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1. Ben Waugh
   March 1st, 2009 at 12:54 pm

   Hello.

   I would like to put a link to your site on my blog roll if you want to do the same for mine. It would be a good way to build up both of our readerships.

   thank you.

2. Gary
   March 1st, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   Hi Ben – Sure. I just added you to my blogroll.

   Regards

   Gary

3. Nikki
   March 1st, 2009 at 4:39 pm

   Ah, The Precious.

   I will leave you a proper comment here, but first of all I want to go and read it again (yes, that did say again). Then it will be completely fresh in my mind.

   (Look, a short post from me for once!).

   Nix

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4. Gary
   March 1st, 2009 at 10:43 pm

   @ Nikki – Indeed. I am aware that you read my little story some months ago.

   Yes, a short post – a bit of a rarity for the moment – considering your recent tomes of information – LOL

   Gary

5. Thom Swartwood
   March 1st, 2009 at 10:57 pm

   Gary,

   Thank you for this post and this story. I have downloaded it and I will be taking the time to sit, read and truly meditate on it.

   Gary, I am sorry four your loss. I can never truly understand that loss, and how it effects you, although I have had plenty of loss in just the last few years of my life. I lost both my parents within one year of each other. My father was only 73 and my mother 63. One from a Massive CVA the other to Lung Cancer. I miss them both, although I know they are still with me. They are with me in what they have taught me, how they have loved me and how they have prepared me for this world we live in.

   If we think about choice, it is what we have that no other species on this planet has. Choice can move mountains or leave us withering in despair. Life, Death, Happiness, Sadness, Success, Failure (just to name a few) are within our choice. We make of our lives what the are. For so many people it is easier to blame others for their outcomes and their lives. What they need to realize is, it is their choice. If we look to others for happiness, or success or validation we are giving away our choice. If someone wrongs us and we feel angry and can not move on, we are not only giving that person power over us, we are making a choice.

   Enough rambling…

   Choice – we make them every day, some good, some not so good. If we don’t make a choice, that is still a choice.

   It took me a long time to figure out what I have been placed on this earth to do. We all have talents and God given gifts which we are meant to use.

   I am a teacher – plain and simple.

   God has bestowed upon me the gift of helping others through teaching. There is no better feeling in this world when someone I have had the pleasure to teach has that AH HA moment. When you see in their eyes the realization they can do it, that they understand it and are ready to apply it. This is what I get out of bed each morning for, this is how I can train groups of associates 8 hours a day for two weeks without burning out. Their success is my success. When they know they can do it, then I have achieved what I am on this planet to do.

   All of us touch the lives of many people throughout our lifetimes. Ask your self, “did I give something to that person that know one else could have?” if the answer is yes, then you are following the path you were meant to take. If the answer is no, stop what you are doing take a look at what your strengths are, what your passions are, what makes you go WOW and make the choice to follow that new path.

   I am not here to say it is easy. Took me over 16 years of working at a job I hated, being in a relationship that was destroying me from the inside out before I was ready to stop, look and really listen to what I was being told. The big man/woman upstairs has a way of tapping you and saying “Hey listen I am trying to tell you something” and if you continue to ignore it one day that little tap is going to turn into a tidal wave. Stop, Be Still, and Listen your mission is within reach. Take the time, empty your cup and be ready for it to be filled with love, passion, commitment and the power to do what you are meant to do. If it takes others to get you there, they will be placed in your path, watch for them, learn from them.

   Sorry Gary… Kind of went off on a tangent.

   I’ll stop here.. I will report back after reading the story.

   Have a great day and I hope the wedding was a great success.

   Everyone… Take care, Be silent, Reflect, and make the choice to make that powerful step forward.

   Thom

6. Gary
   March 1st, 2009 at 11:26 pm

   @ Thom – Excellent comment, my friend. You have complemented my opening remarks very well.

   There is so much that I agree with in what you said above that it would be pointless to go on a massive “agreed, agreed, agreed” mission here. But there is ONE thing you said that I would like to highlight…

   “God has bestowed upon me the gift of helping others through teaching. There is no better feeling in this world when someone I have had the pleasure to teach has that AH HA moment. When you see in their eyes the realization they can do it, that they understand it and are ready to apply it.”

   YES! I have seen that look SO many times and it never fails to excite me that I have been able to “pass the torch,” so to speak. It just makes everything worthwhile.

   In that regard, the comments that I get back from “The Power of Choice” often leave me stunned. The people who take the time to read it and then come back via email and tell me how it has changed their entire outlook on life is worth far more than the couple of hours of frenetic activity that was spent in writing it. This is a perfect example of LEVERAGE (do the job once and then keep benefiting from it) – two hours from me has been used by so many to make improvements in their lives. That is REAL power.

