The award
The other night I received an award from Volunteer Broward. Broward is the County that Ft. Lauderdale, Florida is in. Those folks in Hollywood, Florida don’t like it when I refer to Ft. Lauderdale as the heart of Broward County, well back to the award.
When I was told that I would receive this award I started to think about what I would say. A Child Is Missing is the organization that nominated me so I felt I should give them some time in my talk.
I’ll give you brief idea of what I would say about A Child Is Missing. A Child Is Missing is the conduit between law enforcement and the public. Law enforcement calls A Child Is Missing with a description of the child or older person and the last known place they were seen. Then A Child Is Missing through modern technology can get all the phone number in the area where the person was last seen. Then they can make one thousand calls per minute with the description and number to call if someone spots the missing person, which is normally a youngster.
With that done I wanted to thank all the volunteers for helping make this world a better place.
Because I am an author and have a book out called “Happiness in Eight Steps” I would tell everyone my happiness moment. That was the day Micki and I got married. Our journey has taken us over forty five years and we are still looking forward to the journey that remains ahead. It takes many things to have such a wonderful journey, but one thing that is at the top of the list is humor.
Here is an example of what keeps me laughing. When we were first married I asked Micki why she married me and she said “Because you asked me”. And that’s the way it is.
Now for the kicker, there were sixty five others that received awards for Volunteer Broward. Thus no one could make any remarks, but because I had put so much thought into what I was going to say I just had to share it with you
Happiness with Wealth to you
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Procrastination
Procrastination is bad, real bad. I know because when I was a kid the only thing I could do right was procrastinate. For example, since my mother loved music and liked playing the piano even more, guess what I needed take piano lessons. I like music and even liked the piano but I didn’t like to practice. You know a kid has to play and that is what I did all week. Then the day of my music lesson I would be terrified because I had not practiced my lesson and I knew my teacher would be upset with me. I must say she sure had a lot of patience with me, because week after week I wasn’t performing well at all, but she kept coming.
Do you want pressure? This was pressure. My teacher always had a piano recital and to top it off you had to memorize the music you were to play. Well the big night came and I was the third person to play. I peeked out through the curtains and saw that it very dark and the only light was on the stage. Ms. whatever her name was gave me instruction on how to go to the piano. I thought she told me to walk around the piano and that is what I did. To this day I am sure that is what she said. Well, there I went walking on stage and going all the way around the piano. My mother about died.
I got to the piano stool and sat down. Looking at the key board my mind went blank. Since I didn’t practice much I really didn’t know the song I was to play all the way through. For some reason I knew the first part pretty well but the last part I didn’t know at all, so I did what any red blooded American boy would do. I kept playing the first part of the song over and over. When I felt it was time to stop I did and got up and bowed, because that is what Ms. what’s her name told me to do.
It was over for another year and I was very relieved. Yes my mother had me continue taking lessons and old what’s her name was kept coming to our house for my weekly lesson. Of all the things I have done in life, piano lessons were the most pressure I have ever experienced.
I could give other horror stories but they would be too painful for me. So let’s just say don’t procrastinate. All the pain I put myself through would have been relieved with just a little practice
Happiness with Wealth to you
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