My dad in grained into my mind that winning is a must. It never mattered what the “game” was, If it was a sport, job related, board games, cards, anything at all ... winning was key. You give it your all and you win. His go to line for all his encouragement and talks was,

While this is true, second is second place, only one person can hold first. And second is a hell of an accomplishment as well. Some times it’s not about winning, it’s about learning. I really like the acronym F.A.I.L- First Attempt In Learning. Keep learning, keep growing. If your not failing your not trying hard enough.

Wayne Gretzky left Edmonton Oilers organization in 1988, while his career was very lucrative he won 4 Stanley Cups. He was traded to L.A. In the summer of ‘88. Little did he know he’d never bring home that glorious prize again. Never did he win another championship, arguably the greatest player to ever lace up the skates was denied for 11 more years until he retired. But still he was the most humble, kind and collected man in sports. For someone who winning and record breaking came easy, ever since childhood he was winning everything, he never lost. But 1988-1999 he tried harder than the previous year to win. Determination was his middle name, he truly is the great one.

Everything is society is focused on winning, the winners and Champions. We don’t focus on the losses or how/why they lost. But losing teaches us valuable lessons, What does losing teach us?

Empathy

Losing teaches us how it feels to be in someone’s shoes. We know the disappointment of coming so close only to be shut down from the first place prize. Some people try all there lives to win at their craft, they try to be recognized by all their peers as the CHAMPION! Only to be denied time and time again. Not winning teaches you to cope with loss, pick up the pieces and get back out there and kick some ass.

Losing teaches you to win

By losing we learn what not to do, what didn’t work and why. Anybody who is at the top of their field has a story of broken dreams and crushed hearts. Look at Gretzky, his dreams of another cup was just out of his grasp for over a decade. Getting beat down and having to fight your way back builds strength and character. This is an attribute that winners never get. They don’t know what it’s like to be in a losing situation, so when faced with it... well they crack and can’t handle the pressure.

One thing that separates someone who is successful in the long-term and the short-term is resilience. It’s the ability to fail, take chances, lose and learn from the failure to use it to empower the next opportunity or victory.

Did you know Dr Seuss was rejected by 27, yes TWENTY-SEVEN publishers before he got a book deal. Think of the rejection he faced and forged on. Publisher after publisher telling him books are shit and garbage. One of the most famous kids authors, dare I say one of the most famous authors period, was rejected and got back up and went to another publisher.

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Life, It’s all relative, generally the more money you have more you will spend. You start making a little more money and maybe you buy a new car, or go on a more elaborate holiday with the family. Then you get another raise and shout,

“Honey, let’s move to a bigger house”

Most people think- if only I made another $10,000, $20,000 $100,000 a year I would be just fine. Well generally speaking You just increase your spending to keep in line with your income.

XRP has mooned, what do you do? Well I will be keeping some in digital assets still and the rest... well I’m investing for income based returns and retire on a beach. Sound good ? Join me won’t you ?!?

Before we get much further let me say that this is not financial advise. I’m not telling you to do any of these types of investing. Do your own research, draw your own conclusion, invest your own money. Win or lose you make the choices for YOU

NOW LETS DIVE INTO THIS

I invested in digital assets about 3 years ago, with the hopes of a better life for my family and maybe to make it rich, I mean hey everyone needs a Lambo, well everyone but me . Although I will take the “make it rich” part, so to speak. Since I’ve been in this space, there’s one thing that people say that I just can’t believe. I always hear people say when Xrp moons they want to open a company and work for them selves, be self employed. Well these are people who have obviously never been self employed. I will say to those people-

Do you want to work for 60 hrs a week ??

Owning a business is headache’s and fires to put out daily, problems after problems to which you have to find a solution or lose thousands a day. Yes the money can be good, if, IF you succeed. Why would you want to work yourself to death, for a 5% success rate on a new business? People think it’s so hard to be financially free, well really it’s pretty simple. As with anything, you just need money. That old saying, the rich keep getting richer is a very true . You need money, to make money always rings true.

Well, all jokes aside to be financially free you have to make your money work for you, *not the other way around. If your working for money , you’ll always be working for money.* Invest in your self, pay your self first. Now by that I mean, let’s say when Xrp heads north you end up with $800,000 what are you going to do with it ? Pay your house off, buy a new car, go on a holiday or two but .... but .... now it’s all gone and I’m still going to work every day for the rest of your life. No, NO, NO, NO!! You do not want that, sadly this will be a good majority of people. When found with new wealth most individuals will blow it faster than an 8 ball up Grant Fuhr’s nose in the 80’s.

Ohhh, low blow Gordie, low blow. Sorry Grant

Then there will be a group that will buy stupid ass shit like Lamborghini’s, well this group will be the brokest group the fastest. I feel if you want a lambo, wait 2 years post moon and you’ll get a smoking great deal on a two year old lambo or Ferrari ..

No joke XRP is like holding the winning lottery ticket I just can’t cash. I have the ticket, I know I won it’s just my big cardboard cheque can not be picked up and cashed yet, I stress the word YET. More lottery winners or people who fall into new found wealth end up blowing it all and being broke, back at work in the shitty job they dreamed of leaving.

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Fridays are normally a day I skip putting out a blog. Usually I’m so exhausted from the crazy week at work I can’t fathom putting a blog out but not today! Today, this FRIDAY I’m grateful for all my followers and all they have given me. I still ask myself who would want to follow me? My inner voice always answer in a snarl Hell if I know. I’m so very thankful for every last one of you. I just reached 600 followers on Twitter and 2 shy of 60 on Coil. I thought it very interesting how my Coil followers are 10% of my Twitter. No math equation for that it’s 100% coincidence, cool none the less .

