Making everyone happy and a few more bucks

Saturday, May 17.  Hi all!  How are you?  I'm great but tired and will make this a short entry.  Today was my last day of teaching for almost two weeks, so my new thing for the day was created by my upcoming absence.

I taught eight hour long lessons in a row for the first time on a weekend.  I've done it before on a weekday, but never on Saturday or Sunday.  Usually, I like to work until two or three o'clock on the weekends so that I can enjoy some of the weekend myself!  But today so many people wanted lessons before I left that I went all day.  It was fun, but tiring.  I'm gonna go now because I have to get some rest and get ready for my trip!  For those of you in Thailand, I'll be there soon.  For those of you here, I'll see you in about two weeks!  Later!

A full time columnist?

Friday, May 16.  Hi everyone.  Today was my day off from golf, so I got some things done, relaxed, and just took it easy.  Made hamburgers on the grill for dinner and cut my hair and watched "Mad Money."  Pretty good movie.

My new thing for the day was to find out that Terry, the editor at the Chelsea News, loved my first article and, after all of the high school sports are done for the year, would let me write an article once a week if I want to!  And yes, I want to!  How fantastic, huh?  I'm very excited about that as writing is one of the goals I set for myself back in February.  And it's happening!

So now I begin to prepare for my second Thailand trip.  I work all day tomorrow and leave on Sunday.  Hopefully, I get a chance to take further steps on another goal, and that is Gabaan, and the hat company.  Little by little, day by day, things keep happening.  I am thankful and I am happy.  Thanks for all the love and support.  I feel it around me everyday, and I send it out to you all everyday.  Let's all keep moving forward!

A formal complaint

Thursday, May 15.  Hi all.  Today I'm writing in the afternoon because my new experience happened earlier and is quite honestly very funny.  So because I have a few minutes now, I thought that I would write about it.

Today at work, Casey, the general manager of the pro shop, called me in and asked me that from now on, if I could, please go to the bathroom at home because they've been getting a lot of complaints about how smelly it is after I use it.  He had me going for a minute, but then started laughing.  It turns out that Joe, another co-worker, went into the bathroom right after I did and complained about it to Casey.  It was all in good fun, made me laugh, and makes for a first.  I've never been scolded about my bathroom habits before by the manager!  Haha.

I hope you are all having a good day or night, and I'll talk to you again tomorrow!  Later.

Revisiting an opportunity

Wednesday, May 14.  Hey all.  How are you?  I hope well.  I'm doing great!  Still!  It's pretty awesome, huh?  Anyway, today's new experience was reopening the real estate deal that we were looking at earlier in the spring.  Chad has found a colleague that might want to partner with us in purchasing the share of the building in downtown Ann Arbor.

We'll see what happens with it all, but it is exciting, and although David, the guy selling his share of the building was cautious at best in his response to me, I at least found out that he still hasn't sold his share and that he's open to revisiting the idea.  So hopefully, by mid-June, which is when Chad and Derrick can visit the property, David will not have sold it yet and we can get something done.  Real estate is part of my grand plan and I will not give up on it!  It will happen, just don't know when or how, but it will happen!  I'm just thankful of the opportunity to revisit a pretty good property.  We've got to get a start somehow somewhere, and maybe this is it.

I hope you all have a good day or night, and we'll talk again tomorrow.  See ya!

iChat

Tuesday, May 13.  Hi all!  Still doing great here, hope you all are too!  I had a busy golf day today.  Gave 8 hour lessons today.  I was present with all of them and had lots of energy for everyone.  It was tiring and physical but was great nonetheless.  I really enjoy the interactions with people, both old students and new.  I taught two new students today, six old students.  Other than that, didn't do too much other than eat a nice dinner Paula made for me.  Grilled chicken thighs and french bread with pesto, fresh tomato, and fresh mozzarella.

My new experience of the day was to use iChat for the first time.  Chad let me borrow his iSight camera to hook up to my computer (it's so old that it has no built in camera!), and I set it up and had a chat with Paula.  It'll let me communicate while I'm out of town for free and I'll end up saving a lot of money by not using the phone!  It was also pretty cool and just fun, you know?

Hope everyone is well!  Have a great day or night, and I'll see you again tomorrow! 

A new club

Monday, May 12.  Hey all!  How are you?  I hope well, I'm doing great and had a fantastic day.  I delivered meals again, had lunch with Paula, and then went to have dinner and to some shopping at Somerset Mall with Mom, Dad, Julie, Chad, Kirin, and Coco.  It was a day late Mother's Day dinner.  Fun.

The new experience of the day was joining another health club, the Washtenaw Community College Health Club.  It's actually cheaper than Gold's Gym was, and way nicer.  Has a heated pool and sauna and whirlpool and free classes and also a track.  It's awesome.  Both Paula and I joined and we're trying to commit to going a couple of times a week.  I know I felt great when I was training for the race earlier this spring, so getting back to working out will be good.  I'm working on it all, everyone!  Inner me, outer me, career, interests, relationships, charity.  I feel great about it and am still flying high!

I hope you all have a great day or night, and I'll talk to you again tomorrow!  Bye!

Debt and Outback

Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11.  Hi everyone!  I hope you are all doing well.  I am doing great.  The last two days have been busy and fun.  Lots of lessons and the usual stuff.  I've never felt like days didn't quite have enough hours in them like I do now.  I do enjoy being busy, but keep trying to do one thing at a time and paying full attention to each thing.

