My Uncle Earl

Let’s start out that I am believer in getting as much education as you can. With that said some people find education not only in schools but observing. There are some people like Leonardo Da Vinci that have so much brain power they can achieve so much and they lack almost any formal education. If you listened I didn’t say they had no education. Look at Bill Gates in modern times or Sir Richard Branson.

Now let’s take a look at Uncle Earl. Uncle Earl was a very smart man, though he only went through the 8th grade. He was a very will like guy and seemed to all the right thinks. You couldn’t miss him, because he was all of 6’ 2’’ and had a very booming voice.

Part of the booming voice might be that he had a serve hearing problem, which runs in the Lindemann family. I tell that story another time. Now back to Uncle Earl. Without much education Uncle Earl achieve so much.

The first time I can ever remember him was when he had a farm. You see there were four brothers and three sisters in my dad’s family and all had farms, but my dad and gas station Uncle George. All of the sisters and brothers helped each other out during harvesting season. My dad and gas station Uncle George didn’t need the help, not having farms. However, they help the rest out.

For whatever reason Earl was always driving a tracker and you couldn’t miss him because of his size. At times it almost looked like he was holding up the tracker.
When the harvest was competed at Uncle Earls, everyone was given all the vegetables they wanted. In fact Uncle Ear; would put more in everyone car to make sure they got enough.

After Uncle Earl left farming my dad and he went into the wielding business with a mutual friend, for whatever reason my dad and Uncle Earl got out of the wielding business. My dad took a job in part supplier to the appliance industry as a supervisor and I am not sure what Uncle Earl did next but he final landed in the dry cleaning business. He wasn’t satisfied with just one he bought another one and ran them successfully for many years.
Uncle Earl had so much energy, so the dry cleaning business wasn’t enough to keep him challenged. So he started selling travel trailers. What he liked most about the trailer business was picking them up. You see he loved to drive, so driving 5 hour each way to get a trailer just suited him fine.
Are you starting to see some of the traits my Uncle Earl had. For one he was a hard worker, but we know that isn’t enough. He use giving and receiving as part of his daily life. He also was always looking for opportunities. Earl knew what he didn’t know and would find people that could show him what he needed to know. I know that doesn’t sound right so how about this, Uncle Earl could see that he was lacking some knowledge so he would find people that had the knowledge.

One person he would listen to with all ears was my dad. Earl in the beginning was like a bull in china shop, but he would always listen to my dad and as time went on Uncle Earl smoothed out a lot of his rough edges.

In some way we are a little be like Uncle Earl. Some of us have more education or have seen more of the world, but what is most important is to build on our strength and love what you do, then you can have the success in life way beyond you own imagination.

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David 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