Believe it. Do it.

Wow, it's been a day or ten since I posted here last. I have been working very hard and trying to make the world make my oyster. Well, at least my oyster cracker.

In a world full of blogs and webpages and social media, with everyone spilling everything to anyone who will read it, I find myself writing as well.

Why? Because I find it therapeutic. Also because it helps to see things in writing. Makes things easier to grasp when it is in tangible form like the printed word.

Another reason, perhaps the most important, maybe someone will be helped in some way by reading what I write. I have no problem leading by example. Even if it turns out I am the bad example you should not follow. At least someone learned what not to do because of me. If it helps them, so much the better.

One thing I want folks to understand is that I write what I do and I do what I write. Kind of like doing what you say you will do and saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

What I think I really want to get to today is believing.

Believing is very important to doing. If you do not believe something can be done, you will not do it.

If you do not believe some should be or will be done, it will not happen.

It will never even come close.

It all starts with believing. I believe I can make this small, family business work. I believe it is possible to live up to ideals and values and not crash and burn because of them.

I believe that money is not everything and that living a life I value is worth every bit as valuable as any money I bring in.

I believe a good life is not in spending money and accumulating things. I believe that it's about selling yourself and showing people you are worth their investment.


I believe it's not about being popular. It's about doing what is right.

Doing these things is not always easy. Somedays, it's not even easy to believe in them.

When you stop believing, you stop doing. You don't even try. No effort, no investment, no accomplishment.

The best is when somebody believes in you.

There are days I am tired, I am distraught, I am stressed. I am having trouble believing.

It seems like on days like that, when things seem at their lowest and the Creator is using me as his jester to laugh at, not with, someone elses belief carries me through.

Like when, on those days, when I feel like just giving up, one of my kids will do something. They will come out of the blue with it. They will show me they believe in me. Even if it's a simple drawing or a quick poem or telling me a secret or a story. It never fails to remind me that I am not alone.

They show me that they believe in me, even when I am having trouble believing in myself.

Then, I go on and do what I need to do anyway, and things get better.