those families with a mom and dad that still need two paychecks (probably 90% of families ) they too need to sacrifice every day to do what is best for their families.
So when you fall into one of those “ self pity days” or feel bad about yourself or your situation...
Look around and realize that life is about sacrifice and we all have something going on in our lives.
Work with others, reach out and try to do something positive every day for someone, it will come back to you 10 fold.
Professional drivers that are away from home for days or weeks and sometimes months at a time so they can provide for their families.
Single moms that have to wear many hats, they need to get their kids up and fed and off for the day and get themselves ready for work and come home and be sure that there is food for the family and clean cloths and dishes and to hopefully have time to listen to their children and most important to hug them.
Same with single dads or even those families with a mom and dad that still need two paychecks (probably 90% of families ) they too need to sacrifice every day to do what is best for their families.
So when you fall into one of those “ self pity days” or feel bad about yourself or your situation...
Look around and realize that life is about sacrifice and we all have something going on in our lives.
Work with others, reach out and try to do something positive every day for someone, it will come back to you 10 fold.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Stand for Something
You can have all the money in your hands
All the possessions anyone can ever have
But it's all worthless treasure, true worth is only measured
Not by what you got, but what you got in your heart
You can have, you can have everything
What does it, what does it mean?
All the possessions anyone can ever have
But it's all worthless treasure, true worth is only measured
Not by what you got, but what you got in your heart
You can have, you can have everything
What does it, what does it mean?
You do the best that, do the best that you can do
Then you can look in the mirror
Proud of who's looking back at you
Define the life you're living
Not by what you take or what you're givin'
And if you bet on love there's no way you'll ever lose
Take a stand, make a stand for what's right
It's always worth, always worth the fight
Then you can look in the mirror
Proud of who's looking back at you
Define the life you're living
Not by what you take or what you're givin'
And if you bet on love there's no way you'll ever lose
Take a stand, make a stand for what's right
It's always worth, always worth the fight
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
You can't just talk the talk
You got to walk that walk, yes you do
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
And I stand up for you
Stand for respect, dignity
If that's all you got, then you got all you need
And without that, you don't have a thing, oh, no, no
If you don't stand up for something
You can't just talk the talk
You got to walk that walk, yes you do
It all means nothing
If you don't stand up for something
And I stand up for you
Stand for respect, dignity
If that's all you got, then you got all you need
And without that, you don't have a thing, oh, no, no
Rise up, love, lift your hands
I stand with you 'cause I understand
Ain't here to judge, just to take a stand
The greater plan's the Creator's plan
Let's all rise like the day began
Reach out and touch with the Savior's hand
On rock, we stand like this native land
Let the ways of love be the ways of man
I stand with you 'cause I understand
Ain't here to judge, just to take a stand
The greater plan's the Creator's plan
Let's all rise like the day began
Reach out and touch with the Savior's hand
On rock, we stand like this native land
Let the ways of love be the ways of man
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
People that change your life
This is from a household goods driver that turned into one of the best in his profession-... Thomas Olson-
I admire my dad so much for he has taught me how to be the man I am today. Because of him and a few others that I've met along the way I've become very good at what I do in many things in my life.
How I actually became a mover is a pretty cool story I think.
When I was a kid I bowled on a Church league on Saturday mornings. I walked from home to the bowling alley and back each time. Along that path was a moving company called Pan American Van Lines. One day on my way back home while I was passing the moving company I heard a man yell out ' hey kid '. I looked up and seen the biggest man I've ever seen in my life and he waved me over saying ' come here '.
I walked over and he asked me if I wanted to help him work and he would pay me. So I worked for a little while and he gave me $20. Man I thought I was rich, really I did...
Well it became an every Saturday morning job for me which led into a local job. Now over 40 years later as I sit in my moving truck I'm telling you my moving story. This job has brought me to my wife and children, I've met and still know some amazing people such as yourself and many other things this job has brought to me.
And to think it all started long ago with a ' hey kid, come here '...
That mans name was Slim, I'm sure it wasn't his birth name but that's what everyone called him. Slim is probably up there with my father looking down together at me. I hope I made them proud with me being the man and the mover I am...
Thank you for letting me share my story...
