A lot of misunderstandings besiege Freemasonry – often negative connotations of a network of professionals trading classified business deals, or even greater wicked hints. Nonetheless, in reality Freemasonry is a positive cause encouraging self-improvement and helping other people. As a fraternity, Freemasonry provides a chance for gentlemen to get together and enjoy affable companionship. Improving oneself is a primary facet of freemasonry. Freemasonry encourages helping others too, and giving to others is a concrete means in which members assist those.

A critical aspect of the Free Mason society’s customs is not to look for new people to become members. Yet, anyone ought to feel uninhibited to communicate with any current member to acquire more details about the Free Mason society.

To be a member, you must be male, over 18 years old, and you must match the requirements of reputation, must be of good moral character, and believe in a supreme being.

A male who desires to join a lodge must be commended by 3 Masons of the lodge he desires to join. He must realize that his character and reputation must be investigated. Following commendation by the members of that lodge, he will be acknowledged as an applicant for membership in Freemasonry.

Masons oftentimes wear items like football badges which subtly advertise themselves to fellow Masons while communicating the lodge they belong to.

People frequently get disturbed about their monthly budget, not managing your budget can contribute to placing you further in debt if you are not mindful. The gains that come from handling your budget properly not only saves you money but help relief some of your tension over debt. Always keep in mind that a budget is primarily a plan for your monthly expenditure. Your budget, like any program, involves some degree of management to get a successful outcome. The manner I oversee mybudget, for instance, is by focusing on keeping info coordinated and controlling my expenditure.

My main focus is on organizing the info in mybudget. I keep track of recurring expenses like utilities, automobile and mortgage payments, insurance, and the like, for example. Consider that without organizing my budget, I can very easily lose track of my expenditure. By being informed of what expenditures repeat every month, I have an immediate grasp on the minimum amount of money I have to set away each month before I spend on other things I can control a little more such as entertainment, apparel, and vacations.

Controlling the expenditure in my budget is important because this is where the most financial advancement is made. A genuine measure of progress is putting money into a savings account or paying down debt. However, if I over spend, the opposite is true because instead of saving money I will use debt to help me cover the monthly expenditure in my budget. Distinctly, giving in to the stresses of budgeting can have expensive outcomes for my finances, specially if I am unable to pay down my debt.

There are two gains for controlling and organising my budget: First, I save money by fending off unnecessary expenses. Second, my finances are targeted at attaining financial goals. Essentially, by not buying things I do not need, I am actually freeing up money that I can either use for something else or save. The extra money can also be useful in paying off debt or saving it for a holiday. In addition to having extra money, I am able to make longer term financial goals like saving and investing for retirement or paying off my mortgage or student loans. With my budget being coordinated and moderated, not only does my financial position become more stable but successfully overseeing my budget reduces the stress that often comes with being in debt.

I always acknowledged that hair loss would happen to me when I am ageing but never imagined that it would happen to me at such an early age. Shortly before my thirtieth birthday, I noticed that my hairline was receding. I was frightened and in denial that I was losing my hair. I even started balding on the back of my head.

It was the first time in my life I felt old. I felt like the best years of my life were behind me. I even ceased dating. My love life was almost non-existent. There was one girl I had been seeing nonchalantly and even though I liked her, I just stopped returning her phone calls. I figured that I hadn’t found the woman of my dreams with a full head of hair so there was no way I was going to find someone with my growing bald spot. I was too depressed to even try having a romantic relationship.

Hair loss taken a toll on me enormously, it transformed me from a confident person to a depressed loner. I was assured to get the problem fixed and began searching for a resolution. I started exploring various hair loss treatments that are accessible over the counter. Nothing I got from the pharmacy worked and believe me, I gave them all a go . After spend lots of money on products, I stopped trying for a while. It was a real low point in my life. I even stopped going out with my friends, I was so deflated.

Fortuitously, one night a good friend of mine took me out for a few beverages. Throughout the night, he observed was I appeared a little down. It took him a little while to figure out why. He mentioned to me about the hair loss studio in the city. My friend had gone there for hair loss treatments and had been impressed with the results. I was even more impressed. My friend had a full head of hair and there was no sign of hair loss. He made me promise to give them a try and I agreed.

I could not have been happier with the hair loss studio recommended to me. After just a few hair loss treatments, I had a full head of hair again. The hair loss studio not only helped me regained my hair but also my self-confidence.

