A 30 Second Phone Call Page 1
By Anthony Douglas Gere
This is not a letter to you, or one of my theories for my book or meaningless mental
translations into words. This my dear is your E-Ticket to togetherness. This is not
just for you and I, but for life and how I feel it can be lived with a appreciation that
only rivals a passion for living it. This is like a stock certificate in a company or
business bond you can cash in at anytime. This is what life is all about when you
want to share it with someone, and understand what makes them love you and why
you need to love yourself even more. Consider this a blueprint for life and how
people view you in the little things that paint the portrait of yourself. You see we all
as people are so busy, going so fast, putting out fires and dealing with so much, we
forget why we are doing them and what we are alienating in the process. Now once
we are married and have children, you will soon find out how I'm able to take care of
you and my family, and why you feel so loved all of the time I'm not by your side
physically. You will start to understand why time seems to stand still when we are
together, and all of the issues that once seemed to frustrate you, start to seem
manageable and not that bad at all when you face them, not allow them to sneak up
upon you. What you will start to understand is that it will not be the mansion we live
in, the clothes, cars or money. You will understand that the thing that makes
everything possible is time.
Time, and how when you use it, it can not use you as a statistic, but a memory that
can last as long as it. So time my dear, is what this is all about. So use it wisely,
and how you see it, will be the thing that makes many others things you see
important as it passes you by. Time my dear, the father of life and mother of birth, is
the one thing we need but can't control. Time, for all of its power and all of its
contents, makes everything possible. Now what many fail to understand and or
appreciate is, what truly matters is not how you spend it, its more important on how
not you waste it. In every moment, there is a choice. You either go straight, left,
right, backwards or stay still. You can either do, not do or act and or react. You can
think of self, someone else, how you think of them and how they think of you. But
what you need to know is something is happening even if it seems like you're
doing nothing. Nothing is doing something, so why not do everything of anything to
get what you ultimately want. Now if you know it or not, all of these things happen
within seconds, and in those seconds, what you do can and more than likely will,
affect the rest of your life and what happens next in it. Now most of our choices are
acted upon based on information and knowledge. We physically do what we
mentally know. We emotionally feel what we spiritually believe. We do and teach
what we have experienced and learned. We prioritize and give things based on
the rewards we will accept and receive. So in using that formula, how we utilize our
time, is based on how important our time is, based on what we know about self and
time its self as it pertains to our lives and those living with us.
Now to speak personally, people don't pay me for the time they specifically spend
meeting with me, I charge them for the time they're away from me. Its a combination
on what I can provide for them, the knowledge I have and have learned over the
years dong what I do, and finally, I charge them for the things they are taking me
away from that are more important to me, not business. You see think of the
obstacles you face alone each day. Think of the things you encounter, must
manipulate in your favor, deal with, bargain and sell yourself and others on. Why
many degrade or judge each other is because we are actually ashamed of the
things we do in the same manner, and try to justify them in some way in making
them seem not that bad. Now if we can deal and live in this world and survive alone
going through these things on a daily basis, think about what we can accomplish
together having each others back and providing support to help keep the critics
off our back. On the smallest to the largest scale, everyone will be scrutinizing our
every move as a couple, individuals and our positions in this world and society. We
will be judged silently on how we talk, interact, get along, argue, make-up and
co-exist with each other. This is not because of my fame or power or your beauty or
past. This is just life and normal behavior of people and how they judge us based
on how they see themselves. Our families will watch with one eye open, our
children with both eyes closed, friends and men and women wanting to come
between us to either break us up with both eyes blinking. People will tempt us into
fooling around on the side or to simply get into our business to make it theirs. Its
the crabs in the bucket syndrome. People love success stories, but a person one
on one doesn't. That's why the more money you make, the more friends you have
and want to borrow from you. They think you can afford it, but they don't think about
how hard you had to work to get it. They make excuses on why they don't have it,
and how lucky you are to have it, instead of realizing what they didn't do and why they
did what they weren't suppose to when they had the time. They don't think about
your time. The time you invested, the time you lost and the time you can't get back.
The time you put into gaining what you have, the time learning about your craft, the
time you lost not doing what you wanted to and the time you will have to spend
making up for what you just gave away. Its about time my dear, and how you use it.
So time my dear, is what makes everything what it is and more importantly, possible
for things to simply happen.