I admire my dad so much for he has taught me how to be the man I am today. Because of him and a few others that I've met along the way I've become very good at what I do in many things in my life.
How I actually became a mover is a pretty cool story I think.
When I was a kid I bowled on a Church league on Saturday mornings. I walked from home to the bowling alley and back each time. Along that path was a moving company called Pan American Van Lines. One day on my way back home while I was passing the moving company I heard a man yell out ' hey kid '. I looked up and seen the biggest man I've ever seen in my life and he waved me over saying ' come here '.
I walked over and he asked me if I wanted to help him work and he would pay me. So I worked for a little while and he gave me $20. Man I thought I was rich, really I did...
Well it became an every Saturday morning job for me which led into a local job. Now over 40 years later as I sit in my moving truck I'm telling you my moving story. This job has brought me to my wife and children, I've met and still know some amazing people such as yourself and many other things this job has brought to me.
And to think it all started long ago with a ' hey kid, come here '...
That mans name was Slim, I'm sure it wasn't his birth name but that's what everyone called him. Slim is probably up there with my father looking down together at me. I hope I made them proud with me being the man and the mover I am...
Thank you for letting me share my story...
Monday, March 5, 2018
When you are not looking
Sometimes you find the answer when you are not looking.
Maybe it your life partner or your best career move, but sometimes without even knowing it life shows you a path or someone enters your life and changes it forever.
I met my wife back in the summer of 1980 , I was 24 and managing a store in a mall and she was just 17 and working part time in a store across from mine. I was not looking for a wife or a serious relationship and one night she came over to actually check out my assistant manager, she disguised her visit by coming over and asking to borrow a screw driver.
The rest is history, we went on our first date a few weeks after and married five months after that and two kids and two grandkids and 37 years later we have traveled an amazing journey.
Newly married and managing a retail store I decided that retail was not going to be something I wanted to do for my career, I then dispatched for Honeywell , a heating and AC division in New England, I was there for three years and it was a great experience but I worked in RI and the home office was in MN, and I wanted to work for a place that the owner knew me and my work ethic would give the security I needed for a young family.
I interviewed for Paul Arpin Van Lines, a family owned business in RI, I first interviewed for a customer service position but it did not sound like something I was interested in so I declined. I was not desperate for a job, I actually liked my job so I could afford to just look.
Paul Arpin’s called me back for another interview, this time as a night supervisor but I declined again because with a young family I wanted to be home at night.
I then figured I would probably settle in to Honeywell so I stopped looking and Paul Arpin called me a third time, this time I interviewed with the then Vice President David Arpin, now CEO and President, and David asked me to come over to work in Operations and eventually run it... I took it.
I stayed there for over 30 years and helped take it from a 7 million dollar company to over 100 million company.
You just never know... life just happens.... sometimes when you not not even looking...
Maybe it your life partner or your best career move, but sometimes without even knowing it life shows you a path or someone enters your life and changes it forever.
I met my wife back in the summer of 1980 , I was 24 and managing a store in a mall and she was just 17 and working part time in a store across from mine. I was not looking for a wife or a serious relationship and one night she came over to actually check out my assistant manager, she disguised her visit by coming over and asking to borrow a screw driver.
The rest is history, we went on our first date a few weeks after and married five months after that and two kids and two grandkids and 37 years later we have traveled an amazing journey.
Newly married and managing a retail store I decided that retail was not going to be something I wanted to do for my career, I then dispatched for Honeywell , a heating and AC division in New England, I was there for three years and it was a great experience but I worked in RI and the home office was in MN, and I wanted to work for a place that the owner knew me and my work ethic would give the security I needed for a young family.
I interviewed for Paul Arpin Van Lines, a family owned business in RI, I first interviewed for a customer service position but it did not sound like something I was interested in so I declined. I was not desperate for a job, I actually liked my job so I could afford to just look.
Paul Arpin’s called me back for another interview, this time as a night supervisor but I declined again because with a young family I wanted to be home at night.
I then figured I would probably settle in to Honeywell so I stopped looking and Paul Arpin called me a third time, this time I interviewed with the then Vice President David Arpin, now CEO and President, and David asked me to come over to work in Operations and eventually run it... I took it.
I stayed there for over 30 years and helped take it from a 7 million dollar company to over 100 million company.