My hair loss treatment journey began the day I started to notice myself balding. I would spend hours and hours looking for ways to comb my hair a certain way to cover my hair loss. I discovered myself wearing more hats on the weekends as I went out with my wife, acquaintances or family. Walking in to work every morning was a painful experience without my hat on. You change the way you think when you are going through hair loss. It is so true that you never know what you have until you lose it. That can be true about your hair loss.

As I looked in the mirror I began to treasure every one of the hair strands I had left. It was as if with each individual hair I lost, so was a small percent of my self-confidence gone as well. I was not alone, a mate of mine had been experiencing from the same problem as me. Yet lately he seemed so much more relaxed and I noticed that it was as if his hair was growing back. I never wanted to bring it up but after a while I decided to ask. It was then that he recommended to me Advanced Hair Studio. My friend Josh told me that he had only had a few treatments and has already started to see some positive results, he not only regrown his hair, but his self-assurance as well. After speaking to Josh and understanding what Advanced Hair has done for him, I took the courage to make an appointment for a free consultation.

At first, I was a little sceptical. Outcomes were obvious within a few weeks. Not only on my head, but in my behavior. I started to lose the caps on the weekends and I quickly started to feel better about myself. My wife who has been complaining about my lack of interest in our relationship began to notice the change in that department as well. It is amazing how just a few treatments to the Advanced Hair Studio had begun to change my life as a whole. I have constantly been cynical about people discovering my bald spot. Now, I am not terrified to look people in the eyes again as I have my full set of self esteem back.

Advance Hair Studio has not only given me back a full set of hair, but a big chunk of my life as well. If you are suffering from hair loss I highly recommend them as it has done so much for me in just a few months of treatments. Don’t let your self-confidence continue to be lost with your hair.

My hair loss treatment journey started the day I started to discover myself balding. The most obvious thing to do was to seek ways to comb my hair to cover my bald spot. I began wearing more hats on the weekends as I went out with my wife, acquaintances or family. Walking in to work every morning without my hat was a difficult experience. Your mind will do that to you when you are suffering from hair loss. It is so true that you never know what you have until you lose it. That can be true about your hair loss.

Having suffered from balding, I started to appreciate every strand of hair that I had left. It was as if with each string of hair I lost, so was a small part of my confidence gone as well. A acquaintance of mine had the same problem as me. Yet recently he appeared so much more relaxed and I noticed that it was as if his hair was growing back. I didn’t wanted to bring it up but after a while I decided to ask. That is when I was recommended to Advanced Hair Studios. With just a few treatments my friend Josh had not only regained his hair, but his self-assurance as well. After seeing what Josh has attained from Advanced Hair, I made up my mind to pay them a visit.

I have to admit that I was a little cynical at first. But within a few weeks the effects were . Not only on my scalp, but in my behaviour. I started to lose the hats on the weekends and I quickly began to feel better about myself. My wife has also observed a change in my day to day behaviour as well. It is amazing how just a few visits to the Advanced Hair Studio had begun to change my life as a whole. I always felt as if the first thing people noticed about me was my bald spot. Now, I am not afraid to look people in the eyes again as I have my full set of self esteem back.

Advance Hair Studio has not only given me back my hair, but a big part of my life as well. If you are experiencing hair loss I highly recommend them as it has done so much for me in just a few months of treatments. Don’t let your self-confidence continue to be lost with your hair.

Have you ever had an intuition about a person or
a situation? When the thought came to you, did
you file it away or brush it aside? Later on,
did it prove to be true?

Many brilliant business ideas have been based on
someone’s intuition. When Fred Smith was in college,
he wrote a paper for an economics class about his
idea for an overnight delivery service. He got
a “C” for the paper, but that didn’t bother him.
His gut told him his idea would work, and several
years later he started Federal Express.

It’s believed that some people have more intense
intuition than others. It’s also believed to be
possible to hone your own intuitive skills.

Howard Gardner, a Harvard professor and psychologist,
says that practicing your intuition is important
to honing intuitive skills. “Gut instinct is basically
a form of pattern recognition. The more you practice,
the more patterns you intuitively recognize. List
decisions you’ve made that turned out right (and mistakes,
too). Then reconstruct the thinking patterns. Where
did intuition come in? Was it right or wrong?
Are there patterns? Highly intuitive people often let
themselves be talked out of good ideas.”

