I had one of my ADD days today. I was everywhere and anywhere except for in the work I was trying to do. I did get some work done on my blog’s this evening but I was utterly unproductive at the office today. I think it was the number of meetings I was in. I just can’t write or parse data if I don’t have uninterupted time.

I also hate parsing data. I love the results but I wish I could pay someone to pull the results out of the data. I like the interviewing to gather the data, I like comming up with the questions I want answered, I like learning the answers to the qestions but I hate parsing the data to get the answers. I’ve had it with pivot tables and excell.

Well that was today tomorrow, I have 2 major objectives for the day. Complete the parsing of the data so I can build my ppt deck and finish updating the other document I’m working on. So it is written so it will be done.

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I originally wrote this post on my old version of the Metzger Business blog. I’m going through my old posts now and decided that this was a good fit for this site. I hope you enjoy.

Do you remember playing the game of tag as a child? The objective of that game is to NOT be IT. As adults we still play that game whenever we argue. When you think about it you’ll realize that you are usually trying to avoid being wrong in most arguments. This is fantastic analogy and is best told by Dr. Glenn and Gwen Pickering. They point out in there discussion that 90 % of what a person does right gets thrown out for the 10% they do wrong.

I was recently asked to perform an exercise to pick the person I argued with the most. I realized that the person I most had this issue with was not my Wife, my kids, or even people I work with. The person I focused on the 10% they did wrong rather than the 90% they did right was non other than myself.

It’s amazing when your trying to be a Dad, Work full time, Start a business on the side, be a good Husband, do work around the house, keep current in an election year, drive 2+ hours a day, get some form of exercise and lose some weight that you can do anything right let alone do 90% right. And yet day in and day out I really do manage to get a lot done.

I get to:

* Learn
* Work hard at work
* Be a dad
* Practice dance with my daughters
* Read them stories
* Talk about there day’s
* Give them baths
* Do yard work on occasion
* Help clean once in a while
* Take my wife on dates on the rarest occasion
* Spend every day of my life with the woman destiny and god brought to me on the steps of a U-Haul store
* Develop a business
* Learn about marketing on the web
* Be creative and blog
* Network
* Meet other people who are interested in business
* Focus better on my business
* Help people build their businesses
* Occasionally work out and eat a healthy diet

It’s amazing but I get to do whole bunch in life and I’m darn good at it. Yes I mess up some of the time but the goal is to get right back on the horse and keep riding. I have so much to do on a daily basis that it’s no wonder that I don’t get some things done. The biggest problem with getting down on myself is I get less done because I’m fretting about a piece of something that is over. I can easily make my day a lot worse than 10% bad by focusing on the 10% I do wrong.

So what do you focus on? Are you Tagging yourself? If you are tagging yourself think of all the things that you take on. Review them. See what good things you have done. Focus only on those. Your ability to perform better each following day will improve tremendously.

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My two year old has discovered a new talent. It turns out she is very perceptive when looking at my face to decide what mood I’m in. Lately because of a personal family matter I have not been in a great mood at home since it is the only place I can let my external guard down. Well my daughter told me that I was sad a few times and then one day decided to tell me I was happy. I said no Abby Daddy’s sad and she responded frankly with “No Daddy Happy!” and she was right I was happy. She now has discovered that she can make me happy by saying “Daddy Happy.” This isn’t always a good thing since when I had to tell her no firmly the other day, she responded with Daddy happy and her cute smile, but it’s incredible to me that she wants all of us to be happy so she uses it on all of us including her big sister. I wonder if it would work from adult to adult. I guess it does since that’s what most success speakers do. Ha I have a guru on my hands.

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DJ Gregory is a great guy. I had the oportunity to meet him a few weeks back and his witty story telling is wonderful. I have also had the opportunity to read his book about his year on the PGA tour. This is a wonderful book about the game of Golf and the athleets DJ walked with. DJ actually did something on the PGA tour that not other athleet has done. He walked every round of every match in the 2008 season. That’s over 900 miles in 47 weeks. While that walk would be quite an accomplishment for anyone DJ did this walk with CP. I looke forward to talkeing with DJ tomorrow night. We’ll discuss the challenge from start to finish and what he’s doing now. Come join us at 8:30 PM Tuesday Night July 21, 2009.

Join us at www.blogtalkradio.com/myspellingsucks

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We have a friend staying at the house this weekend so our daughter got to sleep in our bed last night. Sometime after I came to bed she woke up noticed I was in there and said “Daddy, Was I a good girl for the rest of the day after my rough morning?” ” Yes, Sweetheart you were a very good girl and I’m proud of you.” “I love you daddy.” She turned over and started snoring again.

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This post is really just an update.

Please remember to look at our resource page as it is growing.

We have had some great interviews on the radio program and while the guests have been exceptional I think I’m getting better with each show. Check out the shows as there has been some great information provided.