   Gary

   PS: BTW, to those who haven’t read it and who may think that my last couple of sentences above are self-serving then… just read it, please.

7. Thom Swartwood
   March 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 am

   Gary,

   Gary,

   I have finished the book and have been quietly contemplating since. I really liked the book. The beginning reminded me a lot of my fathers passing. As I said in my last comment, my father died of a massive CVA (Brain bleed). He was in California at the time living with my brother. The day my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, my brother went into my fathers room and found him half in and half out of the bed. They took him to the hospital and once there he called the rest of the family to let us know what happened. He told us he was stable and would let us know once he knew. We kept in touch and finally told us all that we needed to get to California. He called Tuesday night and we were all on a plane Wednesday morning. My mother could not go because the doctor would not let here fly due to the cancer. I met up with my sister and my younger brother at the airport and along with my older brother went directly over to the hospital. By this time my father was unresponsive. When my sister went up to talk to him he came around enough to give my sister the sense that he knew she was there.

   We took my father home from the hospital on Friday so he could be at home. My brother sent his wife and children away so it was just us children. We took times through the night sitting up with my father. The only thing my father had any concept of was pain, we knew when he was in pain and we were able to give him something to make it better. None of us slept much that night as we sat around his bed and told stories about our lives with each other and him. We told stories and made jokes that only family members in that situation could make. We actually joked about the fact that if anyone came in it would look like we were horrible children.

   The doctor told us before leaving the hospital that we would know when the end was near by listening to his breathing. My younger brother finally fell asleep and I kept going back in the room to check in on my father. I noticed a difference in his breathing pattern so I woke my brother up and all of us went into the room. We sat around his bed and all told him how much we loved him an told him it was okay for him to go.

   At 2:45 on Saturday afternoon my father took his last breath. When he took that last breath you could almost see him say “This is it, I am done”. That was it. He just stopped breathing and went away. We all sat together and cried.

   My father had many of the flaws that many of us have, although he always did the best that he could do. He always had a kind word for everyone and would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. All of my friends called him “PaPa Howey” and loved him.

   I know where he is today and I know he is looking down on all of us. I feel him with me and I know he had a lot to do with me becoming who I am today.

   Thank you for the book and for bringing it to my attention. Although I am sitting here with tears in my eyes thinking of my father, I feel closer to him than I have in a long time.

   Once again I say:

   Be Still, Listen, Be Open to what is around you, it is incredible what you can hear in the silence.

   Have a great day,

   Thom

8. Gary
   March 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 am

   Hi Thom – Thanks for those comments. They were very personal but thank you so much for sharing them.

   I hope it was a cathartic experience for you reading the Power of Choice. I believe that is where the true power of what I wrote is – the reflection, the outpouring of emotion and then the realization that we must honour the gifts that we have and the people who have helped us along the way.

   Your experience above was very much like what I experienced when my Grandfather passed over. He had such mental strength. As a kid I would watch him load a mountain of bluemetal-roadtop onto his truck – BY HAND – until the truck tray was brimming. Then he would drive off to deliver the load and come back and do it again, day after day. He was HARD worker.

   I also remember when we caught a frog in the stream at the back of his farm. We put it in a jar full of water then forgot about it. On the way home and about 10 miles from the farm he asked us what we had done with the frog. We were just irresponsible kids. He pulled over to the side of the road and explained to us that the frog would die of exhaustion trying to get out of that jar. Then he turned around, drove all the way back to the farm and released the frog. I learned a BIG lesson that day – compassion for all creatures.

   It’s amazing how we can remember things like that. I was only about 9 or 10 at the time.

   He would also do things like place a freezing cold can of beer in the sun while he threw that metal onto the truck. I asked him why he did that and he said he was just resisting the temptation to drink it. When the beer was hot he would then put it back in the fridge until it got cold and he would drink it after work. THAT was incredible. I’ll never forget that either.

   We really don’t appreciate how lucky we are with this Internet and all the technology that we have today. A bobcat loader today would have filled my Grandpa’s truck in 10 minutes. He would take hours to do it – one shovel full at a time.

   When my Grandpa was in hospital and very near death I went to visit him. He looked like a skeleton with skin stretched over – a far cry from the man I had known all my life. He was in a really bad way. Among other things he had emphesema (that is why I am so ANTI-smoking) but he’d also suffered several strokes and, pretty much, he had just worn his body out.

   I knew he only had hours to live. I grabbed his hard, calloused hand and he whispered to me, “I think I’ve done a pretty good job.” I replied, “Yes Grandpa, you’ve done a VERY good job.” He nodded. I told him how much I loved him and he squeezed my hand in recognition. Hours later he passed away. I was so pleased that I had gone into the hospital to see him for the last time and tell him that. I used that experience to write the opening scenes of the book.

