our second story church building window?

……

Right Now
-Fort Minor-

Someone right now is leaving their apartment

Looking down at the street, wondering where there car went

Someone in the car sitting at a signal

In front of a restaraunt, staring through the window

at someone right now with their finger in their teeth

Who could use a little floss right across the street

there’s somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket

spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered

Now he gotta walk fourteen blocks

to work at a shop where he’s about to get fired.

Someone right now is looking pretty tired

Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired

Somebody living right across the street

She wrote the best things she’s written all week

but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink

Can’t even think what happened, feeling so confused

And he knows it looks bad but there’s nothing he can do

I wonder what it’s like to be right there in his shoes

[Chorus]

But no I’m just taking it in

Out the window of a hotel bedroom again

Tommorrow I’ll be gone I don’t know when I’ll be back

But in this world everything can change just like that,

Like that

[Verse]

Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box

And trying not to get shot in his throat

For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq

Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing

in a war that he’s not really sure of the reasons

So we show our support when the press mislead them

Though we more then remain proud and salute the troops

get some I know you boys got some work to do

Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life

And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchiking

Stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner

Sneaking through the border just to work and to eat a real dinner

Right now someone wishes they were you and I

instead of second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide

But right now I’m staring at the window at a frame

with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans

he pulled out his cigarette sparked the light

And walked right around the corner just outta my sight

[Chorus]

But yo I’m just taking it in

From the second story hotel window again,

The TV’s on, and my bags are packed,

But in this world everything can change just like that,

Like that

[Verse]

Ya right now somebody sitting in the darkness

Trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment

But they got a little mattress and a little carpet

And they appreciate it ’cause some people on a park bench

You see them when you rushing to get to the office

wife robbed blind when she coming from the market

Right now somebody coming out from the pocket

Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with at

The same time the cops is raising the glock with aim

To fill your legs and back with some hot s*#@

Right now somebody struggling to stop this man

Who’s kick and punching and cussing at the doctors

Down the hall the child taking his first breath

The doctors ain’t even passed him to the nurse yet yo

I wonder if he understands what it’s worth yet

Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet

The answer to the question that we all seek

can be found depend on how free y’all think

Right now it’s somebody who ain’t eat all week

That would kill for the s*#@ that you throw away in the street

I guess one man’s trash is the next man’s treasure

One mans pain is the next mans pleasure

one say infinity the next say forever

right now everybody got to get it together man

[Chorus]

I’m just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again

Put my luggage on my back I don’t know where I’m at

I’m in world where we all change just like that,

Like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that

Kirsten (my beautiful wife) left yesterday afternoon for an out of town wedding with some friends. I stuck around here in Wilmington to spend about four days with my incredible uncle Tommy and my brother. Within twenty four hours I lived the life of my younger brother. We began yesterday with some PT’s Grill for lunch, then headed down to the Aquarium, followed by a Sharks baseball game and then downtown for 2 hours of a Led Zeppelin cover band by the water. Today we decided to rest a bit and the only so called activity was a trip to see Transformers 2. So having my uncle down made for a great weekend with family.

Although during this 36 hour run I had begun to miss my wife greatly. So fellas I began the “welcome home” this morning with some sweet text messages. We then spoke for a bit on the phone. I followed that up with some more fun text messages (these are key guys). During this time I am cleaning the house and washing every single piece of dirty clothes I can find. And don’t forget to fold and put up the clothes, this is the part I always forget and it just shows I can’t finish the job. Then I light the candles in the spotless room while I awaited my beautiful wife. And as she steps into the room I am greeted with an incredible smile and an even better kiss!

The “teach” moment here is you have to prepare the welcome home for you wife. You have to make the entire day a process of arrival. You must let her know you are thinking about her and you must contact her in other ways besides a phone call. Because you see guys, I have found out tonight that if you help raise her awareness that your are very excited for her to return home, then you have already began the “welcome home” hours before she walks through that door. And women like that feeling I believe.

ps - she greeted me with a iTunes gift card as well! I love my wife!!

Starting in the next week or so I will be updating more frequently with the idea of “coaching” at the forefront of my mind and heart. Each post I publish I hope to have some type of “coach” moment within it that may encourage you to digg deep and see just what type of “leader” you are.

The last few weeks have been crazy busy and the next month is going to be as well. The reason is a beta website I am in full force with testing for the entire month of May. I can’t wait until I get to share with everyone what this site is, but until then I will do my best to keep things updated on here. I have some things moving around in my head that is getting put down on paper these days as well as many ideas and questions coming out of our PC3 All Staff Meetings as well.

One a side note, we did start a new series this past weekend titled “Baggage” and Evan and his team knocked it out of the park once again…

But until that post, I thought I would at least get one video up from last night. So above is You Deserve, the 3rd song of the night (first 3 were back to back straight out the gate). What a great night we had!!

So enough with the waiting… Here is your Final Cut Film Festival… Best Film, Best Comedy, Best Cinematography, Crowd Favorite, and an award made specifically for them titled the Definitive Award (for young film makers in the local industry).

What is the difference between a “Mission Statement” & “Vision“?

Please leave a comment or two to help find some type of answer to this question. I am reading the books, but would love to get your heads spinning and find out what you come up with. So once again…

What is the difference between a “Mission Statement” & “Vision“?