I love feedback and comments so please don’t be shy. Sign in and leave a comment. I have finally gotten a spam blocker on my comments and it has worked tremendously well so I no longer filter every comment and they post immediately as long as they are not spam.

For the radio program please let me know if you there is anyone you would like me to interview or if you have contacts that I can reach out to. While I have a pretty deep guest list it will only be deep as long as I keep stacking it so I appreciate any input or contacts.

Please tell your friends and family about this blog. I produce it for 2 reasons 1) It’s therapeutic for me and 2) I truly intend it to help others. I need to know the value it’s producing. I know this by the visits it gets and the recommendations from others.

Finally look for an article from me in the upcoming fall issue of the Cerebral Palsy Magazine.

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Why Me?

This has got to be one of the most powerful questions there is. Unfortunately phrased this way can often lead to “Poor Me” or “I’m so deprived Me” This thought occurred to me when I was watching parents at a Kids soccer game. It wasn’t any kid’s soccer game it was one for kids with disabilities. I was sitting there looking at all the parents, Moms and Dads cheering on their kids. All the parents were “Normal” at least in appearance any way but we were all there with kids who didn’t function as “normal” kids function. I realized that most all of the parents in the crowed probably never dealt with any real difficulties growing up or if they did they were probably minor. Some of the parents were probably part of the popular kids in school others I’m sure were geeks and yet others were probably part of the bad crowed. As adults we don’t tend to have those classifications any more yet all of us with disabled kids are sometimes classified as the folks who others feel sorry for. So I thought about all of this and realized that none – well most – of the parents sitting there were not asking themselves the question “Why Me?” at least they weren’t doing it at that point in time. At the time of the game they were all saying “Why Not Me?” “Why not allow my son and daughter to have the same experiences we did?” “Why don’t we live like our children are the most important thing, which they are, and enjoy the experience? “Why not me?” and they, We all, made it happen at least on that Sunday afternoon.

By the way the next week I brought sliced oranges for the kids. They loved them.

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Noreen is an incredible therapist! We have been visiting Noreen every summer for 2 weeks where we always take Haley to her next level of excellence during this visit. My wife drives an hour and 15 minutes to this therapy every day spends three hours with Noreen and then drives Haley home. Did I mention that Mel is 6 months pregnant. Here is a short video of Haley and Noreen working on the stairs. I’ll be publishing more video over the next week or so.

The big news is that we will be talking with Noreen on Thursday night at 8:30 PM. I’ll post more details tomorrow.

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I hope you enjoy the video.

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Today I went to “Therapy Camp” with Haley today. Therapy camp is intense therapy for 3 hours every day for 2 weeks. Haley has attended art camp, acting camp, Jcc Day Camp and “Therapy camp” every summer for the past 3 years. Each camp is approximately 2 weeks and she just sees the therapy as another camp. The therapy is very intense, she stretches, climbs stairs, walks on the treadmill, does some weighted exercises, jumps, uses a suit with bungee cords, etc. It’s incredible how much she does in a 3 hour time frame and she always comes out of the therapy so far ahead where she went in. It’s like a supper boost she gets every summer.

So today she was told to jump down the hall all the way to the tape. Her first few jumps really didn’t make any forward progress. Haley was intent and focused on the wall her Goal but it was just to far to jump and she forgot about some of the basics when focusing so far out. Finally the Therapist remembered that Haley does better when she picks a closer spot she can jump to. So the Therapist, Noreen Scott, reminded Haley to pick the next spot on the floor and jump to that spot. It worked. Haley jumped forward to the spot and made a lot of progress.

It’s funny how this is a reflection of most of us and how we set goals that can keep us from going forward. It isn’t until we take the first Jump forward, that leap of faith that we get going and make progress. Here is to taking the small jump in the right direction to reaching your goals.

Oh yeah one more thing – What starts as small jumps forward become bigger and bigger jumps until you get to take the huge leap stumble a bit and hit that big goal anyway.

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It’s been a while since I’ve written about the family. We’ve been having a great summer. Haley has been to a drama camp, art camp, and is now in what she calls Therapy camp. The therapy is in Conyers ga. which is about an hour away and she is doing great. My other daughter is in day camp 3 days a week. Today I brought my younger daughter to camp. We happened to get there at the same time as another little boy who’s name is Sam. Sam uses a walker to get around. From what I know he does not have any technical diagnosis but he does have some delays. When my daughter saw him she ran across the parking lot (Safely) to give him a huge hug. Seeing Abby react to Sam this way was such a thrill to both me and to his mom. Sam’s mom shared with me how wonderful it made her feel to see him embraced by the other children in his class. I loved seeing that my daughter had no inhibitions when interacting with a child that did have a disability. She didn’t see it at all. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all had the ability of a child to see the person beyond the disability?

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