{"id":99,"date":"2011-06-12T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2011\/6\/12\/115306.html"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:53:06","slug":"thank-you-mr-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/thank-you-mr-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Mr. Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 20pt\">Thank You Mr. Brooks<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I want you to think back to a time in your life when someone recognized a talent in you that others may have overlooked.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When I was in high school, that was my carpentry teacher, Mr. Brooks. Although I didn&rsquo;t recognize it at the time, Mr. Brooks saw a talent in me that I, nor anyone else, had seen.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t understand why he gave me expensive teak for my cabinet-making project, while my peers worked with less expensive pine.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, I resented him at the time, because the oily teak I had to work with was much more difficult than the soft pine the other kids <span style=\"color: black\">destroyed<\/span>. In hindsight, when I see the time and attention he gave me, not to mention the much more expensive lumber, Mr. Brooks believed I would make a better cabinet than the rest of my class. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Brooks passed away recently, and I never did take the time to thank him for the faith he had in me. Don&rsquo;t let that happen to you.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Think of someone who had a profound impact on your life<span style=\"color: red\">,<\/span> find them, pick up the phone today, and thank them. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I guarantee you&rsquo;ll feel great, and probably have a big day!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">Randy&rsquo;s What If<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">: <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">What if you marked it in your calendar on the first of every month to reflect on a mentor who helped you along the way, and called them to say &ldquo;thank<span style=\"color: black\">s&rdquo;?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank You Mr. Brooks &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I want you to think back to a time in your life when someone recognized a talent in you that others may have overlooked. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When I was in high school, that was my carpentry teacher, Mr. Brooks. Although I didn&rsquo;t recognize it at the time, Mr. Brooks saw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}