So - I received the March 2009 issue of MORE magazine. If you aren't a regular reader or if you haven't leafed through a copy in the Doctor's office (oh wait - those magazines are ten years old...sorry) let me explain that this magazine is targeted to women over forty. It's hip, trendy and features a lot of lovely, real women (and some famous women) wearing age appropriate clothing and doing age appropriate things. This is the only magazine I know of for midlife women. (The AARP magazine doesn't count).
MORE devotes pages of every issue to women who have successfully reinvented themselves. If, like me, you are in the process of a life makeover, these features can inspire you. They can also be downright discouraging. Now I fully understand that no one wants to read about women who try and fail. But constant exposure to unmitigated success stories is depressing - especially if your story isn't quite as inspirational or noteworthy.
In the March issue we meet four "risk-taking" women who shed the vestiges of their former lives and careers, tried something new and different, and made tons of money. We are introduced to a woman who went from flight attendant to entrepreneur, another who segued from musician to CEO, an executive secretary who became a publicist, and a psychotherapist (hey wait, that's what I wanted to do!!!) to a successful real estate broker (kind of hard to imagine that in this economy).
Rather than be irritated by these Cinderella stories, this month I decided to read them for hints, clues, insight into what I'm failing to do. So I sifted through each case history, keeping in mind my own shortcomings and looking for story elements I could relate to.
As i see it, one of my problems is my lack of a clear cut vision or dream. Some days I still want to complete my hours and get my therapist license. Some days I think that I should start my own business (but I have no idea what that would be). Other days I think I should forgo earning any money and throw myself into meaningful volunteerism. In other words - I still do not know what I want (which is probably why I don't have it). With this in mind, I focused on the dreams or visions these women had.
Amazingly enough the woman who transitioned from flight attendant to entrepreneur didn't really have a vision or a particular goal. (Okay, I could relate to this) But she did have a dream - literally - she went to bed one night and dreamed about a key chain (I personally would rather dream about Antonio Banderas). She got up the next morning and made a "rough model" of it. She conjured up a clever name, had a prototype made and set out to sell it to distributors. No one wanted to buy it because she wasn't part of a larger company. Undaunted, she enlisted her friends to help her sell the key chains. She lived and breathed these gizmos. Over a short few years, in spite of the economy, her little company was selling key chains and other small gift items and was grossing millions of dollars.
What insight did I get from reading this story? I realized that I would probably have stopped once the gift distributors turned me down. Heck, I probably wouldn't have had the guts to go out and see the distributors.(I'm ashamed to admit this but I hate rejection.) I doubt that I would have asked my friends to help me because I rarely ask for help. This is discouraging insight.
In the second case history we are introduced to a music teacher who made very little money. In order to get by financially she spent a lot of time clipping coupons and combing the newspaper for sales and other bargains. While these bargain hunting steps were necessary they were boring and time consuming. Then it hit her - her "aha" moment - what if she could make money doing this for other people?! She did her research, found an inexpensive web hosting service, stayed up all night for weeks building her website (with help from web techs), bought a business license and took out an ad in the local paper. Today she runs a highly successful online business, sells franchises and makes millions.
My thoughts? Over the past years there have been several wonderful ( at least I think so) ideas that have popped into my head that would make great, fun, businesses. But once I get a great idea it just lays there like an unpopped corn kernel. Hard, yellow and of minimal use. I freeze. I can talk myself out of anything (and I do). My follow through fizzles. I am stuck. The problem as I see it: I have always had a mentor. Someone who coaxed and coached. Mentors are plentiful when you are under forty...not so plentiful after that. I've been a mentor but I also believe I need one. I think I'm still waiting for the White Knight to rescue me...but this time it's gonna be a long long long wait...(and then you die).
The other two stories are similar. One woman (the secretary) had an obsession with news and current events. Over time she noticed a connection between the day's news and what her bosses were working on. From there she figured out how to get them some attention for their efforts. Her inner PR person emerged. Making the most of her newly uncovered skill she was able to find a PR job in a small firm. From there it was all good. Today she is rich, independent and happy. The psychotherapist was burning out (a professional hazard) and getting divorced. She bought an apartment for herself and her family, renovated it and later sold it at a profit. Voila!
She bought more and sold more AND she was able to use her abilities as a therapist to "read" potential buyers and sellers. She became a broker, joined a highly successful firm and makes eight times what she used to make.
