![]() My mother told me that we couldn’t afford a bicycle or new clothes, so I had to wear my brother’s hand-me-down clothes and I worked at a sawmill one summer to buy my own used bicycle, and I didn’t look as hip as the other kids or have the same cool toys, but that was just my reality. I was always looking on the bright side of every situation and making the most of it. Forget travel - we didn’t even have the money to go to Vienna, which was 200 kilometers (124 miles) away.ĭespite all of that, I never felt poor. ![]() My brother and I got water from the well near our house every day for our family, I milked the cows next door for milk, and during the really bad times, my mother went from farm to farm begging for a stick of butter here and some cornmeal for polenta there. We had no running water, our toilet was an outhouse inside the house, we didn’t have a telephone - let alone a television, and eating any type of meat was a real luxury. When I was growing up, I was the opposite of wealthy. ![]() This month, I want to talk to you about being grateful for what we have and going after your goals. Furthermore, I have also been convinced of the value of giving back, and that the potential ability to for me to offer Tim, or any other seemingly unreachable role model, something of value, is a special opportunity.How is everyone doing? It has been way too long since we last talked, but I hope you’ve been charging forward to the end of the year and not waiting to set your goals until the new year begins! Last email, we talked about everything from celebrating victories, shoveling shit, MMA fighting, and aging! After listening to many inspiring entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, etc., I have been thoroughly encouraged to reach out to those who motivate me and act as virtual mentors, so whatever trepidation or perceived foolishness I may have ascribed to this endeavor in the past has now dissolved. (got Rolf Pott’s book here thanks to Tim as well) While the Shwarzenegger painting has been popular among peers, it remains available and I would prefer to have in a home where somebody appreciates it rather than storing it while I travel. I have had great fortune in selling paintings recently, which are enabling, in part, my upcoming vagabonding around the world. That is presuming he will see this, which I hope he does, but I am unsure of such odds. I want to gift the painting to Tim, only if he would like it of course. This is from a film still from the movie Pumping Iron, of course. I have a painting I made of Shwarzenegger, wherein he is getting a lightshow (presumably at a rave but perhaps in the privacy of his own home, or maybe even in the gym with all the lights off) wearing his “Arnold is Numero Uno” shirt while smoking a doobie. ![]() I just listened to the episode with Arnold Shwarzenegger and an idea occurred to me.
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