Focus

Focus is the key to everything. I came to an awaking moment today and realized I don't think I've ever been really focused on something. I know I get focused on short term goals, and I get extermly focused under pressure. But as for have a long term goal and really sticking to it and only thinking about that one thing has never happened to me. My issues are pleasing others and not thinking I'm smart enough. I avoid controlling positions and as much as people think I love to cause trouble I truly don't like confrontations. What happens is I get an idea and I want to run with it but I'll let other get me working on other things or I'll let others make me think I'm going down the wrong path. I know I'm headed for something great, and I know I'm going to bring myself there, I just need to learn to trust myself and stay focused on those big items that are going to get me there. From now on, I am my own person and I am heading in the path that is going to lead me there. One thing I've changed in my approach is the voice my opinions even when I think they are simple. Being a consultant I should already know that others are not that smart and even my simplest ideas are still great ones. So I've removed embarrassment and shyness from my emotions. I can recognize them but I know how to overcome them. Here are some of my long term goals I've had forever:
1. be financially free at age 37
2. write a book (or screen play ;-)
3. do stand up comedy
4. be a keynote speaker

There are others but these have been in my mind and even writen down for a long time. I have business goals also but I can't seem to bring those to focus as easily. I know being a owner of a billion dollar company is there, and run that company with as few people as possible. Rewrite the way management and business is run when compared to companies of the past (we on that path already, look at Spheric, Belts & Beyond, and the latest addition to the model Martell Home Builders). All of these are running on the same base model. To over take any industry and be able to apply the same model is mind blowing to me. To take a retail company and make it run the same way as a tech company is amazing. Anyway I guess I do have goals in the business world that are focused, I just get so much more excited about them and I live them every day I don't see them as goals but my life.

Anybody want to let the group know what their goals are? Business, personal, etc. Lets share them and help each other reach theirs. To get a ton of online support check out www.43things.com.

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Science vs. God

I got this from a friend and I had to post it somewhere. It's one of those things that makes you take a moment and think.

> Science vs. God
>
> 'Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ.' The atheist
> professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new
> students to stand.
>
> 'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
>
> 'Yes sir,' the student says.
>
> 'So you believe in God?'
>
> 'Absolutely.'
>
> 'Is God good?'
>
> 'Sure! God's good.'
>
> 'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'
>
> 'Yes.'
>
> 'Are you good or evil?'
>
> 'The Bible says I'm evil.'
>
> The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible!' He considers for a moment.
>
> 'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can
> cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'
>
> 'Yes sir, I would.'
>
> 'So you're good...!'
>
> 'I wouldn't say that.'
>
> 'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could.
> Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'
>
> The student does not answer, so the professor continues. 'He doesn't, does
> he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to
> Jesus to heal him How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?'
>
> The student remains silent.
>
> 'No, you can't, can you?' the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a
> glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
>
> 'Let's start again, young fella Is God good?'
>
> 'Er...yes,' the student says.
>
> 'Is Satan good?'

> The student doesn't hesitate on this one. 'No.'
>
> 'Then where does Satan come from?'
>
> The student : 'From...God...'
>
> 'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in
> this world?'
>
> 'Yes, sir.'
>
> 'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'
>
> 'Yes.'
>
> 'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything,
> then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle
> that our works define who we are, then God is evil.'

> Without allowing the student to answer, the professor continues: 'Is there
> sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they
> exist in this world?'
>
> The student: 'Yes.'
>
> 'So who created them?'
>
> The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question.
> 'Who created them? There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks
> away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized.
>
> 'Tell me,' he continues onto another student. 'Do you believe in Jesus
> Christ, son?'
>
> The student's voice is confident: 'Yes, professor, I do.'
>
> The old man stops pacing. 'Science says you have five senses you use to
> identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'
>
> 'No sir. I've never seen Him'
>
> 'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'
>
> 'No, sir, I have not.'
>
> 'Have you ever actually felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your
> Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for
> that matter?'
>
> 'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
>
> 'Yet you still believe in him?'
>
> 'Yes.'
>
> 'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protoc ol,
> science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?'
>
> 'Nothing,' the student replies. 'I only have my faith.'
>
> 'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem science has
> with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'
>
> The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his
> own. 'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'
>
> 'Yes,' the professor replies. 'There's heat.'
>
> 'And is there such a thing as cold?'
>
> 'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
>
> 'No sir, there isn't.'
>
> The pro fessor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room
> suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.
>
> 'You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited
> heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything
> called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat,
> but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold;
> otherwise we would be able to g o colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every
> body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and
> heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero
> (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we
> use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can
> measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of
> heat, sir, just the absence of it.'
>
> Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding
> like a hammer.
>
> 'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'
>
> 'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation. 'What is night if it isn't
> darkness?'
>
> 'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of
> something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light,
> flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and
> it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the
> word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make
> darkness darker, wouldn't you?'
>
> The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a> good semester. 'So what point are you making, young man?'
>
> 'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start
> with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'
>
> The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. 'Flawed? Can you
> explain how?'
>
> 'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains. 'You
> argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God.
> You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can
> measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and
> magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To
> view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death
> cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just
> the absence of it.'
>
> 'Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
> monkey?'
>
> 'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes,
> of course I do'
>
> 'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'

> The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where
> the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
>
> 'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot
> even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching
> your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'
>
> The class is in uproar. The student rema ins silent until the commotion has
> subsided
>
> 'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me
> give you an example of what I mean.'
>
> The student looks around the room. 'Is there anyone in the class who has
> ever seen the professor's brain?' The class breaks out into laughter.
>
> 'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the
> professor's brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain? No one appears
> to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical,
> stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all
> due respect, sir. So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust
> your lectures, sir?'
>
> Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at t he student, his face
> unreadable.
>
> Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. 'I guess you'll
> have to take them on faith.'
>
> 'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,'
> the student continues. 'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?'
>
> Now uncertain , the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it
> everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in
> the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These
> manifestations are nothing else but evil.'
>
> To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does
> not exist unto itself Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just
> like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe t he absence
> of God.
>
> God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does
> not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when
> there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'
>
> The professor sat down.

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Voice to Text

Man, talk about a punch in the stomach. Not even a year ago I was in the Jeep with Cory and Rick throwing out ideas and this was one that made us stop and think. A phone service where you call up and leave a message, then have that converted to text. The idea was to have a service where I can call up and verbally write my blogs, create emails, text messages, etc. For a more premium service I could have it done by a person instead of a machine. I would also pay to have an address book and maybe store images and signatures on the system. Imagine it being plugged into Outlook or Salesforce.com for finding my contacts. But once I again I was beaten to the punch, not because I never acted on an idea but because my focus is else where (Spheric & Belts).

Read the article here from TechCrunch.

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Buckle Up

I bet you thought this was going to be about belts … gotcha.

I was sitting in the car and it was beeping because of the seat belt not being buckled. Then I had an “aha”, or at least I think it’s a big idea. Why not install something in the seatbelt that doesn’t let you drive unless you’re buckled up. They already have it so you can’t move the car out of park unless you press the peddle and they make the car beep when the belt is not buckled. So why not keep the car in park until you’re buckled up?

Does anybody else think this is one of those simple ideas that could keep people safe and from breaking the law.

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