I'm certain that the editors at MORE feature these stories to fire us up and get us moving towards our dreams and goals. But I'm not feeling it. Instead I am becoming increasingly aware that my fire needs stoking. Nothing is burning. I'm not hot (well, not in a driven way). All of these women had three things I do not recognize in myself:
1. Passion
2. Focus
3. Confidence
I have lost my confidence, don't feel passionate about much and cannot seem to stay focused on anything. Hmmm. What does this mean...? Beats me.
When I finish this entry, I am going to spend some time looking back on my life. I need to identify those "spark" moments. The ones where I became so engrossed and involved in something that time didn't matter. What do I love to do? What makes me feel peaceful or happy or wild? What's keeping me from moving forward and why do I let that happen?
In six days my temporary professional counseling license will expire. I have not renewed it because I cannot imagine being able to find a counseling job this week. Inertia kills. My willingness to give up (albeit after trying really hard) speaks volumes to me.
But, it will be one less thing I will have to feel badly about. After this Saturday my counseling career will no longer be an issue. I'm sure I will find some other issues. I'm good at that.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
The Secret to the Secret is no Secret
There is so much "spirituality" help available on the net that we almost need a separate Internet just to accommodate it. I've been to many of those sites and I've signed up for a lot of the ones I've visited. Yet,I am no closer to finding my spiritual self than I was two years ago. I'm just more frustrated!
The online spiritual supermarket has aisles and aisles of goodies - many of them are free (sort of) and can be delivered to your email address daily, weekly, monthly - or even hourly. The choice is yours. But how to choose? That is the exact dilemma I faced when wondering what to put in this blog entry. I don't know enough to wax eloquent on any one of them...but I have had enough "experience" to talk about what I've learned.
I'm going to talk about "The Secret". If you were to go online to search for "The Secret" you would find yourself overwhelmed by choices. If you remember the early publicity about this theory you will no doubt recall the Oprah factor. She talked about it - and we all ran out and bought the book or the DVD or both. Wow! Here was the answer to everything and it wasn't even new - it had been here all along. (In hindsight, repackaging this old theory was one of the greatest Marketing coups of the century).We, it seems, have always had the power to manifest whatever we wanted. We just needed to know how. So we thought happy thoughts, put together vision boards, imagined ourselves having already achieved what we wanted or needed and voila! nothing happened. At least not for me or for the many friends I have who also thought the happiest of thoughts and envisioned the best outcomes for their desires.
But fear not - more websites and theories appeared to help us understand why we failed to manifest our desires! Of course, the problem was within us. We had failed to find the one little thing that would make this all work for us. We needed to eliminate our fears, squash those negative thoughts that lay just underneath all those phony positive ones we'd been repeating. We needed to let go of all the beliefs and thought that weighed us down. We needed to believe for real!
Now this is hard to do. If you are a skeptic, like I am, those little skeptical worms wiggle around inside our brains all day. It's hard to catch or even control them. They've been with us for so long. But, if we are to believe the gurus of The Secret (and there are legions of them), we can prevail and our new life - a happier and more rewarding ($$$) one- is just around the bend. But we have a lot of work to do. (And we all though this was going to be simple)
I am going to focus on one of the many threads that lead to and from the Secret. It is the one with which I have had the most experience. And, it is the one that helped me formulate my theory about the Secret and the Keepers of the Secret on the Web.
His name is Bob Doyle. His main website is called "Wealth Beyond Reason". This is where one of my journeys began. Mr. Doyle is one of the individuals featured in the DVD "The Secret". He is a nice looking, sincere sounding man who is extremely generous. He sends out lots of free stuff. Titillating stuff. And the stuff he sells is almost always reasonable, although oddly priced. $19, $27, $86.... Sometimes he even has a sale and offers access to older materials (that others have paid a higher odd price for). I can find nothing negative about him on the web. He appears to be an honest, well-intentioned man who has made BIG bucks helping others try to make the principles of the Secret work for them. He likes to share the secrets of his success with others.
One of my purchases from Mr. D was reduced price access to all of the secrets of creating multiple streams of wealth online. (ahem). He provided, in this limited-time offer, some really useful advice as well as access to some great websites that would help us new entrepreneurs find online payment help, online accounting help, sites for creating DVDs, podcasts, etc. In addition, for my $29, I was able to listen to a long audio tape of how to put all this together and make it work. Now, prior to being given access to all of this information (and it is good information - overwhelming, but good) I had to sign up for the Six Figure Streams Mentoring Program. Being part of this mentoring program was not a requirement, but signing up for it was. So I did.