For some, their intuition usually revolves around people.
For others, it involves situations. If you’re uncertain
about the accuracy of your gut instinct, write it down
when it occurs to you.

For intuitions about people, write down your first
impression of them. Check for accuracy later. For intuitions
about situations, write those down as well, including the
date. Occasionally review what you’ve written about those
situations, and if something has changed, write that down
with the date. Review these from time to time to see how
accurate your instinct appears to be.

As thoughts come to you, take a few quiet minutes to
think and write. If the thoughts come at a busy time,
jot a few words down (or speak them into a tape recorder)
to write out in more detail later.

A few years ago I attended a local coaches’ group, and the
topic one evening was “our coaching intuition”. The
leader for that meeting told us a few brief facts about
one of his clients: her name, the state where she lives,
and one or two more general facts. Then he asked us to
quietly think about what else was going on in her life.
After a minute, he asked for comments. About four people
spoke up, saying things such as, “There is an illness
in her family that she is dealing with,” and “She really
doesn’t like her job,” and “She’s working a lot of hours,”
and “There is conflict between her and someone close
to her”, and “She doesn’t have enough free time.”
The man who is her coach said that all of those things
were true.

At first I thought, “How did these people know or figure
out all of these things?” As soon at that thought crossed
my mind, a new, intuitive thought took its place:
“She’s bored.” And then the thought continued, “Even
though she has so much going on in her life, she’s bored.
And she’s surprised that she’s bored.” I spoke these words
to her coach, and he agreed that she is quite bored.

A keen intuition is a mark of a good coach. We’re not
the only profession, however, who can greatly use
intuitive skills. Just about any business person can
benefit from a keen intuition. This is a great skill
for anyone to utilize.

Start with the suggestions in this article for practicing
using your intuition. Hone your skill over time. With
some focused attention, you will learn to trust your
gut instinct more and to take action on your instincts
sooner.

© 2006 Borgeson Consulting, Inc.

Glory Borgeson is a business coach and consultant, and the president of
Borgeson Consulting, Inc. She specializes in helping small business owners
(of 500 employees or less) to increase their Entrepreneurial IQ, which
leads to increased profit and decreased stress. Whether an entrepreneur is at the top
of his game like any top athletes you can think of today, or a rookie just
starting his business, Glory works with the entire spectrum of entrepreneur.
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Chances are that you have gynecomastia, if you are perusing this article. I have had gynecomastia just like you, so I know what it’s like. More than 40% of men are reported to have gynecomastia, medical academics claim. Humiliating unwanted issues which may include social withdrawal and anxiety are caused by chest fat. There are gynecomastia drugs available, but instead I will teach you an alternative. Some of the specific ways to treat them include exercises, surgery, taking natural supplements and diet. In this short article, I will show you how to have gynecomastia reduction completely by adding something to your diet.

Have you ever been on a diet? Diets are complicated and hard to stick to. I have tried all sorts of diets in my life. If applied on a consistent basis, diets are most times successful.

Some of the popular ones include Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Trim Spa and South Beach diet. If you have determination, you can be successful with these diets. So, we don’t like diets. But, here is the thing. You are not about to hear me tell you to go on a diet. I am about to reveal a sneaky little substance that you can add to your diet.

So, I did promise you earlier that I would tell you something that you can add to your diet. Have you ever heard of a spice called curry? If you are unfamiliar with it, it is a spice with a light green color. If you are a fan of food from the Asian continent, you have probably tried curry. A very popular dish is curry chicken. In case you didn’t know, the active ingredient in curry is turmeric which has been used to treat overweight people for hundreds of years. It has also been used to treat gynecomastia. Gynecomastia reduction can be successfully achieved using diet, as I have just revealed. Don’t sit around anymore. Go buy some turmeric and add it to your diet. This solution won’t cost you very much money. If you thought gynecomastia drugs were the only way to treat gynecomastia, I hope that I have convinced you otherwise.

Do you find yourself striving upward in life yet making little or no progress?

Are you high on activity but low on achievement?

Very clearly, it’s time to stop, look and listen.
You’re obviously not doing something right.

I’ll share with you something that happened to me recently. I believe it will help you understand my point.

I am an “Advanced Learner” driver. By now I shouldn’t still be wearing my learner plates, I guess I just love the fact that people clear out of the way when I’m coming, and clamour to help me at the slightest sign of driver-distress. Talk about loving thy neighbour!

