Comments By Dan S.

Yep laying in hospital now with fractured A1 Vertebra on spine. I wasn't driving but in sleeper. Woke up to E Ride from Hell.

Looking at being out for quite awhile.

Thanks. Not sure what happen, something about truck in front starting to Jack knife, and our truck clipped him. Winter Weather was involved.

For real be safe.

I wasn't driving. In Sleeper.

Co-driver o.k. in so far as I know

I'm in hospital with fractured A1 Vertebra

Slow down and be safe out there

Prime

Answer the question

"Are you working to Live, or Living to Work?"

IF the answer is the latter? Be prepared for those parts of your life which you cannot put a price tag on to suffer. Your relationships.

In the process of providing for your family? Don't lose your family.

In a book titled "Crazy Time" about divorce, a man came home with wine and roses. After years and years he came home to his large executive home in an exclusive home in a gated community. Children grown and gone from Home.

But he had finally "made it!" Executive Senior Vice President.

His wife just looked at him, the wine, the roses.

"That's nice i suppose. I just wished we had spent MORE time as a FAMILY when the kids were growing up."

It's actually quite simple.

There are SOME,L/O who do manage to make it work for them depending upon their INDIVIDUAL circumstances.

Some do, MOST don't. But enough do, to make the multitude believe they can.

IF you want to make BIG Mega bucks? Get into Sales, in talking asking BIG TICKET ITEMS,

There's a reason less that ONLY 001 to 0001 of most people are sucessful in Sales. Because it's NOT selling that makes you successful, it's finding people to SELL to.

Trucking? Its NOT leasing or even owning that makes you successful and money, it's applying the basic and fundamentals of being a TOP TIER DRIVER.

A LITTLE IS A LOT, AND A LOT IS A LITTLE.

If you ask someone what's the difference between

.01 and .0001 they will tell you not much.

It's that small difference that makes a HUGH difference between being successful at anything.

It's DAILY consistently adhering to the basic amd fundamental process and procedures that separate the 01 from tge 0001.

Most L/O aren't doing so well from what I've seen.. They appear to be because they're actually are spending their OPERATING CAPITAL and an ever increasing rate.

They're cash inflows don't match they're cash outflows. They're already operating om a razor thin margins, and it doesn't take too much to knock them into a hold.

They become desperate, they become trainers. They spend more and more to be out, Stress levels rise, health is affected, relationships,...........

Further and further down the rabbit hole they go..........

Me? I'm applying the K.I.S.S. principle

Keeping It Simple STUPID

After I got out of the Marine Corps, I meet a guy who NO MATTER what was happening or going on? And you asked him how he was doing? His response was always "I'm DOING GREAT!"

Never shunned, never complained, zilch.

One day came and his young daughter was in the hospital. Wasn't expected to make it? He came into work.

Someone asked him, "How you doing?"

His response? "I'm doing GREAT!"

But, but, how? How could you say that?

He Went OFF!

And basically lectured the guy that things could ALWAYS not only be worse, but get worse, and when your at your LOWEST you need to accentuate and appreciate the positive.

Try for just one week. I did. You'll be amazed at how people behave and react differently to and towards YOU.

(His daughter made it BTW)

The Daily challenge

Learning some thing new, even if it's old.

THE solitude

Not having someone literally looking over my shoulder.

It usually takes most people a good six months to settled into a job. Some a lot longer.

Most are too impatient to stay with something long enough to get to looking it.

My 1st two years in the Marines? Hated it. Ended up living and loving it, doing 20 years and retiring

Randy (Randy McNally GPS) will lie to me worse than my XHEX 1st wife

In ANY human endeavor, regardless of what it Is? You have a basic equation:

E = r

In which a GREAT and TREMENDOUS amount of EFFORT is required to achieve very little results

In time, and with GREAT and TREMENDOUS amount of EFFORT the equation flipd to

e = R

In which little (Seemingly) little effort yields GREAT and TREMENDOUS

RESULTS

But, or requires repeated effort, accompanied with frustration, aggravation, agitation, trial and error and yes FAILURE.

I'm 7 months in, I'm STILL learning and growing.

I'm concentrating on being and becoming the SAFETEST, MOST PRODUCTIVE, EFFICIENT driver I can be with a good and positive attitude, a can do ~ will do attitude.

I DO that and stay the course?

THE money will take care of itself.