   Glad you liked Power of Choice Thom.

   Gary

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9. Thom Swartwood
   March 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 am

   Gary,

   Thank you for your response.

   I agree with how lucky we are to have people in our lives that make a difference. I look back on my life and I see how both of my parents were always there for us even if I did not understand at the time. My parents were exact opposites of one another. If you gave my father a dollar he would find someone who needed it give it to them plus the shirt off his back. If you gave my mother a dollar she would have saved it, invested it and turned it into many more dollars. This sometimes did not make for a harmonious homelife.

   I truly believe to this day that my parents loved one another although they did not live as husband and wife for over 20 years. My father always said he would never divorce my mother because he had great health insurance and he wanted to be sure she was always taken care of.

   In your last comment you talked about how your grandfather looked. The strangest thing about when I saw my father last it was the opposite. We used to joke about how we were going to schedule time for my father to be in the hospital because it seemed every year he would end up on the brink of death and then two days later he was out of the hospital and ready to work again.

   I had seen my father on deaths door more than once and he always beat it. Then when I saw him in California he looked great, he was tanned, and he had put on weight. There was just nothing behind his eyes.

   I was not there when my mother passed away. I was on my way from Wisconsin to Ohio and was going through Chicago when I received the call tha she was gone. Then the most incredible thing happened when I finally got to ohio. I could not figure out why none of the street lights were working and everything was dark. When I got to my sisters house she told me that very shortly and I mean very shortly after my mother died there was the biggest power outage anyone had every seen all through out the east coast. We joked and said it was my mother making sure no one forgot her passing.

   It does make you wonder.

   Thanks again.

   Thom

10. Thom Swartwood
    March 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 am

    I am very interested in seeing how others react to this post. I hope one and all read your book and really take the time to reflect on the choices we make everyday.

    Thom

11. Gary
    March 2nd, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Hi Thom – Thanks again. It does look like we are playing tag here – LOL!

    Interesting comment about the power outage back then in Ohio. I could tell some similar stories. Yes, they are co-incidental to things that are happening in our lives at the time. They may have meaning for us but an event like that would be viewed by all and sundry as just a massive and annoying inconvenience.

    With respect to my friend Marina and the way that she passed away – that was the only positive thing that I could find in her death. She didn’t suffer. Some people linger for weeks and months and even years in a lot of pain.

    In Marina’s case, one day she was living and the next day she was simply gone. She passed away suddenly in bed, reading a book which was one of her great joys. Today, several people are alive because of her. She was an organ donor, so even in death she is a giver.

    On a completely different matter…

    I am sending you an email soon about the e-book that you have written. I printed it off this morning and laid on the sofa to read it. I liked it and I see you have more planned. Good stuff. I’ll get my comments to you today sometime.

    Gary

12. Stephen Bray
    March 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 am

    “only you are in control of your own destiny. For you, like all my children, have been given the power of choice.”

    Yes, yes, yes, ~ of course although we have the power of choice we don’t always have the power of circumstances.

    I mean I really ‘HATE’ the idea that some people propagate having read ‘The Secret’ is that, for example, someone who gets raped by a member of a different ethnic group in times of wartime occupation somehow brought the event upon themselves through improper thinking.

    The people of Tibet suffered during the Chinese occupation simply because of where they happened to live, their choice was largely restricted how they coped with their feelings toward their oppressors.

    Many, according to accounts, particularly some of the priests, did rather well in this regard showing wonderful compassion and forgiveness for those who oppressed them.

    You have this ability too I believe Gary, for I observe that when you make a valuable post such as this one and the first person to comment ignores the content and instead asks to be added to your valuable blogroll you simply retort ‘Certainly’, and I suspect with a wry smile.

    If they came round my place with such a request I’d ‘give them bog-roll’, indeed I might even be tempted to suggest the ‘bogged-off’.

    But then compared to me you are a Master, whereas I am a mere neophyte.

    Lovely morning here today,

    Stephen

13. Gary
    March 2nd, 2009 at 7:30 am

    @ Stephen – You do make me laugh with that dry wit of yours. I find you very funny. PMSL at your comment about the blogroll request from Ben above…

    … Indeed. My initial reaction was WTF! followed by that wry smile type thing. But then I figured it must have been important for him to ignore my wonderful offer to ask for something so simple from me. So, I said, “Sure!” And you know something Stephen? I don’t give a toss whether he reciprocates by putting me on his blogroll. I’m not even gonna check.

    (Linda Caroll and Nikki Stephens – What am I gonna do with you two? SURELY that does NOT count as me quoting myself again – does it? – LOL! You bloody two are gonna have me so self-conscious of doing that – yeah, yeah, yeah – I KNOW I do it far too much! I just have this need, I dunno… it’s just me.)