Any way, I was driving up a steep hill one bright Sunday morning when I noticed the car making some not-so-funny growling noises. Also, to my alarm, no matter how hard I stepped on the throttle, the car would not accelerate. It continued its belaboured, uphill climb, growling grudgingly as it went.

I made it some how to the top of the hill and pulled over to see what all the fuss was about.

As the smell of burning rubber reached my nose, my teenage son, sitting next to me exclaimed, “Mom, the hand brakes are on!”

I had been striving upward, making very little progress. I was “high on activity, but low on achievement.” Thank God it occurred to me to “stop, look and listen.”

I had the hand brakes on the whole time; the trouble was entirely my fault!
The strange part was that it took some one else to spot the problem.
It could have taken me ages, and much further damage, to see it myself.

Albert Einstein is reported to have said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” Quite often in life we have the hand brakes on and don’t even know it.

When a little effort doesn’t give us the results we desire, we apply more of the same effort. We know something is wrong, we can even smell burning rubber.

But sadly, many of us just keep on “screeching on,” not taking time out for a re-think, and not asking anyone else for help.

The point I’m making is that when we apply ourselves as best we know how, and still do not get the results we desire, it should be obvious that “the best we know how” just isn’t good enough. We need to stop, look and listen. We might need outside help. Any further activity could cause even more damage.

These hand brakes quite often take the form of self-limiting beliefs.
We usually don’t know we have them.

But if we take the time out, with a trusted friend or coach, our words, actions, inactions and assumptions will quite likely reveal their existence.

A case in point: I have a friend who was not getting enough business contracts. She was qualified, capable and her prospects often gave her audience. She presented her business well and had a sound, desirable service to offer. But somehow, prospect-conversion rate remained low.

We talked, and after a while her problem became evident.
I could tell that she had self-doubt.

Because hers was a young, small business she felt intimidated by the older giants.

She felt she wasn’t as experienced and didn’t have impressive client lists like they did.

As a result, she approached mainly small business owners, who, though impressed, could not afford her fees. Occasionally she serviced larger clients, but that was when “a friend of a friend” gave her a referral.

When made aware of these limiting beliefs she admitted, though surprised, that it was true. It was as if scales had suddenly fallen off her eyes. She had no idea that she had self-doubt. She had re-examined her services, her presentation and everything else she could think of, to no avail.

In the end, I sent her off to a business consultant who helped her repackage her offerings and drew up a new marketing plan for her.
I took her through a series of coaching sessions to build self-belief and handle procrastination.

Today my friend has a sizeable, paying client base, and has learnt to stop often to look and listen when things dont go as planned. She has also learnt to seek help.

Dear reader, is yours a case of struggle without success?

Have you taken time out to examine your case?

Remember, it isn’t likely that you will spot the problem yourself.
It’s probably your thinking that created it in the first place.

A trip to a consultant or coach might be just what you need.
He/she is more likely to see that your hand brakes are on than you are.
A coach is also better able to determine the nature of your hand brakes, as self-doubt is only one of them.

And with a network of other consultants, a coach can recommend the help you need.

Not being personally and emotionally involved, a coach’s opinion will most likely be objective.

He/she will not be critical of you but supportive.

There is no reason why you should continue with high activity and low achievement.

You owe it to yourself to stop, look and listen.
People today avail themselves of coaching and consulting for a variety of problems: business strategy, weight-loss, image-making, school work, career management the list could go on.

Wherever progress is slow, or results are undesirable, a coach could save the day.

At the end of my ordeal with the hand brakes, my mechanic presented me with a hair-raising bill. I had burned my clutch plates, but thankfully they could be replaced.

Repairing the damage done to our lives or businesses might not be that easy.

We might never even get the chance.

Before the damage is extensive, stop, look and listen.
You just might need a coach to help you.

Copyright 2005 Oma Edoja

Oma Edoja is a published writer, motivational speaker and infopreneur. She speaks to, and works with people seeking more out of life. She would love to answer questions on self-limiting beliefs. Visit her blog http://omaslounge.blogspot.com (for inspiration and motivation). Contact her (via blog) for a free assessment of your coaching needs.

Many years ago, when I was in high school, I was thinking about what made the popular girls popular. (Yes, I know, this is probably not something every 10th grader thinks about, but you have to understand that I have spent a lifetime observing why people do the things they do.) So, anyway, I was watching these girls and decided that it wasn’t the hair or the make up or the clothes that made them popular, it was their self-confidence.