Followers have gotten me to where I am today, my followers. Also the people I follow have influenced me as well and I THANK YOU to everyone I follow. Following your favourite Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and most importantly Coil profile is a free way to say hey I see you and I like what your doing, keep it up. It’s also a way to keep up with all the posts and rants of your Fav people. If I wasn’t following some people on Twitter I would not of heard of VET or CSC as soon as I did. Which allowed me early access to those two DA’s along with a few more. As with anything do your own research- DYOR

IF I WASN’T FOLLOWING THE TWITTER PEOPLE THAT I WAS, THEN I MIGHT HAVE NEVER STARTED SUPPORTING COIL FOR ONE. I THOUGHT $5 A MONTH IS A CHEAP WAY TO SUPPORT XRP MY BLOOD OF THE CRYPTO SPACE. THEN A FUNNY THING HAPPENED, I STARTED TO READ. READ ALL THESE AMAZING STORIES, POSTS, LIFE LESSONS ECT. WHICH EVENTUALLY LED ME TO BLOG MY SELF !?!?

Which leads me to the point of how truly grateful I am for my twitter followers. Twitter connects people from around the world whom I never would have met otherwise. I’ve met some great people on twitter and I’m thankful for that , but in this post i want to dive a little deeper into Coil and my followers there.

With Coil you can sign up to be a subscriber and get special bonuses and perks. One of those perks is a subscriber section. In this subscriber section is where I will continue my thanks and explain where I am going with this Follower Friday. So if your not a member of this elite club what are you waiting for ? All the cool kids are in here smoking and drinking... Sign up HERE

Let’s enjoy some Uncle Kracker and follow me into the subscriber section , so press play and let uncle cracker give you background music as you stroll through the elite section. The subscriber section. Thank you 🙏🏼

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Where is my remote !! My remote with a fast forward or pause button, In life there’s always something that we want to skip and forget about. A daunting task, a hated task or even just taking out the garbage or doing dishes. If I asked Lee I’m sure her’s would be laundry. We do so much laundry it still baffles me to this day how much we have to do. I mean who can change there clothes that much, oh I know 2 teenage boys. I’d like to say it’s because of quarantine but sadly it is not.

In the world as we know it now, more than a few people would fast forward to a time in a not so distant future pasted this pandemic. To a time clear from all of this, a time post Covid. I’m sure more than a few Xrp Community members would fast forward a couple years to a XRP moon date, so we can all get on to enjoying life and our post moon plans. Hell, I’ll admit, I’d be tempted my self to skip a bit. This also goes not just fast forward but what about autopilot.

Come on you know what I mean???

You get so good at your job you can slack off a bit and still look like a rock star. The autopilot Walking dead zombie. Still functioning and doing all his daily tasks, I’ll admit sometimes I feel just like this. Tired and exhausted just going through life trying to get to the weekend for some well needed family time. Monday comes and I hit fast forward to the weekend. Come on weekend, hurry hurry hurry .......

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I’ve been thinking lots lately about September, why September?? I’m optimistic that kids go back to schools. Not to normal but at least our kids go back. They need to be in school, they just don’t learn the same at home... I’m sure all parents can agree 👇🏻👇🏻

Lee has been working from home with our boys since March. Doing her job daily and homeschooling, all a while our 4 dogs have been in their glory, constantly getting snuggled day and night. Our four legged friends have gotten the most walks they have ever had, sometimes 2-3 times a day. Charlie our white lab has even slimmed down quite a bit. So I often think what will happen when September rolls around and the house is empty for 9 hours a day. Well, Separation Anxiety is when your dog exhibits extreme stress from the time you leave him alone until you return, normally this affects puppies and not older dogs but, it can affect older dogs as well, so I’m kind nervous. Very destructive behaviour can result along with these symptoms,

🔹accidents in the house

🔹barking or howling

🔹 pacing or shaking

🔹 chewing things

🔹 trying to escape

All of these and many more symptoms of stress and panic for the dog. Think of it as a panic attack but for dogs. I am a little worried about SPCA’s around the world will get over ran and flooded when the world will go back to normal, not the normal we once knew, that, I fear is long gone. The new normal will be very similar and also very different, maybe with masks for a unspecified amount of time. Extra cleaning procedures for businesses. Limits to the amount of people allowed to shop and arrows directing our every move. While everyone was at home they had some down time and thought – hey let’s get a dog !!

All these dogs being bought, what happens when the population has to go back to work? And all these cute little puppies are left at home to there own devices. What happens when people are working longer hours and simply just don’t have time for there little bundles of puppy fur that they bought amidst the bordom of COVID-19 quarantine. Separation Anxiety affects dogs, not really cats, yes our cats love us and come for pets and snuggles every day on multiple occasions but, I feel cats would like the peace and quite and to get their, yes THEIR house back to normal. If you own a cat you know exactly what I mean by this statement.

Although older dogs can develop Separation Anxiety it usually affects young dogs. So all you new dog owners PLEASE don’t dismiss this as something to worry about later, prevent puppy separation anxiety before it starts. I know it’s very hard right now as life’s daily routines have changed. But still try to leave the house every two days, at least, with out your dog. Put him or her in kennel while you are gone, go out and come back. Keep a little routine, if you don’t you’ll have one stressed puppy on your hands😳

Always remember being a dog parent is a life long commitment. It’s not something you abandon when times get hard or when the dog gets difficult because you didn’t train them proper as puppies. I fear that many people will surrendered Fido when they become destructive or to difficult, or when they become to much work for them.

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But as always, thank you for reading ❤️