    Stephen, I agree with what you wrote in the first 2/3rds of your comments above after selectively quoting a couple of lines from my Power of Choice e-book. I wondered those very thoughts myself when the forces of EVIL destroyed the Twin Towers in Manhatten. Like millions of others, I couldn’t get my head around that at all.

    There are SO many evil things that occur and so many senseless things that happen. It makes one wonder whether there is really a God at all sometimes. I especially have these thoughts when I see young kids with cancer and birth deformities and the like.

    In my book I am speaking of a man or woman following their destiny to be all that they can be. And I know you realise this. I also know that you are pointing out another element of life – fate. And I do acknowledge such and I thank you for it.

    Life is never all roses. Often it is not. But we can be biased positively or negatively. IMHO it serves NO purpose at all to be negatively inspired. Somebody VERY close to me is like this all the time and it really upsets and annoys me. But I have gone on about that in past threads, so I won’t go for Round 2 here.

    Linda Caroll touched on the concept of yin and yang the other day and I believe in that too. How can we know good if we don’t know bad? How can we know love if we cannot compare it to hate? All that sort of thing…

    Finally, you – a neophyte? – ha, I do not think so! I have seen some of the things that you can do. And as for me being a “master” – hmm, undoubtedly in SOME things I am. But in others, it is me who is the neophyte. Again – yin and yang at work.

    OK… I’ll stop my Master Po act now. (RE: The movie series “Kung Fu”)

    Thanks Stephen. You have given us all more grist for the mill, so to speak.

    Gary

    PS: Good to hear it is nice in Turkey today. It has been a rather nice day here in Perth today too – not too hot like it has been the last couple of months. I guess it was probably nice in Nice too.

14. Gary
    March 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 am
    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ QUESTION ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

    Do I inspire these MASSIVE comments off everybody? As I swan around the blogs I don’t see too many others like this. Certainly, Hilary Dickinson‘s blog gets a few big comments and Nikki Stephens seems to be slamming huge comments down all over the place (LOL – not criticising you Nix – FAR from it my dear. I reckon if you have something to say then jolly-well say it)

    But is it me, what I write about or is this just a place to come and really have a good prattle, waffle, rant, sermon, whatever?

    I don’t mind. I am just wondering. I just don’t see it a lot anywhere else and I know it makes for a heck of a time slogging through everything. Would it be better if I were more brief – or TRIED to be? LOL!

    Gary

15. Stephen Bray
    March 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am

    I cannot believe the Gaz man is tired ~ said he who just awoke from a cat-nap

16. Gary
    March 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 am

    @ Stephen – You must still have sleep in your eyes. I said TRIED, not TIRED!

    Gary

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17. Nikki
    March 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Just left a brand spanking new post over at the Lair – and I’ve mentioned The Precious within that. I’m nice like that you see.

    Nix

18. Gary
    March 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Nix – I know you are nice. I will teleport over and take a look see.

    Gary

19. Nigel Yip
    March 2nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Hi Gary,

    I’ve just downloaded your eBook and I just wished I had read this earlier, it was certainly very moving for me as it made me remind and reflect the past few weeks as well as my early years of the choices I took and neglected.

    Anyway, RE: your question: Yes you do inspire others to write massive comments, and the topics you cover, are certainly most interesting which helps too.

    All the best
    Nigel

20. Linda
    March 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    (Linda Caroll and Nikki Stephens – What am I gonna do with you two? SURELY that does NOT count as me quoting myself again – does it? – LOL! You bloody two are gonna have me so self-conscious of doing that – yeah, yeah, yeah – I KNOW I do it far too much! I just have this need, I dunno… it’s just me.)

    Well… humans do learn through repetition, so we all repeat ourselves and say the same things. Ever notice that if you read several books by one life coach type person, they become repetitive? (Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, etc) Same concept. Except instead of saying the same thing over and over in different words, you just quote yourself.

    And yes, you inspire the long replies.

    If you look at your blog posts, many of them touch on several topic. (Often in the aside notes that you sprinkle in liberally) Just a quick glance at this post gives me 7 things I could reply to;

    1) The gift of immortality / gift of life and whether one is using it wisely

    2) Are we not using our gifts because of fears? (fear of failure, ridicule, etc)

    3) Your gift of The Power of Choice book

    4) Your bond with your friend Marina and her gift to others even in death

    and subsequently,

    5) The story line IN the book (the man and his father)

    6) The lesson that the book teaches

    and also subsequently, in comments

    7) The ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ QUESTION ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

    So yes, indeed, you do. lol

21. Denis Caron
    March 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Hi Gary:

    I feel like a mole coming out of its tunnel and being blinded by the light, since working on all the blog changes over there, I’ve been so self-absorbed. I’m glad that I came out here (this destination is one of my favorite tunnel exits) now, to be a part of your latest post. Thanks for sharing this wonderfully moving piece. I’m sure everyone that reads “The Power Of Choice” personalizes the message to make it meaningful for them. Yes, life is a gift, but at times the gift is not what one expects.

