Comments on: Saturday Op-Ed: Defining Your Life http://adamjdavis.com/2008/06/28/saturday-op-ed-defining-your-life.html Radical Change = Radical Results. Start Making More Money Now Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Adam Davis http://adamjdavis.com/2008/06/28/saturday-op-ed-defining-your-life.html#comment-253 Adam Davis Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:40:11 +0000 http://adamjdavis.com/2008/06/28/saturday-op-ed-defining-your-life.html#comment-253 Barb, Wow. What a reality check and a shot of perspective. It is really hard to see some of that stuff first hand. Sometimes we need not even venture much past our own city limits to get a strong dose of the things we take for granted. I feel a level of responsibility to be a good steward of the blessings and good fortune I have had to be able to start and build companies. As entrepreneurs, we can use our talents and abilities to improve the fortunes of others by creating economic value. Each job that is created by an entrepreneur, each new product created, each property that is renovated represent positive steps. Glad you are back in Michigan safely! Barb,

Wow. What a reality check and a shot of perspective. It is really hard to see some of that stuff first hand. Sometimes we need not even venture much past our own city limits to get a strong dose of the things we take for granted.

I feel a level of responsibility to be a good steward of the blessings and good fortune I have had to be able to start and build companies. As entrepreneurs, we can use our talents and abilities to improve the fortunes of others by creating economic value. Each job that is created by an entrepreneur, each new product created, each property that is renovated represent positive steps.

Glad you are back in Michigan safely!

]]> By: Barbara http://adamjdavis.com/2008/06/28/saturday-op-ed-defining-your-life.html#comment-252 Barbara Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:02:17 +0000 http://adamjdavis.com/2008/06/28/saturday-op-ed-defining-your-life.html#comment-252 Adam, thanks for a great post! All last week I had similar thoughts of how people live their life - or would their particular lifestyle be imaginable for me. The daily crossing of the US-Mexican border gets you face-to-face with "entrepreneurs" of a different kind. Entire families beg and sell almost anything from food to car shades, single cigarettes, nuts, religious "stuff" and so on. It's around 100 degrees and the exhaust fumes of all the waiting cars are choking me. I could not for 1 minute live a life like that - yet it does put everything into perspective. How spoiled have we become and how many things do we take for granted that other people can only dream off? This is not only concerning the material things, but also in a huge way the safety and freedom we enjoy in this great country of yours! It seems like this particular Mexican border town is currently being ruled by drug lords and military. Soldiers with machine guns on special tank-type vehicles are all over the place. It doesn't help that every soldier is wearing a face masks so the revenge attacks of the drug cartels will hopefully not hit him or his family. Shoot-outs are part of daily life - and this last week was extreme due to a successful government weekend drug raid with over 60 people arrested (which means additional acts of revenge killed over 20 people on Monday alone). I don't know if I would call this living or even existing under these circumstances - I just know it's beyond my scope of reality. This has not been my first exposure since I have been going there for several years, yet the level of violence has spiked to a point where I feel very unsafe. You have no idea how good it feels to be back in Michigan! Yes, we do have economic issues here and our future may not be as bright as in others US states, but it's not even worth mentioning in the big scope of things. And it makes me define my life as well as appreciate all the things we seem to take for granted. Adam, thanks for a great post!
All last week I had similar thoughts of how people live their life - or would their particular lifestyle be imaginable for me. The daily crossing of the US-Mexican border gets you face-to-face with “entrepreneurs” of a different kind. Entire families beg and sell almost anything from food to car shades, single cigarettes, nuts, religious “stuff” and so on. It’s around 100 degrees and the exhaust fumes of all the waiting cars are choking me. I could not for 1 minute live a life like that - yet it does put everything into perspective.
How spoiled have we become and how many things do we take for granted that other people can only dream off? This is not only concerning the material things, but also in a huge way the safety and freedom we enjoy in this great country of yours!
It seems like this particular Mexican border town is currently being ruled by drug lords and military. Soldiers with machine guns on special tank-type vehicles are all over the place. It doesn’t help that every soldier is wearing a face masks so the revenge attacks of the drug cartels will hopefully not hit him or his family. Shoot-outs are part of daily life - and this last week was extreme due to a successful government weekend drug raid with over 60 people arrested (which means additional acts of revenge killed over 20 people on Monday alone).
I don’t know if I would call this living or even existing under these circumstances - I just know it’s beyond my scope of reality. This has not been my first exposure since I have been going there for several years, yet the level of violence has spiked to a point where I feel very unsafe.
You have no idea how good it feels to be back in Michigan! Yes, we do have economic issues here and our future may not be as bright as in others US states, but it’s not even worth mentioning in the big scope of things. And it makes me define my life as well as appreciate all the things we seem to take for granted.

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