{"id":3465,"date":"2011-10-24T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2011-10-25T01:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T01:35:44","slug":"packed-and-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"Packed and ready……"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every journey starts with a few things, book a flight, or study the map. \u00a0 Pack your bags, and leave the house. \u00a0Steps one and two done, now just the flight to New York! \u00a0 There is a more important preparation for a journey,\u00a0 ask why are you going? \u00a0 As you know,\u00a0 I bared my soul yesterday about all the reason I would love to spend this week somewhere well south of New York City. \u00a0Let take another moment to tell you why I’m glad to be going there. \u00a0A lot of people will be coming to the Nikon booth, they will be coming to get answers, to seek advice, and learn something they really want to know. \u00a0 My job, what I’m paid to do, is answer that call. \u00a0I’m armed with great training, and years of study, and I love being one of the people that gets to help those people. \u00a0Is everyone pleasant, nope, is everyone appreciative, sorry no again, but that doesn’t matter, everyone that steps to my spot at the counter is going to get my best!<\/p>\n

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That brings me to the point of tonight’s entry, giving your best. \u00a0I’ve had the immense pleasure and honor of learning from one of the very best people at doing that, I’ve ever known. \u00a0My bride, Sherelene is the consummate professional, she doesn’t know how to give anything less than 110%, as a wife, mother, grandmother, nurse practitioner and servant of God. \u00a0I think I have an incredible motor for a man my age, but my ability to keep driving with full intensity, pales in comparison to Sherelene. \u00a0Effort alone is not enough, heart and commitment are the finishers. \u00a0It’s not what you do, but why you do it. \u00a0I give my all because I’m doing it as unto Christ, and I’ve had a great teacher in her! \u00a0Thanks Sherelene, I’m learning, but will never catch up with you, but then being number two behind you, is not bad at all!<\/p>\n

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Goodnight sweetheart,<\/p>\n

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Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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