You Sleep When You Die

From the time I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, I understood what winning was all about. Whether I was playing football in the street with friends or an organized game of football on a field, there was always a winning team and a losing team. When we played in tournaments, I understood that only the winning team deserved a trophy at the end of the tournament. It didn’t matter whether you were in second place, third place or fourth place. There really is no second place in life: you either win, or you lose.

Someone once said,

“People will forget what you say; people will forget what you do; but people will NEVER forget how you made them feel.”

I recently read this quote, and it really hit home for me…

We don’t get up enough to face the everyday challenges of the career we’ve chosen for ourselves. I see it all the time. And I always say, if you can’t get up, GET OUT!!

Get out and find a career that is more stimulating and motivating for you…one that will help you reach your desired goals. However if – and that’s a big ‘IF’ – the job you’re already in happens to be the right job, and you are just one of those lazy people waiting to win the lottery or waiting for somebody to drop a million bucks into your lap, WAKE UP! It’s not going to happen!!

Have we all had frustrating days at work? Of course. Have we maybe even fantasized about quitting in dramatic fashion? Probably. Have we actually had the guts to do it? Probably not.

Well, unless that is, you’re soon-to-be former JetBlue flight attendant Steve Slater. Slater has quickly become a nationwide sensation and is being hailed by many as a hero. Message boards and fan pages in support of Slater have sprung up all over the Internet since “the incident” on Monday. There are even groups that are fundraising for Slater’s legal defense.

Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul won last week’s primary in Kentucky with about 60 percent of the vote. A Libertarian running on the Republican ticket, Paul has recently come under fire for his stance on civil rights…

I applaud Rand Paul. Do I agree with everything he says (in particular the above)? Not by a long shot. But I applaud anyone that has the guts to take a controversial position and stand by it.