Purpose is what gives life a meaning!!!!

We seems to be on everyone "A" list and it also seems every week we are at one of those rubber chicken dinners listening to someone set us up for a donation. Tuesday night it was the Smoky Mountain Boys and Girls Club awards dinner and the induction of their new board members and president yada yada yada.

The region director was there also, Chet Nichols talked about when he was 6 and had just started the first grade when his parents dropped him off at the club. It wasn't long before he was on the basketball team and if you ever coached a bunch of 6 year olds.....well it's a challenge to say the least.

The coach wanted them to remember just one thing, when you have the ball and you are open....take the shot. Well, long story short.....he got the ball, he was open and he took the shot, but it was in the other teams basket. As the few parents and friends laughed, and the kids stared, the coach called a time out. He said, Wasn't it great what Chet did....he was open, he had the ball and he took the shot. Instead of reaming the little one out, he gave him support which is what the club is all about, building for the future.

46 years later, that little fellow is now the region director of the club and was talking about "PURPOSE". This is the 100th year of the club, which was started by 3 housewives in New England, just average people who had purpose.

But we hear stories all the time about how great this organization is and on and on, why it is important that we help them out in some way and up to this point it was just a normal evening. Then they started to give out the Volunteer of the Year awards and we have 5 chapters in Sevier county, so there were going to be 5 awards.
a basketball coach, an art teacher, a minister, a cook and then Liz...........

When Liz took the mic, she started to cry and I mean cry, it took her about 3-4 minutes to start her speech. She started by saying that she has never told anyone in the club about this before......between the tears she went on to say that her dad was an acholic and had commited suicide, her mom took off and Liz and two sisters were all alone when they came into The Boys and Girls Club because there was food and it was a warm place to stay. She was 17 and her sisters were 15 and 13 at the time.

The reason she was crying was because to her, the club was more then a place to go after school, she considered the club her only family. She talked about how things could have gone badly for her and her sisters if it wasn't for the people at the club. When they moved to Sevier County she again connected with the local chapter and because she now was over 18 she became a volunteer along with her oldest sister so they could all hang out with her youngest sister at the club. Well one thing lead to another and this year she was the volunteer of the year.

I have been to a lot of these events, but ever one like this one. 250 people were just speechless, I guess it is one thing to read an email, or watch a video, read a book.....but it's something else to just be there and see it unfold before your eyes, talk about emotions.......

What purpose do you have in your life, was the main theme for the evening, which hits very close to home. People either love me or hate me because I am, for some reason, a lighting rod. I figured it out a long time ago that I am different from everyone else and what my "purpose" in life is. It doesn't matter what you think about me, because it would not slow me down for one second from what needs to be done.

I fell for the Woodies CCI Club hook, line and sinker because I thought he had "purpose". The slogan, Traders helping Traders, just helping people learn to trade and giving any profits to a charity from events.....just a good old guy giving a helping hand. But after what I saw in Vegas and then Chicago at the first TAL, well I was out there........and as time goes by....more and more people are figuring it out also.

Carolyn or CB on the other hand, did volunteer work at the Crisis Nursery in Scotsdale, AZ and fell in love with this beautiful little girl. She took classes and passed with flying colors so she could help raise her for a short period of time. Well, it turned into a lot longer then she first thought, but CB hung in there until the little girl's mom could get her head back on straight again. Today, she is back with her mom, and they visit each other all the time. If CB's called me this evening and needed anything, I would make sure that I tried 110% to help.....because she has "purpose". What "purpose" do you have??????

Are you just growing older and fatter each day drifting thru life, spending your time being a lounge lizard drinking yourself stupid? Telling off color jokes, and hanging out with other people that have no direction either........making bad choices and missing opportunties everday?

You might want to take a look at Philippains 3:7-9. In order to make money at this game you need discipline, but without "purpose"...what reason is there to have any discipline, oh there will be another trade down the road somewhere..... Choices, Opportunity and Purpose.....are we going somewhere?

I believe trading is 80% between the ears, 15% money management and whatever is left is all the noise you have on your charts......stay tuned if can take the heat!!!! Don't get mad at me if I hit a nerve, think about what you are doing and what you need to do.