"On the GO"

By Scott V. Black

Hello Empower U Leadership Team… What a great YEAR To be Alive!!!

I trust that you are putting in place the pattern for a great 2008. For me personally, and for Empower U, we are laying the pattern for a historical 2008. Thank you for taking time out of your busy life to improve who you are and what you do. I do enjoy this time of reflection, education and realization.

Today I want to revisit the “Go Button.” I have been thinking a lot about this “Go Button” idea. I have written articles, I have done trainings, I have given speeches… all talking about the GO button. Follow along if you will. I just got back from a great training/speaking trip that included 5 trainings or speeches over a span of 15 days in 4 cities, and 2 countries! And through all that, I was talking about the GO Button.

The Odyssey...

This is how great my 2008 has been! Follow along if you will…  Starting on Jan 3-5, I got the chance to be with a great team in Sacramento. 16 individuals became Team 515 and are taking their lives to a whole new level. Five days later I turned around in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and helped 23 individuals become Team 517. With almost 40 people in ten days I GOT the opportunity to share in their lives and their missions.

That was a nice beginning to this incredibly successful, deeply introspective journey to launch 2008. After 1 day off to reflect on God’s greatness, I GOT to get back on an airplane for a 4 day, two event trip. I flew to Montreal, Canada and spent the night and day with a great team from Johnson and Johnson. We had some fun and we spent some time talking about the GO Button. I then had the chance to fly to Orlando and do a couple of keynote speeches for the AGM—Association of Golf Marketers. They were doing an event tied in with the PGA and I had the opportunity to inspire a few hundred people… and we too talked about the GO Button. It seems this button is on my mind a lot these days.

Two reasons for this mental occupation are quite clear to me. First, this GO button is somehow connected to Motivation. Motivation is the reason why people do things…

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By Mike Cino, Team 515

More than anything I just wanted to thank you again for showing me what I had in myself and how to apply it every single day of my life. I will lean on my support team to better my growth and I will be there for them, helping and guiding them through this journey they have also chosen.

I will finish typing and posting my Mission Statement this morning. It will be placed wherever I am, it may even become my background on my laptop screen (being that I spend so much time staring at it). As I said, a quick note!

I am 100% committed to myself, my family, my friends, my job and my life and everything I do, from Saturday January 5th, 2008 until they put me in that box! I will make a difference. There is an I in TEAM. Do I have a long road ahead of me? I hope so, because I will embrace it, every step of the way, I have just started.

Someone once said, "You are who you hang out with". What better people to hang out with, then the people that have the same goals as you do, and the people who have sent me across your path. I have thanked Tom and Maria Balbierz several times on the way home and since we have been home. They are, great friends. What better way to thank them then to share this journey with them.

I cannot thank you enough.

From the bottom of my heart, God Bless you and your children and the process you have brought forward.

We all get those emails that were forwarded to our mail box. Some say to pass along or you'll have bad luck for 7 yrs. Others are jokes, some raunchy some clean, some religious or political.

Generally I hit the delete button prior to even reading the content but recently I received one that was originated by Xerox. They had set up a system which allowed us to view different cards created by children. They displayed their art work of American flags, solders, the Statue of Liberty and so on.

I was able to pick a card and send my very own special message in it. I wouldn't know directly who it was going to but it would be someone in the armed forces fighting for our country over seas. I was able to thank this soldier for fighting for our freedom, my freedom. I don't always agree with our country being at war but I do think it's nice for total strangers to fight for me and my safety.

The war has been going on for years and I have never thought about thanking any soldier for the sacrifice he or his other troops are giving us. As I started to write, I became very emotional which struck me as weird for I had never met the person I was writing to.

After hitting send I felt very good about this, It was such a simple act for me. I realized how nice it will make a soldier feel when he receives mail and opens up a card that has been colored by a child with a message of THANK YOU in it. Perhaps he could be having a horrible day and feel like he has lost all hope and start to question his position over there, but maybe my card of thanks will recharge his batteries and get him through the day.

As I mentioned earlier, I usually hit delete when I receive fwd. emails and if I do read them, I rarely pass them on. I tend to have the notion that I shouldn't overload my friends emails with silly forwards, especially if I haven't even taken the time to send them a personal email from me. I had to pass this on, I took out the word FWD. on the subject line and I re-titled it, "It's OKAY to say THANKS".

I haven't heard back from anyone that I forwarded that to but hopefully at least one person took the time to read it and create a card. After all no matter what your stance is on the war the guys that are fighting it are people too, they have loved ones at home praying for their well being everyday. It was such a simple task for me to do and yet I felt soooooo great about it. Almost too good, I guess that's what it means by Givers Gain.

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