Make love, not war. Hell, do both GET MARRIED!

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The Filling Station, Bozeman, MT

"You can't lead by memo.....leadership is a contact sport.... eyeball-to-eyeball, on the field with the sound of the contest in your ears. Most everything else is noise from the grandstand.

*Ron Gornto {Leadership Trainer}

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.

Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer.
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of. " And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

*Oscar Wilde

Be careful . .a pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the ass.

For all those overworked and a little stressed, please read!

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the beer.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was..

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favorite passions--things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else--the small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.


Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play more. There will always be time to clean the house, and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."


One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of beers."

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth
if you lost all your money."

*Unknown

"Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not."

*Jerry Gellis

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."

*Glenn Clark

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

*Henry Ford

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

*Audrey Hepburn

I am only as strong as the cocktails I drink, the hairspray I use and the friends I have.

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

*John Burroughs {1873-1921 American Author}


"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

*Will Rogers {1879-1935 American Humorist, Actor & Writer}


"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat."

*Guy Finely {Founder - The Life of Learning Foundation}

"A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions."

*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {1749-1832 German Poet & Scientist}

"Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster."

*Winston Churchill {1874-1965 British Prime Minister}

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

*Anna Quindlen

My thoughts exactly…..

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

*Leo Buscaglia {1924-1998 American Lecturer & Author}

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for
most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

*Source Unknown

We could learn a lot from crayons:
some are sharp, some are pretty,
some are dull, some have weird names,
and all are different colors....
but they all exist very nicely in the same box.