Yes it s time to be THANKFUL

It is so easy at times to see all the bad things in the world. The question is can we control them? I think not, but let’s look at all the good things that are going around us daily.

Three weeks ago Micki, my wife, had knee surgery. It was more painful that she thought, but after two and half week things have gotten a lot better. The good thing is she is driving and insists on using here Porsche.

Just having her back doing the things she likes to do is enough to be thankful for. But there is more. Skip our oldest son last Wednesday had major hip surgery. The doctors said he should have full recovery, but he is going to have to take it slow recovery. For a guy who does triathlons not being super active will be a real strange.

Skip has gone through other things such shoulder reconstruction, three vertebrae frozen together plus knee and other body reconstruction. Ship was baseball player and has gone through all of this. Todd our youngest son played tackle football from the age of eight through four year of college and has never seen the inside of a hospital, except to see his brother.

We are told that both Micki and Skip are going to be as good as new and that’s a lot to be thankful for. But there is more. Our Dallas son, Todd, came in for Thanksgiving which a special treat.

Todd got to see Skip and being their not only brothers but good friends that was a good lift for Skip.

2011 is going to a GREAT year because we have everyone healthy. My new book will be out and I am looking forward to telling the story of Dump the Grump.

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Being a care giver

A week ago Friday Micki had knee surgery. It was out patient, so she was home by 3:00 PM. They had her full of pain medication, thus she felt pretty good. We had some stronger medication for when the hospital medication wore off so I was feeling real good that Micki wasn’t going to have much pain. Was I wrong?

She didn’t want to take our pain medication tell she needed it, so we waited and waited. Then the pain came, not a little, but a whole lot. I have been told you don’t want to let the pain get ahead of the medication and now we were finding out why.

Here are the stories that were told to me by friend that have had their knees scoped. They told me a couple of day they were almost walking normal with little pain.

That didn’t happen to Micki here knee then here foot was just throbbing with pain. There was little sleeping and as time wore on here patience wore thin. This is when being the care giver can be challenging
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What happened Saturday morning Micki fired me. Yes she fired me, now what I am going to do? Then the pain medication kicked in and she rehired me. That was a close one.

After a week Micki still has a lot of pain and I am doing my best to make sure she gets everything she want and needs. I must say I am not the best care giver, but I am working on continual improvement.

To let you know she can walk without crutches around the house, but when she is outside she needs the crutches.

The worst is over for Micki and now I have the big question. I am a bad care giver or is Micki a poor patient. Or could be a little of both. To tell you the truth I don’t care. What I care about is Micki is on the mend and smiling, so I am a happy guy.

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Why is unemployment so high?

Let’s start with who creates jobs, small business. The question is why are they not hiring?

I’ll put the answer in a form of a question. If you didn’t know what your cost were going to be in the future what would you do? If your’ like most of us you would be reluctant about spending your money.

Here is a big question what our health cost going to be? What are your taxes going to be? What is the cost of all the new government regulation going to be?
To you hear a tone of uncertainly in those questions. People get nervous when there is too much uncertainly thus they don’t spend.

As the uncertainties start to get minimized, then small business will start to grow their businesses. At that time production will ramp up and there will be a need to hire.

It sounds simple to me. Take the uncertainty away and our economy will start to flourish, which mean unemployment will go down. That will mean more money in the economy and the cycle will continue to build.

Good news it seems the president is will to let the tax cut ride and the thinking is they will stay for two years. If that does happen one big uncertainly is gone.
Health care is important to all of us, but I think what was pasted needs to be re- examined so we don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Raising energy cost just because some people think certain forms of energy a bad. I am not saying we don’t need to re-evaluate our whole energy needs, but to change everything right now is like trying to turn a massive oil freighter in ten minutes and that can’t happen

We are now at a point that some positive discussion will happen and from that dialog, things will be done so the most dynamic economy ever known to man can get recharged.

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David H. Lindemann is an author, speaker, consultant and coach, he is a community leader, educator and has worked with fortune 500 hundred companies as well as individuals. He also has been a CEO of a national manufacturing company and cares deeply about people