On Saturday, my new experience of the year was to ask one of my students, Glen (who gave me Tigers tickets and and iPhone cover!), if I could go watch him at his company to see what he does and how he does it.  I even offered to trade golf lessons for it.  See, Glen is VERY rich, and what he does is buy credit card and auto debt from large companies for pennies on the dollar, and then renegotiates the debt with the person who owes money to him now.  Brilliant.  I love the simplicity of the brilliance, and I want to see how much I can learn from Glen.  I'm excited about it and will take him up on it when I get back from Thailand.

Today, my new thing was to be at Outback Steakhouse for 4 HOURS!!!!  Yes four.  You see, they don't take reservations, and today was mother's day, so it was very busy.  So Paula and I went in and waited starting at 5pm while the others in our party came later or went to do other things.  It was almost 7pm by the time we were seated and just before 9pm when we were done.  It was fine and we made the most of our time waiting, but it is way too long to be in any restaurant like Outback Steakhouse.  In the end, it was a fun night and we had a great meal and a good time.

Time to go watch my shows and relax a little bit!  I hope you all have a great day or night, and I'll talk to you all tomorrow.  See ya!

Delivering a new route

Friday, May 9.  Hi everyone.  I hope everyone is doing well and happy and healthy.  I had a good day today, yet again.  I did some shopping, some cleaning, some errands, and of course did all the little spiritual rituals that have helped me keep on a good course in my life.  No golf today, it was my day off, so I had a chance to spend a day on my own doing what I wanted!

In the morning, I had a chance to deliver meals ( I haven't in a while because I've been so busy) at a place I hadn't delivered to before.  It was the courthouse apartments, right in downtown.  It was a pretty easy route because I don't have to drive from house to house, just go from floor to floor in one easy sweep.  But I liked meeting a whole bunch of new people.  Some elderly, some sick, some unable to leave their apartments for health reasons.  All were very nice to me, and some noted that they had never seen me before.  I try to ask if I can do anything extra for each of them and no one took me up on it, but at least I felt good in asking.  Everyone is very appreciative of the job we do in getting them food.  It gives you perspective when you realize that some of these folks really have a difficult time getting out of their homes or apartments.  We are all very lucky to have our health.  It helps me not take things for granted.

On other notes, Gabaan is progressing nicely.  Rick is almost done with the autocad renderings, which I will send to the mold maker in Thailand before I go.  Korn is looking and finding fabric samples and producers so that the very least I can do on my trip is choose the fabric for the outside of the fedoras and the fabric for the lining.  Ideally, the mold makers can have something for me to look at before I leave, and I can give them the go ahead to begin production.  That would be exciting, but I'm being patient.  The rest of the work I need to do before I leave is develop a logo and company lettering for the labels and to help develop my brand.  After I come back, I need to think about distribution.  This is a big one as I need to figure out how to get my great product out to the world!

That's it for now friends.  I hope you have a great day or evening, and we will talk again tomorrow, as usual.  Later guys!

IHOP

Thursday, May 8.  Hey all!  How are you?  I hope doing well and enjoying life.  I had a great day today, full of positive energy and calm.  I am happy!  I feel as good as I ever have before.  Lots of things happening, lots of personal growth, lots of just letting life be.

Anyway, today's new thing was to have breakfast for dinner at the new IHOP near the Meijer's here.  For those of you not in Michigan, IHOP is the International House of Pancakes, and they specialize in breakfast even though they serve everything.  Meijer's is Michigan's 24 hour get everything superstore.  

I enjoyed a nice breakfast/dinner of pancakes, two eggs, and sausage.  Also some decaf coffee with some half and half.  Read the paper and just had a nice dinner all by myself out.  It was yummy and relaxing.  I'll have to do it again some day.

Now, a shower, some TV, some work on Gabaan's logo and company lettering, and I'll call it a day.  Not bad at all, not bad.  In fact, quite a good day!  See you all tomorrow.  Have a great one!

A new club and a meeting

Tuesday, May 6 and Wednesday, May 7.  Hi all!  Hope everyone is doing well.  I'm doing very well.  Busy with golf, getting ready for Thailand and still doing some of the real estate stuff.  All that and still managing to do some small new things each day.  How about that!

On Tuesday, my new experience was to hit a new golf club I got for the first time.  It was a nice day, about 75 degrees, and I hit it about 15 times off of the grass outside.  It felt great to hit shots outside, and the club is exactly what I hoped it would be.  It is a Ping 4 wood, and goes far and goes high.  I used to have a 3 wood and a 5 wood, but they didn't really create very different shots for me.  Now I have a club that's in between that goes relatively far, but definitely higher than my 3 wood did.  Perfect!

Today, my new thing was to have an informal coffee meeting with a professor at the business school at U of M.  His name is Tim, and I met him through giving him golf lessons.  He's a really nice guy and we met at Starbucks for coffee.  We talked for about an hour about my start up business, and he's naturally interested because he runs the entrepreneurial part of the business program.  He had lots of nice advice for me and confirmed that I was heading in the right direction with things.  It was also nice to connect with someone of similar mind and mentality.  He is a natural capitalist and entrepreneur, as I think that I am discovering about myself.

So there it is, two days worth of entries and I'm caught up.  I wish you all well and hope that you're having a great day or night!  Until tomorrow, friends.  I am grateful for all of the love and support I feel from all of you!  Bye for now!