Live in the present

December 12, 2008
With the 8-9 cellys I have had, 5 or 6 of them I know quite well. The close quarters of the 8x12 foot cell along with the living together 24/7 with no break automatically makes that happen. All of them see me exercise for two hours per day. Virtually every one of them commented that at their next location or when they get on the streets they will start an exercise program. Now they could simply want to make conversation and small talk so they say it as “it would be nice to exercise” with no real plan. Or exercise could be something they need to do yet always look for another excuse to procrastinate on what they need to do. This seems as a terrible way to live your life prolonging the things you need to do.
Life Lesson: Live in the present. Right now is the only time that you can control. Time is interesting to think about. Nobody can get back yesterday; so much time right now is spent thinking about what they should have accomplished yesterday. Why did they not do yesterday what they are mentally spending time on today? You cannot borrow time. By becoming a good planner you will put your time to proper use when it is in front of you. In business, dealing with customers takes place from 8am to 5pm. Before 8am or after 5pm establish your plan to use this valuable time wisely. Connor’s window for sports training to reach his dream is from 2 to 8pm. He must dedicate the proper time hitting, lifting, and speed training in addition to studying, during these times. In business, you have the golden hours of 8am to 5pm. During your golden hours ask, Life Lesson: At this point in time, what is the best use of my time. Put this on a card and keep it with you. This is an excellent habit to get into during life. When it is time to relax-relax, when it is time to work-work, and work on the most important things. Life gives you so many opportunities to get distracted. Every news TV program during the day insinuates a breaking story coming; “the collapse of the economy” is next. Well this attracts mom, Amanda, and Sean because they are in the business world. Unfortunately, the story discusses the bailout for the automobile industry is not approved and one insider worried without a bailout the economy will collapse. Based on this exciting headline, Sean lost twenty minutes of his day. “Find out where Manny is going next”, well Connor, Delanie, and Reaghan stop studying to hear where Manny is going. They story states that Manny’s agent is in Washington talking to the Nationals, who cares, no news yet they just drained twenty minutes from your extremely important golden hours. Do not keep the tv on when working or studying and fall into this trap. Make very good use of your time. Again, when it is time to relax-relax and this includes TV. Let’s get away from too much TV; this is not sour grapes either just because I forgot what a TV looks like. Life Lesson: The Foley Plan, no more than one hour per day for tv. Seven hours per week, use them how you choose. Connor used three hours each Sunday on the Titans- good use! Read, watch a good movie, exercise, and do not waste the precious commodity of time. This will benefit you so much in life. Think about how you use your time. Acknowledge where you are in life so you can better your future. Live your dreams, because you make a good use of your current time. Right Now!

So now that we get to visit Dad and he has a job, he hasn’t been sending us as many life lessons. Don’t worry we still have hundreds to type up and I’ve enlisted Delanie to help me with that task. When I went to visit last weekend this is what he asked me about and I thought I’d share:

Walls

What walls stand in your way, what is keeping you from doing your best and getting better every day? Are you getting enough sleep, eating right, and exercising? Are you studying, working your hardest, doing the things that others won’t do to make you the best? Work hard every day at breaking down the walls that are keeping you from achieving all your goals. Get your big rocks in, be kind to others, and give thanks to God every day.

I laughed and told him he sounded like Rev Run, I don’t know if any of you watch his show but he always ends it with him taking a bath typing out what he calls his words of wisdom on his blackberry and he signs it God is love, Rev Run. I think Dad needs a new sign off…

What a difference 6 weeks makes!

Happy Father's Day!!
Mom, Sean, Reaghan, Connor, and I all went to see Dad on Father’s Day. This is the first time we have all visited at once since he has been back at Millington because Dad doesn’t like double talking and if you’ve ever been around us you know there isn’t a quiet one in the bunch. So we all like to go by ourselves so we can talk about what’s important to us instead of spending hours listening to Mom talk about Connor’s baseball or Connor’s school work or how great Connor is at mowing the lawn and taking out the trash…you get the picture. Funny how your perspective changes but we were so grateful that one we got to see Dad on Father’s day and two that he was back in Millington! Here's some pictures of us with Dad

One month ago today...Sean turned 26!

So I can't take all the blame, I mean credit, for all the pictures. Mom and Reaghan helped pick these out!


I think that's Mom( could be Tammy) and Sean.

Some Red Sox fan you are...

Me and Sean fishing with Bill

Britini, Sean, Walt, and I on Halloween

Sean with Connor, Delanie, and Reaghan at the Zoo

Sean, Mom, and Connor at our cousin Todd's wedding

Josh,me, Kira, and Sean at Stephanie's wedding

Sean escorting Reaghan when she was on homecoming court

Chris, Delanie, and Sean visiting Chicago

James, me, Sean, and Reaghan at BBQFest

Happy Birthday Reaghan...a few days late

Reaghan turned 19 on May 31st, she was in Chicago visiting the Fawcetts for Gerald's graduation. They were so sweet to celebrate her birthday too!

On bid day at Ole Miss.

Freshman year of college.

High School

WAR EAGLE!! Reaghan's first college visit

Dancing at Uncle Mike's wedding with Mom and Dad...nice bangs

Already wearing lipstick

With Dad...I think he still has that Polo

Delanie needs your help!

So I have completely fallen behind on Birthdays as Reaghan had one at the end of May and Sean the beginning of June but I promise to post then and now pics soon! But the real reason for this post is Delanie. She has gotten involved with a fundraiser to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of Dallas. In August there is a huge powder puff football game but you have to raise a certain amount of money to be allowed to play. That’s where you all come in she needs your help raising the money. You can choose the amount of your donation all you have to do is go to this website:
http://www.active.com/donate/bvbdallas/delaniefoley
This is a great cause and we really appreciate all your help. Mom, Reaghan, and I are going to try and go visit for the game and we would all LOVE to see Delanie get to play!

Bad Blogger

I believe I am officially the world’s worst blogger…if you google successful blogs you will learn that you are suppose to blog more than once a day and include lots of pictures. (Thanks for the info Mom) So right off the bat I fail, there is no way that I could post twice a day and though I am better at taking pictures than my parents I still don’t take very many. The weird thing is I usually have a camera in my purse I just never think to use it. I totally blame my parents for the way all of us complain about having our pictures taken too…but I did manage to get one of all the kids. It is from Delanie and Chris’s graduation/going away/engagement party this past Saturday that we had at Mom and Dad’s house. It was a great success we had tons of family and friends to celebrate with and I think everyone had a good time. Aunt Tammy was in town and we loved having her here to visit. Since it was a holiday weekend we got to visit Dad on Monday also. He is doing well but he was bummed that his basketball game got rained out on Sunday night; he is hoping he gets more than just “white boy” playing time. I’ll leave you with a picture and a promise to add some life lessons soon!