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Perseverance -by Joel Arnold, TTNLearning

In Minnesota, there are at least a few days every winter when it’s not unusual to shovel a thick layer of snow from your driveway, only to have a snowplow drive by and block your exit with yet another heavy pile of snow and ice. So you dig out again. Scrape and brush the ice and snow from the windshield. Back out carefully from the driveway, and as you finally pull forward, check out the slickness of the road’s surface before putting the pedal to the metal.

But wait! As you approach the highway, the road is backed up with cars, barely inching along.

It’s one of those days.

But you know what? You pull forward. Inch by inch, foot by foot, mile by mile, your foot dancing from brake to gas pedal, and eventually you get there. As you drive, the inches, the feet, the miles may seem tedious and boring, but you persevere. The road passes slowly, but it does pass.

So why is it that we sometimes are unable to accomplish our goals? Is it because we give up before we’ve even scraped the ice off the windshield? Do the steps required to reach our goals seem so tedious and boring, that instead of persevering, we just pull over to the side of the road and let all the other vehicles pass us? It’s an easy trap to fall into, but try to remember that oftentimes you have to keep the gears moving, the gas flowing, no matter how slow the going, to get where we want to go. Yes, the road sometimes passes slowly, but if you persevere, it does eventually pass. And then, after you blink away the snowflakes and stomp the slush from your shoes, you realize that the goal you’ve been striving for, reaching for, persevering for is in your hands, and nobody can take that away from you.

ZigOn: Politicians

A "politician" has been described as a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one hand left to pat you on the back and ask for your vote. Yes, as the saying goes, at one time in America we told political jokes and now we elect them.

Think about what you just read. At one time in our history, to be elected to the Congress or the Senate of the United States was one of the highest honors we could bestow on anyone. The people we sent to highest political offices were people of integrity, goodwill, intense patriotism, and had a desire to serve their country. We created what is universally recognized as the finest political system in the world. It has functioned effectively for well over 200 years. Unfortunately, the system has developed some serious "glitches," and too often we send politicians, not statesmen or stateswomen, to Washington.

Question: Do we improve that system or further destroy the system by constantly maligning the people in the offices that we ourselves sent them to fill? If they're not capable people of integrity, what does that say about us? It's true that we get what we expect, so it's also true that if we expect and demand more of our representatives and ourselves, we will get more from them and from ourselves.

Solution: Keep closer account on what members of the House and Senate do. When they do something of note--and many consistently do exactly that--write a letter to the editor and send a copy of it to that publicly elected official. If we praise those good public officials (and there are many) and start honoring them for the work they do, we will attract more capable people to serve in public office which means we'll have better government. Think about it and I'll SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

What do "experts" know anyway?
 by Dr. Tony Alessandra

A number of the world's all-time great geniuses were at first thought to be anything but gifted.

Einstein, we know, left school in Germany because of poor grades in history and the language arts. The problem wasn't Einstein, of course, but the type of learning he was forced to do...

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