No Integrity, Courage, Honor. Hope Opportunity Education, Community

I asked for a Tough Life, living outside my comfort zone.  Be very careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

I’m so sick and tired of being lied to by people with no Integrity, Courage, Honor.  They live their easy lives inside their bubble of comfort.  They talk themselves a good game.  they promise you the World, and they never deliver.

Today I counted on such a person.  I would have liked to go and see my niece,  she is a thirty something, nurse, and Mother of two young boys.  She apparently had a Stroke at her job, and Hospitalized.  I called her, told her I would be there for her as soon as possible.  I haven’t a car.  Several hours went by without a word from my “Friend”.  Eventually, I had to call my Niece and tell her I couldn’t make it.

These Folks with no Integrity, Courage, Honor, cause Leaders to want to pull their hair out.  I get so angry.  These are Emotions I just can’t afford.

I’m lucky that I have met many Alphas, Leaders, Folks of integrity, Courage, Honor.  They are my new Friends, from CarbonCopyPro.  Thier Leader, Mr. Jay Kubassek.  Problem is I rarely see them face to face.

What I wouldn’t give to find Folks of Integrity, Courage, Honor, that I could see face to face .  I suppose that’s a little part of why I do, what I do.  It’s a tough life, living outside my Comfort Zone.  Someday soon it will all be so worth it.  That day cannot come soon enough.  God Bless and Godspeed.

Scott J Collins

Team ScottiNow

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The Alpha Wolf…Hope Oppurtunity Education, Community.

We all know every Wolf Pack has an Alpha, but it also has a Delta.  This is a pack member that is at the bottom. The other Wolves treat the Delta poorly.  He is the butt of every joke and indignity.  He eats last and least.  He is the Whipping Boy for the Alpha and every other Pack Member.  But the Delta survives.  The Alpha does not kill the Delta.  The Delta eats last, but he eats!  The Delta’s cared for least, but he’s cared for!

Why is this.  If it was not necessary it would not be.  Wolves only engage in activity that is necessary for the Pack to survive.  A true Alpha Leader has compassion.  A true Alpha Leader cares for the entire Pack, from the strongest to the Weakest Pack Member.  An Alpha Leader recognizes this, he uses the strengths, and supports the weakness, of each and everyone on his Team.

A succesful Alpha Leader has the pleasure of receiving many accolades.  They often receive them over and over again.  People are always telling them there Great.  How much they’ve helped them.  Thanking them for Leadership.  It goes on, and on!

Let me say right here, right now.  The praise Alpha Leaders receive is not the reason they get out of bed in the morning.  Their short-list doesn’t say anything about receiving accolades.  In fact Alpha Leaders do not want the attention, they accept it graciously enough, but it puts even more pressure on them.  They know very well that they are, “Human Beings”.  They remember their successes.  They’re haunted by their failures.

In closing I will say this.  Give the Alpha Leader in your life a little pat on the back once in a while.  They’re aware of the good things they do.  They don’t want the attention.  They need no recognition.

Scott J Collins

Team ScottiNow

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Anoynomous…To me…Mabye you too. Hope Oppurtunity Education, Community.

This is America.

We are Americans.

Do you think he worried about his “Job” in that awful moment.

Was he thinking we’ve been trained how to react!…What to do…What to do.  Really!?  REALLY!!!

This Man Inspires Me!

Where did he work again, I have Forgotten.

Scott J Collins

Team ScottiNow

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George Washington…Hope Opportunity Education, Community.

People say I am no good, and crazy as a Loon, because I have chosen to live my life outside my comfort zone.

When you take the people you know outside their Comfort Zone you quickly find out what their really made of.

George Washington, to the best of my Knowledge never lived a day in his comfort zone.

George Washington is the Ultimate example of an Alpha Male, a Leader, the Ultimate everything under God.

I am Scott J Collins, Founder and Leader of Team ScottiNow.

Scott J Collins

Team ScottiNow

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My Nephew, My Blood Brother, My Business Partner.

I, Scott J Collins, on this day July 4th, 2011, being of sound mind and body, do hereby declare, that from this day forward, Todd Collins is my Business partner.  Further more, I fully realize that he has nothing to offer financially to our Business, and I expect nothing in return for making him my Partner.  I only do this so he can once again proudly declare that he is an Entrepreneur, and hopefully get his Mojo Back.

Livin, Lord

Livin in a house that was once a Home

So many memories of a Family gone roam

I am everything I say, you see

But, alas, only a Human Being unto thee

Patriotism By Scott J Collins

It’s almost the Fourth of July

Patriotism is running very high

An American will Do or Die

To ensure freedom for some other guy

The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole

An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,
“You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head:
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

A Little Blue Egg. Hope Opputunity Education Community

A funny thing happened when I left Church Sunday.

