I just recently attended a Leadership Seminar for Team Leadership in St. Charles, Missouri. The Speakers there were The Frey's. I have recently tried to relate the feeling that I got there to a friend of mine that was unable to go and I ended up sounding like a nut. I guess the point is that the Team Leaders are getting exceptionally good at moving this business from your head to your heart.
Dean Frey spoke about the principle of Be, Do, Have. This basically is the building block of building your dreams and he asked us to take a few hours to do this ourselves. So naturally I started right away. The following is a direct dictation of the notes that I have here on paper.

BE
1. Father: I want to be my kid's role model and hero as my father is to me. I want Joshua to look up to me and follow what I do. I want to have the influence with my kids to a point that they will come to me with problems, even when the are teenagers. I want to be a moral rock, a standard that everyone in my family looks to for guidance and support. I also want to transfer all of the respect and honor that creates to my GOD.

2. Husband: I want to be a servant leader to my wife. I want to serve her in a way worthy of a queen. I want to provide for her safety and love and I want her to never doubt my love for her. I wan tto look at my wife and see someone I want to serve not someone who owes me anything. I want us to forever be "in love" and never fall out of it.

3. Friend: I wnat to always be in my friends' minds as someone who is a foundation of support in their lives. I wnat my friends to call me up at 3am and 2,000 miles away needing help and to know that I will be there asap. I want to trust and be trusted so much that I am abel to help them through their darkest times.

4. General Self: I want people in my life to see Jesus in me through and through. I wnat new peopel to know that theire is a difference in me from anyone else that they have met. I want God to speak through me. I wnat him to use everything I have and everything that I have become as a tool to further His Kindom. Finally I want to exemplify the scripture Matt. 23:10-12 were Jesus says, "The greatest among you will be your servant."

DO

1. Travel: I want to go everywhere. But first I would go to KC. I want to spend a day at Worlds of Fun and another day at Oceans of Fun. Then I would take a trip from there to Cedar Point and spend a day there. I want to go to Taiwan, catch a train to Lo Dong and spend a month with the kids @ Home Of God's Love. I would work with Ted Skiles to form some blueprints for building 2 dormitories on the property. I would also discuss a budget to increase staffing for the influx of children and fund the new budget.
Without getting in too much detail, I want to travel Europe, Australia, Russia, China, Africa, etc. I will sample all kinds of different food, and make friends in all of these places. I will visit churches in all of these areas, encouraging them and helping them in whatever way that I can.
I will fully support 40 missionary families and set up a foundation to help missionaries by providing a place for people to give money, bibles, etc. With the cost of operation fully funded by me so no money be taken from God's work overseas.
I will open an orphanage and work to help the kids in the system become people of morals, and character.
I will learn to base jump.
I will Skydive.
I will hang glide with Richard.
I will teach my kids to fly an ultralight and buy a fleet of them, one for each person in my family.
I will get my Fixed-Wing and Rotary-wing liscences and I will buy a helicopter.
I will buy a yacht and let missionaries go on short furlough/cruise trips to help them unwind.

I will homeschool my kids full-time and not just like a job, 9-5. Learning happens outside the classroom and I want to teach by example as well as book stuff. This will occurr 24/7.

I will build my parents the house of their dreams on a ton of land that they can enjoy debt-free.

Have

I would like a somewhat larger house maybe a 6 bedroom, 4 bath with a study/library, a living room (with no tv), a small "theater" with seating for 12. A projector screen and a projector to show the movies. I want my wife's and my room to have a tiled corner so we can put a jacuzzi in, plus another room in our bathroom to put a sauna. Plus an indoor/outdoor pool with a highdive.

I would like to own a private island with Richard, and Zach. I would put a nice, smaller house on it. Also I would put a runway/helo pad on the island.

I could keep going with the things that I want to own, however, these things have pled in comparison to the Be and Do portions of my dreams. The final thing I want to leave in this writing is the feeling of freedom.
I cannot wait to have put in my 2 weeks at my mob. 2 weeks passes and on my last day I walk out of the front door for the last time. Never again to be shackled by the chains of hourly wage or the needs of an organization that gives nothing back. Like a reformed man released from prison, I am free. The wind picks up unnaturally strong and a thumping is heard overhead. Everyone looks around for the source and just as they do, a helicopter flies over the building and lands in the front hard. The doors open and out comes my wife with Joshua, Richard Matthews, and the Hammers. These people have been with me from the beginning and have become some of my best friends. We all hug each other and wave to the befuddled people left standing on the lawn. As we lift off we start to talk with each other about the freedom that we all now share.

Okay,
Hope you all enjoyed this. Let me know what you think.
From my heart to yours.
- halfway skyscraper