encouragement: Watch Your Top Knot!
- 12/09/08 11:54 PM
My favorite movie ever is still "Jeremiah Johnson" starring Robert Redford. There are so many great lines throughout the movie, and my son and I often find ourselves quoting them to each other. Both of us love the outdoors and this past Saturday as we were entering the woods to hunt, way before daylight, my son now almost 16 said to me (as I was about to head into the swamp to my stand) "watch your top knot" and in Redford style, I answered, "yep watch yorn." This line comes from a scene where Jeremiah is leaving his friend "Bearclaws" to … (4 comments)
encouragement: Get to Work!
- 11/21/08 01:01 AM
My wise Uncle use to say, "the hardest part of any job is gettin' started." For many summers I worked along side my uncle on his farm and there I learned many of life's lessons. I noticed that we worked long hard hours, we ate good, slept well, and saw things that many people never had clue about. For instance we had an abandoned baby pig raised by a Jersy cow, and he play with the baby goats, slept in a stall with a horse, thought that he was human and God love him died of old age. On hot summer … (5 comments)
encouragement: Be A Lid Lifter!
- 11/18/08 01:00 AM
A few years ago I was attending and speaking at a leadership conference in Atlanta. One of the speakers as he was teaching his session used the phrase, "be a lid lifter." He illustrated his point by saying that you can put flees in a glass jar with a lid on it and the flees will continue jump against the lid trying to get out until they finally learn where the top is and they quit jumping against it. He went on to say that as leaders we must lift the lid for those around us. I have found, that in … (7 comments)
My favorite movie ever is still "Jeremiah Johnson" starring Robert Redford. There are so many great lines throughout the movie, and my son and I often find ourselves quoting them to each other. Both of us love the outdoors and this past Saturday as we were entering the woods to hunt, way before daylight, my son now almost 16 said to me (as I was about to head into the swamp to my stand) "watch your top knot" and in Redford style, I answered, "yep watch yorn.";)
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