Hi Steve,

Thanks so much for this thread, it was unexpected and a very kind & wonderful thought from you. Adlandpro is like family, and online marketers are also like family. People are at all different aspects of their marketing, some are just beginning, or some who have been doing it for years and probably dream about it and wake up and start immediately as if sleep was their practice (I've heard that it IS...our minds work on certain things while we're asleep so we're better at it the next day, almost like magic! :)

I mentioned in my reply to Katie that I owe all that I am to the way I was raised, I've said many times that I grew up with a disabled older sister, and the times we went walking together, I'd slow down my pace to match hers, she had cerebral palsy and walked verrrryyyy slowly...because she wanted to walk, she didn't start using a wheelchair until she was over 40.

One time when she was in college, I remember I must have been around 14 so she was 20 or 21, and she wanted to show me Temple University, so we took the train from our parents house in the suburbs, she always took the train by herself...and we got off the train in Philadelphia, and had to walk awhile to get to the campus, and there were groups of some scary-looking people, and I was concerned for both of us, and she turned to me a couple times, we were both carrying backpacks and she couldn't run or even walk at a usual pace, and she said, "It's okay, you'll be okay." As if she didn't realize I was also afraid for HER, she was tiny, about 4-foot-10, and very proud, she wouldn't have wanted me to put my arm around her protectively, I was much taller than she was by that time. I had to realize she did this on a regular basis, it was her life, she had a lot of internal strength and inner-drive and faith. I think she also had a goal for me, to take the train, see the city, walk thru it, and see how it was.

As I got older, I realized there may be one or a few people who have bad intent, but when in a crowd, the majority will offer help if needed, the majority of people are protective.

Not many people "slow it down" and it IS difficult to slow down the pace. What if people HAD TO slow down to 4 times slower, if people HAD TO offer help and protection, without a doubt, without thinking twice? It's difficult, most people like to do everything quickly. Love sometimes demands a longterm slowdown, helping people sometimes is a soft-paced situation that can feel uncomfortable. Love and protectiveness toward another person, an older sibling, who doesn't always want the protectiveness, in a daily life situation from childhood isn't something that most people go through.

Our outsides don't show our inner drive. We're all capable of maximum overdrive, our thoughts drive our actions, even if those actions seem different than the majority, people who have focus will achieve their goals.

That is adorable!

A few of my earlier jobs were waitressing, so I say thanks to waitresses numerous times!

I've thanked people for talking to me on the phone! LOL!

Thanks for being my friend & tolerating me :) haha!!