    The greatest life gift a friend bestowed upon me was the gift of allowing me to be a part of his passing. My best friend and guitarist of our band at the time, contracted AIDS, (never knew how-life on the road) and was barely hanging on with all the complications. It was a really his time to move on, but his mother kept pleading with him not to go, and get well and stay with her. He was unconscious and unresponsive, but he would not leave this world. We believed that it was too much of an internal struggle for him, to not want to devastate his mother.

    When his mother left his hospital room, we (three of us) as his band mates, best friends, and compassionate human beings, came to the side of his bed, held his hands and began to talk to him-Telling him that it was all right to leave; we’ll look after his mother: we understand that it was his time and that this was something that he needed to do; his physical shell no longer could served its purpose for him; he’s going to meet his hero Jimi Hendrix and get to jam with him and all the others who had passed before him.

    Then we began to instruct him to think of a higher plane, to begin his wonderful journey, to move on. We told him to find peace with himself, to forgive himself, leave this earth and look for the light and move towards it. Go towards the light and don’t look back, there was nothing left for him here-we’ll all be okay..,We love ya man…

    And with that, his drew his last breath and passed…

    Thank you, Tom…(sigh)…

    Thank you Gary…

    Denis

22. Richard Moloney
    March 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Hi Gary

    A very moving story. I wonder how I would have written it if I had even thought about the subject, I just don’t know the answer.

    I have made some choices which in retrospect were right and some that were definitely wrong but they were all mine and mine alone.

    Some I have regretted and others have been glad I made the right decision at the time although others may have thought I was mad for my decision.

    there are times when I don’t know where I am going in my life but I believe that something will show me the right way forward hopefully before I get too far off track.

    Richard

23. Gary
    March 2nd, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    @ Nigel – Glad you enjoyed PoC. Reflection is good as it allows us to concentrate on the way forward. If you have any regrets (and we all do) then it is best just to learn from them, cast them aside and move on. The absolutely worst thing we can do is dwell in the past.

    @ Linda – Indeed we do learn through repetition. When I learn a new karate kata I just pound the living hell out of it until I can do it in my mind without even having to do it physically. When I can “project myself” above and “see” myself doing it then I truly do know that I can do it. However, the learning must be perfect. No good practicing something imperfectly – ie with mistakes in it. As I say often – it’s the 7P’s.

    Perfect Preparation & Practice Prevents P155 Poor Performance.

    Yeah, I figure it IS me (especially since both you and Nigel have openly said so)that inspires these enormous comments from people. I seem to fire off in so many directions coz the more I write, the more I think about and then the more I write and so on. That’s just the way I think, I guess. I dunno. Maybe in future I’ll just try to make one or two key points – JUST being the operative word.

    Well, I do like to “throw out the bait” so to speak but often the water is so full of berley that I fear many people take one look and just turn away for something a lot simpler. That kinda bothers me. Plus my key words just get SO diluted it’s ridiculous.

    @ Denis – The Tunnel Rat. LOL! I have indeed been over to your PORTAL. I really DO like that name and I also like the new header – very much like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Nice. I like it. I half expected a ramp to come down so I could walk up into the spaceship.

    Thanks for sharing that experience with your friend. I know it would have been very difficult for you to recount that time. Some people welcome the blessed relief from the pain but others are real fighters. Sounds like your friend was one of the latter. he obviously felt that he had “unfinished business” here. What you guys did was let him know that he had played his part and done enough. That was good. It eased his mind and he could let go. I believe I did the same for my Grandfather.

    The greatest sadness, for me, when somebody passes over – apart from the fact that I can no longer talk to them and share their life moments any more – is the fact that they take all their life experience and knowledge with them, UNLESS, of course, they leave a recording in the form of music or a film or a book. That is why these things are so precious to me. That is why I bunged on about all that stuff with the “Phyllis Nelson” recording a few weeks back.

    @ Richard – Thank you for saying that. Welcome to life – LOL! – Making good and bad choices. Changing tack is always good as new and better information comes to us.

    Like I said above I’m not really sure exactly how I wrote PoC. Sometimes I even wonder if I really did or not. I seem to remember the words just kinda swirling around in my head, sort of lining themselves up in the right order and then WOOF – out it all came. It was rather spooky the way that it happened. I haven’t experienced anything quite like it before or since.

    I actually read PoC again the day that I put the link here and it affected me the same way that it always has. There is ONE line in that story that does it to me EVERY time.

    Thank you all for your comments. Much appreciated.