I had walked to church this particular Sunday.  It was a June day, we had been having some cool rainy weather the last couple of days.  This Sunday Morning was cool and damp, it was 6:50 AM.  I stopped and prayed at the Statue of Mary on the way into Church.  I also had prayed at the Statue the past six days.  Two prayers, The Act of Contrition, and The Hail Mary.

After Church I spoke with the Father, who just happens to be leaving the parish before the week is out.  I asked him why he was leaving when I was just showing up.  He said something about Signs from the Lord.  I don’t remember exactly, wish I did.

After my brief words with the Priest I left the Church the same way I had come just a hour earlier.  I believe I chose the same exact route I had taken earlier, cross the street onto the side walk.  I had travelled about a hundred yards when I saw something on the sidewalk.  Being a Country Boy I immediately recognized it to be a Little Blue Egg, a Robins Egg, a Red Breasted Robins Egg. I looked around for a Nest.  There were no Nests or Trees anywhere nearby, relatively speaking of course.  I bent down and picked up the abandoned egg, there usually broken and empty too.  To my amazement this egg was completely intact!  This is very unusual. I’ve found many, many Robins Eggs in my Fifty years of Country Living.  I cannot remember one that was intact outside a nest!  I don’t know why but I thought it my actually be able to hatch.  I couldn’t possibly keep it alive if it did but even one second of life would be better than frying on that sidewalk, right?

I gently placed the egg in my pocket and walked back Home.  Now we have been having some struggles lately, who hasn’t.  Theres no A/C in our home.  I thought logically the best place to put the egg would be on the second floor where it’s warmest, even on a cool June day.  Because it was a cool June day Little Sister was sleeping upstairs.  I woke her up and presented her with this Little Blue Egg, a Robins Egg, a Red-Breasted Robins Egg.  Logically I knew it needed warmth, but my heart said it needed love too.  Little Sister just the one for that.

Today is Monday and it’s been a challenging one, as usual.  Tonight I went upstairs for something and there I found the Little Blue Egg, a Robins Egg, a Red-Breasted Robins Egg.  Sometime in the last 36 Hrs it had Hatched.  It didn’t live long. It didn’t even make it all the way out of it’s shell.  But it had Lived.  That Little Blue Egg, a Robins Egg, a Red-Breasted Robins Egg had produced life against all odds.  Is this a miracle?  You tell me.

Thats all for now, or should I say ScottiNow signing off.  I hope you take some comfort from this story, it is true how I tell it.

Scott j Collins

Team Scottinow,

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A Fork in the Road. Hope, Oppurtunity, Education, Community.

Hi Folks.  I hope this moment finds you well.

I recently returned from a trip to Phoenix.  When I returned home there were plenty of fires to put out.  I also learned that my younger daughter brought home a stray.  Great another unemployed mouth to feed!  Ya gotta love it.

This young man has been hanging around for a year or so.  I hadn’t spent much time getting to know him, and from what I had seen I wasn’t impressed.  I shared this with the boy right away.  I am not concerned with letting him stay here.  Everyone deserves a break, after all.  He has a Hard Luck Story, don’t we all.

This kid wasn’t going to stay here without a job, so Tuesday morning I took him to work with me. The company I work for isn’t looking for any GreenHorns right now, so I knew any pay he might earn was going to come out of my pocket first.  I am second to no one in this company, so I have some leeway.  Over the last 25 years I’ve taught my skills to dozens and dozens of Men. I’ve expected nothing in return.  I thought that being around the Hard Rockin, Real Men, that I have the privilege to work with and yes even lead would do the kid some good!

The young man also needed a dentist.  He has no insurance,  What Wat, yes we live in the Baystate, no matter.  The lad has a chipped tooth, and its infected.  I called my sister. She works at a dentist office, and they helped me get some new dentures the two weeks leading up to my trip to Phoenix.  So I got him to the Dentist, all good, right?

On the ride home from work on Tuesday I told the lad that he had one shot, one shot only, to take advantage of this new opportunity in his life.  I let him know that I didn’t care if he had a good life, or a crappy life.  I told him that a man is responsible for his own situation.  Until he has done everything he possibly can for himself he can’t blame others for where he finds himself!

Well it’s been one week I think.  My wife came to me last night.  She was upset, she always is it seems.  Buddy must go, now, immediately, I don’t know how exactly, but he had blown his chance already!  Too Bad.  I thought I had reached him.  Now he’ll have to find another Alpha Dog to follow.  It really needs to be the Man in the Mirror!  He needs some more coaching before he will grasp that concept.

You come to a fork in the Road.

One Road looks familiar.  It’s an inviting, gentle, downhill slope.

A shortcut for sure!

The other road is unfamiliar.  Worse than that it’s really Steep.

Dirty and Rock Strewn, it does not appear many Folks have gone that way.

Off in the distance it looks like it may level off.  But maybe not!

What to do…..What to do?

Which road do you take?  Hope, Opportunity, Education, Community.  WHICH WAY!

My Name:  ScottiNow

My Words:  The ScottiNows always leave you with something of value.

P.S.  Game of Thrones Rocks!