They wanted to know, “where did I get the time to write
MountainWings?”
 
There are two points that I want you to understand,
 the first one I will explain today.

“The more you do, the more you can do.”
 
There is an old adage that goes,
“If you want something done, give it to a busy person.”
 
By normal logic this would seem backwards.
 
It would appear that if you want to get something done you
 should give it to someone who has plenty of free time on their
 hands, someone whose schedule is open, someone with little
 responsibility and ample room for more.
 
That would be the normal logic.

 The truth is the reverse.
 
If you want something done, give the job to someone who is
already doing a lot. Don’t give it to someone who has a lot of
free time on their hands and is just doing enough to get by.
 
Let me give you some simple examples on a personal level.
 
Who do you find in educational classes that are beyond mandatory
 or college?

Check that crowd, it will usually be those with a lot of
 knowledge already.
 
Go to a gym in July.
 Don’t go at the beginning of the year, you’ll mostly find the
New Year’s resolution crowd that will be long gone in two
 months.
 
Who will you find that exercises the most and the hardest?
 It will usually be those who are already in shape and
 NEED the exercise the least. Those who exercise the most are
 able to exercise even more. Those who are sedentary, get
 softer and softer and are able to do less and less.

 Go to a finance seminar. I’m not talking about a multi-level
 marketing get rich quick seminar but a real honest financial
 seminar on how to handle, invest and make more money. Who will
 you find? Generally you will find those who are already
 handling their money far better than average and have far more
 than average.
 
There is a simple spiritual principle that reads,

“To those that have they shall get more added to them. To those
 that don’t have, even what they seem to have will be taken away
 from them.” Jesus said that, not me.

 I didn’t say it but I understand it.
 
I majored in chemistry.
 
It’s called Markonikov’s law in Chemistry.
 
The law is about hydrogen atoms and the carbon molecules that
 the unattached hydrogen atoms move to. Markonikov’s law states,
 ”them that has gits.” The free hydrogen atoms go to the carbons
 that already have the most hydrogen atoms.
 
The world puts it this way, “the rich get richer and the poor
 get poorer.” It’s always been and will always be that way
 whether you like it or not.
 
You may not think it’s fair but it’s the way it is and will be.
 
The thing is, it doesn’t apply just to money.
 It applies to anything.
 
Those who have an abundance of it already have a much greater
 probability of getting more than someone who doesn’t have any.
 
Anything
 
You name it: love, money, sex, health, peace, confidence,
spiritual enlightenment, etc., it applies. Anything
 
That also holds true for the negative things.
 Those who are rich in negative things get even more negative
 things.
 
So why am I harping on that?
 
To simply tell you this. . . GET BUSY!!!
 
When you start doing more, more things will come to you.
 If you only do what the average does, you will get what the
 average gets. That makes sense doesn’t it?

 SO GET BUSY!!!

Make sure to have a great Christmas and take some time to wind down and enjoy the holidays.

I’m sure that most shoppers provide their address, and I don’t have a problem with companies gathering marketing information, it can be beneficial to everyone if the marketing is targeted well (and a recent visitor is well targeted), I would just like to see it gathered differently. Hand me an address form and ask me to fill it out and drop it in the mail for the chance to win a $500 gift card, or whatever. Just give me something in return to fulfill my human need for instant gratification.

I looked and looked to make sure the bag wasn’t strategically taped to the underside of a panel and to make sure it hadn’t fell under something. It wasn’t anywhere to be found. The person that put the box of parts together had left out the most important piece. The box was sealed in plastic when I bought it so I know it wasn’t removed in the store either.

My Sunday plans were wasted and now the two weekends I had free to clean out my garage are also behind. I’m not furious or even all that mad, but I am disappointed with Rubbermaid and the person they trusted to do his job correctly. Now I’m going to have to spend time on the phone with Rubbermaid (and please let it be someone that speaks English and has a little common sense) using up their paid resources and my limited time to try to figure out what is missing, and then have them mail it to me (again at their expense cutting into Rubbermaid’s profits).

You and I both know what probably happened. An underpaid assembly worker didn’t feel like walking across the warehouse to get more screw bags, or either just didn’t care enough to even drop a bag in the box. He probably even knew that the bag was missing, but it wouldn’t be his problem once the error was discovered so he didn’t care. How many other boxes left the warehouse that day without the needed parts? How many will be returned to Rubbermaid from Home Depot cutting deeper into Rubbermaid’s profits? How much would it have cost to ensure that the guy packing the box did his job correctly the first time? Was he really underpaid or just careless? Either way it’s going to cost money, and this isn’t the time to be wasting money.

Is it possible for a giant corporation to really be “good” and to produce more good in the world than they take away? I think so, but most of us are damaged from all the bad that we’ve seen from the giants too. Yet I’m by no means a hater of corporations. In fact, I believe that corporations are a large part of what has made America great. I was always a believer in the “Captains of Industry” idea more than the “Robber Baron” concept, but I do think that corporations of today should do more. In that same breath I can say that many are trying. Just because someone is a CEO doesn’t mean that he’s not also an environmentalist – or at the least someone that wants to leave a better world for his kids.

Well there’s your Friday ramble. I’ll talk to you again next week after Congress takes credit for saving the world and blames all that went wrong on someone else.

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DACULA – As the famous twang of Hank Williams Jr. blasted from an SUV stereo Friday afternoon, about 30 folks socialized, sipped soda and puffed on cigarettes.No, this wasn’t a Fourth of July backyard barbecue. It was the run-up to a wedding.In a Waffle House parking lot.