Greetings Leaders!

I had a great experience this week while volunteering at Breakaway to the Arctic Freeze, Bayside Christian Church’s Summer Extravaganza for kids (3000 kids + 2000 volunteers = two fun weeks!).

Here is a video of part of what Breakaway was all about.

I was the speaker every night for about 150 4th graders. The themes we talked about were:

• Chosen For a Purpose
• Trouble Happens
• Hope
• Love
• The Future

I want to share what I told them about their future. If you are frustrated with your life and feel like your future is bleak… you need to read this…

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Greetings Leaders!

This was what I got in my fortune cookie today at lunch. Enjoy what you have today, and hope for what you want tomorrow. Well I’m not sure if Confucius would agree with all of this. We must certainly enjoy what we have today. However, I think hope is for the helpless. Hope relinquishes control over to something else. Fate, Serendipity, God, the Cosmos, the Force or the alignment of the planets and stars. Hope is what you do with a lottery ticket. Not your life. You better be “working” of what you want tomorrow, instead of hoping for a ship that may never come in, or worse yet, a ship that never set sail.

Enjoy what you have today…

WORK for what you want tomorrow.

All the best!
All the time!
JT