Gaining Ground

me and chris doakes sat back at the beginning of 2008 and said

"this is the year, cant you feel it?"

we honestly had NO idea HOW much of our year it would be and so ive seen growth in every area of my life.

im overly thankful for the business that has thrived and gone up and down but GAINED GROUND for the entire year so far. made better contacts, forged better relationships, cashed larger checks, helped people MORE, im grateful for it all. Im grateful for the people who have allowed me to capture for them, pieces of their future and to use those pieces as memories and the stuff that dreams are formed and molded of. without the memories of the world i would have nothing to love, i would be dead.


seen KISS grow despite the declining magazine market. seen our work expand it into new territories and capture new ideas. seen people stare in awe who once stood in mockery at the idea of what it could be. Meand Sean have taken 2 major trips this year to two International functions for the magazine and they were both about learning, becoming, and BEING greater than what we are. touched people who run billion dollar companies and keep in contact with those who run million dollar companies...success.

staying positive in spite of what people say about me, being able to see the future in spite of people telling me it cant be done, standing when those around me just want to sit down. being the kind of man that does not yield to the temptation often but when he falls, gets up and keeps moving. failure is just a lesson to get it right the next time and errors are just ways of telling you to think harder.

this is our time. this is our future. this is our tomorrow.

and so for every person who ever stood right here, right on the edge of the great beyond of the greatness of the future and said i dare to not, i say

I dare to.
not because i have to
but because i choose to

thank you god for the gifts you have given me
thank you god for the people who have carried me
thank you god for the wisdom you have instilled in me through pain and suffering
thank you god for...now