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The Best Towns to Live in Right Here in Colorado
A stone’s throw from Highlands Ranch, I have to agree… It’s one of the nicest places in Colorado to live. With magnificent views of the metro area and the mountains, Highlands Ranch captures the essence of living for me. I enjoy the tight knit community, resources and miracle of existence that still thrives in this budding community.
Seclusion here isn’t an issue. If you’d rather not listen to the heavy traffic, silence is as close by as your own backyard, where trees and hillsides protect you from the drone of city traffic. Even there, in the quiet early mornings, you catch a glimpse of mountain side, the hills in the distance and clouds passing over the city, a glimpse of city lights in the night or the wonder of people in close proximity. Life here in suburbia finds ways of bringing brilliance and wonder to the most simple of days.
On a work-a-day week, you’ll find the most amazing connections with Denver Professionals networks or one of the many Catalyst Coffee Networks. Your business will boom with the rest of the metro businesses, because your connections will grow. Other community efforts to build business come into play with multiple opportunities to share your business, your dream, your goals, with others who live and work here.
Joining the extravagant night life is an option, if you choose to follow that lifestyle, or you could always find an exercise group or organization to spend your time with… my favorite is the Bootcamp Crowd that Priscilla put together. Love those folks!
There’s another fun group you might want to participate with, children’s hour at McDonalds. While children play in the jumbo gym spaces, Mom’s get time out to read a book, share their business interests in the play yard, or just gather to contemplate “what’s for dinner”. McDonalds offers just the right size frozen yogurt snacks for when you’re all done playing.
With plenty of parks, shopping centers and gathering places all around the area, you’ll find your niche somewhere close by. Just remember to let the natives here in Colorado know you’re here, make a new friend or two, and invite them out for coffee – they can’t refuse a good coffee stop.
Yeah, I’m really liking Highlands Ranch. Think I’ll stick it out for a while.
Write a Letter to Me – My 20 Year-Old Self
Looking back, I know there are many things I would have changed had I known the outcome.
Some of those might have included just having more fun, or laughing more at all the right things, at all the wrong things and being a little bit more myself in most instances. I’d definitely have spent more time pleasing me than I spent trying to please others.
Here’s what I’d tell me:
Work a little harder at keeping fit and being more active, staying in your own life instead of allowing other people’s priorities to become yours.
Stop worrying about the day to day achievements and reach for the longer – more trying goals that you set for yourself. The daily stuff happens, but without more effort the long term goals seem to slip away.
Spend more time focused on You and God, less time focused on pleasing others. (I think I should have learned that lesson earlier – the one about you can’t please everyone.)
Get to know the man on the elevator better.
Write more. Paint more. Live a little more freely.
Give more and share what you have to offer, because you’ve got a lot to share.
When you have babies, enjoy the time you have with them a little bit more. Get down on the floor and play instead of worrying so much about the rest of the world. They’re only little once.
when your babies are teenagers, remember they’re just stretching their wings. (I’m trying to learn this one before they outstretch Mommy’s arms.)
Those are just a few of the things – I’d tell me.
Salute – Happy Independence Day America
Graduation for my son-in-law from boot camp comes on the heels of the Fourth of July this year. I can’t imagine a more appropriate place to be than near boot camp on one of the nation’s Military Bases for the 4th of July. This particular base is near enough to the capital to hear the echoes of Washington’s message to the troops.
Looking back, I think of Independence Days I’ve celebrated in the past, knowing in my heart that FREEDOM and LIBERTY was assured by my government. This year, I’m looking at our current administration and wondering if we can survive the onslaught of socialism and marxist chatter that’s coming down the pike. Is it possible that those who understand Freedom and Liberty will not be allowed to continue the fight? Or is socialism in our future?
I shiver at the concept and know that if “We the People” don’t stand our ground and pray, holding onto the freedom we now have will be impossible. And losing more is a given fact of life with the current administration.
There are those who look at socialism and wonder how bad it can be, with the government providing everything “we” need. The rest of us understand that those constant triggers of shame that scurry under cover of government hand outs, entitlements and give-aways. We know the cost of freedom is lives. Not just the lives of our military, but lives of innocent people will be lost if freedom disappears in this country.
Recently, I came across this blog post, on a friend’s blog. The Blue Print gives specific information about the current administrations activities. This is no joke. It’s real, and if you’re not taking it seriously, you should.
If we don’t wake up America, there will come a time in the very near future when THOUSANDS (possibly millions) of us will never wake up again. There’s no fear mongering here, this is real. Our government is not representing the people of this nation, they are leading the people of this nation by the nose of entitlements down a slippery slope to socialism and marxism using a plan sketched out and well planned by people who do NOT have our best interests at heart.
Happy Independence Day America – don’t let this be your last!
Drama Queen – Potential for Success
The title of Drama Queen sometimes belongs to various members of the family at various times in their lives, but one person more than any other carries the title well. Elizabeth often adds excitement to our lives with her dramatic entrances, expressions and announcements.
