Dominate Your Local Market!

Date: Sunday, September 19th, 2010 1:00 To 5:00

Location: The Boyle County Fair Grounds

Tickets: $25/Adult – $10/ PreK-12th Grade

BBQ BY:
Coach Vaughn “Big Lunch” Little
Brad & Cindy Simmons of Lucky Dog BBQ
Steve Becker & Family of The Toy Box

Live Music by:
Dump Truck on the Run (1:00)
The Paul Childers Band (3:00)

Jeffrey with his son Bray

A Strong Spirit

On August 7, 2009 Jeffrey Guest was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

I first met Jeffrey about 15 years ago when he was just a 3rd grader dreaming of being a football player. Jeffrey was too young to play, but he would come watch his older brother practice with the youth football team that I coached.

Jeffrey was a gregarious, vivacious little bit who exuded confidence and charm. He believed before he ever played football that he would be better than the big boys he came to watch.

He was right. Jeffrey became a Danville High School football player with the speed and skill to take over a game. Jeffrey made plays that often dazzled the crowd, at times changing the outcome of the contest with his indomitable spirit.

That indomitable spirit is once again put to the test. A test greater than any of us can imagine or begin to understand. On August 7, 2009 Jeffrey lost his ability to walk and as you might imagine, he wants it back.

Jeffrey believes he can walk again, just like he believed he would be the football player he became.

Pursuit of this dream requires more than strong will and determination. Rehabilitation of a spinal cord injury is extremely expensive and Jeffrey needs help to make his new dream of walking again come true.

Family, friends and community members are joining together to give Jeffrey the chance to walk again and the opportunity for rehab after his life-changing spinal cord injury. Team Jeffrey needs your help!

~ Stuart Critchfield

The Guest Rehab Fund

The Guest Rehab Fund is an account established at The Farmers National Bank in Danville, KY on behalf of Jeffrey Guest. The account is managed by Critchfield & Critchfield CPA’s. Two signatures are required for any check to be written. The signatures are that of Jeffrey’s grandmother, Nancy Grey and myself, Stuart Critchfield. ALL money raised through the Jeffrey Guest Benefit is restricted to spinal cord injury rehab and surgical expenses. Monies raised outside of The Jeffrey Guest Benefit may be earmarked for other purposes if the donor wishes.

Donations can be sent to:
Guest Rehab Fund
c/o Critchfield & Critchfield CPA
PO Box 906
Danville, KY 40423-0906

Make Checks to: Guest Rehab Fund

For more information, see the TEAM JEFFREY Website

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233 years ago, on a steamy summer day in Philadelphia, 56 men changed the course of human history, then went out for a drink. It is the courage of these individuals, who placed their value even before their lives that we celebrate today.

If you’ve never read their handiwork, the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, here’s your chance. Take a few minutes and read it through. It is truly an amazing document.

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From Lindsey Olivares and Ringling College of Art and Design via Daily Motion – a little video to help make your day!

by James McCarthy for OnlineOrganizing.com

Our goal is to succeed, to win business competitions in order to maximize our profits or expand our market “presence”, to produce successful new products or services, or to achieve personal goals. Success is defining the desired future and then creating that future. We succeed consistently by thinking and acting STRATEGICALLY. Strategy is all about minimizing risk while maximizing reward; or put another way, it is about making sure that the ODDS for success are stacked in your favor.

LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE

It is about achieving LONG-TERM success — not about winning a single account, having one single successful new product launch, or coming out on top in a single competition. Long-term success means taking advantage of opportunity after opportunity and distributing resources correctly to ensure continued success. Winning one account and going bankrupt thereafter is of no avail unless the single new account ensures permanent success — which it almost never does.

WHAT STRATEGY IS AND ISN’T

We sometimes think that strategy is a LUXURY, something to be done once every few years in order to have a “strategic plan.” Most people think that it is a process you must go through once a year, to produce a really big document; that few people will understand, and that will go on the shelf so you can get on with the real job of running your business. Nothing could be further from the truth. Strategy is the literal LIFEBLOOD of your business. Trying to do business in today’s environment without a strategy is like playing Russian roulette with your future.

BUILDING THE HABIT

Looking ahead is a DAILY requirement and probably the most important function of a leader, business owner, or individual entrepreneur, for it is strategy that allows your day-to-day activities to have any kind of payoff and to be worthwhile. Strategy is a necessity whether you are doing business in the traditional “brick and mortar” world, or in the digital world of the Internet. Many people believe that strategy is simply scaling up TACTICAL activity; more e-products, better blocking and tackling, more sales calls. Great strategy can succeed in the absence of great tactics, but great tactics, in the absence of even mediocre strategy, are unlikely to lead to victory.

INVOLVE EVERYONE

Strategy, then, is the number one RESPONSIBILITY of all business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs, whether engaged in on-line or off-line businesses — if they fail to take their strategy responsibilities seriously, they are greatly diminishing their overall chances for success. Strategy, however, is not just of interest to business owners, but it is-or should be-of interest to everyone involved in the business, from employees, to affiliates to internal, or outsourced resources. To the extent that everyone knows the strategy and takes part in building it, each person is far more likely to make the right tactical decisions that arise on a daily — or more frequent — basis.

COMING IN FIRST

The business that makes strategic thinking and execution part and parcel of its daily existence is the company that is most likely to SUCCEED, even if doesn’t have the best product or service available.

Certified Professional Management Consultant Jim McCarthy currently works in Oceanside, CA with his wife, Career Consultant Barbara McCarthy.

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