Motivation??

This is a subject that we have been talking about in my Business class for a couple of weeks now and i wanted to share a few of my thoughts and also to get a few of yours. Motivation to me doing something someone tells you that you cant do. this just makes me work a little harder to reach this point. For me motivation is the key to success, its not about how much money i can make its about my legacy and how people perceive me as a person and the positions that i hold in life, whether its being a good husband, or a good father (someday), maybe its in my job to become a manager, or start my own business. The main point is that the motivation that drives me is because i am scared to death of failure. Some people have a different aspect of failure, mine is this if you try something and work hard at it and take a risk you are not a failure you are a risk taker an entrepreneur as some may call it. so than if you open a business and than it closes because it didn't make any money are you a failure? no you took a risk and it didn't work out that doesn't make you a failure.

Why are you a fan??

Do you have a favorite sports team. Why are they your favorite team and why that sport. are you a fan because of your childhood or because an athlete that you looked up to played on that team. my Favorite team is the browns. i feel like i have become a bigger fan of the Browns since i moved to Raleigh since i don't get the opportunity to watch them as often and i feel like i took my fan hood for granted. i also used to be a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but that was just because my favorite player played on that team Mike Alstott who was the same number as i was. As i get older i feel like i become more of a sports fan and not just football but all sports i find myself watching all kinds of sports? maybe this is gearing me up for fatherhood? who knows. Do you have story about your fan hood and why it is your favorite team or athlete.

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My Bride is sick

My Wife Amanda has Tonsillitis and i feel really bad. there is nothing i can do. i am not sick and probably wont get it. i wish i could take her sickness away and do something with it. she does look really cute when she is sick though. anybody have any suggestions about tonsillitis?

Could they be the best!

I'm Talking about the Boston RedSox. Could they possibly be the Best postseason comeback team ever? it is definitely a possibility. the past two years they have come back from being down 3-1 in the series against the Indians in 2007 and the Rays in 2008 respectively. the Momentum in both of these series did not go for the RedSox in either, except when they had that ridiculous day off in the middle of a home stand between game 4and game 5. The So called much needed day off has been the difference in the series for both years. i don't know why they have this day off but they do and every time after the day off they just find a way to win and keep winning. is it because there experienced going up against inexperience of is it luck from the baseball gods not wanting to see another drought in Boston for another 86 years. i feel like the RedSox are turning into the evil empire spending tons of money and trying to run everybody out of town. There is still one more game to be played tonight so we will see if they are that good are just run out of luck. Go Rays and Phillies World Series!!

There's always next year!!

I have heard this phrase alot living in Cleveland and being a Cleveland sports fan. i have had to deal with high expectations that suddenly turn into a nightmare. cubs fans i know what your a re going through. you have one team that hasn't won a championship in over 100 years. Cleveland on the other hand hasn't won a championship in any sport since 1964. the last title Chicago won was the 2005 world series. so yeah i know that it sucks not to win a title but at least you have hope in your other sports. all Cleveland has is the choke, red right 88, the fumble, the drive, the move, and so many others. the sports gods definitely don't like Cleveland sports.

Its That Time of Year!!!!!

Well as you all know its that time of year again. what is that time of year you ask. well this time of year is October through February which are heavy sports months. i love sports not just football but baseball, and also hockey. this brings me to my next point, playoff baseball where the fun really begins. this year has been 100 years since the lovable losers last won a world series championship. that's right since 1908. People say that there is a curse( The Curse of the Billy Goat ) . I kind of think that there is more to this drought than people expect. i think that it has to do with karma. yeah i know that it sounds crazy but maybe what they need is a name change to something iconic like Wrigley Field Wrigley Field . maybe they should rename it Mars field, after all Wrigley's did get sold to the Mars company. Look at what happened to the American league east champions the "Devil Rays" all they did was drop the "devil" in their name and the so called baseball gods were happy. wait maybe they just play really good baseball. Wrigley Field wasn't even built when the cubbies last won the series. Wrigley was built in 1914 so maybe they need to go play at the old west side park 2 West Side Park (II) .

Two years of Marriage Bliss

If you were to ask me in the summer of 2002 if i would be married and had a house in Raleigh in 2008 i would have told you you were crazy. but the fact of the matter is that this really happened. i Married my high school sweetheart in the fall of 2006 on the 14Th day of October. i still remember it like it was yesterday i woke up went to the gym with Bob Bauer who was in the wedding. the Crazy thing about this day is that i wasn't nervous until people started coming in to sit down at the church. not a cold feet kind of thing i just don't like being in front of 100+ people who will be staring at me for about an hour. since that day my life has been flipped upside down. i will be forever connected to the love of my life Amanda Jane and to all the wonderful people i have met along our journey together.these are the greatest of times and i know that there are gonna be tough times as well but i know that i have love and a bond for my wife that I cannot explain.and anything that we come face to face with in our journey will be a blessing and a lesson. My Wife has been so motivational to me and so inspirational in so many ways. This is just one chapter of my life that will never end. this one chapter will keep going and going and going. Amanda Jane will always and forever be my beautiful bride. someone very close told that every time i look at you i fall in love all over again. and Amanda that is how i feel each and every day.

Cool, Calm and Collected

i woke up this morning with a chill on the back of my neck. we slept with the windows open last night. i love fall because it brings back some many great memories. my anniversary s in the fall only 12 days from today wow two years i can believe it that will have to be another post. it also brings back those chilly Friday nights under the lights were it didn't seem to matter how cold it was because steam was always coming off your head. the leaves are beginning to change( the leaves change much later down here which is a good thing). fall is the time of year were it reminds me of so many different things in life and also so many things that you can do. bonfires is another great one during fall you can have people over huddled up to a bonfire with smores, apple cider and coffee. fall is also great because it gives you and excuse to bundle eith that sweatshirt or a blanket on the couch in front of a fireplace.