    Gary

24. jeffrey dibble
    March 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    HI Gary,

    I have made some very wrong choices in my life and I am never proud of it. I cetainly want to make up for my mistakes but you can’t repair the damages. I think we need to move on in life and not look back. The experiences that I gone through make me a stronger person and now I want to help people in anyway I can.

    Certainly, you are helping people with this blog alone with so much key posts and the ideas. You have really opened my eyes and see life is so much more better when you share what you know and the impact that people get. No amount of money can satisfied what you get from impacting people lifes.

    I haven’t download and read your book but I will read and leave you a comment when i finish the book, my friend.

    Thanks for everything,bro.

    Jeffrey

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25. Wendy Wood
    March 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Hi Gary

    I read your book and found it very thought-provoking and will carry the words with me in my life henceforth. I think you are right about a higher being guiding you while you wrote it. Thank you for giving it to me.

    Wendy

26. Vince
    March 4th, 2009 at 12:39 am

    Gary, time is so precious,

    When family close to are taken from you it tears out a piece of you heart.

    My step father who brought me up died of cancer at the age of 58 from cancer. He left seven children, I was the oldest. I miss him dearly,

    Sometimes you wonder why this happens to the people who are so
    caring. My mother was only in her early twenties when my real Dad
    left here with two babies. Some nights the only food she had to eat was a candy bar witch she gave us. She went though some really tough times while my real Dad was raising hell with his biker buddies.

    Then one Day she was sitting at a table and a bunch of salors came in
    and George was one of them. He was drunk as a skunk and fell over my Moms table. Talk about fate that is how they met. well not really.

    It is amazon how God works.

    A few months later while my Mom was home in her apartment a guy came down from upstairs ( he had just moved in ) to introduce himself.

    Well the rest was history. George loved us my sister and me and my Mom.
    He did not care that we were not his real children. He took care of us and helped my Mom out with money.

    Mom told us when we got older a story I never forgot. One Christmas George bought my Mom a beautifull dress but she was very sad. He said what is wrong, she said it is Christmas and I don’t have a present for Donna – my baby sister at the time.

    George told her to take back the dress and buy my baby sister Donna the riding lamb that you had wanted to get her. This was a very special man
    and even though our family grew to 7 is enough – not once were we ever neglected or concidered step children.

    He was a very strict man and when we got older he inforced it – but when we were little he took care of us and for that I love him and miss him dearly – Vince

27. Vince
    March 4th, 2009 at 12:45 am

    Wow, Gary I had something very important to share with you. but your post was so moving I had to tell you my story,

    So here is what i wanted to share with you.

    Hey Gary, What’s Up.

    All I wanted to say was thank you for your comments and insight on my blog in the last few months. Out of all the students you were one of the regulars that commented so I have a very special offer for you.

    You see Gary, for the last few months behind the scenes I have been working on a new twitter software. This has been a very closely guarded secret till now.

    This Software is Viral Tweet on Steroids. It has a complete interface and
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    My Tweet Elite Pro will change the way people Market, Sell and Communicate on the internet and here is were you can make a nice pay day.

    We are looking for JV partners and I am going to give Alex’s students and my closet friends a 60% commission on every sale.

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    Talk to you soon,

    – Vince -

28. Gary
    March 4th, 2009 at 5:45 am

    @ Jeff – That’s the way – forward. We can’t worry about what has passed. Thanks for stopping by.

    @ Wendy – Glad you liked the story. I know that “higher being” stuff sounds corny and I debated whether to say it or not. However, that is the way I felt at the time. I still have vivid memories of that day – writing like a maniac and just not knowing how I was actually doing it.

    Gary

29. Gary
    March 4th, 2009 at 6:00 am

    @ Vince – Gee, I have some mixed emotions about your story there. At least, I guess, in the end, you and your brothers and sisters were looked after – even if it wasn’t by your real father. Sorry to hear you had a hard time of it growing up.

    I had the opposite experience – if anything I was looked after TOO well. Consequently, I grew up weak and was always the one who got picked on and bullied at school. I used to get beaten up on a regular basis. Then, one day, at about 14 years of age I made a decision. I didn’t want to get smacked around any more. So I did something about it, and pretty much that’s why I’m like I am today.

    Regarding your “Tweet Elite Pro” I’ll check it out but I gotta level with you Vince – I am absolutely INUNDATED with all the latest, greatest products and offers ATM. I have dozens and dozens of flagged emails that I have to answer and there are more coming in every day. I am almost at the point where I can hardly spend the time even reading them all. It’s madness.

    But I’ll take a look at yours ASAP.

    Gary

30. Vince
    March 4th, 2009 at 8:22 am

    Hello Gary,

    I too was picked on a good part of my life. Bullies would throw my books out or down the stairs. I was a real shy and afraid of many people.