This morning, as the world turned yet one more time around the sun, she announced, “daylight is coming.” And, of course, it does – once a day. The trouble with her announcement was that it had already arrived. In the glimmer hours of sunrise, she’d slept. So when she arose nearly three hours afterward, she couldn’t understand that sunrise came without her.
The blinds are often pulled to darken her room slightly, but the sliding door on the balcony is often open by the time she awakens. She gathers her favorite things to join whoever is on the balcony and enjoy the morning. Whether it’s “coffee” time or “tea” time, her joy shines in a hopeful uplifted smile as she asks us to share whatever it is we’re drinking. The orange juice in her cup tastes like the best kind of coffee or tea, and she’s totally unaware that our beverage is hot while hers is cold. She sips it like a lady, dramatically, with a pinky finger curled over the handle of the cup.
Discussion often turns to hair and clothing, both her “favorite” things, and the jewels she uses to adorn them. Mommy’s friend Jennifer, a beauty pageant winner, comes up and Elizabeth says, “I want to be pretty like a Beauty Queen.”
Thinking about Elizabeth today -especially- because it’s her Birthday. Happy Birthday little Drama Queen. Your potential for future success as a Beauty Queen is guaranteed. How could you miss!
Travel Journals – How to Travel and Make Money
Yesterday as we toured the Smokey Mountains, my son quipped, “Wish I could just travel and make money…” I smiled as I kept taking pictures and noting details about the trip. We’d traveled over much of the great plains, settled into the Mississippi River Valley and rolled through the Smokey Mountains, down a long winding road to the Green River Valley. North Carolina was well into view before he asked why I was smiling.
“The photos become a photo journal and those thoughts I keep writing will eventually become part of the book I’ll put together with the photos. That’s how you travel and make money…”
The discussion quickly turned to different topics of writing and how we could turn this trip into a profitable excursion across the country. The topic of blogging came up fast.
Blogging is a great way to make a profit with travel journaling or a photo digest. The sincerest form of blogging would include frequent photo updates and a clear description of the trip, thus far. Including all the interesting happenstances met along the way, along with humorous lymerics and events that happen.
In our case, the funniest moments were captured in the middle of Charlotte, South Carolina as we attempted to find our way past the many circling highways to find the street we were looking for, and the realization that in a combined dialect 485 and 45 are the same number. Lauren had a good laugh when she realized I’d heard 45 instead of 485, and had driven all the way around Charlotte looking for a highway that doesn’t exist, on the highway we were supposed to be looking for. We laughed for almost an hour as we drove back across town through the city streets to arrive at our destination.
Maybe we should call this post – Lost in Charlotte? New possibilities for a romance novel. And the hero could be…
In The Whispering Pines
“In the pines…In the pines… where the sun never shines…”
A few nights ago, we watched “Coalminer’s Daughter” and I keep thinking about the song Loretta sang to her babies as they drifted off to sleep. I’ve paced the floor singing the same song, and many other tunes familiar to Loretta Lynn fans over the years, memories of times spent with various members of her band, or her children in Waverly, Tennessee. Those were good years, and I’ve missed many of my friends from those summers spent in Tennessee.
A few days back, I was surfing Facebook looking for a particular friend. We’d spent several summers at FanFare in Nashville, visiting friends and having pizza in parking lots. It just seemed that we should reconnect after having so much fun. I didn’t find her, so I asked Loudilla Johnson, the one friend I was sure she’d keep in touch with, if she knew where I could find her. Lou gave me her married name (which I didn’t have) and told me she was on facebook. We’ve connected, and interacted with another mutual friend too.
The best part is hearing all the changes in our lives over the past 25 years. Each of us married, had children, two of us have grandbabies, and all of us have moved in completely different directions. Our lives have been spent doing the things we love and yet, in all three cases, our lives have led to different careers, different activities and family choices.
The funniest part is that each of us is drawn back to “the pines” in Tennessee. Each of us looks ahead, wondering if we can’t get together for a reunion in “the pines” of Tennessee.
At camp a few nights back, we met in the pines of eastern Colorado, and I listened as the pines blew in the winds. The whispering pines sounded like a river rushing through the trees. I sat back on a rock and listened as the sounds changed with the differing winds, the rushing river sounds echoing against the canyon on the other side, and birds chirping in the distance.
I could hear Loretta singing in the distance. I’m sure someone playing a CD, but the memories came back strong, and the words to the song echoed along…
“In the pines… in the pines… where the sun never shines… and you shiver when the cold wind blows…”
Catalist Coffee – Susan Kildahl’s Solution to Social Networking
Ever wonder if a coffee shop network will benefit your business? Just ask Susan Kildahl of Denver, if the coffee shop network benefits small business owners… She’s say, “Yes!”