Initially I threw myself into learning as much as I could about the information I had purchased. For awhile I even believed I could do this. Start an online business, offer ebooks, podcasts, written stuff, link to other online businesses, create a community where we scratched each other's backs (a little more to the left please, ahhh thanks). This sounded so doable!! At the same time, it was odd. You didn't need a product, or an idea, or much of anything. Everything you might need to "sell" or "offer" was probably already out there, created by someone else - and you could use it, sometimes for free. If you wanted to create your own stuff - that was okay too. There were so many places you could go online to do this. I think it was around here that I began to snap out of my reverie. I could start an online business (or many online businesses) with nothing to offer...or I could take things that were already available elsewhere and legally offer them...or I could figure out what it was I knew (information) and package and sell it through my site(s) and by linking to related sites. Confused? Yes.
BUT WAIT - that is where the Six Figure Streams Mentoring Program came in. (Remember, the one I was not obligated to use) I received an email from "Nick" at the Six Streams Mentoring Program. He was inviting me to call him so we could talk about the service. I called him. It was a very pleasant conversation. We talked about me (note: everyone likes to talk about themselves...it's a great way to have a conversation). Each time I mentioned something I was interested in he would say "I see an E-book!" or "That would be a great thing to share." The problem was - and he acknowledged it - there was so much to do and consider that the overall process appeared overwhelming - especially to someone like me with adult ADD). BUT, I could do everything if I had some help, someone to coach me, someone to nudge me along, answer my questions and hold my hand. We get by with a little help from our friends.
This brought us to the Six Figure Streams Mentoring Program. He explained all the ways that this program could be of assistance. Was I willing to make the commitment? I explained, very clearly that while I was able to emotionally make the commitment, financially the commitment was not happening. There was no way I could go back to the well (aka My Husband) and ask for $6000 for something that wasn't a sure thing. My husband had already financed two sure things that didn't happen. I could not come up with any evidence that this sure thing would be the one sure thing that would have a payback. He listened, said the proper empathetic things and then asked me if I would be willing to put it on a credit card (let's see, $6000 at 21% - I don't think so). How about a personal loan? (Uh, no). It was not a hard sell in the classic way - it was more emotional, more geared towards how I deserved to do this for myself etc. In the end, I declined the opportunity. He felt bad for me, of course. The conversation was over. I felt bad that I didn't believe enough in myself to take this step. (I think that's how I was supposed to feel)
Our conversation was followed by a long email that outlined in detail what the Mentoring Program consisted of. Once again I was reminded that I would derive the following benefits:
(this is excerpted directly from the email sent to me)
Leverage the experience, skills, and support of your Mentor and Mentor Team
Save time by avoiding common mistakes of trial & error marketing
Understand and immediately utilize innovative ideas and information
Learn directly from an experienced Mentor
Learn to effectively utilize the Law of Attraction to manifest success
Increase your knowledge and competency in the focus areas
Go beyond your limiting beliefs of the past
Hold yourself accountable to your commitment for your business
Reduce "inner resistence" and impact your vibration level
Avoid having to reinvent the wheel
Gain from the business experience and specific coaching skills of your Mentor
In addition, you have the opportunity to take advantage of extensive resources; including our Proprietary Instructional Documents and one-on-one conversations on a regular basis with your Mentor and Mentor Team Resource Professionals
The online spiritual supermarket has aisles and aisles of goodies - many of them are free (sort of) and can be delivered to your email address daily, weekly, monthly - or even hourly. The choice is yours. But how to choose? That is the exact dilemma I faced when wondering what to put in this blog entry. I don't know enough to wax eloquent on any one of them...but I have had enough "experience" to talk about what I've learned.
I'm going to talk about "The Secret". If you were to go online to search for "The Secret" you would find yourself overwhelmed by choices. If you remember the early publicity about this theory you will no doubt recall the Oprah factor. She talked about it - and we all ran out and bought the book or the DVD or both. Wow! Here was the answer to everything and it wasn't even new - it had been here all along. (In hindsight, repackaging this old theory was one of the greatest Marketing coups of the century).We, it seems, have always had the power to manifest whatever we wanted. We just needed to know how. So we thought happy thoughts, put together vision boards, imagined ourselves having already achieved what we wanted or needed and voila! nothing happened. At least not for me or for the many friends I have who also thought the happiest of thoughts and envisioned the best outcomes for their desires.
