I had to buy my dog twice!!

Posted: June 7, 2013 in Family, Uncategorized
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photoI had to buy my dog twice!
Let me start this post out with a story. 7 years ago we were having my daughters 2nd birthday party. After everyone was gone I started to wonder where our dog could be. He was a yellow lab that never did more than was necessary. I yelled for him from our porch, which usually worked. To my surprise, he didn’t come back. Later that day I drove up and down the road looking for him. No sign of him anywhere. I looked for multiple days after this and still nothing. I told family/neighbors to keep an eye out for him. In the back of my mind I wondered if he may have snuck off and died in the woods. I had always heard these stories of dogs doing stuff like that when they knew it was time.  Beth, Chloe and I were very sad, Winchester was like a family member. We kept moving forward with our lives and decided that he must be gone.  One day about a month after the birthday party my uncle calls me and said” I found Winchester, he’s at your old house.”  We had sold our house to some people about a mile from where we were currently living. Winchester had wandered back up to our old house. I got off the phone and called Beth to tell her to run up and get him. I was down in Indiana for the day. She went up and knocked on their door and as they answered there stood our 6yr old dog.  Beth was so happy and said thanks to the lady and called Winchester.  The lady stopped him and said ” he is our dog now and he’s not going with you.”  Mushroom cloud would best describe Beth’s feeling at that moment.  She couldn’t believe that someone would not give our dog back.  I received a phone call about 8 seconds after the door shut to our old house with our dog still inside.  She told me what had happened and I knew I was gonna have to play hardball to win this situation over now.
The following day, after getting back from out of state,  I made my way up to our old house. I knew they were heartless people that wouldn’t make this easy. As I knocked on the door I was thinking, I hope this goes good.  Lizard lady answered the door and in the nicest way I could, I tried to find a solution to recover our lost dog.  After she argued with me for a couple minutes I said, ” I really appreciate what you have done for us and our dog, the least I could do is pay you for what you have done.”  As I tried to kill her with kindness, she softened as we kept talking.  I paid her $250 for her time and effort.
I know that you shouldn’t ever have to buy your dog twice.  This situation taught me a lot about success.  Many times in your journey you will have to do more than you originally thought was necessary to achieve what you want.  Sometimes you need to do what’s necessary, not what you thought it would take.
The cool part of this story, is that we got our dog back and enjoyed another 5 years with him.  Looking back it seems like such a crazy story but, it worked out in the end.
I hope in whatever area you are trying to succeed in, you do whatever it takes to make it.
thanks for reading
Steve Morgan

How does your digital finger print look?

Posted: May 15, 2013 in LIFE Business, Uncategorized
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In todays world of internet traffic and social media profiles, I often wonder if people know that they are leaving finger prints all over.  What I mean by that is, everything online is there forever.  It may seem funny in the moment but in 10 yrs will it still be funny?  Many times today if you want to figure out who someone really is, just visit their personal page online and read what they have been saying.  Even bold comments on media pages can never be taken away.  They will hang there forever.  You can either make a good fingerprint of yourself online or a bad one.  Its your choice.

Sometimes as I look back on my life I think that in the moment when I said something, it was funny, but years later I regret it.  We have never lived in a time where this much info per person is being documented, good and bad.  When I read certain peoples stuff I am reminded of the old song “True Colors.” Im not sure if that is the actual name of the song but it goes,  ” I see your true colors shining through.”  It always makes me laugh when I think of that song.   I hope that we don’t go too far and wish years down the road that we would have kept a little more for the imagination for people.  I also remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to speak up and prove them right.”

I heard a gentleman talk about a principle he called “memorialize.”  He went on to explain that it meant, anything that could come back and haunt you later on.  For example, an email, text, or photo.  I am careful that when I am speaking to tell people not to video record or voice record.  Technology is so good today that they could put pieces together and make it sound like you said something that you didn’t.

700-86706 © Boden/Ledingham Circuit Fingerprint with Binary CodeI hope this brings a little thought about what people are doing and saying online, it could come back to haunt you.

thanks for reading,

Steve Morgan

Jeff Gordon Scared this Guy good.

Posted: April 3, 2013 in Fun
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This is a post for a good laugh.  I saw this and laughed so hard.  Every company is trying to get something to go viral.  I am not posting this to promote the product but the laughter that it will generate in next few minutes for you.  Leave some comments and tell us what you think about the video.  Jeff Gordon Video.

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Thanks for stopping by,

Steve

Whats holding you back?

Posted: March 13, 2013 in Bill Lewis LIFE/Team, Freedom, LIFE Business, Orrin Woodward LIFE
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I think many people are alike, they have limiting beliefs.  I know that growing up I developed limited thinking.  The way that I overcame this personally was through the information in the LIFE business.  We have worked with Best selling authors Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady for a decade of our lives now.  It made all the difference.  They say that over the next 5 years you will be the same person except for the books you read and the people you meet.  I have asked people for years, “if we recorded you talking to yourself would you be embarrassed if we played it for others to hear?” They always say yes.  I can’t believe that we talk so negative to ourselves, but we do.  What I have found by reading the right books, is that you can do anything you put your mind to.

photoI put this picture of this horse on here to show a visual example of what most peoples obstacles look like.  Most of the time they have just learned to submit to them.  I say we break our limitations and run for the things we really want to accomplish.  Henry Ford said ” either you think you can or you think you can’t, but either way your right.”

One of the best books that I have ever read to help with this kind of thinking was The Magic of Thinking Big.  If you have never read this book I highly recommend it.

If you are tired of the same old results you should get involved in an audio education, listening to people that have had success in areas you want to win.  What you find is that you spent a lot of time comparing your weaknesses to their strengths and you hurt the way you see yourself.

