I pulled into my driveway not long ago from dropping my kids off at school and I spotted a big black crow eating French fries that had been dropped there the day before.  Knowing what I know about crows, my immediate thought was, where is the mate?  Seconds later the second one showed up on queue and started helping out. I learned years ago that crows are monogamous and stay paired for life. Apparently they’re not aware of any other options but to stay together and work through they’re problems and differences.

The most recent American statistic on divorce is one out of every two marriages and increasing fast.  I’ve observed over the years that we tend to be willing to spend so much time and money on the wedding, but so little time and money on maintaining the marriage.  Who would’ve thought that crow’s could give good marriage advice?  Maybe we can learn a bit from their “never-say-die” or “never-say-divorce” commitment and way of life in terms of marriage.

I challenge you to leverage your stubbornness and use it to stay in that marriage.  Stick around and invest your time and money in an attempt to work it out.  Can we do it is an easy question to answer “Yes” to, but Will we do it is much more difficult to answer with a “Yes”.  No need to answer out loud or raise your hand, just hear and understand and make your plan if you can.

Marriage advice from a couple of crow’s.  Hmmmm.

Let’s continue to Make it Great.

Driving under the influence can get you a ticket to jail, but living under the influence can get you a ticket to living a great life.  Living under the influence of what, you may ask.  Well, it’s living under the positive influences of those that are around you daily.

To whom are you listening to and with whom are you associating with daily?  Are you choosing to invest most of your time with those who or positive, encouraging, uplifting and supportive, or have you become comfortable in the company of those who are discouraging, disgruntled, argumentative and pessimistic?  Your honest answer to this question will dictate whether or not you end up living a life fraught with stress, strain and heartache or a life of joy, happiness and fulfillment.

I invite you today to seriously consider being caught living under the “positive” influence in this life.  It’s never too late to start making it GREAT! 

GREAT WEEKEND !!!

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My observation of my group-home boys has afforded me the ability to witness first-hand the power of Association.  Each one of the boys entered the group-home system at no fault of their own and before entry each one of them could’ve been defined as “decent” kids.  But after entering the system they were exposed to the consistent, negative behaviors of the group and overtime they too have slowly assimilated and adopted the same negative behaviors.

This comes as no surprise to me because the Law of Association is an enormously powerful law that affects all of us.  The good news is that this law can also be leveraged for “Positive behavior” too.  A boy that grows up in the absence of an adult, positive male role-model in his life will have a dramatically increased chance of becoming the common denominator of his surrounding environment, good or bad.  But a boy who has that consistent male figure around to model the positive behavior will have a dramatically increased chance of growing up with some positive behaviors to withdraw from his mental memory bank as he gets older.
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