As soon as I realized that, I started having a conversation with myself about how I was going to improve my own self-confidence. I decided that a few things would help: 1. smile as much as possible; 2. sit up straight and walk tall; 3. be friendly with everyone; and 4. find qualities that I liked about myself and concentrate on those. Now, these may seem petty and simplistic, but they worked. The biggest thing I realized was that nobody could make me feel good about myself – I had to do that myself. The best way to do that is to have good, positive self-talk.

That plan started a path to becoming who I am today. It has taken me twenty years to get here, but I feel as though I am exactly where I need to be. The interesting thing to me is that it all started with a conversation with myself about how I wanted to change. I proved to myself that my thoughts really do create my reality.

You have no doubt heard that there is a sequence of preparation that must be
followed in the pursuit of personal and professional development. If you want to
have something in your life then you must do something to get it; but you can’t do
what is necessary if you aren’t the kind of person who possesses the character that
will issue in the appropriate behavior that will eventually bring what you want into
your life. The sequence, then, is “be, do, have:” You must be the person who can do
what it takes to have what you want.

The Three Types of Desire

How do you get to be the kind of person who acts in the ways necessary to get
what you want? It all begins with desire. This is not the desire to have nor is it the
desire to do. These two types of desire are always secondary to and dependent
upon the primary desire to be the kind of person who possesses appropriate and
realistic desires to have and to do. You may desire to have something that is
incommensurate and inconsistent with the kind of person you are right now. This
means that you want something you cannot have because you are personally
unprepared to do what is necessary to get it. If, however, by some stroke of good
fortune you do obtain it you will not be able to hold onto it for very long. You
cannot perform for very long beyond the level of competence and worthiness you
have mentally set for yourself; nor can you retain for long that which you have
obtained in a manner you believe to be beyond your competence and worthiness.
You will unconsciously seek ways to sabotage enjoyment and beneficial use of your
“ill-gotten” gains.

If you want to have something you must also want to do what it takes to get it.
We all have had desires to be rich and famous but many of us are neither because
we haven’t become the kind of person who overcomes natural laziness and self-
doubt to be able to act consistently and persistently in ways that will turn these
desires into realities in our lives.

Who do you want to become? If you were to answer, “I want to be a person who
is rich,” or “a person who is respected by all,” what you would be saying is that you
want to be a person who has acted and continues to act in certain ways throughout
his/her life that results in the manifestation of personal wealth and universal
respect. Our role models set the bar for our personal aspirations and “be goals” but
they don’t always help us understand what we need to do to become that kind of
person. How did they get to be the kind of person we want to be? Our “do goals”
must arise out of and be aligned with our “be goals” if we are to become the person
who has everything he/she wants in life.

To paraphrase a popular phrase (“if it is to be it is up to me”): “if I am to be (the
person I want to be) it is up to me (to do what it takes).” A “do goal” that doesn’t
help you accomplish your “be goals” will not long hold your desire to accomplish it.
In fact, such “do goals” serve only to hinder and frustrate your efforts to discover
and fulfill your personal purpose in life. This kind of “do goal” is the epitome of
activity without accomplishment: much movement in multiple directions but never
getting very far from where you started. These non-aligned “do goals” drain you of
the energy needed to accomplish worthy and worthwhile goals – the ones that will
get you what you want. If you are to be the kind of person you want – the kind of
person who makes dreams and desires come true – then it is up to you to align your
“do” and “be” goals. Think of this endeavor as being the Sinatra Step: set and
pursue “do-be, do-be, do-be” goals for the rest of your life. And “That’s Life!” *
(see end of this article for lyrics)

The Quality of Desire and Effective Change

It is a truth of human existence that you receive in proportion to the strength and
duration of your desire. On a scale of 1 to 10, if your desire for something is below
a nine and you haven’t experienced it for very long it is unlikely that you will think
and do what it takes to bring it into your life.

You see, we have habits of thinking, called attitudes, which cause us to do and
not do certain actions on a consistent basis. These habits of behavior keep us in a
zone of psychological comfort that, in turn, limits our performance and life to a
narrow range of possibilities. To get something we want we must often confront our
comfort and challenge our habits. This means entertaining the possibility that we
might need to change what we think and do that we find natural, comfortable and
comforting. We must have a strong and enduring desire to do what works to get
what we want even if this means changing how we currently think and behave. The
desire to be the kind of person who does and has certain things necessarily results
in continuous change. Life is the process of constant transition from one state of
being to another. The axiom is true: “change is inevitable, growth is optional.” The
desires to have and to do must be linked with the desire and activity to continually
change yourself for the better.