But fear not - more websites and theories appeared to help us understand why we failed to manifest our desires! Of course, the problem was within us. We had failed to find the one little thing that would make this all work for us. We needed to eliminate our fears, squash those negative thoughts that lay just underneath all those phony positive ones we'd been repeating. We needed to let go of all the beliefs and thought that weighed us down. We needed to believe for real!
Now this is hard to do. If you are a skeptic, like I am, those little skeptical worms wiggle around inside our brains all day. It's hard to catch or even control them. They've been with us for so long. But, if we are to believe the gurus of The Secret (and there are legions of them), we can prevail and our new life - a happier and more rewarding ($$$) one- is just around the bend. But we have a lot of work to do. (And we all though this was going to be simple)
I am going to focus on one of the many threads that lead to and from the Secret. It is the one with which I have had the most experience. And, it is the one that helped me formulate my theory about the Secret and the Keepers of the Secret on the Web.
His name is Bob Doyle. His main website is called "Wealth Beyond Reason". This is where one of my journeys began. Mr. Doyle is one of the individuals featured in the DVD "The Secret". He is a nice looking, sincere sounding man who is extremely generous. He sends out lots of free stuff. Titillating stuff. And the stuff he sells is almost always reasonable, although oddly priced. $19, $27, $86.... Sometimes he even has a sale and offers access to older materials (that others have paid a higher odd price for). I can find nothing negative about him on the web. He appears to be an honest, well-intentioned man who has made BIG bucks helping others try to make the principles of the Secret work for them. He likes to share the secrets of his success with others.
One of my purchases from Mr. D was reduced price access to all of the secrets of creating multiple streams of wealth online. (ahem). He provided, in this limited-time offer, some really useful advice as well as access to some great websites that would help us new entrepreneurs find online payment help, online accounting help, sites for creating DVDs, podcasts, etc. In addition, for my $29, I was able to listen to a long audio tape of how to put all this together and make it work. Now, prior to being given access to all of this information (and it is good information - overwhelming, but good) I had to sign up for the Six Figure Streams Mentoring Program. Being part of this mentoring program was not a requirement, but signing up for it was. So I did.
Initially I threw myself into learning as much as I could about the information I had purchased. For awhile I even believed I could do this. Start an online business, offer ebooks, podcasts, written stuff, link to other online businesses, create a community where we scratched each other's backs (a little more to the left please, ahhh thanks). This sounded so doable!! At the same time, it was odd. You didn't need a product, or an idea, or much of anything. Everything you might need to "sell" or "offer" was probably already out there, created by someone else - and you could use it, sometimes for free. If you wanted to create your own stuff - that was okay too. There were so many places you could go online to do this. I think it was around here that I began to snap out of my reverie. I could start an online business (or many online businesses) with nothing to offer...or I could take things that were already available elsewhere and legally offer them...or I could figure out what it was I knew (information) and package and sell it through my site(s) and by linking to related sites. Confused? Yes.
BUT WAIT - that is where the Six Figure Streams Mentoring Program came in. (Remember, the one I was not obligated to use) I received an email from "Nick" at the Six Streams Mentoring Program. He was inviting me to call him so we could talk about the service. I called him. It was a very pleasant conversation. We talked about me (note: everyone likes to talk about themselves...it's a great way to have a conversation). Each time I mentioned something I was interested in he would say "I see an E-book!" or "That would be a great thing to share." The problem was - and he acknowledged it - there was so much to do and consider that the overall process appeared overwhelming - especially to someone like me with adult ADD). BUT, I could do everything if I had some help, someone to coach me, someone to nudge me along, answer my questions and hold my hand. We get by with a little help from our friends.