When places like “Enchanted Grounds,” “Solid Grounds,” and “Jack & Grill” attract a circle of clients who work their business from the front coffee table, they recognize the power of social networking. Susan’s social networking circle brings in thirty to forty business owners at least once a week. The resulting surge of income is beneficial to the coffee shop, and even more beneficial to the small business owner’s independent businesses.
In an afternoon session, today, Susan scheduled four appointments, and introduced two entrepreneurs whose businesses inter-relate. Susan’s business relationships include both networking businesses and independent business owners who operate separately from any franchising basis. Many of her business clients operate businesses that inter-connect with other business clients. The objective of all her business connections is to develop referral based business marketing that supersedes traditional advertising.
If you’re interested in visiting a coffee shop networking event, you can visit http://meetup.com and search for Catalyst Coffee in Denver, or visit Susan’s website http://susankildahl.com for links to specific events. The best part of the event isn’t the coffee (although it’s superb!), but the new business relationships you’ll develop.
If you haven’t started working with a Social Networking group at a local event, don’t put it off, connect today! Tell Susan, “Jan Verhoeff invited me.”
Or visit http://denverprofessionalsnetwork.org for more social networking information.
The Power to Overcome
People have specific personal needs in their lives.
Recognizing the extremes of your personal desires is half the problem. Once you know what drives you, the option to change your drive to something more manageable and remove the emotional drain becomes possible.
For instance, consider the demands a young woman can put on her life when her drive is financial success. The key component of any financial bonus to her life is in the ability to spend money. She finds an open door to credit with credit cards, and spends them past the limits. Her efforts to pay off credit cards is thwarted by her need to spend more and more money.
She can’t appear “destitute” to her friends or family, so she attempts instead to appear as if money is no issue. The resulting overindulgent spending habits creates a slippery slope right into bankruptcy.
The only other alternative to this is becoming a work-a-holic. Many choose this route to satisfy their need for cash in their pockets.
Consider another young woman seeking connection and acceptance. Her efforts to be accepted by her family drain her emotionally, suck at her physically, and destroy her boundaries until she’s locked into relationships that will ultimately destroy her. She needs to escape, but by the time she realizes the need, she’s sucked into a stifling, suffocating relationship with too many people. She can’t escape.
Still, there is hope.
Each of these young women has the power to overcome their tenacious obstacles and become whole again. By taking back their personal boundaries and standing on the basic principles of self protection and management, they can overcome the desires that brought them to this point.
When they realize that the power to overcome their desperate desires comes from within themselves, the end result will be success.
Five simple steps to success that should be part of every self-inflicted plan to overcome the obstacles we put in front of ourselves. No person is exempt from these obstacles… Everyone you meet falls into one of these categories and has at some point in their lives been crippled by their own desires.
Whether they choose to succumb to the desires and fail or find limited success by giving up other areas of their lives to dedicate themselves to success in only one area of life, either choice results in failures of one kind or another.
Consider the man who spends his life working for money, long hours, to the demise of his family life. Or, the man who walks away from his family seeking respect for his views of life, because his desire for respect is greater than his need for family. He’s willing to destroy his family in order to get respect for his own self righteous image.
Consider the woman who runs away from unaffectionate relationships only to find herself stuck in abusive relationships where affection is promised, but never received. Or the number of people who give up so much of themselves to build relationships that they have nothing left at the end of their lives, and die alone.
We make choices every day. Wouldn’t it be better if we could make choices with recognition of the factors within the choices?
For the Money…
Are you doing it for the money?
When I heard the phrase, I stepped back and listened harder, deeper, with the heart, not the head. I wondered if there’s a real focus that can be taken, one solid step that means there’s a basic bonus of life that says — this is right, this is wrong.
For the money…
Is money the only thing that matters? If you’re working for the money, are you putting your heart into it, and will your heart win out in the end? Or are you doing what you do, just for the money?
There’s a song I sing often, called “Workin’ for the Lord” and I know the basis of the song is my heart purpose of life. The money comes from what I do, I know I get paid for my work, but in reality — I’m working for the Lord. That’s my standard for working, is it for the Lord. Is my heart making a profit from what I do?
I wonder, when people see what I do if they see God in my work, in my life. Then, I look back at the depth of purpose and know that God is in my work, and He’s in my life.
That was the basis of the next question that came to me.
Is the money you earn from what you do equal to the value you provide?
Over-priced payment sometimes results in not getting paid for what you’re doing, because people can’t afford it.
Steve Slaunwhite says, “make it clear exactly when your invoice will be sent and when payment is due.” The advice falls on solid ground. If you’re to be paid for your product and services, you must make clear when and how you will be paid. Your work is worthy of hire, worthy of payment.
Making a solid foundational response to your client is important, as you build your business, grow your brand and develop your client base. Make sure you always give more than you get and know the full value of your efforts. Give more than you expect to get.
Don’t do the job for the money – do the job because you LOVE what you do and you’re doing it for the right reasons.