Three Ways to Change for the Better

I find the following three words helpful when thinking about changing anything
about myself: stay, stop, start. Getting what you want sometimes is a matter of
staying with what you’re thinking and doing now, perhaps to a greater or lesser
degree of intensity and/or frequency. It could also mean stopping what you’re doing
and thinking now that pose real or imagined barriers to receiving what you want.
Finally, getting what you want could mean starting a new way of thinking that will
lead to new behaviors that invite your desire to manifest itself in your life as an
everyday reality.

Changing yourself for the better begins at the end. Visualizing yourself as the
person who exhibits those characteristics and traits you desire and possessing the
things you want establishes in your mind the foundation upon which you will
construct your “better life.” Getting clear on what you need to continue doing, stop
doing and start doing is the primary exercise to help you form, fine-tune and finish
the vision of your better Self.

The Source of Desire and Its Accomplishment

Our desires arise and are defined as we grow and experience life and seem to
always be tied to talent and personality. Desire, then, is an intimate expression of
who we see ourselves to be and what we think we’re capable and worthy of. A
strong desire indicates a self-image that sees real possibility for turning that
individual desire into personal reality. Strong and persistent desire is the means of
motivation (that is to say, the motive to take action) through and beyond habitual
ways of thinking and behaving. When your desire is strong and persistent, all kinds
of exciting and surprising ways to achieve it arrive at the doorstep of your mind.

Many of the ideas that occur to you do so without much, if any, conscious effort
on your part. It is as if these thoughts about how to achieve the desires of your
heart are simply “given” into your mind. Just as God created, according to the Book
of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian Bible, the heavens and the earth “out of nothing,”
so, too, creative ideas and innovative notions that will get you to where you want to
go seem to appear out of nowhere. From this point of view, it appears that the
Creator not only gives you the enduring noble and aspirant desires of your heart but
also provides the means to achieve them – your great and creative thoughts that, if
held long enough and strong enough, produce on both the conscious and
unconscious levels of your mind the motivation to move in the precise directions of
your dreams.

Summary

To make any improvements in your life you must first possess a desire to
possess that which you deem to be an improvement over what you’re experiencing
now. However, desire in and of itself is not sufficient to create the motivation to
actually do what is necessary to improve. The desire must be of sufficient strength
and duration in order to create the internal environment that moves the soul to
move the body into the kind of action that will realize what is desired. Such desire
stems from the kind of person you are. The kind of person you are determines
what you can do to make your desires happen.

The issue, then, is not how to get desire if you don’t have it or how to fan the
flames of your current desires into more effective means of motivating yourself to
take action. Rather, it is a matter of examining the person you are and what person
is needing to emerge that will result in the appropriate desires that, in turn, result in
the appropriate thoughts and actions that will bring everything you want into your
life.

* That’s Life!

By Frank Sinatra, 1966

That’s life (that’s life), that’s what all the people say
You’re ridin’ high in April, shot down in May
But I know I’m gonna change that tune
When I’m back on top, back on top in June
I said that’s life (that’s life), and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin’ on a dream
But I don’t let it, let it get me down
’cause this fine old world, it keeps spinnin’ around

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race

That’s life (that’s life), I tell you I can’t deny it
I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain’t gonna buy it
And if I didn’t think it was worth one single try
I’d jump right on a big bird and then I’d fly

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself layin’ flat on my face
I just pick myself up and get back in the race

That’s life (that’s life), that’s life and I can’t deny it
Many times I thought of cuttin’ out but my heart won’t buy it
But if there’s nothin’ shakin’ come this here July
I’m gonna roll myself up in a big ball a-and die

My, my!

Ken Wallace, M. Div., CSL has been in the organizational development field since
1973. He is a seasoned consultant, speaker and executive coach with extensive
business experience in multiple industries who provides practical organizational
direction and support for business leaders. A professional member of the National
Speakers Association since 1989, he is also a member of the International
Federation for Professional Speaking and holds the Certified Seminar Leader (CSL)
professional designation awarded by the American Seminar Leaders Association.

Ken is one of only eight certified Business Systems Coaches worldwide for General
Motors.

His topics include ethics, leadership, change, communication & his unique Optimal
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