Never Forget.⠀
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When you look back on life, there are only but a few of the many, that you never forget.⠀
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Milestones, Memories and Life Changing.⠀
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September 11, 2001 started out as a beautiful sunny day. At work we talked of Monday Night football, how McCafferty broke his leg in mid air. All of that would soon be forgotten. ⠀
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The news came via the only smartphone on the job. I was at the Philadelphia International Airport building the expansion addition. The tower crane operator raidos, "Something is going on!" Planes are dropping to the runway in chaos.⠀
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We hear a roar. Four jet fighters fly up the Delaware River, low to the water, then split. One pair going northeast toward NYC, another pair flank west. (The chills of the memory still in my soul).⠀
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I spent some time near ground zero in the weeks to come building support structures and scaffolding. The news images did not do the damage justice. ⠀
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On this day every year, I have many emotions going on inside. Hatred, sadness, grief are a few. ⠀
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I think of two people every year on this day. My friend Richard Guadagno who perished in Shanksville, PA and my brother in law, Dean, who works at the world trade centers. God, works in his own way and my brother in law got into a car accident that morning.⠀
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Put politics, religion and conspiracies aside for this day.⠀
Remember. Remember all those who lost, that day, the days and year after.⠀
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Don't Just Do Something...Sit There!⠀
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For a long time, all by yourself, sit quietly, absolutely alone. ⠀
Completely relax. Don't allow the television or music to be on. Just be with yourself. ⠀
Watch for what happens. ⠀
Feel your sense of silence. Observe insights starting to appear, your relationship with yourself starting to get better, softer and more comfortable. ⠀
Sitting quietly allows your true dream life to give you flashes of motivation. In this hustle-rich, interactive, life today, you are either living your dream or living someone else's. ⠀
And unless you give your own dream the time and space to formulate itself, you'll spend the best part of your life simply helping others make their dreams come true. "All of man's troubles," said Blaise Pascal, "stem from his inability to sit alone, quietly, in a room for any length of time." Notice that he did not say SOME of man's troubles, but ALL. ⠀
A guy once ask me, "Why is it that I get my best ideas when I'm in the shower?" I asked the guy, "When else during your day are you alone with yourself, without any distractions?" ⠀
Great ideas come to us in the shower when it's the only time in the day when we're completely alone. No television, no traffic, no radio, no family, no pets—nothing to distract our mind from conversing with itself. "Thinking," said Plato, "is the soul talking to itself." ⠀
People worry they will die of boredom or fear if they are alone for any length of time. ⠀
The truth is that the only real motivation we ever experience is self-motivation that comes from within. ⠀
The best way to truly understand the world is to remove yourself from it. ⠀
Psychic entropy—the mood swing between boredom and anxiety—occurs when you allow yourself to become confused by massive input. By being perpetually busy, glued to your phone, out in the world all day with no time to reflect, you will guarantee yourself an overwhelming sense of confusion. ⠀
The cure is simple, painless and uncomplicated. Simply wait. Be still and solitary. The world will offer itself to you. In other words, don't just do something...sit there.⠀
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Get on Your Deathbed ⠀
Take the "deathbed" exercise. ⠀ I was asked to clearly imagine myself lying on my deathbed, to fully realize the feelings connected with dying and saying good-bye.⠀
i was asked to mentally invite the people in my life who were important to me to visit my bedside, one at a time. As I visualized each friend and relative coming in to visit me, I had to speak to them out loud. I had to say to them what I wanted them to know as I was dying. As I spoke to each person, I could feel my voice breaking. ⠀ Somehow, I couldn't help breaking down. My eyes were filled with tears. I experienced such a sense of loss. It was not my own life I was mourning; it was the love I was losing. To be more exact, it was a communication of love that had never been there. During this difficult exercise, I really got to see how much I'd left out of my life. How many wonderful feelings I had about my children, for example, that I'd never explicitly expressed. ⠀ At the end of the exercise, I was an emotional mess. But when those emotions cleared, a wonderful thing happened. I was clear. I knew what was really important, and who really mattered to me. I understood for the first-time what George Patton meant when he said, "Death can be more exciting than life." From that day on I vowed not to leave anything to chance. I made up my mind never to leave anything unsaid. I wanted to live as if I might die any moment. The entire experience altered the way I've related to people ever since. We don't have to wait until we're actually near death to receive these benefits of being mortal. We can create the experience anytime we want.⠀ ⠀
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On June 29, 1892, Henry Clay Frick, the manager of the Homestead Steelworks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—motivated by a desire to break the union of skilled steel workers who for years had controlled the shop floor in the steel mill and slowed output—locked the members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) out of the Homestead Steelworks. In response, the next day, AA members struck the plant. ⠀
⠀ In the first days of the strike, Frick decided to bring in a group of strikebreakers. To get inside the steelworks, the replacement workers would have the daunting task of making their way past picketing strikers who had surrounded the steelworks. ⠀ ⠀ But Frick hadn't hired any old strikebreakers: he decided to hire men from the Pinkerton detective agency, who were technically dubbed “detectives” but who were actually armed men seeking to push past striking workers and forcibly reopen the steelworks.⠀
⠀ On July 6, gunfire broke out between striking workers and some of the three hundred Pinkerton detectives that Frick had hired. The Pinkerton agents, who were aboard barges being towed toward the side of the steelworks that bordered the Monongahela River, were pinned down in the barges by gunfire from the striking workers. By the next afternoon, with several having been killed on both sides, the Pinkertons raised a white flag of surrender. ⠀
⠀ Five days later, however, 6,000 state militiamen who had been dispatched by the governor of Pennsylvania marched into town, surrounded the steelworks, and reopened the plant. The state government had sided with the owners. The union had been defeated.⠀
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They died to make the desert bloom.⠀
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Though the myth that there are bodies entombed in the dam is just that, a myth, there were officially 112 deaths as a result of the project. ⠀
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The first was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned while searching for a spot for the dam on December 20, 1922. The last worker to die on the dam lost his life 13 years to the day later — Tierney’s son, Patrick.⠀
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LumberJacks and Labor Day⠀
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When the Civil War ended, a boom in railroad construction ensued, with roughly 35,000 miles (55,000 kilometers) of new track being laid from coast-to-coast between 1866 and 1873.⠀
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It takes 2300 ties to make a mile of track. 80,500,000 ties!!!⠀
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These men labored away, in unfavorable conditions. ⠀
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It is men like this, they we a day to celebrate. ⠀
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Before you throw a burger on the grill. Say "Thank You"⠀
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