This brought us to the Six Figure Streams Mentoring Program. He explained all the ways that this program could be of assistance. Was I willing to make the commitment? I explained, very clearly that while I was able to emotionally make the commitment, financially the commitment was not happening. There was no way I could go back to the well (aka My Husband) and ask for $6000 for something that wasn't a sure thing. My husband had already financed two sure things that didn't happen. I could not come up with any evidence that this sure thing would be the one sure thing that would have a payback. He listened, said the proper empathetic things and then asked me if I would be willing to put it on a credit card (let's see, $6000 at 21% - I don't think so). How about a personal loan? (Uh, no). It was not a hard sell in the classic way - it was more emotional, more geared towards how I deserved to do this for myself etc. In the end, I declined the opportunity. He felt bad for me, of course. The conversation was over. I felt bad that I didn't believe enough in myself to take this step. (I think that's how I was supposed to feel)
Our conversation was followed by a long email that outlined in detail what the Mentoring Program consisted of. Once again I was reminded that I would derive the following benefits:
(this is excerpted directly from the email sent to me)
Leverage the experience, skills, and support of your Mentor and Mentor Team
Save time by avoiding common mistakes of trial & error marketing
Understand and immediately utilize innovative ideas and information
Learn directly from an experienced Mentor
Learn to effectively utilize the Law of Attraction to manifest success
Increase your knowledge and competency in the focus areas
Go beyond your limiting beliefs of the past
Hold yourself accountable to your commitment for your business
Reduce "inner resistence" and impact your vibration level
Avoid having to reinvent the wheel
Gain from the business experience and specific coaching skills of your Mentor
In addition, you have the opportunity to take advantage of extensive resources; including our Proprietary Instructional Documents and one-on-one conversations on a regular basis with your Mentor and Mentor Team Resource Professionals
WOW! I suppose if I had $6000 lying around I might take a chance. But, basically, no matter how much mentoring you get you have to have a fire burning inside to do all the work. My fire wasn't that hot.
I believe that some of this stuff actually works - but it works best for the legion of Internet LOA Masters. Each of them uses the same approach. First the tantalizing emails, the great giveaways (ebooks, online interviews, videos,seminars, webinars), the hard to resist opportunities to participate in a particular program, the high prices of the premiere programs and the bargain basement prices of the materials used to attract you to the site. All of these websites link to each other in some way. This is a form of cross-selling that benefits each website owner. If Bob Doyle mentions a great book by Joe Vitale (another guru and prolific author) and you click on it, Joe pays Bob a tiny bit of money and vice versa.
There are about fifteen "big names" in the Laws of Attraction Universe. The rest are on their way to being big or just starting. They are all basically selling the same thing - even though it is periodically repackaged. Sometimes, if you read closely enough, you will find conflicting advice. (For example, you should have a vision board and live as if you already have what you want BUT you should also live in the moment recognizing that the past is gone, there is no future,there is only now )Okay...that's confusing. If you download an ebook..you will read page after page of lead-in and when you actually get to the meat you will feel cheated (even though you didn't pay for the book) because the whole "book" could have been summed up in a paragraph. Every free video is a lead in to having you participate in something else which leads you to eventually spend money.
There's nothing wrong with this. People have to earn a living and these men (and women) have found a really great way to do just that. More power to them. Why didn't I think to do this???
So here is what I know and feel comfortable passing on: There is a lot of material out there for everyone to read. Take advantage of it. Much of it is free. Some of it is helpful and may provide the impetus you need to shift your thinking or change your life. Start with the older theories like the Silva Mind Control and the Sedona Method. They've been around for a long time. Don't rush to buy. Take it slow. What's your hurry?
POST SCRIPT My husband recently discovered that Boundless Living (a Bob Doyle site) is charging me $19.95 a month - and has been since November- for a "subscription" to Boundless Living. To the best of my knowledge I never signed up for anything that would require a monthly fee. The only way they could have my email and Master Card is through the "bargain" I bought from them in November. Emails to the site are returned. I left a phone message...we'll see what happens.
This puts a whole new spin on how you develop "SIX STREAMS" of income
Post Post Script: Well after three emails and a phone call I got a refund. They acknowledged that "some people" have trouble understanding exactly what they are signing up for...Then Fix it!!!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
A life with meaning...when a friend dies
This really doesn't have much to do with reinventing yourself...but it does have to do with having a life that matters.
I just attended the funeral of an old friend who died at the age of 44. Reggie was a Baptist Missionary minister - the kind you see in movies. Hell, fire, brimstone and passion. I met him in graduate school and we ended up interning at the same clinic. No one could get me more riled up than Reggie and vice versa. It was both a combative and loving friendship. He believed I was doomed to go to hell; I believed he was a nutcase. We were both okay with our views of each other.
