Kathy Hamilton a.k.a. simikathy (click here) has asked me to appear on her BlogTalk Raido show. The date is December 9th at 7pm.
Kathy is part of the PerfectNetworker organization and is a member there as well. Here’s the link to my page at PerfectNetworker. While I belong to more than 30 social networks across the web, this is the only group that’s offered to interview me on the subject of my choosing. While there are lots of things I could talk about, my passion is our “Program of Change for America™.”
After President Obama was elected, it was clear the Federal Government was trying, really trying to effect change. It occurred to me and others of us with our company, C4 WorldWide, Inc. that the private sector should be challenged to help. We saw that the two primary issues are (in order) jobs and homes. From that basic idea of need, we put together a program that will employ thousands of people and provide homes to even more people. We’ve also designed a way to re-engage and revitalize rural areas often referred to as “Small Town America.” If we don’t help them become self sufficient they’ll migrate to the larger cities and they’re not prepared for that influx of people. Using Asset based organization we know how to change that. So, as a corporation we’ve pledged 95% of all our profits from the acquisition of Real Estate Assets toward our push for “A Program of Change for America™.”
I’d like you all to meet my wife, Margaret. Today is our 15th wedding anniversary. Her parents have been married for 60 years. Compared to them, we’ve only just begun. When we were married when I was 48 and let’s just say that my young bride was indeed younger than me.
Now that I’m 63, I look back at all of those years before meeting the woman of my dream (when I was only 5) and the woman that is truly a soul mate to me now.
Up and until the age of 48 a great many things had happened in my life. Many would describe these as “some good, some bad.” For me, they were all good for this very singular reason. I met and married the woman of my dream 43 years earlier. I literally knew her before she was born.
Allow me to take you back in time to when I was only 5 years old. We lived on a small 1 acre farm and every morning I fed more than 2,000 ducks, a lot of turkeys and some chickens before going off to kindergarten every week day. My “girlfriend” lived next door and like me she also had hair very much like mine, almost white. One night I had a dream of me as a man and I met this redheaded woman. She was so beautiful. Her looks were stunning and the memory of her never left my mind. Up and until that dream, I had never seen a redhead before. Every girl and woman I met was measured against the beauty and the smile of that beautiful redhead.
My wife and I met as a direct result of a blind date. I didn’t want to go on the date (I’m ooh so glad he talked me into it) and well, I’ve never asked her how she felt. I just know she was there. I was meeting my friend at this restaurant where I had arrived early. I didn’t see my friend and his wife, but I did spot this terrific looking redhead. Thinking back to my dream as a boy I thought, “It would be so great to have the opportunity to date a woman that looks like her she looks like the girl of my dream.” After staring (at least I think I did) for a few minutes, there was a tap on the shoulder and I knew my friend had arrived. We shook hands and he invited me over to his table. To my surprise and very nervous response, we started walking toward the redhead. I remember thinking, I couldn’t get this lucky. We’ll turn and I’ll meet the person he brought. The woman she was sitting with was Asian, my friend was not. I’m sure we’ll head off in another direction. Still, we kept walking right for the table where this lovely redhead was sitting.
Now, she was looking at me and I was glancing over at my friend and then back at the table. Suddenly, we were standing at her table and he said, “DR, I’d like to present Margaret . . . (I know he said more but by the time he said her name, all I could see was the girl I dreamed of so many years earlier. The date was August 26, 1994. The day my life was forever changed in the best and most positive ways. I couldn’t have imagined if I tried, all the the ways in which this woman would capture and keep my heart.
Margaret is not only the love of my life, she IS my best friend, my wife and certainly my partner in all that we’re doing and still plan to do in life. She’s smart with a dry sense of humor, patient (even when it’s against her redheaded nature) and fun. She’s a huge Christmas and Disney fan.
She’s now the Mother to our six children. Imagine taking on that responsibility! We also have 10 grandchildren and she’s a wonderful grandmother and Nana. As a Controller in her professional life, she has demonstrated that she is brilliant, understanding and cleaver. She’s intuitive about things that many of us never give a second thought. She sees beyond the moment.
So, on this our 15th anniversary, I just wanted to share with those of you who read my occasional thoughts on many subjects, my beautiful wife. I’m so proud and honored that said yes. I’m so proud that she picked me.
Happy Anniversary Toots! I love you more each and everyday. You’re the best and you are absolutely, “The Love of my life.” I love you. DR
Today, we received a news link that details the number of jobs that have been reported as lost in each state. We don’t have a way to prove or disprove the numbers given. However, we do know how people are reacting.
There was a time when great news people like Paul Harvey made sure they counterbalanced the bad news with even a small bit of good news. It seems to me that globally, we’re all looking for good news.
We know that even in times like these, new businesses are being formed and started. New products emerge and new fortunes are being made every day. Just because it didn’t happen to you or me or anyone we know, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Everyday someone’s life is changed for the good. They become more aware, more thankful, more understanding and more humbled by what they see that others ARE accomplishing.
Many of my friends and I subscribe to Tut. Thoughts become things . . . choose the good ones!® Here’s one of the more recent daily email:
What if, DR, you first got to decide how you’d like to feel – happy or sad, hurt or mad, approving or jealous – and then I had to go out and rearrange all the people and circumstances of your life to make it so?
You’d like that, huh?
You’d choose happy, eh?
more . . .
DR, your feelings are your choice, what manifests thereafter may not be – if you know what I mean.
Each day I receive something like this. They’re titled “TUT . . . A Note from the Universe. I subscribe because it simply makes me stop and think about each day. What do you think about as you start each day?
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Son, Brother, Uncle, 32 Degree, K.C.C.H. Mason, Serial Entrepreneur, Chairman & CEO, Leader, Speaker, Philanthropist, Veteran, and Friend.
A successful entrepreneur with 23 companies to his credit, Mr. Rawson is focused on solutions that provide sustainable answers to domestic and global issues. 
