Year: 2013

Wow what a Friday story with a fantastic example on seeing something as a privilege as a person. Yet it is a wonderful
life lesson for so many people. I feel privileged to have such a wonderful friend and mentor as Michael Dlouhy, Ken
Klemm and Willena Flewelling. Yet to also have such wonderful training from mentoring for free and Michael Dlouhy
alone has been priceless.

Here is your Friday story,

Teaching a "Life Lesson"

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, by choice, courage, and determination."

That quote is from Coach Matt Labrum and is a memorization requirement for the 41 teenagers on his football team. There is more. Those 41 young men also have to document several hours of community service, show they are passing all their classes, and stay clear of any discipline issues at school. So is Coach Labrum trying to coach football or be a "character cop"? Hold on!

Coach Labrum is doing what more coaches, parents, teachers, and bosses should do in their positions of authority. He is making the point that - using his own words - things like playing football are a "privilege rather than a right." And privileges bring responsibilities. They do not confer permission to swagger, cheat, bully, take advantage of success, or otherwise act like a knucklehead.

As background, you need to know that Coach Labrum had learned about some pretty ugly behavior by the members of his team at Union High School in Roosevelt, Utah. Some of the football players had been bullying a kid at their school. A campus culture among the football players had them skipping classes, being disrespectful toward their teachers, and being generally obnoxious. So on September 20, Labrum suspended the entire team and confiscated their jerseys.

Labrum did what parents sometimes do with four-year-olds. He put his players in time out. He took away their toy. He called off the remainder of the football season - if his players could not commit to and carry through on something more important than football. They had to become better people.

The "contract" Labrum and his staff offered team members the next day gave them the option of community service, counseling, and strict accountability. Playing football for him would no longer be anyone's right. It would be a privilege earned by rigorous on-the-field drills and responsible off-the-field behavior.

One of the more encouraging things about this story is that school officials and parents have backed up the coach's actions. A mother of one of the players involved probably said it best. "These boys are not going to be hurt by this," she said. "It's a good life lesson."

Bud Selig has announced he is stepping down as the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. I nominate Matt Labrum for the position! Athletes from all sports who set such sorry examples of poor sportsmanship, use of PEDs or other banned substances, and shameless self-indulgence could use a life lesson too.

Learning to be a better person is far more valuable than a winning season.

Rubel Shelly

Rubel Shelly is a Preacher and Professor of Religion and Philosophy located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. In addition to church and academic responsibilities, he has worked actively with such community projects as Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, From Nashville With Love, Metro (Nashville) Public Schools, Faith Family Medical Clinic, and Operation Andrew Ministries. To learn more about Rubel please go to: www.RubelShelly.com

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Are you prepared to pay the price you have to pay for what you want in life?

A lot of people are unaware just what sacrifices a person has made in order to achieve their goal, dream or desire. A person sees someone who is successful and yet they are unaware of what that person needed to do just to get to where they were as a success. Often in order to achieve any goal or dream there has to be some form of sacrifice for such to be achieved. You have to be prepared to give something up in order to achieve that goal which you are working towards. It’s the same thing within business, relationships and all throughout life.

In order to get what you want are you prepared to give and pay the price until…. sometimes it may take weeks, months or years of work to achieve that desired goal. Are you are prepared to work that long? Are you prepared to work on yourself until you finally do get the goal and success you wanted to achieve? To work towards that goal until you achieve such no matter how long it takes? There are many people out there who have kept on going despite great failures.

They may have struck out with relationships and been unable to find the right person until they were in their mid-30’s. Yet they spent years learning to become that person who was wonderful at relationships, they spent years doing what they could to learn ways to create that relationship which they sought most.

Are you prepared to give up what may be years of your life to simply go out there and continue to learn to work on obtaining that which you are seeking until you finally get what you want?. You may go through thousands of failures just like Thomas Edison who learnt many times the way to create a light bulb. Edison saw the failed light bulbs as ways of not successfully creating a successful light bulb until he finally did manage to come up with the solution. What you need to do is remember that it may take years to achieve that success which you desire as a person. You will be tested as to whether you want that which you desire most badly enough to keep on going despite so many obstacles life throws at you.

In todays world people are looking for the instant fix, the quick fix. We have been programmed that you can have it so quickly that you snap your fingers and hey presto a new car comes, however often it takes a lot of work. There are some companies out there that say you can have the big incomes, yet they really fail to advise people that you need to do the work to achieve such too. They say you can earn a six figure income, yet may fail to say you need to work to become worth that income first.

In todays society people believe there is such as I am able to get such rite now, the quick fix. However sadly this is untrue, so the best question to be asked is are you prepared to give up your time and learn the way to become a success in whatever you want to achieve within your own life. Will you do that or do you just want it all to be fixed up for you right now????

Sure each person has something different that they are wanting to achieve, in order to achieve that goal they are needing to do something which will mean paying a price in someway, to allow for such to happen. That was what my own family dynamic was like. I was in the family home, assisting my own family within their daily lives yet also unable to live own life as a person. So that price was leaving a family which I loved to start own family, leaving it and them behind.

It is still a learning curve after leaving the nest 3 months ago now, yet every day you learn and find out what is working as a person and what isn’t. Yes there are some big areas to work on and some small areas to work on too as a person. It has been worth it in the long term. Long term I learnt so much from living with my parents and siblings about the type of person who I want to be. The type of parent that I want to be and who I am as a person. Everyone who I have met throughout the years has shown me more about who I wanted to be as a person. That father, husband and parent who sets the best example for his family and who can go on holidays with family when he wants to.

The ultimate price to pay for such is owning own mind and relearning what needs to be relearned. Yet it also about being comfortable with what talents and abilities you already have right now. Over the years I have had the chance to sponsor kids and to impact their lives too, that is the price of making a difference within someone else’s life through giving to a charity and seeing that life grow and change as you continue to support them.

Ultimately to see something change you have to pay the price and do something about such, weather it means leaving the nest to start your own family just as I had personally done or going from having a good income to living within your means. Yet are you prepared to pay that price in order to achieve that goal and dream as a person. Are you happy to pay that price and keep on paying it. Sometimes you are needing to do something that you may be unaware of or have yet to really do. That may be what is holding you back as a person.

I’d like to thank my amazing mentors Michael Dlouhy , Ken Klemm and Willena Flewelling for their amazing awesome guidance and guiding me on the journey.From

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A powerful fantastic video from Kirsty Spraggon on relationships and building them. This is applicable within every area of our own lives,
in network marketing we are trained to sell as a person. Yet you need to build that relationship with someone of know like and trust as
own mentor Michael Dlouhy says. When you build that people will do anything and will follow you when it all falls appart. They will
just come with you to that next opportunity.

However first of all you need to build that relationship with someone without pitching your deal, without an agenda. You need to be
a persons friend and they will then come to trust you and become your own friend and again do anything for you. You can learn more
about creating relationships by reading our free ebook success in 10 steps which is available here. Which was written by my amazing
mentor and wonderful friend Michael Dlouhy from mentoring for free.

From Kirsty Spraggons Kirstytv

Wishing you the best in health and love and big hugs

Jenny and Ben

Mentors with a servants heart

Does making a living interfere with living your life????

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