    Then one day when I was a freshman in high school I bought a Charles Atlas weight lifting program. Then things started to change. My senior year I grew 7 inches to 6-1 and I put on about 30 pounds of muscle.

    When my enemy’s or bullies for years saw me they were worried.
    I had more fights in my senior year than my whole life.

    Not many people messed with me because I had many years of
    bad memories in me waiting to get out. I also kept weight lifting till I reached 200 pounds. I never wanted to be picked on again.

    Ads far as Tweet Elite Pro we are just getting the JV’s ready.

    You can sign up at http://mytweetelite.com for updates.

    Twitter is the hottest thing on the internet right now and this new
    software will fit right in with everyone, not just marketers.

    talk to you soon, Vince

31. Garry Parkes
    March 4th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    Hi Gary,

    Well for those reading, Gary kindly sent me this powerful book “The Power of Choice” a while ago now. I have been watching to see how others reacted to it and I see it has invoked different reactions in people but all very moving and positive.

    Now to this day I don’t know why Gary sent me the PoC at that particular moment in time. We had never talked about it nor remotely touched on anything of that kind in our many email exchanges together which now total well in excess of 200 (yes 200 – there’s no shutting him up once he gets going!!) .

    However, it arrived in my Inbox at a moment I will never forget. I was pretty upset at the time, and for those that know me personally I am never, or more accurately say, rarely upset. Now, I won’t go into the details why as they are not really important to others but suffice to say I was upset because my wife was upset.

    But the worse part was I knew the reason for her distress was not something I could put right instantly but would take time for me resolve. Just to clarify, before people read into it things that are not there, the situation or dilemma had a financial slant to it.

    Anyway, PoC landed in my Inbox on returning from this upsetting moment. I read it and it immediately give me clarity and direction for the way forward. It was a great help. It was as though a “guiding hand” had directed my friend Gary to send that powerful story at that precise moment. But regardless of why it certainly helped me and has continued to do so.

    I can now say publically what I said in private. Thank you very much for sharing your own personal story with me and many others. It definitely has made a lasting impression as anyone who reads it can attest to.

    Your friend,
    Garry

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32. Gary
    March 4th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    @ Vince – Well the whole bully thing is a manifestation of somebody’s LOW self esteem. I know that now. I didn’t know that as a kid growing up. But I STILL don’t like it and I HATE to see it.

    Let me tell you something funny that happened yesterday – I was driving along in our satellite city of Joondalup to the north of Perth (Parkesy knows where this is coz he used to live there). Anyway, I’m doing the speed limit and driving properly, obeying the road rules.

    You gotta know the terrain, I suppose, to appreciate this more. So, I’ll explain. This satellite city has been designed to be ritzy. A lot of the streets are brick paved, they are narrow, there are median strips everywhere, trees, many lanes are just single until they branch out into two lanes, there are traffic “calming” devices (LOL, wait for it… I’ll tell you in a sec) and there are cars and people EVERYWHERE. It can be pretty dangerous for pedestrians, especially kids.

    So, I am driving along when “hoooooooonk, honk, honk!” I look in the rear-vision mirror and here is this simian going ape-sh*t at me. I think WTF? I’m not doing anything wrong. But this lunatic is giving me the fingers, honking, screaming abuse. Just being a TOTAL cretin. DUH!

    [sigh] – it happens a LOT in my city. I suppose it does in yours too. Anyway…

    … I had nowhere to go, so I decide to make a RH turn into a car perk to let this d*ckhe*d past. Now, cop this. As he goes past he leans out the window, almost to the waist, and screams out: “You F*****G (nasty four letter word)!”

    So, the Gazz-Man is sitting there. I don’t like being called that – even by a lobotomised simian. So, I see that he gets caught in a big row of traffic in the left hand lane where the road has divided back into two. The right hand lane has far less cars and there is nothing coming. An evil plan begins to stir in my mind. Will I, won’t I?

    I decide I will. You see, this lunatic probably does that to a lot of people, probably to old folk too. So… I exit the car park and pull up alongside this abuser.

    He sees me. Oh-oh! PANIC! I press my passenger window down. He starts to quiver and tremble. I just stare at him. His eyes flash many times towards me. By now he is shaking like a leaf and I haven’t even said a bloody word. I’m just drilling him with the eyeball treatment. But he is literally sh*tting himself.

    The lights change and he is OUT of there. He turned at the very next street to make good his escape and then sped like a maniac to get away. Fool!

    Now, I could have been a d*ckhe*d too. I could have gotten out of my vehicle and entered into a bit of road rage. But he got the “message” – well and truly. Maybe he will think before he does that again. Maybe not. Probably not. But it will probably be in the back of his mind now that not everybody will accept his cr*p.

    It’s real tough to be in an “escape vehicle” but you never know how the traffic lights will behave ahead. Anyway, I reckon when he got home he may have had to discard that underwear.

