I keep thinking of the song "night moves" by Bob Seger. "little too tall, could lose a few pounds." Bob is right, most of us could lose a few punds. I have been a member of the sargents program here in the D.C. area for just over a year now. If you want to know more about it check it out at sarge.com. If I recall correctly, the program is somewhere between 15 and 20 years old. It usually meets in a park (there are groups spread all over the area, but mostly in D.C. and Maryland). About 5 years ago I was challenged to run the Marine Corp Marathon in D.C. I never run any significant distance in my life. I remember the day i was told we would run three miles in training and i said "What..k 3 miles...I cant do that."My instructor said "Oh yes you can." i did it and from there, I have done alot of things I thought I couldnt do. I was 44 years old. remembering a quote from Henry Ford from, I thin, the 1938 book by Napoleon Hill "Think and Grow Rich", I now realize that "if its up to be, then its up to me (not the Henry Ford Quote BTW). The henry Ford quote was (and maybe I am paraphrasing " You can do it or you can't do it"...both are correct. After nearly two thirds of my life has passed, I realize that America did not become a great country by just getting by. I think I realized this previously as my father told me when he worked for NASA in FL in the late 50s through 1986, he said.."we thought Kennedy was crazy when he said we would go to the moon by the end of the decade and return safely (again a paraphrase)." We can do whatever we want to do. That is Gods gift to us as humans, It has nothing to do with where you live or who you are. It has nothing to do with where you came from. Tim McGraw (and I mean no offense) was the bastard child of Tug McGraw and grew up in near poverty to be a superstar.
I am doing the Jolly Fat Mans run on the Capital Crescent Trail December 12th for charity. i have run the trail many times. I bet I have run 1000 miles on that trail over the years. The point is that despite the intense competition for listings and business, if you do it right you will succeed. Hang in there, think beyond what everyone else is doing and use your God given talent to succeed.
Tom Robinson, Keller Williams Realty, www.tomrobinsonteam.com
