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Here is a fun post I first put up on February 15 last year on another of my blogs.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine]

Last night was our 131st monthiversary. Billie and I decided early on after we got married in 1998 that we would celebrate our anniversary every month, rather than every year, so last night we went to a St. Valentine’s day dinner dance to celebrate our monthiversary. While enjoying the food and the music, I wondered about St. Valentine: who was he, and how did all this February 14th stuff start?

So today I googled him. The first link I found was broken, but Wikipedia, as usual, turned out to have more information than I could possibly use. Mostly, it says that he is a melange of multiple martyrs, but this quotation is the most succint:

Historian Jack Oruch has made the case that the traditions associated with “Valentine’s Day”, documented in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Foules and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, had no such tradition before Chaucer.^[20]He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler’s Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. In the French 14th-century manuscript illumination from a Vies des Saints (illustration above), Saint Valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at Terni; there is no suggestion here yet that the bishop was a patron of lovers.^[21]

Sadly, then, he’s probably just a legend. Even if I had known that, though, I don’t think it would have stopped us from having a great monthiversary celebration. And next month is our anniversary, so we’ll do something really special then!

I’m excited to find a new blog by a network marketing business colleague.  Doesn’t sound very interesting, but what excites me is that this colleague is about the same age as my granddaughter!  Like they say, age doesn’t matter - unless you’re a cheese!

Curtis talks about his experiences as a newbie to network marketing, and how he found the system that he needed to get his business started.  Whether you’re brand new, like Curtis or an “old hand”, like Maggie who has been in network marketing for over twenty years, SponsorDaddy is the one system you need to build your business.  Not only does it qualify your leads so that you don’t waste time on “tire kickers”, it also does the routine follow up and trains your team!

If that isn’t enough for you, we also have the finest team of supporters I have ever found, guaranteeing that if you are prepared to work the business there will always be someone to show you how to do anything you need to.  I don’t care what the network marketing gurus say, nobody knows it all.  With a team, each of whom is expert in a part of the business, there is always someone to learn from - and someone to teach!

What more could you ask?

PS: As an example of team work, Rebecca and I spent over an hour this evening helping a new SponsorDaddy member in Australia get started!  We are also starting a weekly team call this week at a time convenient for our Australian members.

If Leslie Hocking had given a title to her talk on the SponsorDaddy Leadership Call last Wednesday, “How to Live On Purpose” would have been perfect! Somehow, in 35 minutes she managed to infuse us with everything we need to manage our lives. The call, fortunately, was recorded and I know I shall listen to it again whenever I feel my life is not as I choose.

Leslie Hocking started by stating that we have a Present and a Future. Between the two is our Process. To make our best Future requires us to create our best Process.

So simple, yet so profound!

Every moment is a choice, and the only effective choice is the one that moves us towards our dreams. We can choose actions that are driven by our goals and dreams, or we can choose to remain in apathy: our inclination is towards apathy, so we need to make a personal choice if we are to overcome apathy.

I found myself thinking how often apathy – my “comfort zone” - dictates my actions or lack of action!

I do not intend to summarize the full content of her material here, but simply state that it was one of the most inspirational talks I have heard in years. She told us exactly how to create our vision – am I the only one who previously found that a problem? And she told us how to create goals that work to inspire us, not deter us.

Finally she gave us some “homework”. After the talk, I created my vision for the next five years and three annual goals to get there. And finally, because it all felt so good, I created twelve action steps to reach my first year’s goal.

Thank you, Leslie Hocking — that’s living On Purpose!

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Peaks and Valleys

I just finished reading Peaks and Valleys by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

It’s a wonderful parable about life. A short book, easy to read, but it has changed the way I look at the good times and the bad times in life. I recommend it to everyone who ever finds themselves challenged by the difficulties they face – isn’t that all of us?

The peaks are the good times in life, and the valleys the bad times.

In the story of Peaks and Valleys you will discover how you can:

• Get out of a valley sooner
• Stay on a peak longer
• Have more peaks and fewer valleys.

When I started reading it, I was in a valley, but I soon came to a peak!   No, not because of the book, but because of what I was doing to get out of the valley. What I learned form the book was how to use that peak to prepare for the next valley, and how to use the valley to create the next peak!

Peaks and Valleys are not just the good times and bad times that happen to you: they are also how you feel inside and respond to outside events.

Peaks and Valleys are connected. The errors you make in today’s good times create tomorrow’s bad times! The wise things you do in today’s bad times create tomorrow’s good times!

Peaks and Valleys is a book about making good times and bad times work for you – and in your life.

Interested? Here is a link:

Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You–At Work And In Life

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