    Now, I know… yep, I know I shouldn’t have done that. I know he may have had a gun or a knife or a machete. Lots of these types have. I know he could have been on crack (I think he was, incidentally – or some brain-addling substance that will lead to his certain death). But I was offended by what he said and not only that the WAY he screamed at me and the way he decided that his needs were so much more important to mine.

    Well, it makes for a good story and I just felt it was appropriate to tell it here, Vince, since we were talking about bullies.

    Gary

33. Sarah
    March 5th, 2009 at 1:30 am

    Hi Gary,
    It’s been a while but I’m getting back on track.

    Thank you for the book. I am off to read it now. It sounds like this is exactly what I need right now.

    Sarah

34. Adam
    March 5th, 2009 at 2:41 am

    Gary,

    I have to say that I was BLOWN away by “The Power of Choice!”

    Powerful is the best word I can use to describe reading it – you truly have an incredible way with words!

    Forgive me as I share a little personal application here, as I have been emotionally touched by reading your article.

    One of my gifts I have always known I have had is music and singing– I have been doing it since I was little….and I love singing, playing the guitar, playing the piano, performing in front of people. I’ve been in countless musicals and different performance productions, but when I got married a few years ago, I haven’t spent as much time with the music that I love. After all, I was busy with work, and school, and now a new family…right?

    Well, a few months ago I decided I wanted to start singing again – I sang several times during the holidays and enjoyed doing it every time. After reading your article, I even got out my guitar and played and sang with my little boy. I want him to grow up with music in our home, and it is fun for me to share my talents with him and my family.

    The power of choice that we have every day is an incredible gift – we don’t know the end from the beginning, but we are frequently capable of so much more than we limit ourselves to.

    Okay…now this comment is getting pretty long…

    Bravo Gary…and THANK YOU for sharing your talent with words and expression with all of us!

    Adam

35. Gary
    March 5th, 2009 at 2:45 am

    @ Garry – Hmm, you sneaked in there while I was answering Vince Craine, I think.

    Regarding…

    “Now to this day I don’t know why Gary sent me the PoC at that particular moment in time. We had never talked about it nor remotely touched on anything of that kind in our many email exchanges together which now total well in excess of 200 (yes 200 – there’s no shutting him up once he gets going!!)”

    Jeez! YOU can BLOODY TALK! You are pretty fine on the gas-bagging (I was gonna say Gazz-bagging – LOL) yourself!

    On your comment:

    “It was as though a “guiding hand” had directed my friend Gary to send that powerful story at that precise moment.”

    As I mentioned to you privately. I have actually done this several times in the past. Sometimes I sense a “disturbance” of sorts with people. Heh…heh… before people start thinking or saying anything – NO, I am not Obi-Wan-Garyobi or anything. But I HAVE done this before. It’s weird but I get these “feelings” sometimes about people and circumstances they find themselves in.

    Anyway, Garry, before I enter the “Twilight Zone” here I will shut up coz, as you know from our VOIP sessions, there is a LOT more to this than I would care to write here.

    Thanks a lot for your comments here Garry. They mean a LOT to me. I’m very glad that I was able to help you in some small way at that difficult time.

    Gary

36. Gary
    March 5th, 2009 at 2:53 am

    @ Susan – I’m sure you will like my story. I am yet to hear back from a single person who says anything bad at all about it (heh… though having said that there will have to be somebody to break the record).

    Most of the comments are so positive and that makes me feel so good to know that I have been able to give positive encouragement to so many people. That is what I am about and what I ultimately want to be remembered for.

    Please come back and let us know how you felt after reading it.

    Gary

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37. Gary
    March 5th, 2009 at 3:03 am

    Hi Adam – thanks for saying that. I’m not trying to demean your wonderful compliment but I get that reaction very often concerning the Power of Choice. I wish I could show you all the incredible emails I have had over the years but many of them are so deeply personal that I simply could not. I wouldn’t even feel comfortable deleting names and identifiers. It would seem like such a breach of confidence to do so.

    “Well, a few months ago I decided I wanted to start singing again – I sang several times during the holidays and enjoyed doing it every time. After reading your article, I even got out my guitar and played and sang with my little boy. I want him to grow up with music in our home, and it is fun for me to share my talents with him and my family.”

    Adam, if PoC has done this for you then I am VERY pleased indeed. The problem that we all have is that the routine, hum-drum DEMANDED of us by every day living just gets in the way. We keep putting things off. If you have that wonderful talent then you MUST nurture it and feed it and pass it on to your little boy – IF he responds to it, which I am sure he will.

    You also said:

    “… we are frequently capable of so much more than we limit ourselves to.”

    Absolutely!

    You are most welcome.

    Gary

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