By Anthony Douglas Gere
This is not a letter to you, or one of my theories for my book or meaningless mental
translations into words. This my dear is your E-Ticket to togetherness. This is not
just for you and I, but for life and how I feel it can be lived with a appreciation that
only rivals a passion for living it. This is like a stock certificate in a company or
business bond you can cash in at anytime. This is what life is all about when you
want to share it with someone, and understand what makes them love you and why
you need to love yourself even more. Consider this a blueprint for life and how
people view you in the little things that paint the portrait of yourself. You see we all
as people are so busy, going so fast, putting out fires and dealing with so much, we
forget why we are doing them and what we are alienating in the process. Now once
we are married and have children, you will soon find out how I'm able to take care of
you and my family, and why you feel so loved all of the time I'm not by your side
physically. You will start to understand why time seems to stand still when we are
together, and all of the issues that once seemed to frustrate you, start to seem
manageable and not that bad at all when you face them, not allow them to sneak up
upon you. What you will start to understand is that it will not be the mansion we live
in, the clothes, cars or money. You will understand that the thing that makes
everything possible is time.
Time, and how when you use it, it can not use you as a statistic, but a memory that
can last as long as it. So time my dear, is what this is all about. So use it wisely,
and how you see it, will be the thing that makes many others things you see
important as it passes you by. Time my dear, the father of life and mother of birth, is
the one thing we need but can't control. Time, for all of its power and all of its
contents, makes everything possible. Now what many fail to understand and or
appreciate is, what truly matters is not how you spend it, its more important on how
not you waste it. In every moment, there is a choice. You either go straight, left,
right, backwards or stay still. You can either do, not do or act and or react. You can
think of self, someone else, how you think of them and how they think of you. But
what you need to know is something is happening even if it seems like you're
doing nothing. Nothing is doing something, so why not do everything of anything to
get what you ultimately want. Now if you know it or not, all of these things happen
within seconds, and in those seconds, what you do can and more than likely will,
affect the rest of your life and what happens next in it. Now most of our choices are
acted upon based on information and knowledge. We physically do what we
mentally know. We emotionally feel what we spiritually believe. We do and teach
what we have experienced and learned. We prioritize and give things based on
the rewards we will accept and receive. So in using that formula, how we utilize our
time, is based on how important our time is, based on what we know about self and
time its self as it pertains to our lives and those living with us.
Now to speak personally, people don't pay me for the time they specifically spend
meeting with me, I charge them for the time they're away from me. Its a combination
on what I can provide for them, the knowledge I have and have learned over the
years dong what I do, and finally, I charge them for the things they are taking me
away from that are more important to me, not business. You see think of the
obstacles you face alone each day. Think of the things you encounter, must
manipulate in your favor, deal with, bargain and sell yourself and others on. Why
many degrade or judge each other is because we are actually ashamed of the
things we do in the same manner, and try to justify them in some way in making
them seem not that bad. Now if we can deal and live in this world and survive alone
going through these things on a daily basis, think about what we can accomplish
together having each others back and providing support to help keep the critics
off our back. On the smallest to the largest scale, everyone will be scrutinizing our
every move as a couple, individuals and our positions in this world and society. We
will be judged silently on how we talk, interact, get along, argue, make-up and
co-exist with each other. This is not because of my fame or power or your beauty or
past. This is just life and normal behavior of people and how they judge us based
on how they see themselves. Our families will watch with one eye open, our
children with both eyes closed, friends and men and women wanting to come
between us to either break us up with both eyes blinking. People will tempt us into
fooling around on the side or to simply get into our business to make it theirs. Its
the crabs in the bucket syndrome. People love success stories, but a person one
on one doesn't. That's why the more money you make, the more friends you have
and want to borrow from you. They think you can afford it, but they don't think about
how hard you had to work to get it. They make excuses on why they don't have it,
and how lucky you are to have it, instead of realizing what they didn't do and why they
did what they weren't suppose to when they had the time. They don't think about
your time. The time you invested, the time you lost and the time you can't get back.
The time you put into gaining what you have, the time learning about your craft, the
time you lost not doing what you wanted to and the time you will have to spend
making up for what you just gave away. Its about time my dear, and how you use it.
So time my dear, is what makes everything what it is and more importantly, possible
for things to simply happen.