During our internship Reggie developed prostate cancer. It was his second time. We (clinic staff and interns)rallied 'round Reggie, supporting him any way we could. He'd often mentioned to us that the men in his family died young. He was willing to accept his fate if it was "God's will" but he wasn't going to roll over and wait for it to happen. He prevailed. He flew through his chemo, cleaned up his eating habits and recommitted himself to Christ and his family. After the internship ended, I lost track of Reggie. We both were members of the same board of directors for an inner city housing organization - but he never came to meetings. Occasionally his name would pop up - but mostly in the "Has anyone heard from Reggie?' vein.
Two days ago I received a call from my former internship supervisor. "Have you heard about Reggie?" she asked. "He died on Sunday. Right after giving his sermon. He just sat down next to his wife and died."
If you're old enough to be at the point in your life when friends and others you've known start dying then you know what I felt. I got quiet and in my head a brief video of Reggie suddenly began playing. Reggie sitting next to me in class - neither of us paying attention. Reggie at the clinic nose to nose with an addict who was trying to BS his way through group (Reggie always confronted BS), Reggie at staff meetings voicing his strong opinions. Gone. At 44.
Today I attended his funeral. I had to park 4 blocks from the church. I had to stand in line for 20 minutes to view the body. There were at least 1000 people there - paying their respects. I learned that Reggie's "lost to me" years were spent reviving an inner city church, helping lost kids find their way, evangelizing to any and all who would give him a second of their time. I learned he was planning to go to Africa next week for more evangelizing. He had gone back to school and gotten another theological degree and was working towards his doctorate. He was living his life at full steam. And his life had had meaning, real honest-to-God meaning. Honoring his life was a true celebration of the incredible young man he was. A man with a purpose, a deep passion and an enviable love of God.
As I clapped my hands to the incredibly awesome gospel music provided by his Church choir I realized that he had found what so many of us seek. He had realized his dream and owned his power. His life humbles me. I am proud to have known him.
Good bye dear Reggie. Sleep well.
I just attended the funeral of an old friend who died at the age of 44. Reggie was a Baptist Missionary minister - the kind you see in movies. Hell, fire, brimstone and passion. I met him in graduate school and we ended up interning at the same clinic. No one could get me more riled up than Reggie and vice versa. It was both a combative and loving friendship. He believed I was doomed to go to hell; I believed he was a nutcase. We were both okay with our views of each other.
During our internship Reggie developed prostate cancer. It was his second time. We (clinic staff and interns)rallied 'round Reggie, supporting him any way we could. He'd often mentioned to us that the men in his family died young. He was willing to accept his fate if it was "God's will" but he wasn't going to roll over and wait for it to happen. He prevailed. He flew through his chemo, cleaned up his eating habits and recommitted himself to Christ and his family. After the internship ended, I lost track of Reggie. We both were members of the same board of directors for an inner city housing organization - but he never came to meetings. Occasionally his name would pop up - but mostly in the "Has anyone heard from Reggie?' vein.
Two days ago I received a call from my former internship supervisor. "Have you heard about Reggie?" she asked. "He died on Sunday. Right after giving his sermon. He just sat down next to his wife and died."
If you're old enough to be at the point in your life when friends and others you've known start dying then you know what I felt. I got quiet and in my head a brief video of Reggie suddenly began playing. Reggie sitting next to me in class - neither of us paying attention. Reggie at the clinic nose to nose with an addict who was trying to BS his way through group (Reggie always confronted BS), Reggie at staff meetings voicing his strong opinions. Gone. At 44.
Today I attended his funeral. I had to park 4 blocks from the church. I had to stand in line for 20 minutes to view the body. There were at least 1000 people there - paying their respects. I learned that Reggie's "lost to me" years were spent reviving an inner city church, helping lost kids find their way, evangelizing to any and all who would give him a second of their time. I learned he was planning to go to Africa next week for more evangelizing. He had gone back to school and gotten another theological degree and was working towards his doctorate. He was living his life at full steam. And his life had had meaning, real honest-to-God meaning. Honoring his life was a true celebration of the incredible young man he was. A man with a purpose, a deep passion and an enviable love of God.
As I clapped my hands to the incredibly awesome gospel music provided by his Church choir I realized that he had found what so many of us seek. He had realized his dream and owned his power. His life humbles me. I am proud to have known him.
Good bye dear Reggie. Sleep well.
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