Do you know where you're going to....

Often times our lives take a turn that can draw us away from what we perceive to be the path we are supposed to be taking...This is but a window in time from which, our higher power knows we must learn a life lesson. By not allowing this "turn" in events, to over take our ability to keep our priorities in check, we not only allow for the window in time, (the turn of events) to teach us something new, we also allow ourselves much needed room for growth.

Growth in any business is the essence of our livelihood. Without it we would simply stagnate. Sort of like running on a treadmill. You run, but go no where rather quickly! knowing where you are going at all times is so very important to Internet Marketing. We must keep our sights on the goal, regardless of life lessons along the way. Taking time to learn the lesson, and then learning how to apply that lesson with where you are at that moment, will only heighten and beautify what you are trying to succeed in doing.

To summarize... As Internet marketers, we have a goal base in mind at all times. What that means to you and I, may vary somewhat, but the end results are very similar. Set your sights, your goals, and wait for the turn in events to happen. Understand that a turn in events can be so simple as to get "stuck" in an area that would normally only take a few seconds to rectify, and ultimately takes an hour or more. Leading you off into this direction, or that direction. This is where the learning comes into focus. I cannot tell you how many times I have been in this very situation, only to realize later, that the fork in the road I took to rectify a problem, became a solution to yet another problem I have stumbled upon. Take time to be still, and listen. Open your mind to the possibility of learning, then applying. You won't be sorry. You will gain knowledge and understanding.

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Ask Lana Benton

Helping one another gives such a wonderful feeling of hope...hope in knowing that one is needed. Even in the smallest of ways. Helping a friend in need, a stranger who is having trouble with a particular project, or lending a hand to an elder at the super market who is loading groceries into their car, while parked in the handicap space. All of these and more give me a feeling of hope. Hope that in the future there may be someone willing to lend me a hand when I need it. Paying forward is such a lovely phrase.

Doing it is altogether different. Will you be one that watches as others do the job? Or will you be the one helping with the task at hand? Be a mover and shaker, not a mooo'er and grazer! Get your rear in gear to move and shake, heck rock this place with your enthusiasm! Make me wanna shout! Put my hands up and shout! You get the idea....(giggles)

Look forward to hearing from you soon. (smiles)



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Ask Lana Benton

How many times have we tried something, anything, ...and failed? Speaking for myself, I would have to say many times. How many times have we had such an over whelming passionate idea that when writing about it, we tend to think quicker than our fingers can type? Our hearts are beating to a different drum than the tapping of our key boards can stay in rhythm with so we find ourselves hitting the backspace key more often than not?

Being so passionate as to stay at our keyboards regardless of sleep, nutrition, a ringing phone, or doorbell...what an awesome natural high. Exhausting to be sure! But the end result we know will pay off in the long run. Our due diligence being paid, we set back to give our hard work one last look...hit the send button and relax for a moment.

Having completed our work we suddenly realize that our blood, sweat and tears may have a hole in it somewhere! Now we must go back through all we thought we had achieved, as being meticulous
as we thought we were being, to find the air that escapes us. Oh the misery! ... Our passion is sinking right before our eyes. Will we just give up and let it sink? Or will be dive down to save our work, our passion, our dream?

It is one thing to have lost something you hold dear to your heart. It is an entirely different thing to see the loss as it is happening, and to do nothing to save it, or at least try to salvage what we can, so as to begin again. Keeping our dream alive! Keeping our passion from complete and utter failure as those on the side lines watch as you dive down again and again. Never offering help. Just watching...

My hat goes off to FriendsWin. This awesome team of movers, and shakers, will slam-dunk those who saw the dream, heard the passion in the voices of those dreams coming to life, and wanted a bite of it. Paul Nash, Jeremy Barnett, Randal Williams, Heardy Myers, Coach Jim Cobb, and all the students of FriendsWin University, have gathered our life preservers together to create an island. We will all work as one to bring up an awesome city, where folks will visit, have fun, and will find pleasure, in this awesome social media network. While we all will have an awesome time together, we will share our gratitude with those whose diligence was never ending. Those who would not let go of their passionate dreams!

FreidnsWin, will survive with a kinship that cannot be rocked, or batted about. We are an unwavering lot of folks with an unwavering zest to be sure of seeing this dream through to the end! Passions don't die...people do. I don't know about you folks, but this gal is diving! Diving into all the wonderful attributes that FriensWin has to offer. Anyone care to join me? (smiles)
Grab your media gear, and let's go!

Love of Family, Love of Friends, Love...just because I can.

I open my heart...take a look inside...Can you see the love... feel the depth of love?...the life, of my love?
I would be honored to share with you my life of love. The type of love which has been both given, and received. The depth of love, which can be seen with a hand shake, and a smile, or a simple deed for one in need. A true desire to give freely of myself, just because I can, with no expectation of receiving in return. The life of my love, as seen through my children. The love of my life, my God, my family, my friends...My wonderful husband.

Just because I can......

The love that runs through my veins is such that can be over whelming in joy, happiness, and inner peace.
Joy, because as I love, the love is then returned. Perhaps in the smallest of ways...a kiss on the cheek from my 22 year old son, or from my 25 year old daughter. An unexpected hug from a friend, sister, or brother. The stroke of my mothers hand on the cheek of my face, while she plays with my hair, and smiles at me with her beautiful, bright, shining eyes. Wow, pure love! Awesome love!

Happiness? Oh my! How can I express the happiness I feel when I see my children doing well for themselves. Taking all that was freely given from the hearts of their daddy and I, into their now, adult lives, and paying it forward. Happy? You betcha! I'm happy to be able to catch frogs with my nephew when he visits our home during the summer. I'm happy to puddle jump after a nice spring, or summer rain. I find joy in putting my hand out to a stranger, while asking if there is anything more I can do to lift them up. Am I always this happy? No...I have my down times as well as my up times.

The death of my wonderful sister, and best friend, Loraleigh, sent me reeling into a deep depression. To this day the pain of loosing her at such a young, 51 years old, still cuts like a knife to my stomach. I feel love, when I feel her around me. I feel love, as well as inner peace, knowing one day I will see her again. Inner peace, in knowing she is no longer suffering from her own personal, and physical pain. I love knowing she has left a mark in my heart that I will always carry. A love that I can therefore, pay forward to others in the same loving, caring way as Loraleigh, showed her loved to me. My sweet, wonderful, beautiful, sissy........My friend.

The joy of helping others is but one aspect of love, one example to share with you, which was taught to me. As a small child I loved talking with the elders in our community. The wealth of information they offered in their story telling, kept me in an "awed", state of hypnosis. Listening intently to every detail of their stories, prepared me to be a good friend to those that God has put into my life. "Life in the now", friends, and as I feel sure I will be around for a while longer, my "future life', friends. The joy of lending an ear to a friend who just needs to get something off their chest and who feels safe in leaning on me. What an awesome honor, and privilege. What a blessing!

I honestly believe those that come into our lives are meant to be there, at that precise moment, for a specific reason. When they leave us, we (myself and my friend) walk away with something new. Many times these things that we walk away with are good, and sometimes they are not so good. Either way, one or the other will walk away with something that was needed at that time in our lives. Keep in mind when I speak of friends, this covers a very broad area....acquaintances such as those that are in need for a moment. Life long friends that are near and dear to me to this day, and then those that come into my life that just fit in a way that is to say, "Hey, were we separated at birth or what?"

Aristotle put the definition of friendship in an awesome way, in saying... "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit".


My heart is open...take a good look inside...can you see the love that is... "just because I can"?