Sometimes There’s Just Not Enough Rocks

“Sometimes there’s just not enough rocks.”

These words were spoken by Tom Hanks in the movie Forest Gump. If you remember the scene when Jenny comes home yet another time and she and Forest are walking along when they come across the house where she grew up. In the scene she runs toward the house and throws her shoes followed by a series of rocks until she collapes on the ground in tears. At this point Forest says the words that say it all.

Sometime there are things that happen to friends and loved ones that we don’t think are fair. The question “Why do bad things happen to good people?” has been one I hear over and over. “If there IS a God why would He let this happen?” There IS and I don’t know are the answers to those questions.

Recently in my small rural midwest town, a young man in his prime lost a battle with melenoma and passed way too young leaving a young wife and two young children. Why! I don’t have the answer to that question.

I have a neighbor at the age of 14 who is fighting her own battle with cancer. We pray every day that the progress in the battle is positive and not negative.

People in our world have heart problems, cancers, diseases of every kind even though we seem to be more health concious then ever before. What’s wrong? Why can one person seemingly get by with abusing their body and the next person who does all the right things have all the problems?

The God of all heavens and earth created us and gave us guidelines to live by and good food to eat. Mankind over the years has processed foods, added chemicals to make it last for eternity, put it in metal cans, and basicly taken the life out of it.

We have fitness gurus who have made livelyhoods on leading people to a better life, we have television shows focused on loosing weight, everyone, it seems, has a special diet that can help you loose hundreds of pounds in a week. I found the perfect way to loose weight…burn more calories than you take in. Simple? Harder than one would think.

A few years back I got into network marketing thinking that with a minimal effort I could get maximum cash, and I thought that if I called a few people they would fall at my feet and beg me to buy my product. Sounds great, right? It didn’t take me long to realize that people did not want to talk to me. They asumed that I was just another telemarketer calling them at the most in-opportune time. It didn’t matter how good the product was.

With the constant rejection, I got to the point where there was just “not enough rocks”.

Someone has said that “Failure is just another opportunity to try again, only this time more wisely”. It’s said of Edison that his response to a coment on the number of failures in inventing the light bulb, was he had just found a number of ways it would not work.

I’m thinking that a positive attitude and some hard work, and some good folks that are willing to check out a fabulous product line, and some folks who are looking for a way to make a little or a lot on the side to help in these economic times. Maybe your just looking for a way to help someone else. Together maybe we can stop the rock throwing.

“And that’s all I got to say about that” (Forest Gump)

Have an awesome day!!

Al
A & J Marketing
www.drink-mangosteen.com

Boney Fingers!

An old country song has said “Work your fingers to the bone…what do you get? Boney Fingers”.

The story of my life could be found in the words of that song. Having worked in the building supply field for thirty(30) plus years, a philosiphy I have come to follow is “if you don’t use your head you have to use your back”. I have shared this with my kids since they were little and hopefully they have found some wisdom in those words. As I get older I have revamped this statement a bit like this:”If you don’t use your head you have to use your feet”.

Let me introduce myself. For just over half a century I have breathed the fresh northern mid-west air. (This time of year it is really fresh) I married Jo and together we managed to raise (3)three children. Once again the nest is empty and we’re getting to enjoy the time we have to spend with each other.

I was first introduced to the world of Home Based Business a few years back by a friend and I must say the idea of running your very own business appealed to me. I started listening to cds and reading articles, hearing the testimonials and reading the books of those who have succeeded and have all the answers to lead you on your way, and in a way I developed a  false sense of security that this could be that key to the vault that would just hand over all the riches within.

I soon became aware that there ‘IS NO FREE LUNCH’. Words recorded in the Bible state that “if a man does not work he should not eat”, and these words are so true. If one breaks down the word “Business” you get the words ‘Busy’ and ‘Ness’ or ‘the act of being busy’. However , being busy is not always benefitial. Busy-ness without direction is simply running in circles.

A couple of years back I found a desk plaque that read:”If you can dream it–you can do it”, I bought it and still have it on the corner of my desk, but just the other day I run across a quote by Bill Blackman that said,”To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but also act”. How true!

So, as I see it, we have some options to think about, we can work the 40+ hour per week job for someone else and make them a lot of profit,(j-o-b = just-over-broke) or work the system and let someone else pay the bills or pursue that dream with action. Take the bull by the horns as it were, and use your head and not your back.

Thank you for your time.
Al!