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Book of 2016

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Your hand reaches out in the dark.  It is pitch black but it doesn't matter it knows where it is going.   It grabs your phone and flips it over.  It's trained and without thinking you type in your password.  It continues to flip thru the apps without sit or thought.  Again, it is trained and it knows what it is doing.  Then electric guitar screams at you from the blackness of mid-morning.  It is a familiar sound and your eyes snap open and to attention. You sit up right at the time Brian Johnson starts talking about being stuck in the middle of a railroad track.  By the time he is done announcing that you have been Thunderstruck your done pissing and ready for the shower.  Not only that but you are rocking out.  You are ready to face the day. Why not, you have been up on and off thru night with Singapore.  However, that isn't really why the blood is pumping.  That isn't why you are up at the ass crack of dawn of 5:15 and up moving around and happy to do it.  No the real reason is that today is your day.  You have four days a year that you are at your best.  They happen at the end of each quarter and you live for these days.  These are the days that you know you earn your pay check. These are the days you rise to the occasion and hit the clutch shot.  Its what you do.  Today really is the reason you do what you do.  It is the reason you love doing what you.  Today is either all guts and glory or its failure.  Its all or nothing and its not for the faint of heart.  You can't count the number of quarter ends you have done.  You don't want too, b/c that might make you feel old.  You can't feel old today because today you have to be at your best, because today you are best.    You wheel and deal and approve and stand your ground.  You do what it takes to get the job done.  Your out of the shower and your not sleep walking to your clothes you are hustling towards them.  You need to be at the office in your command center.  Your ready.  Never been more ready your surrounded by your best team ever.  Other people who want to step and play at your level.  Your bouncing in your car seat before you even get to Pete's.  A small cup will do today.  You haven't had coffee even decaf in a while, but today you need it, b/c sleep wasn't your ally last night.  Coffee is milked and sweetened and you get in the car and you put Thunderstruck back on the radio.  You turn you stereo up as loud as it can go and you rock!   Thunderstruck turns to Rock'N'Roll Train and the beat starts to take when it is cut off and your first call of the day rolls in.  It is time, and that is ok, b/c today there is no food obsession.  There is no worrying if we are doing enough to be healthy.  No, not today, b/c today is all about being great and closing.  I am great today!  That is a good place to start!  We will worry about tomorrow tomorrow, but for now Let's be GREAT, b/c it is my day.