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Best Lanyard Maker of All-Time: The Legend of Yori Lim

    Are you ever assigned to do little things that don’t seem to matter? Have you ever been in charge of making a lanyard for an event? Have you ever seen a lanyard and thought, “Does anyone care about how pathetic and cheap this looks?”    Arriving at Stinker Stores in Idaho for their 2022 Leadership Level Up conference I received my lanyard, and, like usual, wasn’t about to put it on. Until I looked at it and nearly fell on the floor. It appeared hand made, but not in the bad way, no, this was handmade by a genius of the craft, a carefully customized piece of art, of great value in it’s perfection, something I will never throw away. The stuff Promise Legends are made of!   I accidentally screamed out, “Who made this??!!?”  My client, event planner, and awesome cousin, Nate Brazier, mastermind of the event (deserving of much praise as well for putting on such a spectacular conference), said, “Oh, isn’t that amazing?  Her name is Yori Lim, she always makes the lanyards, how cool is this one?”      I said, “This is legendary! Where is she?”  He pointed to a corner where she was

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May 26, 2022 4 Comments
Business

Rehab

“I have to tell you something…. I’m, um, I’m an alcoholic.  It controls my life, affects my job, and I’m terrified to tell my boss because I don’t think he’ll keep me employed if I tell him my plan after hearing your talk about The Promise today.”  The man whispering to me at the side of the stage was in his 60’s.  Seasoned, weathered, deep lines in his face, a mustache, he couldn’t look me in the eye as he spoke to the ground. I asked him his plan. “I am finally ready to keep the Promise to myself and plan on going to rehab.  I need to finally face this.  I never have.  What do you think my leaders will say?” he asked. I put my hand on his shoulder and whispered, “You’re a brave man to come to this conclusion.  I admire and applaud you.  Go tell your boss what you just told me.  I’m cheering you on.”  He turned, resolute, straightened himself up, shoulders back, head raised stoically, a hero about to take on his new life, courage unlike I’d seen in a man now resolved – changed. He disappeared into the crowd. I never saw him

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May 21, 2022 10 Comments
Announcements

The Big Fish Hits 70

  Happy 70th Birthday, Friday, May 13, 2022, to my Father, “The Big Fish”, John Brazier Hewlett! He and I joke about the stories he’d tell in my youth, as I’d wonder if any could be true, they were so outlandish, and then later I found out they all were, so we both call him The Big Fish, in reference to the movie that tells a variation of the story of our life as father and son. He once came home triumphant from a successful fishing trip to Alaska proclaiming how he’d wrestled a king salmon for miles and hours on end, Old Man And The Sea style, until reeling it into the boat.  Exhausted, he and his fishing companions were stunned to see the 60-lb fish looking up at them before it finally perished, my old man having won the fight.  He shouted to us, “It’s as big as Josh (our littlest brother at the time) and it will feed us for a year!  They had to pack it up and will ship it home soon.”  We laughed and said Dad was just exaggerating again…and a year later we were still eating salmon every night.  Stories like that became

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May 12, 2022 No Comments
Business

Working Out My Neck

Walking into the gym every morning I get to play a game called: Which Machines Are Open Today? Seriously, the earlier I get there, the crazier it is.  I have arrived at 4:55 AM only to see the same 30 people stretching in the parking lot every morning waiting for the doors to open.  These are legit psychos, and I admire all of them, but perhaps not as much as they admire themselves in the mirrors under the gym’s perfect lighting. Most days I resort to working out on any machine that is available and camping there as long as possible, waiting for the other ones to open.  It’s a weird experience, but I actually like it, since it keeps my body guessing almost as much as my muscles. Today I got to the gym and the benches were open!  Bars and plates, weights and machines, a free for all!  A buffet for the hungry, a kid in a candy store, that is how it feels for the guy at the gym who gets to use whatever equipment he dang well pleases! And so I did CHEST.  Yes, my friend, you probably can’t tell that I never miss a day

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May 11, 2022 8 Comments
Business

The Importance of Mediocrity

Glancing social media we will notice quickly our mediocrity in the face of everyone’s great accomplishments. The importance of mediocrity is realizing and embracing the fact that you have talents I don’t have, and I have talents you don’t want!  I spent 3 days recently trying to fix an issue in our bathroom as the basement flooded from our tub. After losing 3 days and not succeeding, I called my friend who is a fix anything kind of guy.  The job was done in less than 3 hours.  I sat in stunned silence as I kicked myself for not having reached out to him sooner. I know what I should do, but don’t always do it.  Often that means not doing a lot of things for which I’m mediocre. Acknowledging our mediocrity isn’t an excuse to never improve, rather it’s a license to freedom as we reach across the void of inability to allow others to shine as they can best.   As my friend fixed the tub, patched the ceiling, and masterfully displayed his gifts of construction, I made him laugh with stories and the time passed quickly. I tell stories, make others laugh, cheer others on, play the piano,

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May 11, 2022 No Comments
Engagement

Mom vs. dad

  The difference between me being gone for 1 Week vs. my wife being gone for 1 Day is astounding. When I leave for work the ecosystem of our home seems to just know what to do, the kids are capable of continuing to function, life goes on, Mom handles it flawlessly. When Mommy leaves there is utter chaos, from the inability to find pants, comb hair, locate homework, mend a sickness, comfort a bad dream, figure out why the shower water stopped getting hot, deciding how to get between school to practice to church activity, remembering to give the dog water and cheese, knowing what to do when the dog pooped on the rug because of the cheese, dealing with the contractor who rang the doorbell, filling out the papers for the field trip, having the gift for the teacher ready, snacks and lunches packed, avocado toast with a protein shake in hand, and getting to school on time. This is all before 7 AM. By 5 PM every survivor is barely alive in the living room, sedated on the carpet, confused and lost, the house ransacked, an entire family of skeletons who have just crawled from the clutches

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May 6, 2022 4 Comments

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