New Babies

Here are pictures of the new babies!  Our first real KOI!  It's been a lot of years that we dreamed of having a koi pond.  I always wanted a yellow one too.  It was actually a small dream but if you wait, plan and prepare your dream can happen exactly or even better than you expect!!! 
You can see how their heads are a different shape and you can see their little mustaches.  This picture had the flash on so you can see how shimmery they are in the light.  Almost metalic looking...

You can tell their size in the next picture.  They are 5"-6" in length.  That is one of the other calico fishies swimming by in the upper left corner and the blood crown in the bottom left.  Also, see how their side fins layout like wings.

Again, In this picture you can tell their size compared to the other guys.  About half the size of our big Red & White.  The same as the small orange goldfish.  They are faster swimmers than the goldfish.  They "dart" when they want to.

They are already letting me pet them this morning.  They can get 1'-2' long, depending on their environment and can live up to 40 years!  I think they are going to be lifelong friends!!!  Names! They need names!  Any ideas?!?!?!

Shade Clothes Part II

I switched the shade clothes around.  This way they shade the house and patio more instead of the planter.  Also, with wind they didn't stay tight the other way.  I was able to get them much tighter and I don't think the wind will budge them.

BY MYSELF!!!

I actually went to Home Depot, BY MYSELF!!! Well, that's not entirely true, Bub was with me.  I bought the hardware I needed for the shade clothes, BY MYSELF!!!  This is entirely true because Bub was whining the whole time about wanting a drink.  Then I put up the shade clothes, BY MYSELF.  Ok, not entirely true, again.  John got the drill from Pat and drilled the first hole for me because Pat got sand in the drill and John couldn't get it to switch to reverse.  So he wasn't sure if it would take a lot of strength to get it back out of the hole.  It didn't.  By the way, I didn't end up using the hole he drilled because it was in the wrong place.  So I put up the shade clothes, MOSTLY by myself!  The patio was in shade by the time I was done so I'm anxious to see how they shade in the morning.  I posted 3 new yard pictures on facebook plus one of the shade clothes.  Here's the picture:

Today in Phoenix!

A water Iris!!!  More pic of it in Yard album on face book.

All better! 

What did you do today to get here?

What You Missed in Phoenix Today!

Baby's first haircut!

For more yard pictures see my Facebook album.

What You Missed in Phoenix Today!

Taken from our driveway! One of the most beautiful sunsets ever!

Jared's School Carnival - See my photo album on facebook for more pictures.  I got a really good picture of Angela!

What are you doing today to get here?

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What you missed in Phoenix

The baby grass!!

Ouch!

What CORE steps are you going to do today to get here?

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Not so good

Ok today I listened to WW489A Spring Leadership Danzik, Popovich & Kizirian.  Don't you just HATE those lessons that just filet you open and expose you?  Don't you just LOVE 'em too?  NORM!!!  "I hope, I hope, I hope" (listen to it) that is the same as "some day..."  As I wrote about in The Winning Edge I am no longer saying, "some day..." or "I hope, I hope".  We are making it happen!  If I am not actually "doing" the thing, I'm "planning" it therefore it is no longer a "some day hope".

In our "hoping" we lie to ourselves as to what we are actually doing.  So (this is where the filleting happened) my status from the last couple of days is incorrect.  I can't count talking with people under Retail or STP even if they are clients, downline or prospects.  I still have "Reached out to one more" under my daily disciplines because I know that will lead to more people in business with us AND because it's the right thing to do in life.  I also can't count "putting together an invite list" under Retail or Functions.  I can't count typing this blog as counsel, accountable, yes; counsel, no.  I need to remember that counsel and accountable are like meditating and praying.  I heard once that praying is talking to God and meditating is LISTENING to God.  Accountable is telling your upline what you've done (as well as doing what you said you would).  Counsel is LISTENING to your upline.

So with that in mind following are the CORE steps I completed today.
2. Personal Use - Of course - everyday!
3. Retail - Actually had a retail sale of laundry care today.
4. SOT - YES - WW489A
5. Books - Make Today Count - Sort of the Readers Digest version of Today Matters.
8. Accountable - Doing my blog!
9. Kate - Checked it, no new ones.

Check list

1. STP - talked with people at Casey's
2. Personal Use - DUH
3. Retail - put together Nutrilite Seminar Invite list
4. SOT - ww488B - Samir Attalah, David Shores (AMAZING) & Dean Kosage
5. Books - Way of Agape Bible study
6. Functions - ...
7. Counsel - ...
8. Accountable - This blog
9. Kate - Listen twice... there were new Kate this morning and then urgent kates came down this afternoon.
10. Premier - synced new MP3s

#1 & 7 need work
#2 & 10 are done
#3 & 6 just need to stay on top of or expand
#4, 5, 8 & 9 EVERY day no matter what!

Step One

For any who have been following my other blog, The Winning Edge, you know that day one is the hardest but "the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step" as the proverb goes!  So STEP ONE!
Also, for those following I have: Listened to audio, Read 10 pages and Reached out to one more, as some of my daily disciplines.  These are the same as SOT, Books and STP/Retail (sort of - building relationships) so I had a little head start on these habits.
Today I invited someone to the SLM (Steven), traded emails with a client (Christie), made a phone call to a prospect (Jolynn, no answer left a message) and chatted on facebook with a mom who's son skates with mine (Anne).  I listened to Bill & Sandy Hawkins Spring Leadership AGAIN (this is getting to be a new favorite, when he talks about Dick Davis...wow).  I finished The Slight Edge.  I just checked KATE and no new messages.  I also copied and added personal information to the Nutrilite Client Invitation.  I plan to email/snail mail those tomorrow along with a personal note.  So that is STP, Retail, SOT, Books, Function and Kate.
What about the rest?  Personal Use - I just took a bubble bath and used TEN products!  Including skin care!!!  Gee, I guess I'm more high maintenance than I thought.  Premier - received my digital download today.  Counsel & Accountable... well that's this post.  YEAH ME ALL 10!!!!
That wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be... DUH!  On to Ruby!