Ghosts of Christmas Past
Reminiscences of Christmas – is it three months ago already? Time flies … Few experiences in life will ever compare to spending time with someone that you love, admire and respect. Time has really been put into perspective for me. Time is the ultimate luxury. You can always make more money, make more love but you can never make more time – once it’s gone, that’s it. Spending time with my children over the holidays was truly priceless. If you read my memoir, The Pursuit of Happyness, you know that I have been haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas Past for too many years. Seeing my first grandchild stand up and take her very first steps on her own on Christmas day was truly priceless. The Ghosts of Christmas Past can now leave me the &#*% alone. Forever.
I’ve been working on a project in South Africa, which next to raising my children is probably the most important thing that I’ll ever do in my life. This particular project has been the equivalent of climbing Mt. Everest. Uphill all the way for four and a half years. Oxygen gets thinner, supplies dwindle, and weather patterns change, but you keep going. “Baby Steps Count too!” Hmm … Where have we heard that before? After all of the climbing, we’ve reached a major milestone and established a base camp with the summit in sight. Time again! Time to catch a breath, regroup, take inventory and again begin climbing.
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Ghosts of the past are what drew me to you Chris. I now have two small children going through private ed. and a wife who owns her own pharmacy, a lifetime goal which she achieved last year at 40. My goal is to be the main breadwinner however! I’m about to be going through a tough period with my own business (financial planning via fees not commission)and use you as a sort of guiding star to keep me going in the right direction. The basketball scene in your film was where it really hit home since I never had anyone to say what you said. Like you I did not have the best upbringing…my family is consequently the most important thing to me & I guess I’m ultra sensitive to the damage that wrong messages can do to children. Keep up the good work.
Hi Chris, hope you don’t mind me writing again on your board as a follow up to the one I left in April, re your ghosts of Christmas past. I’m gonna start using this as a therapeutic exercise since I don’t think too many people are reading this particular subject (less embarassing for me!)
Well, 6 months down the line and I’m pretty well drained. My wife’s pharmacy is thriving but we’re about to go into dispute with the bank since we asked for a ‘fixed-rate’ commercial loan & they’ve given us a variable…70,000GBP to get out of it!! We think, along with our solicitors (lawyers to you) that we’ve got them over a barrel but we’ll see. Real reason I’m blogging is having nobody to discuss my biz with….I’m having a real problem with gaining new clients, I’m just so damn scared of asking. How do you make existing clients give you referrals…
Keep up the good work.