My mentor Bill Lewis has one of the best stories that I have ever heard.  He grew up in a rough area in Saginaw Michigan and through getting different information and plugging into new association, is now hugely successful.  Not only is he successful in business but also in his personal life.  Thanks Bill for showing us all whats possible.  Another American success story. You could be the next.

 

Thanks for reading,

Steve Morgan

 

Do you believe what you see and read?

Posted: February 27, 2013 in Bill Lewis LIFE/Team, LIFE Business, Orrin Woodward Team
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I was reading a write up on Facebook back in December and was blown away by what I was reading.  It was a story about a young lady that was deaf and mute.  She was riding a horse in a competition without a saddle or bridle.  The story said that she had a special connection with horses because of her disabilities.  I went on to read that she was training this particular horse for only 21 days before this competition and that made the story even more amazing.  I watched the attached video and was blown away.  The next morning I got my kids up and had them gather around my computer and watch this amazing overcomer.

I later got on youtube and wanted to see if there were anymore videos about this lady.  To my surprise there was a video of this lady on a TV talk show and she was not deaf or mute.  She said in the interview that she had at least 800+ hrs on that horse training it to ride like that without a bridle.  I was blown away.  Everything that I thought was true just got spun on me.

I wonder how many times this happens now166910_335954766449331_1894289406_n days?  I know Facebook is well known for untrue stories to be posted.  It’s almost like people dont have to source their info anymore. Many people will put stuff out online and there is very little to no truth to it at all.  Its very sad because most people will believe it if they read it online wether it is true or not.

Click here to see the video. This link is to her blog and tells her response to the false claims.  Very interesting.  Hope this makes you think about the info you read online next time before you believe it first.

 

Dont fall into the trap of believing untruth.

 

Steve Morgan

What kind of person are you?

Posted: February 12, 2013 in Following, Uncategorized
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My mentor, Bill Lewis, wrote an amazing article recently and I wanted to share it with all of you.  He is a very smart guy that thinks through things at an interesting depth.  I have learned so much from him and the info in the LIFE company.  I hope it help you as much as it did me.

Here is the article. click here for the whole article.

 

Are You a COI or a COA Person?

I just found some material that ties into a previous post that I did on layers.  Are you a center of influence person, or are you a center of attention person? Don’t answer too quickly; wait until I explain and then think through your answer. In the previous post on layers, I spoke about people’s fears and how they start to build up protective layers because of those fears. Then they build up layers on top of those layers to keep anyone from even getting close to those fears. These layers determine the way people respond and act under different circumstances. This new information provides a great example of how to identify if you have built up layers and maybe don’t know it. It also helps show you how you will think when you minimize the number of fears you have, which in turn, will eliminate layers.

A center of influence person is aware that every thought, emotion, word, and behavior he expresses has an effect. If you are a center of influence person, you understand that you set the tone for your relationships. You take responsibility for how you interact with others and how they treat you. You cannot control what other people think or how they behave,  yet your beliefs and behavior serve to teach others how they should treat you. If you are in a difficult situation with someone, you ask yourself, “What effect did my communication have on that person and that situation?” As a center of influence person, you see others in terms of their needs, not yours. And you acknowledge the way you feel and recognize that you are the cause.

 

I hope you enjoyed this article. I thought it was very thought provoking. 

 

Thanks for reading,

 

Steve Morgan

A Problematic Cycle that repeats itself.

Posted: January 16, 2013 in Bill Lewis LIFE/Team, Faith, Family, Freedom, LIFE Business, Orrin Woodward LIFE
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Today we live in a time where it doesn’t really feel as if there are very many real threats to our day to day living here in America.  We can go to the store, go to a movie, drive through states and never worry much at all.  We really live in a time in history that is very low in the savage category.  It wasn’t long ago in history, and some present day situations, that you can read about people that feared for their lives everyday.  As Americans we are raised to be kind of wimpy tax payers.  Its almost like we don’t have that in ate desire to be the best anymore.  

 

A few years back I heard a speaker at an event we went to, talk about the Cycle of the Body Politic.  I had no idea what he was talking about. He then showed us an overhead.  He said that history repeats itself when people don’t learn from it.  I was blown away.  That talk changed my thinking forever.  I, like most Americans, never thought much about it.  I figured my life would be me trying to just make it.  To my surprise, my life can be whatever I want it to be.  I felt like it was a matrix moment.  One of those things that once you learn it you cant unlearn it.  

I left that weekend worried.  I heard about this progression that societies go through and how it keeps cycling.  To my excitement I was told that sometimes in history people actually were able to turn the dial back and preserve their freedom.  Ronald Reagan said that we are only one generation from losing Freedom at any point.

I have attached the chart that I was talking about earlier.  It is pretty crazy as you look at it.  I did an article recently asking people what they thought the biggest problem Americans face today and their were many great answers.  Let me tell a story that may help explain what I think Americans face as a huge issue. 

A young man walks up to someone on the street and says ” excuse me, what do you think the biggest problem our generation faces?”  The man looks down at the young boy and replies,”I don’t know and I don’t care.”

I believe that Apathy is the problem of our time.  It is so sad to see the greatest nation in history get lazy and not defend the freedoms that we have enjoyed for so long.  

I also think that the problems that we don’t know about are larger than we can even comprehend.  I encourage you to dig in and start learning about the freedom that you currently have so that you can defend it if need be.  Its much easier to keep your rights that to ever get them back once they are gone.  I think we are moving our way to Fear and maybe further.  

Lets do our best to keep Freedom for the next generation.

 

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Thanks for reading,

 

Steve Morgan

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