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Eagles Fly
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Issue 384 -- November 27,
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3. For
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1. Eagles
Fly Free -- Turkeys get eaten
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4. Humor
-- Christmas Spirit
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2. 48
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5. Share
the Message -- Free Book!
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Dear Coach,
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Joanne and I are on a Caribbean cruise this week, resting in places
like Belize and Cozumel along the way. We will be visiting a former
coaching client at his scuba shop in Cozumel. With the mix of work
and play we really get to live out the quote below:
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction
between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind
and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his
religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his
vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide
whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.”
-- James Michener
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(I’ve never been able to
identify an author for this story, and have taken the liberty to
modify it over the years.)
Once upon a time in the long, long ago the Eagle and the Turkey
were very good friends. Everywhere they went these friends went
together. It was not uncommon for people to look up and see the
Eagle and the Turkey flying side by side through the air.
One day while flying, the Turkey said to the Eagle: “Let’s drop
down and get a bite to eat. My stomach is growling.” “Sounds like a
good idea to me,” replied the Eagle. So the two birds glided down
to earth, saw several animals eating, and decided to join them.
They landed next to the Cow. The Cow was busy eating corn, but
noticed that the Eagle and the Turkey were soon sitting on the
ground next to her. “Welcome,” said the Cow. “Help yourself to the
corn.”
This took the two birds by surprise. They were not accustomed to
having other animals share their food quite so readily. “Why are
you willing to share your corn with us?” asked the Eagle. “Oh, we
have plenty to eat here. Mr. Farmer gives us all we want,” replied
the Cow. With that invitation, the Eagle and The Turkey jumped in and
ate their fill. When they finished, the Turkey asked more about Mr.
Farmer. “Well,” said the Cow, “he grows all our food. We don’t have
to work for the food at all.”
“You mean,” said the Turkey, “that Mr. Farmer simply gives you all
you want to eat?” “That’s right,” said the Cow. “Not only that, but
he gives us a place to live.” The Turkey and the Eagle were
shocked! They had never heard of such a thing. They had always had
to search for food and work for shelter.
When it came time to leave, the Turkey and the Eagle began to
discuss the situation. “Maybe we should just stay here,” said the
Turkey. “We can have all the food we want without working. And that
barn over there sure beats those nests we have been building.
Besides, I’m getting tired of always having to work for a living.”
“I don’t know about all this,” said the Eagle. “It sounds too good
to be true. I find it hard to believe that one can get something
for nothing. Besides, I kinda like flying high and free through the
air. And providing for food and shelter isn’t so bad. In fact, I
find it quite challenging.”
Well, the Turkey thought it over and decided to stay where there
was free food and shelter. But the Eagle decided that he loved his
freedom too much to give it up, and enjoyed the consistent
challenge of making his own living. So, after saying good-bye to
his old friend the Turkey, the Eagle set sail for the unknown
adventure.
Everything went fine for the Turkey. He ate all he wanted. He never
worked. He grew fat and lazy. But then one day he heard the
farmer’s wife mention that Thanksgiving was coming in the next few
days and it would be nice to have roast turkey for dinner. Hearing
that, the Turkey decided it was time to check out and rejoin his
good friend Mr. Eagle. But when he attempted to fly he found that
he had grown too fat and lazy. Instead of being able to fly, he
could only flutter. So on Thanksgiving Day the farmer’s family sat
down to roast Turkey.
When you give up the challenges of life in pursuit of “security,”
you may give up your freedom.
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There’s always free cheese in a mousetrap -- Old
Proverb
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48
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This is a time of year
when many people become depressed over the state of their lives.
Some decide that living itself is just too difficult. The Golden
Gate bridge is the world’s leading suicide location. Every two
weeks, on average, someone ends their life here. At least twelve
hundred people have been seen jumping or have been found in the
water since the bridge opened in 1937, including Roy Raymond, the
founder of Victoria’s Secret, in 1993, and Duane Garrett, a
Democratic fund-raiser and a friend of Al Gore’s, in 1995.
Dr. Jerome Motto had a patient who jumped in the mid seventies. “I
went to this guy’s apartment afterward with the assistant medical
examiner,” he says. “The guy was in his thirties, lived alone,
pretty bare apartment. He’d written a note and left it on his
bureau. It said, ‘I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person
smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.’”
Wow – what a simple gift. How many people did he meet that day?
What if I had been one of them? It doesn’t take money to give some
of the season’s most precious gifts. Be very aware of those around
you especially during this time of year. Give the gift of a smile –
ten times each day.
Yes, that's Joanne and me with our precious granddaughter, Clara
Isabell. It's impossible to not smile in her presence. She is
nothing but joy and happiness.
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A minister of a church
loved peach brandy. One of his congregants would make him a bottle
each Christmas. One year, when the minister went to visit his
friend, hoping for his usual Christmas present, he was not
disappointed as he unwrapped the homemade brandy. However, his
friend told him that he had to thank him for the peach brandy from
the pulpit the next Sunday.
So the next Sunday the minister suddenly remembered that he had to
make a public announcement that he was being supplied alcohol from
a member of the church. That morning, his friend sat in the church
with a grin on his face, waiting to see the minister's
embarrassment.
The minister climbed into the pulpit and said, "Before we
begin, I have an announcement. I would very much like to thank my
friend, Joe, for his kind gift of peaches... and for the spirit in
which they were given!"
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