You just never know... life just happens.... sometimes when you not not even looking...
Friday, March 2, 2018
Fear
We are not born with fear... we learn it.
I am so glad that I was so naive growing up, I had very little parental guidance so I learned pretty much learned everything on my own. I was very naive and had little fear of failure because I knew no better, I just dove in. I got burned a lot and messed up plenty but I learned with every misstep.
Being young and naive I trusted everyone and found out very early that not everyone is who they appear to be and because I always look for the good in people I still get fooled today but I have a much better radar on those that may be untruthful.
I have also learned that people are the way they are for a reason and I try my very best to find that kid in everyone, the person who trusted others before they themselves got burned by someone somewhere in their life.
Again I do not think people are born with fear or are born a racist or are born angry , somebody hurt them , that saying of “ hurt people, hurt people” is so true.
Yes, as we get older we get more guarded and trust less but you cannot allow it to stop you from trying to find the good in people, it is worth the effort.
I am so glad that I was so naive growing up, I had very little parental guidance so I learned pretty much learned everything on my own. I was very naive and had little fear of failure because I knew no better, I just dove in. I got burned a lot and messed up plenty but I learned with every misstep.
Being young and naive I trusted everyone and found out very early that not everyone is who they appear to be and because I always look for the good in people I still get fooled today but I have a much better radar on those that may be untruthful.
I have also learned that people are the way they are for a reason and I try my very best to find that kid in everyone, the person who trusted others before they themselves got burned by someone somewhere in their life.
Again I do not think people are born with fear or are born a racist or are born angry , somebody hurt them , that saying of “ hurt people, hurt people” is so true.
Yes, as we get older we get more guarded and trust less but you cannot allow it to stop you from trying to find the good in people, it is worth the effort.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Tough
There are people that think they are tough and there is tough.
My cousin , Bobby, is and always was tough, he is now in his 70’s and is around 15 years older than me.
I always looked up to Bobby , as a kid he taught me to hunt and fish and how to gut a fish or skin a rabbit. At around 12 or 13 I spent a lot of time on the back his motorcycle and trust me he never once slowed down because I was on the back.
He joined the Army during Vietnam and became a drill Sargeant and he is wife spent many years in Germany and overseas. And he was that drill Sargeant he saw in the movies, very intimidating and he had no problem getting in peoples faces.
If you want political correctness or someone who talks pretty and looks pretty...move on. Bobby is always himself... always! You never get two faces or two different people, he will tell you in no uncertain terms exactly what he thinks, so if you can’t handle it don’t ask him.
Bobby just found out he has cancer taking the treatments to fight his new battle and to live as much as he can, and in typical Bobby fashion he decided to live life like there is no tomorrow, he just purchased a brand new truck and he has carpenters busy at his home in Florida and his new motorcycle arrives in few more days.
When I see people in the business world or really anywhere around me that talk tough or think they are tough I think of Bobby and just laugh inside. Those that are tough don’t have to tell you - you just know it. Actions always speak louder than words.
My cousin , Bobby, is and always was tough, he is now in his 70’s and is around 15 years older than me.
I always looked up to Bobby , as a kid he taught me to hunt and fish and how to gut a fish or skin a rabbit. At around 12 or 13 I spent a lot of time on the back his motorcycle and trust me he never once slowed down because I was on the back.
He joined the Army during Vietnam and became a drill Sargeant and he is wife spent many years in Germany and overseas. And he was that drill Sargeant he saw in the movies, very intimidating and he had no problem getting in peoples faces.
If you want political correctness or someone who talks pretty and looks pretty...move on. Bobby is always himself... always! You never get two faces or two different people, he will tell you in no uncertain terms exactly what he thinks, so if you can’t handle it don’t ask him.
Bobby just found out he has cancer taking the treatments to fight his new battle and to live as much as he can, and in typical Bobby fashion he decided to live life like there is no tomorrow, he just purchased a brand new truck and he has carpenters busy at his home in Florida and his new motorcycle arrives in few more days.
When I see people in the business world or really anywhere around me that talk tough or think they are tough I think of Bobby and just laugh inside. Those that are tough don’t have to tell you - you just know it. Actions always speak louder than words.
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